Watch: New Music Video by Two-Mom Couple on Adoption

Musicians, producers, spouses, and moms Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion have released a new beautiful video inspired by their personal journey to adoption. 

“Testify (It’s Love)”, off LoPresti’s album, House of D, is “a proclamation of awe and adoration for the miracle of adoption,” the two say in a statement. The video for the song shows us a variety of adoptive families from across the U.S. LoPresti and Champion hope this will inspire others “to consider adoption as a first choice for creating family.” They are releasing the video in honor of National Adoption Day, November 17, a day to raise awareness of the more than 117,000 children in foster care in the U.S. waiting for permanent homes and families.

“There is nothing I am so grateful for as family,” LoPresti says. “If I were to love my multi-cultural, adoptive family any more than I already do, I think my heart would burst. It’s high time that people start understanding adoption for the miracle it is. Sharing biology has nothing to do with connection. Creating community, creating family…. it’s all about one thing—Love.” She adds, “It’s time to combat the old outdated stigmas around adoption, and replace them completely with the truth—adoption is something to be celebrated, not hidden.”

LoPresti and Champion may be best known for their 2015 same-sex take on “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” but the California couple has made their musical mark from San Diego, where they created and ran San Diego IndieFest for a decade, to Oakland, where they’ve produced videos, large shows, smaller House Concerts and workshops, and much more. Read more about these two bisexual moms’ path to parenthood in this 2017 interview with the Advocate.

While we’re on the topic of adoption, I also encourage folks to watch “My Two Mums (The Myths of Gay Adoption),” a 2015 TEDx Talk by Lynne Elvins. Elvins and her partner were the first same-sex couple to be approved for adoption in Bristol, U.K., in 2004. Not only does she knock down stereotypes about same-sex parents and address issues like how to raise a son without a dad, but she also speaks to the importance of her adopted son’s birth family and former foster family in their lives.

If you’re considering adoption, check out my 12 Resources for LGBTQ People Considering Adoption. And if you want more music for and about LGBTQ families, here’s my complete playlist.

To all whose lives have been touched by adoption, may you find strength and love, not only during National Adoption Month, but all year round.

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