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Picture books with nonbinary parents/adults

Books and Names for Nonbinary Parents Day and Any Day

Happy Nonbinary Parents Day to all of the many nonbinary parents out there! Here are some books for all ages featuring nonbinary parents and adults, as well as ideas from other nonbinary parents about what their kids call them!

GLSEN Day of Silence

Listen to the Silence

Listen to the silence. As part of a national student-led demonstration, youth from middle grades to college are choosing to remain silent today, the GLSEN Day of Silence, to protest the harm caused by harassment and discrimination towards LGBTQ people in schools.

Helen (L) and Dana (R)

30 Years of Love and Progress

My spouse Helen and I recently celebrated our 30th anniversary. At a time when the LGBTQ community is being attacked on all sides, this personal milestone also reminded me that despite the many challenges for LGBTQ folks right now, progress can happen and queer joy is real.

Rainbow matzo

Passover Questions for LGBTQ Families: A Seder Supplement

Passover begins this Wednesday! How might we LGBTQ families use the traditional “Four Questions” of the holiday to guide our modern-day journeys? Here are my suggestions, slightly revised from a piece I wrote a few years ago.

Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender

A Trans Boy Tells His Own True Story in Middle-Grade Memoir

For Transgender Day of Visibility, I can think of no better book to highlight than this engaging middle-grade memoir by a young trans teen himself, telling his own childhood story. It feels like a vital, potentially lifesaving book at this moment in time.

The LGBTQI+ Economic and Financial (LEAF) Survey: Understanding the Financial Lives of LGBTQI+ People in the United States

The Financial Costs of LGBTQ Family Formation and Protection

It takes love—and often money—to make a family. A new report looks at the financial experiences of LGBTQ people in the United States, including ones related to starting families and securing legal parental rights. Let’s dig into ti!

"The best answer to people out there who think we don't even count as a real family is the love and the beauty of our family itself." — Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, on Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson

“A Thriving Family”: Pete Buttigieg Talks Parenting

Pete Buttigieg, secretary of transportation and gay dad, spoke to ABC Audio’s podcast Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson about starting his family, what parenthood is like for him, responding to criticism about his family, and more! Have a listen!

Candle

In Memoriam: the Nashville Shooting Victims

Another school shooting. Children and adults dead. The epidemic of gun violence continues. Here again are some resources on talking with children about shootings, something no parent should need, but that too many of us sadly do.

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