Lesbian couple featured on New Yorker’s Mother’s Day cover

This week’s New Yorker celebrates Mother’s Day with an illustration that features two moms.

The two women, one dressed in a pink robe and the other in a blue one are reading a card in their kitchen. Three children are sitting on the staircase behind them watching their mom’s read the card. There is a bouquet of flowers in a vase in front of the couple.

Writing about the cover on the New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog,  artist Chris Ware posted,

“ … Now that the numbers are in on same-sex marriage, many Republicans are falling like dominos all over themselves to express their support for something that only a few months ago they steadfastly claimed to stand against. They’ll probably soon claim that this is how they felt all along, and they were simply too hamstrung by politics to be able to say what they really meant. Well, okay. In the spirit of openheartedness and what life is really all about, I’ll go so far as to say that the fear of others may mask some deep-seated desire to understand, and maybe even to love. Because really, what is there to be afraid of? Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one loving couple who are raising children, same-sex or not. And it’s really just the loving part that matters. That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of “diagnosable” to the final edit of “so what?” must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness. My wife, being a biology teacher, puts it even more succinctly: “Why are all these people so worried about who everybody else is sleeping with, anyway?” …

So, a final draft: happy Mothers’ Day, moms. We are grateful to, and love, you all.”