Infertility Resources for LGBTQ People
Infertility can come in many forms—but no matter how you encounter it as an LGBTQ person, here’s my updated list of resources to help, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week.
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Florida Students Can Now “Say Gay/LGBTQ” After Major Settlement
Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ” law has been defanged. More than a dozen Florida parents, students, and teachers, plus LGBTQ organizations Equality Florida and Family Equality, who had challenged the law’s constitutionality, reached a settlement yesterday that removes the most harmful, anti-LGBTQ aspects of the legislation.
2 New Memoirs By Gay Dads Share Eye-Opening Stories of Foster Care
Let’s continue highlighting LGBTQ parenting memoirs this week with two recent titles by gay foster dads—two different stories of love, family, and a broken foster care system.
A Family, Maybe: Two Dads, Two Babies, and the Court Cases that Brought Us Together
In the early 2000s, Lane Igoudin and his partner Jonathan began fostering two girls from the Los Angeles County child welfare system. In this heartfelt memoir, Igoudin shares their three-year-long journey to adopt the girls, caught up in a convoluted and at times seemingly arbitrary legal process. The two men fostered the children via a
The Advocate Educator’s Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive
With transgender and nonbinary youth under increasing social and political attack, two educators—one a trans woman and one the parent of a trans child—have created an invaluable, action-oriented guide for educators and others wanting to create supportive school environments for these young people. The volume includes strategies and insights not only from the personal and
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
Catch up on some of the news for and about LGBTQ parents that I haven’t covered already, with family profiles, insights on starting a family, and headlines from around the world.
2023’s Best Books for LGBTQ Parents, Prospective Parents, and Parents of LGBTQ Kids
Kids aren’t the only ones to benefit from great LGBTQ-inclusive books this year. Here are some terrific reads for parents and prospective parents, too.
TV Alert: “We Live Here: The Midwest” Shares Stories of LGBTQ Families in the Heartland
Not all LGBTQ families in the U.S. live in the queer-friendly enclaves of our northern coasts. LGBTQ families in the heartland share their stories of challenges and love in Hulu’s new documentary “We Live Here: The Midwest,” premiering tomorrow. Learn more and watch a trailer here.
In Memoriam: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we honor the lives of those who died because of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. I wish all of my transgender friends and readers love and support on this day of mourning.
Powerful Testimony at Massachusetts Parentage Act Hearing
Yesterday, 20 years to the week after Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize marriage equality, LGBTQ parents and others testified in support of legislation to finally update the state’s parentage laws so that children of LGBTQ parents—and all children—have equal access to the security of legal parentage.