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Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Liza to Ilene Chaiken: U-caption it

Pictured above: (L-R) Deb Rox, who blogs at Deb On The Rocks and pretty much obscured by L-Word creator Ilene Chaiken (foreground, in white jacket), LesbianFamily.org founder Liza Barry-Kessler, who blogs at Liza Was Here, Paula Gregorowicz,who blogs at The Paula G Company and at BlogHer as a Contributing Editor, and Zoe Gaymo,who blogs at gaymo and at BlogHer as a [...]

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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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