LGBTQ advocates, child welfare organizations, and others have helped defeat an amendment to a federal bill that would have allowed widespread discrimination against LGBTQ parents, LGBTQ youth, and others by taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies.
Helen Thornton is suing the Social Security Administration for the survivor’s benefits that she would be able to claim if her partner of 27 years had not died before same-sex couples in their home state of Washington could marry.
Ellen DeGeneres and her sponsor, Shutterfly, have given $25,000 to a fund set up by students at a Catholic school in support of their former guidance counselor, who was placed on leave from her job for being married to another woman.
A group of pastors in Maine has failed in its efforts to remove books they feel “promote homosexuality” and are “risque and immodest” from a local library display set up for—wait for it—Banned Books Week, the annual event to draw attention to the harms of censorship and celebrate the freedom to read. And for some of the library’s staff and patrons, the issue was very personal.
A Republican congressperson was caught on tape deflecting a question about whether same-sex parents were as good as others, suggesting that children in need of adoption could go to orphanages instead.
Six years ago, Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson was killed in Afghanistan and her wife had to fight for survivor benefits. Now, the National Guard is naming a readiness center in her honor.
Yes, I’m still remembering. Here’s my 9/11 story, and how the events of that day became motivation for me to start a family.
While IVF has become an important part of LGBTQ family creation, we should be careful not to equate the two. At the same time, we need to realize that current threats to reproductive health care could impact the LGBTQ community as much as any other.
Mary Rowland, nominated in June by President Trump to be a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seems to have sailed through her confirmation hearing. She’s the only openly LGBTQ person among Trump’s nearly 140 judicial nominees, and has two grown children with her spouse Julie Justicz.
Lots of good reads (and photos!) as we swing into the end of August, including a big move by the world’s best-selling diaper manufacturer!
