June 1, 2016
GUEST POST: Navigating life and growing up with two moms
Wednesday, June 1, 2016. On this date, LGBTQ bloggers, their family members, and allies from across the U.S.
#LGBTQfamilies
Parents learning to support their LGBT children for Blogging for #LGBTQFamilies Day
To me, family is everything. I’ve been able to do so much in life thanks to family support.
A toast to my moms and #LGBTQfamilies on their wedding day
Not many daughters get the opportunity give a wedding toast for their parents. It’s kind of an unusual situation. I can't go the typical route and say, “when I first met Anne and Theresa…I was in the womb. I remember when they were just two young lovebirds, the vague sound of their voices coming through to my amniotic sac.”
Gay fertility doctor on 20 years of helping to build #LGBTQfamilies
Isn’t it great that all families are not the same? Diverse families help make interesting neighborhoods and communities that serve to enrich our lives. As a fertility specialist, I’ve helped straight couples struggling with infertility, gay men and lesbian women, bisexual people in same-sex relationships, transgender individuals, as well as straight singles, from around the world - to have children of their own.
GLAAD president accelerates acceptance for #LGBTQfamilies around the country
Closing the gap on full acceptance of LGBT people will not come from legislation or judicial decisions alone, but from a deeper understanding and empathy from Americans themselves.
A lesbian adoptive mother responds to Catholic bishops' attempt to discriminate against #LGBTQfamilies like hers
We know nearly a dozen other same-sex couples who have also adopted children with special needs, both from the U.S. and abroad. And there are hundreds, if not thousands of others like us across the U.S. The intentionality with which they chose to parent is carried forward into their raising of their daughters and sons. They have done all the things that other parents do, often while facing stigma and a lack of legal stability for their families.
Two women, a donor, and a caring community: it takes a village to raise #LGBTQfamilies
The long process of preparing for the pregnancy and the pregnancy itself presented several challenges for me and us: starting with searching for a donor, then the conversations with the different doctors at the fertility clinic about all of our options, to issues related to our relationship as a couple, to reflecting on my own role as a mother—the non-gestational mother.
"It’s in the Jeans": lessons learned coming of age and coming out in #LGBTQfamilies
I had no idea that being gay was not normal when I was little. I grew up in a large Black family in Washington, DC, on a steady diet of Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King and Jesse “I am somebody” Jackson. It was important to my family and community for us to always know who we were as Black people.
Ben, 21-year-old gay man lost to suicide, remembered by his mom & 10-year-old sister
In moving tributes, Julie Wood and her 10-year-old-daughter, Sophie, share memories of Ben, their deeply loved, gay son who died by suicide last year.
The privilege to feel safe: GLAAD's President on why equality for #LGBTQfamilies is personal
GLAAD's President and CEO reflects on the ability of LGBT families to feel safe.
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