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 ...
Oct 2016
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Marriage & Family
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.
Dec 2014
Far from the Tree
Love is ideally present unconditionally throughout the relationship between a parent and a child. But acceptance is something that takes time.
May 2014
The Stolen Generations
The fact that so many Indigenous children continue to be taken into care is deeply concerning – but there are no simple answers.
May 2014
Welcome to My Modern Family
My persistent dark fantasy was that I would have children and wouldn't like them and would be stuck with them for the rest of my life.
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