Queer Parents Often Navigate Prying Eyes When Traveling With Kids
aw shucks, there’s a white dad and his cute multiracial kids look. The staring continued…one second, two seconds, three seconds.
Finally, I looked directly at her, leaving my gaze as locked as hers. For a few beats, she kept her eyes trained on me and, then finally, turned her head.There is a steady stream of looks you receive while traveling as part of a married, mixed-race same-sex couple with a Black son and Latina daughter.
Thanks to the pandemic, our family hasn’t journeyed much over the past two years and our foster daughter only came to live with us in the fall of 2020 (our son was adopted around that same time, but has lived with us since late 2018).
Now, as we venture away from our home base of Los Angeles — where, for better or worse, people rarely pay attention to much besides themselves — I’m trying to make peace with the attention our foursome receives at airports, hotel lobbies, and theme parks.
