Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Trans Advocate Testifies Before Senate on ENDA

via WashingtonBlade.com The Senate heard for the first time ever testimony from a transgender witness in a hearing dedicated to highlighting workplace discrimination experienced by June 13, 2012

45 years ago today Mildred Loving changed the world. Find out what she says about marriage equality:

Today is the 45th Anniversary of the decision in Loving V. Virginia which lifted the ban on interracial marriage. 45 years later, we’re so close June 12, 2012

Capital Pride 2012: A success!!

Capital Pride 2012 weekend is over and left me with only happy memories! It was my first Pride parade and festival in the United States June 12, 2012

Hillary Clinton’s New Video: ‘I Wish You A Happy Pride’

via TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this morning released a gay pride month message celebrating Pride, noting “progress is being made” yet acknowledging “there June 12, 2012

Zach Wahls Talks Media Tour, Boy Scouts of America, and About What Drives Him

via IowaCity.Patch.com It’s been a whirlwind few months (or year and a half, really) for former and future University of Iowa student Zach Wahls, 20. June 11, 2012

Country Music Superstar Carrie Underwood Supports LGBT Equality

via Back2Stonewall.com “As a married person myself, I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love, and want to June 11, 2012

Where The States Stand On Marriage Equality

via BostonGlobe.com Jurisdictions that license marriage for same-sex couples: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont States that recognize marriages June 11, 2012

“Recommended Practices” for LGBTQ youth in foster care

When we take a minute and realize that the youth of today will be the next generation of parents in our society, it is in June 11, 2012

Another big win in the fight against DOMA!

June 6, 2012 was another significant day for the fight against DOMA. Another federal judge has found DOMA to be unconstitutional. The plaintiff, Edie Windsor, was June 8, 2012

“Expecting Better:” policies for new families

In May 2012, the National Partnership for Women & Families published the second edition of Expecting Better, a comprehensive review of federal and state laws June 7, 2012

Does this baby make me look straight?

Read the first chapter of Dan Bucatinsky’s book “Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?” – a unique and hilarious glimpse into the life of June 6, 2012

Tell Erie, Illinois Superintendent to Value all Students and Families

Recently the Erie, Illinois school board voted in favor of banning Todd Parr’s The Family Book along with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s June 6, 2012