Pennsylvania’s Physician General, Dr. Rachel Levine, will keynote Philadelphia Family Pride’s 6th Annual Family Matters Conference for LGBTQ parented-families on October 17th. There are lots of other fun and informative family events planned for the day, too!
It’s Bisexual Awareness Week, so I thought I’d ask the question: “How many bisexual parents are there?”
Rabbi and gay dad Gil Steinlauf was recently named one of Tablet magazine’s “10 American Rabbis You Haven’t Heard Of, But Should.”
Casey Stoney, an English professional football (soccer) player and former England captain, as well as a lesbian mom, talked with The Telegraph this week about her family.
A couple of recent articles look at the perspectives of children with LGBTQ parents—and I’ve pulled together a plethora of further resources.
A major survey from the U.S. Department of Education will ask new questions about anti-LGBT bias in schools and about gay-straight alliance clubs (GSAs).
Back-to-school time always raises mixed feelings in me. On the one hand, years of being in academia make me see September, not January, as the start of the year (or maybe it’s just a Jewish thing). On the other, the lazy days of summer are giving way to school time’s hectic rush, with my son’s after-school activities, homework reminders, and the various other events and paperwork that public education brings in its wake.
I’m passing along this invitation to participate in a study on queer Asian American women, mothering, and work/family issues. Hope some of you will participate and/or help spread the word about this work!
I first started posting back-to-school resources for LGBTQ parents in 2006, before my own son was even in school. He’s grown and changed, and so has this list. I hope it remains useful, whether your children are just entering school, starting a new school, or encountering new issues in their educational journeys.
A new study has shown that many adopted children, with both same- and different-sex parents, experience stigmatization in preschool.
