COLAGE is dedicated to supporting and uplifting the voices of youth and adult children with one or more LGBTQ+ parent/caregiver, also known as COLAGErs.
Here are some resources created or edited by adoptees in LGBTQ+ families for you to review as you consider adoption for your family:
- Interracial adoption: An exploration of the intersections of race, sexuality and family dynamics in today’s world (podcast episode)
- Transracial Adoption and Identity (podcast episode)
- Latinx Irish Soda Bread (podcast episode)
- We Chose Eachother (podcast episode)
- The F Word Webisode Series (2017)
- The Son with With Two Moms – Tony Hynes (2015)
- “The Kids” – Gabriela Herman (2015)
- Adopting Our Two Dads: A Story About the Leffew Family – Luca Panzini (2014)
- Two Dads: A Book About Adoption – Carolyn Robertson (2014)
- Adopting Ahava – Jennifer Byrne (2013)
- Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents – Tina Fakhrid-Deen (2010)
- Off and Running – Nicole Opper (2009)
- In My Shoes – COLAGE (2005)
- Second Parent Adoption
Additional resources for LGBTQ+ Families
- The Queerspawn Resource Project: provides education about people with one or more LGBTQ+ parents/guardians and their identities, histories, and needs, broadening communal and organizational support for COLAGErs, and increasing access to resources that validate their experiences − particularly those that are often misunderstood, dismissed, or silenced. The Queerspawn Resource Project works to construct more spaces where people with LGBTQIA+ parents/caregivers and their perspectives are welcomed and valued.
- Further Resources: https://queerspawnresource.org/resources-3/
- Living Language: https://queerspawnresource.org/portfolio/living-language/
- Anthologies: https://queerspawnresource.org/portfolio/anthologies-and-books-with-multiple-voices/