News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Are lesbian moms doing a better job of parenting their kids than straight families? Here’s what they’re doing right.
2. Speaking of lesbian moms raising kids that are all right, HBO is turning the Oscar-nominated movie into a TV series. It’ll be written by Lisa Cholodenko, but we doubt we’d be so lucky as to get Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. But will the TV show get right what the movie got wrong, namely, the “lesbian movie involving hot man-woman sex and yucky lesbian sex” part?
3. And those lesbian moms who moved to the suburbs 30 years ago? Pioneers.
4. Now that pioneer parents cleared the way, adoptions by gay and lesbian parents are up, way up.
5. And then there’s Florida, where “lesbian” is apparently a bad word. Oh, Florida. Read more...
Queer as Moms
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
If you haven’t seen it, and don’t know the Big Thing that happens in this movie, here is your spoiler alert. Otherwise, read on!
In my early twenties, I lived for three things: weekends in Toronto’s LGBTQ village, drag kings and Tuesday afternoons in my women’s sexuality class. The subtext of all of these activities, of course, was the pursuit of sex with women. The times were good.
My group of friends back then had a re-occurring, inside joke. Because every sexuality class, every one, my professor would say the following: “Sexuality is fluid,” she’d say. “A woman may be heterosexual until, say, she reaches the age of 32 and then she may fall in love with a woman and become a lesbian.” Read more...
