Equality on the line…again

Hearing in CA supreme court today about the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Here’s just a smattering of coverage of the day from the internets: I’m humbled by everyone taking up this struggle in their own way, from arguing directly, to being in the streets, to blogging the events, to donating money, to sending psychic energy….really, [...]

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Considering Human Rights…Considering Boys and Girls

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins, “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…” Just pause for a moment to consider this. The recognition of everyone’s dignity. Everyone has equal rights. [...]

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Insinuations

I’ve written before about the relative safety of our lives here. Q rarely gets comments about how he dresses, who he plays with, what he likes to play. We don’t get comments about being a queer family. There are others like us around. All in all, we are extremely lucky to have been able to [...]

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Tiny glimmers of hope….

That our community may prevail. That our voices from the weekend, from days prior, years prior, decades past, were heard. That the world actually WILL continue to be safer for Q and other children. That the boxes so many folks try to shove our children into, our relationships into, and our world into, may, in [...]

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Soaked, we made our voices heard

Yesterday my family, our friends, and about 5000 others in Boston braved the drenching rains to stand and speak in protest against the passage of Proposition 8 in California. As I explained the issue to Q, as well as the rally, he instantly took up the cause. “I insist that they stop that law in [...]

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Seeing the differences

One of the amazing bonuses to being Q’s mom is how he has helped me to see even more of the engrained, gendered roles out there in the world. Not that I can say I bought into gendered roles at all prior to him coming along, but having him has shone a light on all [...]

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