“Fire Song” & Queer Parenting!

Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones previews his first feature film and discusses the Two-Spirit romance and indigenous issues that ignite Fire Song. (Interviewed by Steve Pride.)

Same-gender parents share their family secrets in four recent books: Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship by Aaron Goodfellow (Fordham University Press); Saving Delaney: From Surrogacy to Family by Andrea and Keston Ott-Dahl (Cleis Press); Which One of You Is the Mother?: The Absolutely Positively True Adoption Story of Two Gay Guys by Sean Michael O'Donnell (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform); Queerspawn In Love: A Memoir by Kellen Anne Kaiser (She Writes Press). (Queer Life & Literature commentator Janet Mason)

And in NewsWrap: Trump's cabinet picks shelve LGBT rights, voters end the reign of Gambia's homophobic Yahya Jammeh, a close UN vote saves its newly created LGBT rights watchdog, thousands march for equality with Pride in New Delhi and Hong Kong, South Australia's premier issues an unprecedented apology, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Jessica Andrea and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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