All children gain security and benefits from legal ties to their parents. Yet children with LGBTQ parents, and those born through assisted reproduction, lack clear and simple ways to establish legal parentage in many states. Two key advocates in Michigan’s successful recent effort to make parentage laws more equitable and inclusive shared advice with me that they hope will help other states do the same.
The wave of great new LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade books keeps on coming! Here are some recent ones that show a range of adventure, humor, self-exploration, interpersonal drama, and queer identities.
Today is the start of the WNBA season and the midst of the inaugural PWHL playoffs. (Go Boston!) Let’s celebrate with a some awesome family photos from queer parents in both leagues—plus a look at a great new middle grade book about a basketball-loving girl with two moms!
Whether you call yourself Mom, Mama, Mommy, Maman, Mamá, Mami, Momo, Momily, MaPa, Baba, Maddy, or any other parental name, if you want to rejoice in your parental identity today (even more than you do any other day), go for it!
It’s nearly Mother’s Day (or Mothers’ Day, if that’s how you roll), so here are some great new LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books to enjoy this weekend or anytime.
Healthcare insurance giant Aetna has agreed to a settlement after improperly making LGBTQ policyholders pay more out of pocket than others for fertility services.
Mark your calendars! Monday, June 3, 2024, the first weekday of Pride Month, is the 19th Annual LGBTQ Families Day, a time to celebrate all of the many families that have LGBTQ people in them and to show our collective strength and resilience. Read on for how you can join in!
Pride will be here before we know it, so get a jump on the celebration and check out some of these great new books for young children and middle-grade readers, with themes of LGBTQ Pride, history, and culture!
Kyle Lukoff is a two-time Stonewall Award winner, Newbery Award Honoree, and a former children’s librarian who has given voice to many transgender and other queer characters in his books for kids—and now you can ask him questions for an upcoming virtual Q & A hosted by OurShelves!
Judy Shepard, who has dedicated her life to spreading acceptance after her son Matthew was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime, and Jane Rigby, senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope and a lesbian mom, on Friday received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
