Rob Watson
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A gay dad’s letter to the Australian couple who threaten divorce if marriage equality is realized
Something one learns as a parent is that children are often not rational in their behavior. When something happens that is not to their liking, they strike out in a variety of fashions, many of which do not line up to a logical agenda of self-interest.
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A gay dad’s letter to Michelle Duggar
The Duggars were not just a benign family in which a horrific situation unfolded. They were advocates and proponents, not just of their own “lifestyle”, but in attacking various personas within the LGBT community umbrella, my family being one such target…
Watch LGBTQ Nation columnist Rob Watson on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on MSNBC.
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A gay dad draws protest from the school that cancelled a play about two gay penguins
As writers and activists enter the public discussions, they tend to adopt a style and way of communicating that works for them. For me, I am a gay dad who writes people letters in a very public way…
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Gay dad on the elementary school mob that cancelled a play about a gay penguin family
There was another significant hearing this week on Tuesday about same sex relationships and whether to ban them.
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A gay dad’s open letter to Dolce and Gabbana
Dolce and Gabbana are not Ben and Jerry. Ben and Jerry make ice cream fashionable, Dolce and Gabbana make icy fashions. Ben and Jerry are sweetly pro-LGBT and marriage equality. Dolce and Gabbana are rancid in their attacks on gay and lesbian families.
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An open letter to the homophobic doctor and florist who humiliate LGBT families
God did not bring these couples to you so you could judge them. His intention was for you to experience your humanity by serving them. His intention was to enrich you. He failed.
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A gay dad’s letter to Austin Wallis, and the high school that rejected him
The world of teens and tweens can be a treacherous one. As the dad to two 12 year olds, I see it as a world where childhood cushions and play have fallen away and new, somewhat complex challenges have emerged. It is a world where peer relationships and socializations…
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A gay dad’s letter to the school that is censoring a mural of a kiss
The kiss. For some reason, it, and the experience of giving and getting one, is a completely integrated aspect of the high school experience. While puckers may have been planted in earlier years, it is the high school ones that create the milestones to adulthood … the magic of our adolescence. One depiction of such a kiss is not folding harmoniously into the tapestry of its school’s life however. It is causing controversy.
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A gay dad sounds off on the lies and abuse of TLC’s ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’
Reality TV is not an area in which I have much comfort. I don’t know what a Kardashian is, and I am not clear on the point of real housewives or bridezillas. There seems to be a pre-occupation in this “reality” world with the breadth of “traditional marriages” from Bachelor mating rituals, which are tacky at best, to extreme retro “traditional” with multiple wives or 19 kids….
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A gay dad’s requiem for Leelah Alcorn, the Matthew Shepard of our time
Matthew Shepard’s murder left and indelible impression that has become part of our collective culture to this day. This week, another tragedy, another life destroyed, left a similar impression — the death of Leelah Alcorn.
