A Plan for Pops

Don’t Miss This Picture Book Featuring a Child and Their Queer Grandfathers

Sometimes a picture book knocks everything out of the park. Evocative prose, whimsical illustrations, a sweet storyline that deals with sensitive topics by applying a big dose of family love—plus a gender ambiguous protagonist with two grandfathers who are a couple. I almost missed this book because the grandfathers’ relationship is so seamlessly woven into the story that the cataloging information has no indication there are LGBTQ characters. This is one picture book that shouldn’t be skipped, however.

Your Future Family

Fertility Expert and Lesbian Mom Pens New Book on Assisted Reproduction

When my spouse and I first tried to start our family 17 years ago, we searched vainly for a book on assisted reproduction that was both authoritative and inclusive. There were queer parenting books, to be sure, but they covered such a range of topics that details of the actual babymaking processes and procedures were somewhat scanty. There were more detailed guides, but they omitted families like ours. A new book by a fertility expert—who also happens to be a lesbian mom herself—is just the book we would have hoped to have.

#LGBTQFamiliesDay 2019

Save the Date: Monday, June 3, 2019 Is #LGBTQFamiliesDay and You’re Invited

Save the date! Monday, June 3, 2019, is #LGBTQFamiliesDay, a day of storytelling and sharing to celebrate and support LGBTQ families. The event, now in its 14th year, aims to elevate the experiences of LGBTQ families and their allies, raising awareness of their diversity, their challenges, and their joys.

LGBTQ-inclusive children's books through May 2019

For Children’s Book Week: LGBTQ-Inclusive Children’s Books of 2019 (So Far)

It’s Children’s Book Week, an annual celebration of books for children and teens that launched in 1919. Not only is 2019 a milestone anniversary for that event, however; it’s also a milestone anniversary year for queer-inclusive children’s books, too: ones for teens have been around since 1969; picture books since 1979. Let’s mark the occasion with a look at some of the LGBTQ children’s books published so far in 2019.

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Watch Now: Two-Mom Couple Featured in Documentary on IVF

Sarah and Yessie Williams, spouses from Brooklyn, New York, are featured in a new documentary airing today about four different couples and their journeys to create families through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Watch it here!

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Passover Questions for LGBTQ Families

Passover begins tonight, and although I’m somewhat casual in my observance, I love that the holiday, which commemorates the Jewish people’s journey out of slavery in Egypt, has become a time for reflection on freedom and social justice. This year, I’ve been thinking about how we LGBTQ parents might use the traditional “Four Questions” of Passover to guide our modern-day journeys.

Give OUT Day 2019

Give OUT Today for LGBTQ Families

In the past two years, the threat to LGBTQ individuals and families has grown, and the nonprofits supporting our families need our help more than ever. Please consider giving today, the seventh annual Give OUT Day, in order to increase the impact of your giving.

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