After 46 Years, Gay Grandpas Get Married

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Here’s one from the “Ain’t Love Grand?” file. 46 years ago, way before marriage equality was even a conversation, Lewis Duckett and Billy Jones met and fell in love. When Duckett was sent off to fight in Vietnam, the couple kept in contact by sending coded letters nearly every day. Since then the pair adopted a child, became grandparents and last October finally got married. Their wedding and love story is brilliantly profiled by the New York Times. Watch it here!

 

Smooching Gay Couple Gets Applause at Kings Game

The Kiss Cam at LA Kings games captures couples on camera, puts them on the big screen for the stadium to see and then they kiss. It’s a local tradition that fans secretly hope they’ll get to be a part of.  On Friday, one of the couples featured was Brad Parr and Andy Evans. Watch the couple along with the cute crowd reaction here.

Per OutSports.com Parr said, “”It was a particularly sweet night since the Kings were playing and beat my hometown Toronto. My parents and siblings live in LA but the rest of my family think I am a terrible traitor for being a Kings fan; I’ve lived in LA for 17 years.”

Nordstrom ad features gay couple (& adorable dog)

In the awesome ongoing trend of featuring LGBT couples in commercials, retail giant Nordstrom has released a charming holiday ad with a gay couple and a scruffy dog who steals the show. Watch it here!

https://youtu.be/wMT4oWqcr2c

Filmmaker & Shakespeare Prove That Love Wins

Filmmaker Yulin Kuang collaborated with YouTube artist collective Field Day to produce an incredible video. Inspired by the legalization of same-sex marriage, the video is Kuang’s visual interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116. It’s guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

When Your Daughter Becomes Your Son

Cosmopolitain.com produced a fantastic video called “Mom, I’m Not a Girl” and we couldn’t wait to share it with you. The 7 minute documentary profiles Brooklyn mother of five Jodie Peterson and her son Penelope who started showing signs of being transgendered at a really young age. Peterson tells Cosmo sharing this story was important. “People are dying over it,” she says. “Until that changes, it’s important to speak out. All the evils — racism, genderism, all the isms — rely on silence. So in order to push social change, we need to speak up.”​