Archive for August, 2006

–ring! ring!–
Lil’ Monkey: Hel-lo?
GW Bush: Yes–hello? Monkey? This is President Bush. I need your help.
LM: Help!
GWB: Okay, so. My advisors tell me things are going to H-E-Double Toothpicks in the Middle East, and they need me to step up to the plate a bit more. So my [...]

Butch Mama chum representing along SF LGBT Pride route, June 27, 2005.
So, where did we leave off, from Mommy wars, the lesbian episode, part 1? Ah, yes: how it comes to be that spawning kids, or adopting them, or any other parental variant, manages to be both radical and conformist and transformational of queer [...]

From the photo vault: toward the end of one of the many San Francisco anti-war demos, during the lead-up to the Iraq War (this one was January 21, 2003). What I like best about this (other than the sign) is the bearded and mustachio’ed old hands, looking on from the far right.

[Warning: jumbo essay alert! Read at own risk!]
Of course this Sunday I would be slug enough not to have even unwrapped, much less read, the NY Times, a weekly luxury I refuse to give up, even when the monthly budget calls for cutting the tuna fish with cat food. For our consumption, I hastily [...]



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    The whole LD Twitter enchilada is here. FWIW.


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    Offered as a public service. With huge gratitude for Beyoncé's voice and musicianship. Destiny's Child and a bit o' Cyndi Lauper singing "Ooh Child," by the Five Stairsteps.




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    EQAcrossAM Holding the 14th amendment to its word.








    Archived material about the 2008 California marriage equality fight and this site's treatment of it can be found at an LD No on 8 page. There you'll also find links to background info on the marriage equality issue & sources of info on current campaigns, like The Courage Campaign's Equality Hub. For ongoing news roundup on national marriage equality issues (updated daily), check out Stop8.org.







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    Lesbian Dad Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia.

    Still curious? You'll find a ton more on the About page. Or the Glossary. Or the Best of LD. The closest thing to an origin story can be found in this six-post series, excerpted from an essay of mine describing the dawn of my lesbian fatherhood.

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