Stacey and Cheralyn are a two-mom couple living in Texas with their two kids. As part of a short documentary series from Family Equality, they recently shared their story of starting a family through adoption, the effect of marriage equality on their lives, and why visibility and representation are so important.
The video is one of six episodes of “Out in Texas,” a docuseries about the impact of marriage equality on same-sex couples and their children since the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. You can hear more from Stacey and Cheralyn, and from Texas dads Phillip and Greg, in the rest of the series at the Family Equality website or YouTube channel. The whole thing is just over 20 minutes long—a nice look at how far we’ve come in five years (and what we still have to do).
If your kids are old enough, you might watch it with them and ask: How are these families’ stories like our own? How are they different? How can we learn from each other and how can we support different types of families through future challenges?