Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Jennifer Chrisler on Huffington Post, Addresses “Stonewall 2.0”

Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of Family Equality Council, has just published an op-ed on Huffington Post, the leading online newspaper. Millions of people read Huffington December 5, 2008

New Poll Shows Americans’ True Feelings on LGBT People, Adoption Rights

A new national poll released this week shows that a majority of Americans favor most rights and benefits for LGBT people, and that attitudes towards December 4, 2008

Lesbian Mom for Labor Secretary?

Word on the street is that Mary Beth Maxwell, a lesbian mother, supporter of Family Equality Council and Executive Director of American Rights at Work, December 3, 2008

Upset About the Election? Create Change!

Now is the time for you to join us at The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change! The presidential election is not far behind December 2, 2008

I’m here, I’m queer and I’m spreading the cheer.

Watching the news, reading the paper and browsing my favorite blogs, I am reminded that “cheer” isn’t on many of our minds this holiday season. December 1, 2008

Today is 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day

Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, founded in 1988. It was created to bring awareness to the HIV pandemic and its challenges. December 1, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: Florida Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional

The Miami Herald is reporting that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman has ruled in the case of Frank Martin Gill, a gay foster parent challenging November 25, 2008

A New Moment for Equality?

Many in our community are wondering whether the anti-family results of Election Day and the national reaction that followed signals a new moment for the November 21, 2008

TONIGHT: Live Blog with Leaders of the CA, AR & FL Marriage Amendment Fights

Our friends over at the Bilerico Project are hosting a live blog tonight, starting at 7pm EST, with Nadine Smith (ED, Equality Florida), Kate Kendell November 20, 2008

International Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today is the 10th annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance, commemorating the lives of transgender people lost to anti-transgender violence over the past year. Advocates November 20, 2008

LGBT Foster Parents, Children Respond to Anti-Family Votes in Federal Way Paper

Family Equality Council supporter Rachel Smith-Mosel submitted a letter to the editor to her local paper, the Federal Way Mirror, reacting to the passage of November 19, 2008

We Should Engage in Thoughtful, not Divisive Dialogue on Anti-Family Votes

Dear Families and Friends, LGBT families are at a crossroads. Nationwide we have made great change over the last several years, participating in our communities, November 18, 2008