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Through the rest of August, Goodkin will be featuring regular blog posts from Lisa Marie Evans, a documentary filmmaker in the process of making a film called Gayby Boom. Lisa is creating a movie and a movement with her current project by compiling home videos sent in from around the world by LGBT parents and children of, and exploring the ever-evolving family. We are more than happy to help her get the word out there. 

For so many years, gay and lesbian families have been considered "unconventional," or "non-traditional." But if you take out the same sex part of it, just how unconventional are they?  

July is my favorite summer month. There's something about July that feels like candy to me. Maybe it's the memory of eating more sweets in the summer, or the sticky fruit stained hands I was always running around with (dirty, no doubt), but I feel like July has all the promise of a first kiss. At least it does when you're a kid. You have so many dreams about what you're going to do with this block of time that sort of feels like a massive blank canvas. I want my kids to experience the summer in many different ways.