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New PFLAG Head Brings Experience As Queer Parent and Professional

February 5, 2018

Both as a daughter and a parent, the new executive director of PFLAG, Dr. Jaime Grant, understands the organization’s mission of uniting families, allies, and people who are LGBTQ. “I’m a queer mom of a queer kid and my Irish family exiled me,” she said in an interview. This treatment by her family led to an accelerating drug addiction. Grant, who was named head of PFLAG last September, is now 28 years sober and solo parenting her son, 19, who identifies as bisexual, and co-parenting her daughter, 10. “I can see the difference in a person’s life between family acceptance and family rejection,” she said. “I just know what it means.”

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup: Groundhog Edition

February 2, 2018

Posting was light here this week, since I dropped a very lengthy piece on LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books and wanted to give you all time to read it. The world moves on, however, so here are a few of the stories in the headlines.

See You at Creating Change

January 25, 2018

I’m very excited to be heading off this week to be with 4000 or so queer folks at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference in Washington, D.C.—the 30th anniversary of the event. If you’ll be there, too, please leave a comment!

Same-Sex Parents Sue U.S. State Department for Denying Their Children Citizenship

January 23, 2018

Two pairs of bi-national same-sex parents are suing the U.S. State Department for refusing to recognize their valid marriages and denying their children their rightful citizenship at birth. See them tell their stories in two short videos.

New HHS Office Will Allow Discrimination in Health Care Against LGBTQ Parents, Children, and Others

January 18, 2018

A new office within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allowÂ health care workers to refuse to provide medical services or perform related duties if doing so violates their religious or moral beliefs. In other words, it will allow them to discriminate widely—and LGBTQ people and families are at risk.

Action Alert: Tell Scholastic Why You Love Their LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books

January 11, 2018

The right-wing group One Million Moms has launched a campaign asking publisher Scholastic to stop publishing and promoting LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books. Let’s launch back.

Tragic Killings End and Start the Year

January 9, 2018

AfterÂ a queer mother, her two young children, and her partner were slain in New York in late December. comes news of two more Black, queer parents and one of their children being killed.

As Reproductive Technology Advances, Let’s Remember Parenthood Isn’t Just Biology

January 2, 2018

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have made an advance that could someday lead to same-sex couples being able to use both parents’ DNA to create their children. Cool—but let’s make sure not to use this as a reason to prioritize biological parents over nonbiological ones.

2017: A Good News, Bad News Year for LGBTQ Families

December 29, 2017

Was 2017 a good year for LGBTQ parents and our children? The political situation in the U.S. was grim, but we also saw progress in some areas.

Same-sex Couple and Two Children Murdered in Upstate New York

December 28, 2017

Some tragic news: a mother and her two children, ages 11 and five, along with the mother’s partner, were found murdered in upstate New York yesterday.