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Finding Hope: Recent Wins for LGBTQ Families

As my interfaith family heads towards Passover and Easter, holidays of hope, renewal, and freedom, I’m thinking about recent wins that LGBTQ families have had despite a climate of rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and action.

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My Sword Is Yours: In Defense of Trans Athletes

USA Fencing, the governing body for the sport of fencing in the U.S., disqualified a cisgender woman from a recent competition after she refused to fence a transgender woman. As a former competitive fencer, I fully support the organization’s decision. Here’s why.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

Catch up on some additional news, family stories, and more tidbits from here and there—including baby news from an NWSL soccer player, recent court wins, legislative challenges, and new research on LGBTQ youth and social media.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Issues Major Ruling in Support of LGBTQ Families

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a nongenetic, nongestational lesbian mother is a legal parent to the child she and her former spouse had planned for and conceived through assisted reproduction—and it asserts the principle of intent-based parentage, a big win for LGBTQ and other families formed via assisted reproduction.

Darra Gordon. Photo credit: Liz Farrell Photography

New Family Equality CEO Wants to “Double Down” on Impact for LGBTQ Families

For Darra Gordon, her new role as CEO of Family Equality is “more of a calling than a choice.” She and her wife Nicole are raising three children, one of whom identifies as nonbinary. The work of Family Equality, the national organization for LGBTQ families, is therefore “incredibly, deeply personal to me,” she said in an interview.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup - Sports Edition

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup: Women’s Sports Edition

It’s time for another sports edition of the LGBTQ Parenting Roundup, and for Women’s History Month, I’m featuring queer parents in women’s pro sports! Let’s see what some of them have been up to.

Plaque commemorating first PFLAG meeting. Photo credit: Village Preservation. Used under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Happy 52nd Birthday, PFLAG!

On March 11, 1973, Jeanne Manford, a teacher, and her husband Jules, a dentist, at the urging of their gay son Morty, held the first meeting of what would become known as PFLAG, an organization—and a movement—of allyship and love.

Rainbow Paint. Original credit: Steve Johnson, Unsplash

Representation and Resistance

LGBTQ-inclusive content for kids, including performances, books, curricula, and more, has come under ever-increasing attack, bolstered in recent months by the federal government—but people are speaking out and fighting back.

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