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.
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.
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.
The number of LGBTQ candidates running for elected office this year is higher than ever, and it’s no surprise that many of them are parents. Let’s meet them and their families!
The “myth of gay affluence” has long haunted the queer community, even after much debunking. LGBTQ people are in fact more likely to be in poverty than non-LGBTQ ones. Now, a new study shows that LGBTQ people are also more likely to participate in public assistance programs—and are thus at particular risk when those programs are cut.
Weeks after the Trump administration ostensibly changed its policies of child separation and family detention at the U.S.-Mexico border, and after a court-imposed deadline to reunite separated families, hundreds of immigrant and refugee children are still not with their parents. These policies are only some of several recent moves by the administration and by individual states that show an appalling disregard for the well-being of children.
As legislation moves forward in the U.S. House that would allow adoption and foster care agencies nationwide to discriminate against LGBTQ parents and youth, among others, and 10 states already permit this, Human Rights Watch has released a new five-minute video showing why we should fight this legislation that would limit the number of loving homes for children.
