Let’s get Pride rolling with a roundup of some news and stories about LGBTQ parents that I haven’t covered separately, including family profiles, political news and insights, new family building resources, and some simply cool things. Have a read, then go spread some rainbows!
Today is the 21st Annual LGBTQ Families Day! Join us as we kick off Pride in a united show of love, joy, and resilience to celebrate all families with LGBTQ people in them. Just share a family photo, video, anecdote, or words of support on social media, with hashtag #LGBTQFamiliesDay!
Three new memoirs each offer different looks at queer parenthood, giving us nuanced explorations of selves, society, family, and what we pass on to the next generation. Add them to your summer reading list.
I had the pleasure of speaking recently with the AllPaths podcast about how my now-spouse and I started our family via reciprocal IVF in the early aughts, why I founded Mombian shortly afterwards and how it’s grown, the state of LGBTQ+ family building today, LGBTQ Families Day, and more. I hope you’ll have a listen!
Being with other LGBTQ+ families can be an invaluable experience for both LGBTQ+ parents and our kids. That’s why GWK Academy is hosting The Big Apple Family Takeover, October 10-11, 2026, a joyful weekend in New York City for LGBTQ+ families to connect, play, and be fully themselves.
These affirming new picture books celebrate children of many gender identities and expressions. Please read my reviews, then contact your senators and ask them to vote “No” on H.R.2616, which just passed the U.S. House and would ban these books and others from schools across the country.
Florida’s attorney general has intervened in a surrogacy case where he likened contractual surrogacy to slavery—and proposed arguments that could end surrogacy, donor conception, and adoption in the state, while threatening the legal stability of existing families created through those methods.
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT). Do you know why May 17 was chosen—and what other two key civil rights events happened on the same date?
LGBTQ families have long been the subject of policy debates—but the voices of youth and adults with LGBTQ parents have not always been heard. COLAGE, the national organization dedicated to uniting and supporting people with LGBTQ parents, is ramping up its efforts to change that.
In two new picture books, acclaimed authors bring us stories of a child with a same-gender crush speaking up at school to address exclusion, and of one with two moms who rallies her community in the face of bias.
