Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Forming A Family Through Adoption Pt. 1

If my partner and I are legally married, do we have a better chance of adopting? First of all, it’s important for people to understand November 6, 2014

A Florida Rollercoaster: JTL Adoption Story

My wife and I met in November 2004, and were married 5 years later on November 10, 2009. Living in Florida we always accepted that November 5, 2014

Family Means Making It Count: The Kelsaw Family Story

Today I started to reflect again how eight years comes around this December 2014 honoring the Day of Birth of our Julia Marie. As I November 4, 2014

Our Precious Angel: The Galvez Family Story

From my earliest of memories I wanted to be a Dad. Not just a father, not just a parent, but a dad. I grew up October 30, 2014

Martin Gill Joins the Southern Advisory Council

Family Equality Council is thrilled to welcome our newest Southern Advisory Council member, Martin Gill. As the sole plaintiff in the lawsuit that rendered the October 15, 2014

Yesterday, we made history!

Yesterday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments* in the case of same-sex marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin. It was a huge August 27, 2014

Second Parent Adoption: Tough Choices

Jenny and I had forged a great life for ourselves– our dream life! We had a cute little horse farm in a small town just August 15, 2014

Second-Parent Adoption: A Trip to DC

After being home with our two baby girls, Lily and Mia for almost two months, it’s hard to feel anything other than total elation. We July 23, 2014

That’s So Gay

I am standing outside the steps of city hall in San Francisco. Jonathan on one side of me, and John on the other. It is July 8, 2014

Gays of Future Past

For anyone under 30, it may be difficult to imagine a time when the gay-rights movement wasn’t operating at a milestone-a-minute pace. From Michael Sam’s June 25, 2014

Proposed Rule Extends Access to FMLA Leave to Employees with Same Sex Spouses Living Throughout the Country

Earlier this morning, the Department of Labor proposed a new rule that would change who qualifies as an employee’s spouse under the Family and Medical June 20, 2014

Creating a Parenting Partnership

If you’ve thought about creating a parenting partnership with a friend (or friends), have you ever thought about how you will explain to your child June 16, 2014