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>>You offer great thoughts about honoring adoptees' heritages. I wonder how
this might be extended, or not, to other kinds of cultural associations,
such as signing and Deaf culture. Hearing parents may have a deaf
child—we've got a few here on this list, I believe—so how does this apply?<<

At some point this sort of came up in our family, even before we welcomed a
new black child into our midst. Julian has grown up in a lesbian household,
and is comfortable with gay culture. One of his first jobs was with
MassEquality, canvassing to keep same sex marriage legal in Massachusetts. When he was
going to his first residency at Goddard he checked "no preference" with the
type of dorm accommodations, as he was fine with the gay floor, the men's
floor, or the mixed sex floor. (He didn't want an early to bed floor LOL) His
first friend when he got to Goddard was a middle-aged female to male transexual
truck driver who looked and sounded like every stereotypic redneck male
southern trucker you've ever imagined.

He's straight, but he has grown up in a Queer culture. (I can say that-- I'm
one of them. And Julian knows when he can say it and when he can't, too.)

And we're learning more and embracing more as we have welcomed Sadel, who
has a Haitian-American heritage.

Kathryn



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