Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

How Discrimination Against Qualified LGBTQ Parents Almost Stopped One of America’s Most Decorated Pediatric Pulmonologists from Ever Adopting His Daughter

Christopher Harris, M.D., is the type of person you would be incredibly grateful to meet, even though one would hope that you would never be August 22, 2018

19 | Power in the Telling

Meet our Guest Molly Pearson is from Lincoln, Nebraska, and currently resides in St. Louis. She is pursuing dual master’s degrees in Social Work and August 21, 2018

18 | Outnumbered at Home

Meet our Guest Jean Azar-Tanguay is a 17 year old junior at Boston Latin School. She has lived in Boston her entire life with her August 7, 2018

17 | Why Second-Parent Adoption?

Meet our Guest Elizabeth Castellana is a second gen queer mom who has two dads and was raised in a mixed race family formed through July 17, 2018

What’s At Stake: Brett Kavanaugh, LGBTQ Families, and the Supreme Court

“These are extremely perilous times for our families and our right to equal treatment under the law.” In the short time since President Trump announced Brett July 15, 2018

Supreme Court Vacancy: What’s at Stake for LGBTQ Families

Justice Kennedy’s retirement is cause for great concern. There is a tremendous amount at stake, and it is going to take ALL of our efforts July 9, 2018

16 | From Closet to Comedy

Meet our Guest Elizabeth Collins was raised by gay men in the South during the 1990’s. This is why she is now a standup comedian July 3, 2018

How the Family Separation Crisis Heightened Anxiety for Our LGBTQ Family

My wife Kristie legally adopted our child on June 15th, 2018. In light of recent news, I can’t stop thinking, what if she hadn’t yet? June 22, 2018

15 | Trans-Racial Adoption & Identity

Meet Our Guests Nate Peterson was adopted in the early ‘90s along with his younger brother by two men looking to start a family. A June 19, 2018

Welcome our 2018 Family Week Interns!

Each year, we welcome a fabulous group of interns to the Family Week planning team, where they take on all kinds of tasks, from securing June 15, 2018

14 | What’s In a Name?

Meet Our Guest Tori Kaufmann-Paulman lives in Boston, Massachusetts with their wife Sunnie, and is a proud Baba of an amazing 7-year-old daughter, Anika, and June 5, 2018

What to Do (and Not Do) When Your Child Comes Out to You

Despite all the progress our world seems to have made in recent years (and decades) around LGBTQ rights and equality, coming out can still be June 1, 2018