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I should also note that this week marks the fifth anniversary of the decision to enact marriage equality in Massachusetts, and I’m happy to report no locusts have been spotted in the Bay State.
(Thanks, Wil.)
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Actor Cynthia Nixon spoke Friday on Larry King Live with guest host Joy Behar. Nixon talked candidly about Prop 8 and LGBT rights and what they mean to her family.
Nixon made a mistake, however, in explaining one of the legal reasons she wants to marry her partner, Christine Marinoni. Nixon has two children from a previous, opposite-sex relationship. She and the children’s father are therefore the legal parents. Nixon said that if she got hit by a truck, Marinoni would have no legal rights to the children, even though she (Marinoni) is currently their stay-at-home mom. Nixon claimed that if she and Marinoni were married, Marinoni would have legal rights as their stepparent.
Turns out that the woman who played power lawyer Miranda Hobbes could use to brush up on her legal skills.
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Thomas Beatie, the transgender man whose pregnancy made headlines earlier this year, is expecting a second child, ABC News reveals. Beatie will be talking with Barbara Walters on 20/20 tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Beatie made many people, including those within the LGBT community, uncomfortable with his open discussion of gender and family. Some accused him of being an attention-seeker. I have no way to evaluate his intentions, but if he and his family cause us to rethink traditional notions of what makes a loving family, I say that’s a good thing.
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Among the first same-sex couples to marry in Connecticut today—the first day they could do so—were lesbian moms Peg Oliveira and Jen Vickery. The New York Times reports, “Ms. Oliveira proposed in the aisles of IKEA.”
How lesbian is that? (For those of you unfamiliar with lesbian culture, IKEA is lesbian in the way Subarus are lesbian; not exclusive to us by any means, but with a definite following among us Sapphic types. Something about their LGBT-inclusive advertising and the fact that one gets to feel butch putting the furniture together.)
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Prop 8-spawned videos are flying fast and furious. I’m partial to this one from Funny or Die (which doesn’t seem to want to embed into my post here).
(Thanks, Good As You.)
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Barack Obama has made history. I am thrilled beyond belief at this. He will be the first president my son remembers, and I can think of no better.
And yet . . . children of same-sex couples in California woke up Wednesday morning wondering if their parents were still married, and if not, whether they were still a family. Children of same-sex couples in Arkansas woke up wondering if the state’s ban on fostering and adoption by unmarried couples (by definition all same-sex couples) meant they would be taken from their homes. Children of same-sex couples in Arizona and Florida woke up knowing that a large majority of their neighbors felt the need to declare their families second class. (Note that marriage of same-sex couples was already banned by statute in Arizona and Florida. Making it unconstitutional was like beating an opponent who is already down.)
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The battle to retain marriage equality in California is now a dead heat. This has me anxious in ways even the possibility of an Obama victory won’t alleviate—and I’m sitting here legally wed in Massachusetts. So yes, you’ll have to put up with more from me on the subject for another two days.
The latest No On 8 ad, called “Parents,” gives me hope, though, that enough people will see sense before they vote:
Despite all of the right-wing’s fears about marriage equality’s effect on children, they also seem to have missed a point that Alexandra Cole made in the LA Times yesterday. She reports that the media buzz about Prop 8 has made it “the topic of conversation” among her eight-year-old daughter’s and her schoolmates, and observes:
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Families around the country are preparing their wee ones for Halloween this week, but same-sex parents in California are facing something even scarier than six-year-olds in Batman costumes on a sugar high. If Proposition 8 passes, same-sex couples will no longer have the right to marry in the Golden State, and the momentum will turn against LGBT rights elsewhere. Is restricting people’s right to happiness really what we want for our country?
“But what can I do?” you may ask. First, come join the party over at my Mombian.com blog today. Write a post against Prop 8 on your own blog, and submit the link to the Write to Marry blog carnival. As of this posting, there are over 280 contributed posts, and I’m betting we’ll crack 300 before the day is over. over 400 contributed posts. Anyone who leaves a valid e-mail address will also be entered into a drawing to win a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate.
Next, give money if you can. The Yes on 8 folks will be ramping up the advertising in this last week, and we need to keep pace.
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I’ve blogged about it. Flea’s blogged about it. Now you, too, can join bloggers around the country and around the world to blog in support of marriage equality for same-sex couples and against California’s Proposition 8.
Just post against Prop 8 on your blog on or before Wednesday, October 29, then visit Mombian.com to submit your link. I’ll include you in the master list of participants.
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Sometimes the headlines write themselves.
Conservative writer and DC resident Margaret Hemenway is appalled that her child’s female first-grade teacher read Uncle Bobby’s Wedding to the class as a way to help the class understand that she (the teacher) was marrying another woman.
Not only that, but Hemenway then goes on to tie 60’s radical William Ayers, who the McCain campaign is trying to tie to Barack Obama, to the subversive agenda of “early childhood pro-homosexual indoctrination in schools.” She then states, “Sen. Obama should be asked whether he agrees with Bill Ayers on introducing these controversial issues in the capital’s elementary schools, starting in the first grade.”
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