December 29, 2006: A few years ago, a friend of mine who was a member of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist’s Association paid me a wonderful compliment.  He told me that Bill O’Reilly had recently made a presentation to the group.  He said that O’Reilly told the audience that while he had been undecided […]

The Gay Parenting Show #29: The Vice President’s Daughter’s Baby and Ellen Kahn from HRC (71 mins, 25MB)
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December 26, 2006: After eating a lot of humble crow for my looooong absence from the show, I talk about Mary Cheney and interivew Ellen Kahn, from the HRC Family Project.
It’s so embarrassing, but […]

December 26, 2006: William Saletan recently wrote in the Washington Post and Slate that while conservatives are furiously condemning my new favorite person Mary Cheney, (actually, I have mixed feelings about her. As she faces these terrible attacks against her and her family, I keeping thinking “as ye reap, so shall ye sow.” But […]

December 21, 2006: According to front page story in The New York Times yesterday, the country that brought us Tiananmen Square is putting strict restrictions on who may adopt their orphans, one of which will severely limit LGBT adoptions. This is from 365Gay.com:
The Chinese government is preparing to bar gays from overseas from adopting Chinese […]

December 20, 2006: Awhile ago, I became aware of a “controvery” because some backwards school district somewhere in the dark heart of this country was protesting the availabliity of “And Tango Makes Three,” a story of two male penguins who raise an abandoned egg. To see what all the fuss was about - and to […]

December 18, 2006: In another sign of progress, New Jersey is added to the list of states legally recognizing gay partnerships.
This is from New Jersey.com.
New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday approved the civil union bill, putting same-sex couples within a pen’s stroke of acquiring the rights and benefits of marriage.
At the same time, Governor Corzine and […]

December 14, 2006:
Conservative Christians continue to shower the Cheney-Poe famliy with the love for which they are famous. Here’s the always-compassionate James Dobson writing in Time:
With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of […]

December 12,2006: Although LGBT people have more stable relationships than their straight counterparts (50% divorce rate, anyone?) we do break up. When there are children involved, what do we do? It’s a problem that an increasing number of courts are trying to solve. This is from the Star Tribune of Minn/St. Paul:
Marilyn Johnson and Nancy […]

December 8, 2006: Although I can’t think of an Administration less likely to do anything to help LGBT famlies than this one, Mary Cheney’s pregnancy might be one of the best things to happen for us in a long time.
This is the Vice President’s daughter - his daughter! - openly becoming the most famous gay […]

December 7, 2006: First, I want to apologize for the long delay between posts - and shows. But there is a good explanation.
A while back, because of our public presence on the web and elsewhere, our family became the target of some threatening actions. I really can’t go into any details, but it was very […]