Oops, We’re Pregnant! (cue the laugh track)

Once the stigma of illegitimacy began to wear off in the eighties, mainstream books, television and movies began to use what is now almost a de rigueur plot line—the accidental baby. True, soaps had been doing this for years but it always seemed that said baby was always mothered or fathered by the “right” person [...]

Requiem for Rachel

As numerous posts on Facebook, Twitter and other places have informed me, today is National Coming Out Day to raise awareness of gay rights issues. I like to think that the majority of INS readers are pretty aware of gay rights or lack thereof so I’m not going to hop onto the metaphorical soapbox and [...]

It’s HEEEE-EEERE!!!

As has been pretty obvious for the past few weeks, INS 4.0 is up and running. Thanks to everyone for your positive feedback on the new look of the site. The most gushing of thanks, though, has to go to AAG of ThreeDesignThree.com, who also writes a fantastic blog at, what else, AAGblog.com. I’ve been [...]