Recent Blog Posts

  • Black History Month- Janet Mock
    Black History Month- Janet Mock
    Throughout the month of February, Family Equality Council is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the accomplishments, contributions, and lives of LGBT Black Americans, past and February 6, 2013
  • Black History Month- Don Lemon
    Black History Month- Don Lemon
    Throughout the month of February, Family Equality Council is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the accomplishments, contributions, and lives of LGBT Black Americans, past and February 5, 2013
  • Protecting Our Families
    Protecting Our Families
    Protecting Our Families When They’re Most Vulnerable Today, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the inclusion of our February 5, 2013
  • Black History Month: Lee Daniels
    Black History Month: Lee Daniels
    Throughout the month of February, Family Equality Council is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the accomplishments, contributions, and lives of LGBT Black Americans, past February 4, 2013
  • Black History Month: Wanda Sykes
    Black History Month: Wanda Sykes
    Throughout the month of February, Family Equality Council is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the accomplishments, contributions, and lives of LGBT Black Americans, past February 2, 2013
  • Black History Month: Richard Bruce Nugent
    Black History Month: Richard Bruce Nugent
    Throughout the month of February, Family Equality Council is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the accomplishments, contributions, and lives of LGBT Black Americans, past February 1, 2013
  • Breaking the Barrier
    Breaking the Barrier
    Today is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, who would be 94 if he were still alive. In 1947, he famously broke the color barrier when January 31, 2013
  • iO Tillet Wright and the Self Evident Truths Project
    iO Tillet Wright and the Self Evident Truths Project
    How do you confront bigotry, fear, and intolerance? What do you do when you realize that your country is treating you as a second class January 30, 2013
  • Mr. President: Include LGBT Families in Immigration Reform
    Mr. President: Include LGBT Families in Immigration Reform
    Today we got our first look at the Senate’s framework for comprehensive immigration reform. Unfortunately, the plan includes no mention of binational LGBT families. Since January 28, 2013
  • VIDEO: NBA Star “No One Can Tell Me I Can’t Have Two Mothers, Because I Really Do”
    VIDEO: NBA Star “No One Can Tell Me I Can’t Have Two Mothers, Because I Really Do”
    Really, you don’t see this very often. NBA star Kenneth Faried, who plays for the Denver Nuggets, sat down yesterday with his two mothers, Waudda January 25, 2013
  • A transition at Family Equality
    A transition at Family Equality
    The New Year is often a time of positive change and transition in our lives and so it will be for me this year. After January 9, 2013
  • Compassion for All
    Compassion for All
    I was on a plane last night, coming in for landing at Atlanta’s airport, and saw something out the window that made me think.  We December 19, 2012