It’s important to have queer role models, not only for queer youth, but also for children of queer parents. In our house, we often point out to our boys when someone in popular culture is queer. Although they have friends with same-sex parents, it’s important they see it in role models and entertainers. It normalizes their experience. That’s why I’m so glad Adam Lambert didn’t win American Idol. His career will do much better without the burden of that crown on his head. And I have one more person that I can tell my kids is like their two dads.