November is National Adoption Month, so let’s kick it off with a look at some of the books for children and adults—storybooks, memoirs, and social science studies—that feature LGBTQ adoptive families.
Building on the success of their first picture book for and about children with same-sex parents, Rainbow Families Croatia (Dugine obitelji) is crowdfunding a second book that they hope to provide free to “every interested person, family, and organization.”
An adorable French bulldog named Pickles lives contentedly with his human papas—until one day, when they bring home another puppy to be his sibling. Can Pickles adapt to sharing his papas and his home?
A new board book uses the occasion of GLAAD’s annual Spirit Day (today!) to teach the very youngest kids about the importance of kindness and caring as a way to prevent bullying.
A new documentary getting rave reviews tells the story of a single trans dad and his journey to becoming a parent by carrying his child.
A bright new book for kids takes them on an alphabetical exploration of LGBTQ terms and ideas—but it’s a little uneven as well as problematic in some areas.
The latest issue of Kazoo Magazine, an award-winning publication for girls, includes a sweet story by a lesbian author about a girl who rescues a bird—and happens to have two moms.
For those of us of a certain age, any large, blended family brings to mind television classic The Brady Bunch–but Nick and Katherine North are a very real family, whose award-winning, 20-minute documentary tells how they fell in love, became a blended family with five kids, and navigated Nick’s gender transition from female to male. Watch it free, in full, right here. It just might be the sweetest thing you’ll see on the Internet today.
A new documentary now on the film festival circuit follows three sets of queer parents and their teenage children more than a decade after they were first profiled by the same filmmaker. Watch a trailer and learn more about the families.
What happens when a boy with two moms tries to get his community to be more welcoming to all kinds of families? Find out in a new story by British author, actor, and educator Olly Pike—read aloud by him in this video.
