Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Dancing Down the Slippery Slope

We’re thrilled to bring this guest post by author Eric Marcus. The two boys, probably no more than ten or eleven, stood at the edge February 19, 2008

The Family Equality Wiki: a great resource for you and your family!

Last January, when we started soliciting feedback for our new website, people stated that they wanted robust listings of adoption agencies, doctors, schools, places of February 16, 2008

It is Freedom to Marry Week – Just Don’t Say “Gay Marriage”!

We’re thrilled to bring this guest post by Evan Wolfson, the executive director of Freedom to Marry. As Americans across the country celebrate Freedom to February 14, 2008

Change of heart….

I dated a marine for 5 years and when he came back from Iraq in 2006 he was night-and-day different. He was a newly identified February 13, 2008

Massachusetts children in foster care have a friend at “The Home”

Since 1799, children and families in Massachusetts have found help from various children’s agencies that now form The Home for Little Wanderers, also known as February 12, 2008

The Marriott Apologizes — AND COMES OUT!

As you all know, six of the Family Equality Council staff attended Creating Change this past week in sunny (ha) Detroit, MI! We had a February 12, 2008

It’s Elementary

One of the reasons I decided to move back to New York from Texas once I adopted Juli was because I wanted her to have February 11, 2008

tell a friend about family equality

From time to time I like to shamelessly plug lesser known features and actions on the Family Equality Council website. Today’s plug is the tell-a-friend February 11, 2008

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert interviews HRC’s Joe Solomonese

For some good Saturday entertainment, click over to the PageOneQ and watch Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert satirically interview the president of the Human Rights Campaign, February 9, 2008

What if “marriage” was strictly religious?

What if “marriage” was strictly religious? That’s the question being posed by Maryland state senator, Jamie Raskin. In an effort to thwart the arguments of February 8, 2008

FREE coloring book pages for YOUR family!

It’s always a challenge to find books, DVDs, television shows, etc. that are representative of LGBTQ families. Sometimes, our children feel like their family structure February 7, 2008

Not your everyday trip to Social Security

Even though I adopted Juli two years ago, one of the things that I just never got around to doing as part of that huge February 7, 2008