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• Sixth Grader's Project on Harvey Milk Banned by School

  Natalie Jones just wanted to get a good grade on her sixth grade project. She didn't know writing about Harvey Milk, a person she said stood up for all people regardless of their backgrounds, was going to make schools officials pull out their "sex education" policies.  Maybe because she's in sixth grade, and she wasn't writing about sex? Read More... Posted May 25 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, homosexuality, schools, homosexual, sex education, discrimination, milk, Jeanne Sager, Harvey Milk, gay rights, gays

• Iowa Mulling Same Sex Birth Certificates?

  Same sex marriage is finally legal in Iowa, so what's next? Recognizing their right to parent as same sex partners. Iowa is debating whether to strike the traditional "Mother" and "Father" listings on children's birth certificates so same sex couples can simply be parents. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 01:32 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: father, mother, gay parenting, lesbian parenting, gay marriage, Iowa, Jeanne Sager, same sex marriage, birth certificate, gay rights, passport

• Teacher Fired for Letting Kids Play Gay

  Note to all teachers with small-minded administrators - don't bother trying to teach your kids about history. At least not homosexual history.  A teacher in a rural Oklahoma town has been fired by administrators after trying to teach the story of gay college student Matthew Shepard's murder by assigning students parts in The Laramie Project, a play based on the hate crime inflicted on the young homosexual man a decade ago. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 09:24 AM by JeanneSager with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: education, homosexuality, homophobia, schools, teaching, tolerance, discrimination, teacher, history, Jeanne Sager, tenure, gay rights, gays, The Laramie Project, Matthew Shepard

• Michigan Court Must Hear Lesbian Custody Dispute

  The residents of Michigan passed a gay marriage ban in 2004, but that doesn't mean the courts can't weigh in on a lesbian couple's custody dispute.  A court ruled last week that the legal adoption of three children by two gay Michigan residents - while they were living in Illinois - must not only be recognized by the Michigan courts but addressed as the now estranged couple attempts to navigate a custody arrangement. Read More... Posted Feb 23 2009, 04:31 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: lesbian, parental rights, gay adoption, custody battle, gay marriage, custody, Jeanne Sager, gay rights, gay custody battle

• Court Bans Divorced Mom's Partner from Sleeping Over

  Proving once again that what's good for the gander isn't necessarily going to be allowed by homophobic family court judges for the goose, a divorced mom from Tennessee has been informed she can't allow her lesbian partner to sleep over on the same nights as her kids.  Her ex-husband, meanwhile, has remarried and his wife sleeps over - well, lives - with him every night. Read More... Posted Dec 28 2008, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: joint custody, divorce, ACLU, lesbian, tennessee, custody battle, family court, Jeanne Sager, gay rights, step-parents, lesbian mom, remarriage, stepmother

• Jon Stewart Slam Dunks the Argument for Gay Marriage

  There are few things more satisfying than watching someone make a clear ethical and logical argument for something you belief in, particularly when that argument is being broadcast to living rooms around America--and is being made to Mike Huckabee. Just one of the many reasons this video made me love Jon Stewart even more than I thought possible: "I would argue," he says, "that a loving gay family with a financially secure background beats the hell out of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline anyday." Read More... Posted Dec 10 2008, 06:42 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, homosexuality, religion, marriage, choice, gay, abortion, gay adoption, gay marriage, mike huckabee, ban, religious right, queer, jon stewart, daily show, gay families, gay rights, prop. 8, is homosexuality a choice, heterosexuality, loving families, jon stewart defends gay marriage

• BREAKING NEWS: Judge Overrules Ban on Gays Adopting in Florida

  In the wake of Prop 8 putting the kibosh on gay marriages in California and Arkansas voters saying no to gays adopting or even fostering children, the gay community needed some good news. Thanks to Florida Judge Cindy Lederman, they finally got some. And it's just in time for Thanksgiving! Her honor ruled the thirty-year-old ban that's kept gay men and women from adopting children in Florida is unconstitutional today. Right at the tail end of National Adoption Month, Lederman signed the papers that make Frank Gill an official dad. Read More... Posted Nov 25 2008, 01:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, foster care, gay adoption, gay marriage, Jeanne Sager, homosexual adoption ban, gay rights, prop 8, gays and lesbians

• Update: Wife of Mom Kicked Out of PTA for Prop 8 Stance Speaks Out

  When I wrote shared the story of a lesbian mom kicked out of the PTA for campaigning against Prop 8 this week, the last people I wanted to offend were Robin McGehee and her family. They are, after all, the victims here - not only of discrimination from the school and the Roman Catholic church as a whole but the entire State of California. Read More... Posted Nov 20 2008, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: homosexuality, California, Catholicism, Lesbian Moms, catholic church, Jeanne Sager, gay rights, intolerance, prop 8, PTA moms

• Prop. 8 Protests Spawn Hope and Great Photos

  Yesterday, thousands gathered in 300 cities across the United States to protest the passage of Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California. The protests were a poignant and powerful reminder that no civil right is easily won. Equality for gay families will be an uphill battle--all of the 30 states that have voted on gay marriage have banned it--but the impressive organization and high turnout of yesterday's peaceful protests demonstrate that the gay rights movement has the momentum to fight for as long as it takes. Jezebel has posted a slideshow of photos of the protests submitted by readers across the country. Read More... Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:22 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, California, Supreme Court, gay marriage, cities, U.S., protests, vote, election, country, ban, civil rights, gay families, gay rights, Proposition 8, prop. 8, million, movement, march, overturn

• Arkansas Adoption Ban Passes, Fails to Eliminate Queers and their Spawn from the Earth

  The saddest thing about the anti-gay ballot initiatives that passed Tuesday in California (banning same-sex marriage), Florida (banning even same-sex civil partnerships) and Arkansas (banning foster care and adoption by unmarried couples ie: same-sex couples) is the effect they have on the children of same-sex parents. I don't think my partner and I would feel much need for legal marriage if we didn't have children.  If we didn't have children, I'd be working full-time for my own benefits and wouldn't need hers.  I'd have my own retirement security, probably be able to make the house payments if anything happened to her. But we have two children and Read More... Posted Nov 07 2008, 10:01 AM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, same-sex marriage, foster parenting, Shannon LC Cate, gay rights, same-sex adoption, Proposition 8, Arkansas Adoption Ban

• Is Mandy Moore Being a Homophobe or a Normal Daughter?

  Divorce is ranked as one of the highest stressors on the family unit, so it's no surprise actress Mandy Moore was upset when her parents' marriage broke up. But now internet reports put the blame on Stacy Moore's decision to leave Don Moore for another woman. Does that really change the way a kid is going to feel when her parents separate?  Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 09:59 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, homosexuality, divorce, daughters, coming out, sons, gay parents, Jeanne Sager, gay rights, another woman, divorced kids, Mandy Moore, when parents come out

• Dad Goes Mad on Bigotry for the Children

  There's a proposal on the California ballot that would rewrite the state Constitution to ban gay marriage, because after solving a $20 billion debt and discovering it is still another $4 billion in the red, the state apparently doesn't have more important shit to deal with. But anyway, that's where we are right now in California. In the land of the Hollywood elite and us crazy liberals with our "San Francisco values," we might yet rewrite a document that begins with the right of "pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness" to restrict that very happiness for a select few. Why? For the children, of course. That's actually on the anti-gay marriage campaign -- save marriage and protect the children. Read More... Posted Oct 16 2008, 07:44 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: children, politics, dads, essays, dad gone mad, gay rights, Proposition 8

• School Board Member Uses Gay Slur, Says Student Said it First

  He's stepping down from his post as a member of the board of education in Robbinsville, NJ, but maybe Joe Armenti would be better suited back in high school? The board has been facing pressures from an outraged public since Armenti used the word "faggot" in response to a teenager's presentation to the board on a ban on the use of offensive language. His initial excuse? The teen said it first. Excuse me, who's the teenager here? Read More... Posted Oct 12 2008, 12:18 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: New Jersey, bad parents, homosexual, stupid parents, prejudice, hate, Jeanne Sager, gay rights, bigot, gay-straight alliance, board of education, homophobe, parents acting like children

• McCain Talks to the Gays: Part One, Marriage

  Okay, he didn't actually talk to us.  He had someone on his campaign staff fill out a questionnaire from the Washington Blade and send it back.  But hey--that's more than any other republican candidate for president has ever done.  And a progressive republican he is! McCain doesn't want to have us stoned in the public square.  Well, not unless Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 07:50 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: glbt, LGBT, gay marriage, John McCain, Shannon LC Cate, federalism, presidential campaign 2008, gay rights