For National Adoption Month, here are a few great sources of stories about LGBTQ adoptive families, to go along with the more practical resources I posted earlier.
- The HRC blog has a number of family stories for the month, along with other posts about adoption.
- Family Equality’s Allies for Adoption campaign also has many family profiles in its Faces of Adoption section.
- RaiseAChild.US, which encourages LGBT people to build families through fostering and adoption, has partnered with Huffington Post Gay Voices for “Let Love Define Family,” a series of posts about adoption. Founder, CEO, and adoptive dad Rich Valenza starts off National Adoption Month with an overview of the landscape for LGBT adoptive families. Other stories include:
- Eddie and Chip and their multiracial and multicultural family, with White dads, Black children, and one deaf dad;
- Rob and Ty, who have two deaf children;
- Single gay dad Tyler;
- Comedian Alec Mapa and his husband Jamie;
- Moms of seven Teves and Vonetta;
- Daniel and Julian, the first of whom adopted as a single person before starting a relationship.
One other must-see for the month, however, is the video “Adoptees ‘Flip The Script’ on National Adoption Month,” in which adults who had been adopted as children express their feelings about adoption and the need for their voices to be heard.