The author honestly and humorously expresses the delight and dismay her family lived through as they watched and adjusted to the increasingly interesting and sometimes very awkward moments of life with C.J. continued to cross-dress and then announced one day to his father that when he grew up, he was going to be a girl, that Duron realized she might have a gender-nonconforming child. Having grown up with a brother who is homosexual, Duron was on the lookout for potentially gay behavior in C.J. liked dolls, his favorite colors were pink and purple, and he enjoyed dressing up in girls’ clothes-all atypical behaviors for a 3-year-old male. Like most parents, Duron and her husband had certain expectations about who their sons would grow up to be, but when their younger son, C.J., discovered and fell in love with Barbie, they had to slowly begin changing their ideas. Written in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular blog of the same name, Raising My Rainbow is the unforgettable story of her wonderful family as they navigate the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son.A memoir about raising a gender-creative child. Lori and her family choose to see the rainbow. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation. He floats on the gender-variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff-really likes girl stuff.
is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, Lori's younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." C.J.
Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son.
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