It is not everyone’s idea of an occasion to celebrate but a publisher named Alyson Books has brought out a twentieth anniversary edition of the famous child’s primer on same-sex relationships: Heather Has Two Mommies.

In full colour! gasps New Republic reviewer Ellen Handler Spitz delightedly. She observes:

This deceptively simple percept marks a two-decades-long saga of social change: when Heather first saw the light of day, it had been rejected by over fifty publishers, was eventually printed through donations, and the four thousand dollars that were raised proved insufficient to produce a coloured picture book.

Even now, though, this “passionate and brave story” of two women who “fall in love and decide to bring a child into the world and raise her together” has been produced minus eight “crucial” pages -- by an LGBT publisher, no less -- as was the tenth anniversary… click here to read whole article and make comments