i've posted a couple of blogs about the bullying of gay teens and their tragic suicides and i wanted to find something positive happening for them. i've been doing a lot of reading about sexuality and how and when to introduce homosexuality to children. i loved how the book it's so amazing represented families and the different types that exist. earlier today i was telling someone about how i started reading this book to zach when a friend of mine was pregnant with twins and he wanted to know what the twins were doing in her tummy.
i was surprised at how informative the book was. what i didn't know was how beautifully it described a family. it was all so perfectly matter-of-fact. adopted, bi-racial, gay. zach and i started reading it when he was 5 years old and there's no doubt in my mind that a gay family is as normal to him now as a stero-typical male/female marriage. it's not even a question of being accepting of other people. it just is and they just are.
even as the tea party gains momentum, i am so positive that a show like glee is on television. to have a show with gay characters dealing with everything from being bullied to falling in love is such a great step. to have gay teens represented on such a widely watched show will hopefully normalize what many consider normal. if only there had been a gay brady in the bunch...or mary and rhoda were a couple...maybe it would have helped some of my friends during their teen years.
wwcd: how about a remake of the odd couple?
i am beginning to think that the concept of family originated in times when it was all about protecting the clan amidst scarce resources and high infant mortality rates. perhaps we can revisit that and see "family" as a more interconnected, supportive network, not necessarily confined to who is having sex with whom and whether they procreate or not. siblings can functionally be less familial than co-workers, after all is said and done.
ReplyDeletehere's hoping that love can pull us through even the definitions of church(s) and state(s)...