by Jendi Reiter

Adoption, Transition, and Becoming Whole

 I’m Jendi Reiter and I’m from New York City.  I grew up in the lower East side of Manhattan in the 1970s with two moms. My biological mom was very femme and kind oIn 2016, there was the Pulse nightclub shooting, the hate crime against the queer folks in the nightclub. There are a lot of people who are coming out in solidarity or putting stu...

by Peggy Gillespie

School District Tried to Erase LGBTQIA+ Families–And Failed

 So I’m Peggy Gillespie and I’m living in North Hampton, Massachusetts.  Back in 1993, I was a mom of a three-year-old multiracial child. In preschool, my kid was gNow I’ll go back to the sex thing, because in one classroom, one kid said, “How did two women have a baby?” Just like Gus, the superintendent had feared. And another kid...

by Jane Fleishman

Northampton—“Lesbianville, USA”—Faces Protest, Fear, and Flying Eggs at Its First Pride

 I’m Jane Fleishman. I’m from Long Beach, New York and social justice is baked into my genes.  I wanna tell you a story about how I got involved in the first Pride The day of the march was kind of a cloudy day, and it was a little scary. And I remember walking down Main Street and feeling like, Holy crap, we are really doing this. And when t...