It’s Never Too Early to Travel with Your Kids
To be a responsible world citizen, you need to understand how wide and beautiful the world is, and how many kinds of both pain and great joy it contains.
Aug 2017
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Marriage & Family
Apr 2017
Families have evolved. Now language must too
We need new words for new kinds of relatedness, ones that don’t simply hark back to traditional roles
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Oct 2016
Gay Rights Happened Slowly; Trans Rights, All at Once
As one trans activist said to me, “Trans is who you are; sexuality is whom you bounce it off of,” and people can accept who someone is more readily than what someone ...
Jun 2016
‘My First Gay Bar’: 25 Coming-of-Age Stories
Jane Lynch, Alexander Wang, Rosie O'Donnell and others reflect on what gay bars mean to them, in the aftermath of the shooting in Orlando.
Jun 2016
LGBTQ Americans have won many victories. That can’t make us complacent.
The US is no longer quite as queer-phobic, but it remains a land where success has blinded many people, LGBTQ or otherwise, to the constant guerrilla warfare that we must ...
Dec 2015
7 Things I’ve Learned From Raising 4 Kids with 6 Parents
Parenthood is always a steep learning curve, and it was even steeper for us, given how many expectations we were defying.
Dec 2015
On Gay Parenting
Children confiscate your mask, leaving you far more exposed than lovers can.
May 2015
Which Chopstick Is the Fork?
We are not lesser but we are not the same.
Dec 2014
A Country Called Childhood, by Jay Griffiths
Her book is both... a quixotic slippage into wistfulness, and also an exegesis of freedom, a panegyric to heedless ways.
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