Caitlin Childs/Flickr Michelle Conover is no longer a mother—at least according to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Last month, during divorce proceedings initiated by Michelle’s wife Brittany Conover, the court stripped Michelle of her parental rights over their five-year old son Jaxon. Was Michelle an unfit mother? The court never inquired. Instead it rested […]
Alison Gash
Alison Gash is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and the author of Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights. @fourbees.bsky.social
Posted inPolitics
Gay Parenting in the Post-Obergefell World
Like most same-sex couples raising children, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, wanted to secure as many legal protections as possible for their children to fill the void that their state’s marriage ban created. And, like many same-sex couples across the country they sought a second-parent adoption—a common practice in over half the states that would […]
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013
Under the Gaydar
How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing.
