Back to school is suppose to be the end of summer and start of a slower pace for parents. Not us! Here is how my week stacks up: Monday-soccer practice; Tuesday-soccer game (gave away STOMP tickets); Wednesday-band and soccer practice; Thursday-open house at high school; Friday-football game, band; Saturday-12 noon college football game, 6pm Pitt football game; Sunday-wedding. And, we get to start it all over next week.
Am I too tired to realize I am tired? I don’t think so, however if I am, it is my choice.
Would I change a thing? Nope. I love my life. My husband and family are very important to me. Non-traditional as my family may be, I am extremely proud and very fortunate.
Last Saturday my cousin got married. Her reception was a lot of fun. I love seeing relatives and friends whom we haven’t seen in a while. As you get older, weddings and funerals are a breeding ground for updates about distant relatives and Ed and I always have lots to talk about. Ed is everyone’s choice dance partner at receptions and I become everyone’s drinking buddy. Being together, being a family and being out is never a problem for us. Putting our relationship, ourselves and our family in the closet is not an option. If someone has a problem with us, it’s simply their problem, not ours.
Everyone is not afforded the luxury of being out, and I understand that, but it is so much easier to be out and yourself. The more of us that are out, the more of a difference we can make for the future gay youth. There is a perfect opportunity on October 11 to be out and counted in Washington DC.
“We’re marching this October to demand action from the federal government to protect our rights in all 50 states,” said co-organizer Kip Williams. “Real equality can only come from the president, the Congress and the Supreme Court.”
When are you guys adoptioning a little girl? Or wouldn’t you like to have a little girl around the house? Those are common questions and ones we have pondered for years. Remember we are five guys… As we get older, the urgency of adopting again becomes less attractive. You need two “yes” and currently we are reduced to 1.5. That number will continue to drop as I/we age.
I am happy to live in a state where lgbt people can adopt and have both parents names on the birth certificate. Let me mention that this right is not available in every state. There are thousand of kids in the foster care system in this country and many are denied good homes because their parent(s) happen to be gay or lesbian. My experience is that many lgbt parents try harder to be good parent because of the stigma of being a lgbt parent. http://www.adoptuskids.org/ http://www.outonline.com/pages/local-news.html
Thanks for reading and being part of my blog. It is for you that I do this, you that drives us to be an excellent newspaper and you behind the idea of the website and OTV.
We are all family…part of the lgbt family. One group, many voices.
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Tony