LGBTQ Parenting Roundup: “It Gets Butter” Edition
This edition, we have news about the executive and mom who just became the first out queer woman to lead a Fortune 500 company (one best known for its butter), plus more news from round and about.
Advocating
Getting to the Root of Things
I’m spending the week at Netroots Nation, the largest annual conference for progressives, and kicking things off with a pre-conference day of LGBTQ organizing, thanks to Netroots Connect. If you’ll be there, too, please leave a comment, or just say hi if you see me! If not, stay tuned here for updates.
Creator of Longest-Running Study on LGBTQ Families Talks About New Findings
Thirty-two years ago, Nanette Gartrell, M.D., launched a project to follow the first wave of lesbian families created through donor insemination. Now, her National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) is the longest-running study on LGBTQ-parent families, and Gartrell and her team have just released a paper about the now-grown children at 25 years old. Gartrell, a psychiatrist and Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, spoke with me about the latest results and more.
Action Alert: Call Your Senators Today About Opposing Adoption/Foster Care Discrimination Bill!
This one’s timely, folks: If you have a senator who is a Democrat, or if they are Republican Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), or Rob Portman (Ohio), use the handy script here to call them today and ask them to sign on to a letter opposing the bill that would allow discrimination in adoption and foster care against LGBTQ prospective parents, LGBTQ youth in care, single or divorced parents, interfaith couples, or people of different religions.
Federal Judge Rules that Philadelphia Foster Care Agencies Can’t Discriminate Against Same-Sex Parents
Just two days after a U.S. House committee approved an amendment that would allow publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents and others based on the agencies’ religious or moral beliefs, a federal court issued a decision saying that Philadelphia can require foster care agencies with city contracts to follow its LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies.
House Appropriations Amendment Would Allow Discrimination in Foster Care, Adoption
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has approved an anti-LGBTQ amendment to an existing funding bill—an amendment that would allow child service agencies receiving federal funds to discriminate against otherwise qualified prospective parents based on the agency’s religious or moral beliefs. Ten states already allow such discrimination; this would enshrine it in federal law.
Show that Families Belong Together
Tomorrow, June 30, people around the country will be rallying for an end to the Trump administration’s policies of child separation and family detention, and for immediate family reunification. Here’s how to find an event near you.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup: End-of-Pride-Month Edition
Pride Month may be drawing to a close, but there’s still lots of news for and about LGBTQ parents. Read on for headlines from Hong Kong, Israel, Ireland, and Britain as well as the U.S. Learn about a young pro hockey player showing pride for his family, and see what you think about Fox’s idea for a new show with a queer mom.
Here’s What You Can Do to Help Stop Separation of Families at Border
Like many of you, I have been appalled by the news of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. As I’ve read of children being torn away from their parents, I know two things: This is not the first time U.S. policy has condoned this–but it should be the last. Here’s what you can do to help stop these tragedies.Â
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
It’s Pride Month, and there’s always a lot happening, so let’s round things up! Read on for news and resources you may have missed.