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Highlights Magazine Is Featuring Same-Sex Parents for the First Time Ever
Your fave childhood publication is taking a progressive step forward.
Remember Highlights? The magazine from our childhood that's probs best known for its unexplainably fun Hidden Pictures puzzles? Well, they're still in publication, and they are taking a small but necessary step towards inclusivity and diversity by publishing a cartoon of a family with same-sex parents for the first time ever.
According to PinkNews, the long-standing American children's publication is set to run the picture in its February 2017 issue, and the move comes following a controversy from late last year where readers were accusing Highlights and their offshoot publication Hello of being homophobic for not actively representing LGBT families.
"It was never a question of if," Highlights editor-in-chief Christine French Cully told The Washington Post about the decision to publish an image featuring a family with same-sex parents. “It was always a question of when.”
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.
