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Monday, June 8th, 2009
“I now pronounce you spouses for life. You may kiss.”
Our gals from Hydrangeas Are Pretty, Shelli and Narda, got official in Connecticut, with mega-adorable Noah Matan getting a ringside seat. Malka is reclining on the step behind them. You know, with slight changes in the scenery, this is pretty much exactly like what unfolded for my beloved and me on the other side of [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Family love
Samantha O’Connell, Angie Matt, and their son Henry O’Connell, at the rally in San Francisco following the California Supreme Court’s upholding of Prop 8. Clearly, no one can vote or rule our love away. State by state, coast to coast, that’s what’s going to keep us going.
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Happy Day to You
Lesbian mothers, lesbians with mothers, mothers with lesbians, family with lesbians or mothers in ‘em, past, current, future, and hoped-for: love to you all.
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Congratulations, Iowans!
[Photo by Christopher Gannon, AP, in The Columbia Missourian.]
Above: Dawn BarbouRoske, second from left, of Iowa City leans towards her partner, Jen BarbouRoske, after learning of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday in favor of legalizing gay marriage. Between them is their daughter Bre, 6. Their other daughter, 11-year-old McKinley, left, reacts to the ruling.
We [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Family
family, from the Flickr photostream of Sacha Digi
No new postings requests this week! First such quiet week in a while.
Meanwhile, we’re still stumping for co-conspiritors here at LesbianFamily.org (see Liza’s post in late March), and we’re still planning on having a Lesbian Family Blogger Meet Up in Chicago in late-July, the Sunday morning following the BlogHer conference [...]
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
“Yeah, this is good.”
yeah, this is good. from ohchicken.
Of course if you look a few pictures further in ohchicken’s photostream, you’ll see that the spaghetti’s appeal was time-limited. Go check it out. She writes about her family and her life at we are fambly. where you’ll find more Jude! Jude! Jude! with and without spaghetti.
Now to the new or updated listings [...]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Going to BlogHer? Let’s meet up!
First off, what’s BlogHer? BlogHer is an online community of and for women who blog, and BlogHer, as a thing you might “go to,” is their bodacious annual conference.
From their About page,
BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. Today BlogHer provides the number-one community for [...]
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
It’s Wednesday so it must be LesFam photo day!
This photo, entitled “beach,” is from kristyanddonna87’s Flickr photo stream. It’s from their wedding, and there are a bunch of wonderful other pictures there. Go take a peek, and wish them well.
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Update for March 16, 2009
One new listing to announce: to the bodacious Trying listing, please welcome
L’Dor Va Dor- From Generation to Generation Recently added!
Go give Melissa and Terry a visit, and tell them LesFam sent you! We’ve recently finished some upgrades to LesbianFamily.org, thanks to the handy work of Kemi at Poles Apart Design. About which: want a WordPress blog? [...]
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Out on a ledge for date night
This picture, “Top of the Rock. Date Night!” was submitted by longtime LesbianFamily.org lister gal Shelli, who writes about her beautiful NYC family at Hydrangeas are Pretty. A new baby brother has just joined the family, and big sister Malka is “smitten”! Go on over and give ‘em all congratulations.
If you photograph [...]