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One of the most anticipated releases of the summer, Lisa Cholodenko’s two-mom-drama 'The Kids Are All Right,' lived up to hype this weekend, by scoring the best debut of 2010. According to estimates provided by Rentrak, the critically acclaimed 'Kids' grossed a massive $504,888 from just 7 theaters.

"We live down the street from a gay couple with a young son, my son goes and plays there and has lunch there. My son is 8 years old, and not once has he come and asked why his friend has two poppas,” says Mark Ruffalo. “His family is no different to my family – they eat at the same time, send their kid to school, discipline him and love him the same way.

The story of a lesbian couple struggling with local officials for domestic partnership is being made into a feature film. Cynthia Wade, the director of the award-winning short documentary "Freeheld", is making a full-length feature of the doc with "Juno" star, Ellen Page. Freeheld won the Oscar for best short documentary in 2008.

The new Canadian film The Baby Formula involves two lesbians who become pregnant using sperm developed from each other's stem cells. The plot sounds like science fiction, but we are closer to realizing this type of family building than many of us can imagine.

The trailer for the long-awaited adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" is out. The film version of the Maurice Sendak book will be released in October. The story is about a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, who creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown the boy as their ruler.

Mr. Sendak has been a New Yorker most of his life. He lived with Eugene Glynn, a psychoanalyst, for 50 years before Dr. Glynn’s death in May 2007.

Imagine being called an abomination by Anita Bryant or Jimmy Swaggart.

Life hasn’t been easy for members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders (PFLAG) anywhere, including Southwest Florida, but “For the Bible Tells Me So,” an award-winning documentary released in 2007, indicates that it has vastly improved.

The Rev. Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Rev. Bishop Gene Robinson and former U.S. Congressman Dick Gephardt all defend divine and human rights to exist as one chooses.

Gay-hockey-dad-movie, Breakfast with Scot opened in select theaters this week.