Celebrities / Culture / Family / Parenting
Thunder Bay Here’s a purely entertaining Friday afternoon video for you. Below Oprah Winfrey listens to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka talk parenting roles and challenges during their twins’ first year. (Advert comes first.) This clip starts out with Oprah asking, “Is one of you more maternal?” Hint: not NPH! How […]
News & Politics
It has been a big week in Minnesota, as you’ve seen earlier this week with Vikki’s posts both documenting her day at the State Capitol and her thoughts the day after. If you check out how many YouTube videos of senators’ speeches on the floor of the Minnesota House, you’ll […]
Family / Parenting
Closing out a week of Mothers’ Day-related posts (can we help it? lesbian family = a surfeit of mamas!), we highlight a mother reading an essay about (among other things) her daughter’s “obvious surplus of grandmothers.” This is one of my favorite readings from last year’s San Francisco Listen to Your […]
Media
As many of you know, the recent immigration reform legislation before the congress excluded the Uniting American Families act, which seeks to [per Wikipedia]: eliminate discrimination in immigration by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and of lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and […]
Family / Kids / School
“Yes, elementary school kids know the word ‘gay,’” says the bespectacled fifth-grader, matter-of-factly. That’s how the trailer for the professional development film “What Do You Know? Six to twelve year olds talk about gays and lesbians” concludes, and by then the point has been amply made. By the six-to-twelve year […]
Celebrities / Culture / Family / Parenting
This has been an extraordinary week. Even as we post this, some of you (including one of our stalwart regular contributors, Casey) are in the Boston area still on “lockdown” as the city’s law enforcement continues its hunt for the second suspect in the marathon bombing. So in recognition of […]
News & Politics
What do you say about a little TGIF video moment on Friday afternoons? Each week we’ll rummage around the web for something great that just appeared–or some ancient, archival clip that we totally think you can’t miss. Something queer culturey, or familyish or, as often as we can turn it […]
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