Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Jennifer Chrisler’s Coming Out Story on Advocate.com

The Advocate is featuring coming out stories of LGBT notables this week in honor of National Coming Out Day, this Saturday, October 11. Jennifer Chrisler, October 8, 2008

Hello? Is this California? Hey, it’s Boston Calling!

For the past three weeks, Family Equality Council staff have been on the phones to secure marriage in CA, calling from our Boston and St. October 8, 2008

Family Equality Council Representing Families at Creating Change

The Family Equality Council is proud to announce its partnership with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Academy for Leadership in Action at this October 8, 2008

Matthew Shepard: 10 years later.

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard. It’s hard to believe it has been ten years since the brutal, hate-motivated October 7, 2008

Sen. McCain Reponds to Jennifer Chrisler’s Questions on Family Policy

Back on July 23, Family Equality Council’s Executive Director, Jennifer Chrisler, issued identical letters to Sens. McCain and Obama, outlining the vast array of family October 6, 2008

Team Equality Spotlight: Stephanie Hazen

What is your role at Family Equality Council? I am the National Training & Advocacy Manager. While I will be continuing much of the local October 1, 2008

Gay Families Find the Bronx Is a Place to Call Home

This just in from the New York Times: “It is a statistic surprising even to those it describes: Same-sex couples in the Bronx are more September 30, 2008

Absentee Voting Starts in CA — Do Your Part to Maintain Marriage Today!

Envelopes stuffed with California ballots are finding their way to California homes today, meaning that our efforts to defeat Prop 8, the CA marriage ban, September 29, 2008

Two dads, a daughter and a marriage that is finally legal.

The following article, penned by Louise Rafkin, first appeared in the SF Chronical. “On the dance floor at the Stud,” answers Ed Valenzuela, 48, to September 29, 2008

Authors take stand against calls to ban their work.

Over the weekend, I found this article in the Chicago Tribune by Gerry Smith about the hot-topic drama of banned books. Did you know that September 29, 2008

Meet Jill, Meg, Caleb and Tillie, Your Average LGBT Family…That Lives in a College Dorm

Jill Schneiderman is a professor of earth science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Meg Stewart is an academic computing consultant at Vassar, as well. September 28, 2008

Team Equality Spotlight: Lisbeth Melendez Rivera

What is your role at Family Equality Council? I am Lisbeth Melendez Rivera and I am the project Harmony Manager at Family Equality Council. As September 26, 2008