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Gay Couple Adopt Newborn Abandoned in NYC Subway Published April 6th, 2021 - 10:12 GMT In August of 2000, Danny Stewart, then 34, discovered a newborn baby abandoned in a Manhattan subway station and called 911. (Pete Mercurio) Highlights Gay couple was fostered to adopt the baby, whom they named Kevin A gay couple who adopted a newborn baby after finding him abandoned in a New York City subway station is about to celebrate their son's 21st birthday this year — and now one of them has written a children's book about the unique way they became a family. In August of 2000, Danny Stew...

Gay couple who adopted abandoned newborn that they found on NYC subway platform 20 years reveal their son is now thriving at college and towers above them! In August of 2000, Danny Stewart, then 34, discovered a newborn baby abandoned in a Manhattan subway station and called 911 At a family court hearing months later, the judge asked whether Danny would like to adopt the baby — and he said yes Danny and his partner Pete Mercurio, then 32, fostered to adopt the baby, whom they named Kevin In 2011, after New York legalized same-sex marriage, the pair tied the knot — with the same judge fro...

Farmers in India are Fighting For Their Lives Nearly half a year into one of the largest mass protests in history, Mathangi Subramanian asks what Biden's administration can do to support democracy in India Design by Ingrid Frahm Last fall, when India’s farmers gathered on the outskirts of Delhi to object to the passage of three farm bills championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and passed without input from a single agricultural worker, I searched the crowd for faces I knew. During the six years that I lived in India as an anthropologist and educator, I met politically active farming fa...

Novelist Carter Sickels: Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, March 18, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, May 20, 2021 (All day) Reading from THE PRETTIEST STAR and Craft Talk: Writing with Empathy (45 minutes) Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, published by Hub City Press (2020). Among other honors, The Prettiest Star has been named a Kirkus Best Book of 2020, a Finalist for the Southern Book Prize, Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine, one of the Women's National Book Association's 2020 Great Group Reads Selections, and an Indie Next Pick for April 202...

"I felt a lot of pressure. I feel like I'm representing so much more than myself in this competition. I'm representing communities. I'm Mohawk. I'm also queer...it's also representing two-spirit and Indigiqueer communities in this. So it's so much bigger than myself and I just feel so humbled and so honoured to have been a part of this and now to call Jonny Appleseed the winner of Canada Reads." The runner-up was   which tells the interwoven stories of three Nigerian women, Kambirinachi and her twin daughters Taiye and Kehinde, who are torn apart by a traumatic experience.  Jacobs won i...