Author Archive
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Research on LGBTQ loss during pregnancy, birth, surrogacy, or adoption
Posted on behalf of Friend of the Family, Dr. Christa Craven! Please consider participating if you have survived a loss of this type: There are few resources addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) experiences with the loss of a baby during pregnancy, birth, surrogacy, or adoption. In fact, it is often difficult [...]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Change is Gonna Come
Consider this a “heads up” — we are talking with some fantastic designers about updating the look and feel of LesbianFamily and making it a lot easier for you to add yourselves to the appropriate lists. In the meantime…sing it Ms. Aretha! Change IS gonna come.
No Comments » - Posted in site stuff by Liza
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
What Are You Passionate About?
I was asked recently, “What are you passionate about?” It was in the context of working on my PhD, and I had a hard time answering. I’m interested in a lot of things, many of which connect to the overall area of my studies (Information, particularly in the context of law and public policy). The [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Commentary by Liza
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Actual Lesbian Bloggers
In light of the recent revelations that a number of high profile “lesbian” bloggers are actually married, heterosexual men — I would like to take a moment to assure you that Polly, aka LesbianDad, and I are actual lesbians. Our identities are not fake. Neither are our families. I recently had the opportunity to visit [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Book Collection(s) for Lesbian Families
I put this together as a “page” over in our sidebar as well as here as a post. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but I’m also happy to add to it. (Most likely in a slowly-but-surely manner, much like the rest of this site.) Children’s Fiction About or Including Lesbian or Gay Families [...]
No Comments » - Posted in BioMom,News!!!,Non-Bio Mom,Parenting 202,The Good,Weekend Reading by Liza
Monday, October 5th, 2009
The High Cost of Being a Gay Family
It’s official: It costs more to be a gay or lesbian family than it costs to be a heterosexual family. For most of the LGBT community, this is not exactly a news flash. In fact, it comes close to the “studies say drunk driving causes motor vehicle accidents” or “studies say losing weight requires exercising [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News!!!,The Political Is Personal,The Ugly by Liza
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Married? Partnered? Girlfriended?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the language we use to describe our relationships. Back in 2003, before the Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples could marry, and before Mayor Newsom opened the San Francisco wedding floodgates, I always used the terms married and wife when I talked about Jill or our family. At [...]
No Comments » - Posted in site stuff,The Political Is Personal by Liza
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Enough About Us. What About You?
Dear LesbianFamily.org Reader, Would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself? Please take our Blog Reader Project survey. If you have thoughts, opinions, requests, comments, suggestions, etc that aren’t covered in the survey — and I bet you will! — please feel free to leave them as comments to this post.
No Comments » - Posted in Opinion poll,site stuff by Liza
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Re-Energized Post BlogHer
Hi Lesbian Families and Friends of the Family! What do you think of the idea of a monthly LesbianFamily.org email newsletter? We wouldn’t want to spam you, but we’re also looking at ways we might be able to generate more community within our community. A newsletter would give us another way to highlight newly listed [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Join the LesbianFamily.org Team!
We have had a renewed surge of energy over hear at LesbianFamily.org, as you have no doubt noticed. And to maintain that energy, we would like to expand our team! Here’s what you would be signing up for: * Minimum of 1 post here per month; more if you want! * Minimum of 20 minutes [...]
