Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! Tell your social media followers! The 11th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day is Wednesday, June 1, and you don’t want to miss out.
Post in celebration and support of LGBTQ families and be part of the fun. Find new blogs, hear new voices, and perhaps gain some new readers for your own work. Facebook posts are fine as long as they’re set to “Public.” To participate, just submit links to your posts here on or before June 1.
Many thanks to GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, and Family Equality Council for sponsoring the event and helping to get the word out. At its core, however, the event is about individuals, not organizations. Thank you in advance for telling your stories and sharing your thoughts.
Please also let followers of your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, and other social media locations know now that the event is coming up.
Here’s a Twitter-sized message you can use:
Join us on Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day 6/1 & post/tweet in celebration of #LGBTQfamilies! All welcome! Pls RT! http://ow.ly/N44uD
And one for Facebook:
Spread the word! All are invited to join us on June 1 for the 11th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day! Post on your blog or Facebook in celebration of #LGBTQfamilies, then submit the link here (Facebook posts must be set to “Public”): http://ow.ly/N44uD
Feel free to grab the image in this post, too:
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- Upload to your blog or Facebook as you would any image.
- Link the image to https://mombian.com/blogging-for-lgbtq-families-day/ if you can.
Here’s the official press release, with some nice quotes from the sponsors:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dana Rudolph, drudolph@mombian.com
11th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day is June 1
BOSTON, May 13, 2016: The 11th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day is Wednesday, June 1, 2016, when all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, their family members, and allies are invited to blog or post on social media in celebration and support of LGBTQ families. The event, developed and run by the award-winning LGBTQ-parenting site Mombian, and sponsored by GLAAD, the Human Right Campaign, and the Family Equality Council, aims to share the stories of LGBTQ families and their allies, raising awareness of their diversity, their challenges, and their joys.
Hundreds of bloggers have taken part in past years, including parents across the LGBTQ spectrum, LGBTQ individuals without children, children of LGBTQ parents, and non-LGBTQ allies. The event is held at the start of June, between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, in order to honor both, but also to convey that not all families fit into the traditional structure of one mother and one father. Additionally, June is LGBTQ Pride Month.
“When the experiences of LGBT families are shared, we get a perspective that all too frequently is left out of mainstream media,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President & CEO. “These stories have a powerful impact on people’s perceptions and help to accelerate acceptance of LGBT families.”
Ellen Kahn, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Children, Youth & Families Program, said, “We look forward every year to Blogging for LGBT Families Day, when we can elevate the stories of LGBT-headed families from across the country–living our everyday lives with pride, courage, a sense of humor, and embracing the ways in which are families are unique and special.”
“Every Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day, we get deep, heartfelt essays from people whose voices aren’t heard often enough in our culture,” says Emily Hecht-McGowan, Interim Co-Executive Director and Director of Public Policy at Family Equality Council. “These LGBTQ parents tell stories that are uncommon and out-of-the-box, but the emotions and challenges they describe are universally recognizable.”
“A lot has changed for LGBTQ families over the 11 years I’ve been holding this event,” said Dana Rudolph, founder and publisher of Mombian. “We’ve made tremendous progress in both legal equality and visibility, but we still have far to go. By sharing stories of LGBTQ families — both the things that make us unique and the things that make us similar to all other families — we have the power to keep changing hearts and minds, as well as to support each other.”
- To participate, bloggers should post at their own blogs, YouTube channels, or other public social media channels on a topic related to LGBTQ families on or before June 1, 2016, then visit mombian.com to submit the links to their entries. Mombian will showcase the full list of participants on June 1.
- People may submit Facebook posts as long as they are set to “Public.”
- Additionally, people may tweet in support of LGBTQ families on June 1 and include the hashtag #LGBTQfamilies.
- All bloggers and tweeters who support LGBTQ families are welcome to participate — there is no need to be LGBTQ or a parent.
For more details and promotional banners, visit mombian.com and click the “Blogging for LGBTQ Families” image.
About the Organizer and Sponsors
Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms (www.mombian.com) offers a daily mix of parenting, politics, and diversions for lesbian moms and other LGBTQ parents. It won as “Outstanding Blog” in the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, given in March 2012. The site was founded in June 2005 by Dana Rudolph, a journalist, marketer, and lesbian mom who also pens a regular “Mombian” column for several LGBTQ newspapers.
GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBT acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love. For more information, please visit www.glaad.org or connect with GLAAD on Facebook and Twitter.
The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. HRC envisions a world where LGBT people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community. www.hrc.org.
Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the three million parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer in this country today and their six million children of all ages. We are changing attitudes and policies to ensure that all families are respected, loved, and celebrated—including families with parents who are LGBTQ. We are a community of parents, children, grandparents, and grandchildren that reaches across this country. For over 30 years we have raised our children and raised our voices toward fairness for all families. To learn more, visit: www.familyequality.org.