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Real LfT post later; housekeeping post now: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/01/19/housekeeping-on-titan/

Gay parenting more common in the south.

There are many important news blurbs on Advocate.com today, but I'm finding it exhausting: pervasive anti-gay bias here; rising anti-gay violence there; victory for gay people in this or that lawsuit somewhere else -- all alongside insipid entertainment news, and I just find it soul-sucking.

Had White Collar on last night, but wasn't focused enough to actually watch it or have an opinion.

Why I look more like a girl when Patty's away: I wear her clothes. A lot.

OH GOD SO MANY DVDs -- more about that later.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I have some friends here who are afraid to adopt, because Texas law doesn't recognize same sex couple adoptions. The state is bad about not recognizing out of state adoptions too, and they worry if they tried it would end horribly.

But it is heartening to see another major Texas city high on that list of same sex families.

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

For whatever reason, San Antonio is the city I've been where I've felt like there was the most visibile gay community. (Who knows, though, I might have been reading non-couples as couples.) I sometimes joke with my friend that there are no straight people in Minneapolis, but it's just a quirk of circles we move in.

When I was in San Antonio, I remember an article about there being a lot of same sex couples with kids in Texas compared to the country as a whole. (I think the statistic is that of same sex couples, more than average have children.) So there's probably good information out there for your friends, but then they probably already have it.