LGBTQ news and entertainment
How sweet and wonderful is this?
A letter posted on the Facebook page of FCKH8 is going viral today. Here’s the text of the note:
I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me. The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class. We are out, like you now.
I’ve known you were gay since you were six, I’ve love you since you were born.
– Dad
10 Kids, 2 Dads, which airs tonight, August 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, takes viewers to a conservative town about 20 miles outside of Detroit, where gay couple Clint and Bryan are daddy and papa to 10 adopted sons from at-risk backgrounds.
When Clint and Bryan decided to start a family, they never dreamed that they’d end up with 10 kids. At equal turns funny and moving, this series follows a real-life Modern Family as they raise their adopted children in a chaotic, yet loving environment.
From light-hearted moments of painting the house or teaching the kids to drive, to heavier subjects like when one of the kids deals with bullying, this looks to be an honest and revealing look at family life in America.
Tune in for the premiere of 10 Kids, 2 Dads with back-to-back episodes Saturday, August 18th on OWN.
For more info on the show, click here.
I’m definitely watching this tonight.
From the cast of the Broadway revival of ANYTHING GOES which closes today at the Stephen Sondheim Theater in NYC.
This is a great answer to the question “what’s it like performing on Broadway?”
Besides being able to live the dream of appearing on Broadway, the camaraderie and sense of family can be amazing. Take a look. This tells a great story.
Congratulations to all on a successful journey.
From the YouTube notes: ANYTHING GOES opened at the Stephen Sondheim Theater on April 7, 2011 and closed on July 8, 2012. From Rehearsals, to Sitz Probe, to Tony Awards, to all the backstage craziness, it has been a pleasure sailing on the SS American with this amazing cast & crew.
“Good Life” sung by OneRepublic
(compiled from a year and a half’s worth of iphone, camera, and digital footage)
This is a really wonderful story from AZCentral.com about two gay dads who have adopted 12 children over the past few years and created a warm, fantastic family by choice.
It’s 11-year-old Andrew’s turn to set the table for dinner, and he deals out 14 paper plates as if they were playing cards. Marcus, 5, climbs onto a bench and announces, “It smells like pancakes.” His brother, 3-year-old Cooper, counters, “I think it smells like chicken.”
“It smells like Ambrose,” says Logan, 7, climbing in between Cooper and their sister Ambrose, who’s 4. She glares at the laughing boys. Actually, it smells like spaghetti. A big pot of homemade sauce is bubbling on the stove.
The six littlest children fit on the 9-foot-long bench along one side of the table. Andrew and the four other big kids sit in chairs on the other side. Olivia, the baby of the family, is in a high chair. Daddy sits at one end, Papa at the other.
Steven and Roger Ham are raising 12 children, all adopted from foster care, in Arizona, one of the most unlikely places for two gay men to piece together a family.
Click here to read the whole story.
It’s a terrific testament to the daily business that families go through and what it means to the kids to have a loving home.
With so many debates about whether gay couples should be able to adopt, this tells the true tale. Kids need love and they don’t judge it. They just accept it.