Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

LGBTQ Families at the White House Easter Egg Roll: What Did It Mean To Me?

The annual White House Easter Egg Roll is coming up, and in recent years, Family Equality Council has been honored to be allocated tickets by April 13, 2017

4 | What to Consider Before Typing the Knot & Starting a Family

In this episode, we talk with two professionals about the financial and legal considerations that LGBTQ individuals should contemplate before for getting married and/or starting April 11, 2017

Episode #4: What to Consider Before Tying the Knot and Starting a Family

In April’s Outspoken Voices podcast, we talk with two professionals about the financial and legal considerations that LGBTQ individuals should contemplate before for getting married April 11, 2017

Unspoken Connection: the Joy of Finding Donor Siblings

National Siblings day was not even suggested when I was a kid. It began in 1999 by Claudia Evart who created an organization and campaign April 10, 2017

Celebrating National Siblings Day!

Today is National Siblings Day. I am an only child with 4 donor-siblings and a few sisters. All of these identities and relationships help to April 10, 2017

Outspoken Generation Welcomes Lindsey Steinert

Welcome newest Outspoken Generation member Lindsey, artist and activist. You may have read Lindsey Steinert’s recent story on the Huffington Post, I Had Two Gay April 7, 2017

Author in the Spotlight: Elizabeth Schwartz

Elizabeth Schwartz has been practicing law since 1997 and is a nationally recognized advocate for the legal rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender April 6, 2017

Stop Gorsuch: Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee is a Threat to LGBTQ Families

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court to the full Senate for consideration, following April 4, 2017

While ACA Repeal Fails, Trump Quietly Takes Aim at LGBTQ Community

This week is LGBT Health Awareness Week, and recent events underscore that we cannot afford to be silent about healthcare. Last week, which marked the March 30, 2017

Religious Exemptions Target LGBTQ Families in States Across the Nation

Earlier this month, South Dakota governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill (SB 149) into law, shrouded as religious liberty, that targets LGBTQ families for discrimination March 22, 2017

Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court Nominee is Dangerous to the LGBT Community

After refusing for more than a year to grant a hearing to President Obama’s nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by March 21, 2017

Family Equality Council Welcomes Disney Decision to Stand By “Gay Moment” in Beauty and the Beast

Family Equality Council applauds Disney’s decision to stand by what has been described as the studio’s first “exclusively gay moment,” in the face of pressure March 17, 2017