Sharing our families on Mother’s Day

by Dana Rudolph
contributing writer
BAY WINDOWS

This time of year, when I was growing up, my parents would often regale my brother and me with an old Johnny Mercer song that went, "If it wasn’t for your father/Would your mother be your mother?/So remember dad on Mother’s Day." The song clearly doesn’t apply to many LGBT-headed families; but reminds me that these holidays, with their glorification of traditional family roles, can sometimes make people wonder how to treat us during this time of parental celebration. Do both moms in a couple celebrate on Mother’s Day, or both dads on Father’s Day? Do they do anything on the opposite holiday? What about trans parents?

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