Recent Blog Posts: Uncategorized

  • Image description: Photo of Brandon Gill with text that reads, "Meet Brandon: Family Equality is thrilled to welcome our new Director of HR & People Operations to the team!"
    Meet Our Director of HR & People Operations
    Family Equality is thrilled to welcome Brandon Gill to our new People + Culture Department! 
  • The Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Everything We Need and More
    With the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, we have an opportunity to create a court that better reflects the diversity of our families.
  • What “Don’t Say Gay” Means to an LGBTQ+ Grandparent in Florida
    Congress must act now to ensure all children and families continue to receive needed support through the expanded child tax credit.
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    LGBTQI+ Families Need Congress to Make the Expanded Child Tax Credit Permanent
    Congress must act now to ensure all children and families continue to receive needed support through the expanded child tax credit.
  • Photo of Zac with text that reads, "Meet Zac! Family Equality is thrilled to welcome our new Director of Special Events to the team!"
    Meet Our Director of Special Events
    We are pleased to introduce our families to a new member of our Development team: Zac Walker!
  • Text that reads, "Black to School: LGBTQ+ Parents and Allies Navigating Race in the School System"
    Black to School: LGBTQ+ Parents and Allies Navigating Race in the School System
    Family Equality sat down with parents of children of color for an hour-long “roundtable” discussion about the joys and challenges of navigating the Texas school system.
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    Why LGBTQI+ Families Need the Equality Act
    Understanding what the Equality Act will do and why LGBTQ+ families, people of color, women, and people of faith need this bill urgently.
  • Illustrations of mittens, hot cocoa, and a sweater with snow falling.
    “Home for the Holidays:” Navigating Queer Nostalgia
    As many of us navigate the highs and lows of the holiday season, Director of Family Formation, Jess Venable-Novak, explores the complex and often contradicting emotions this time of year brings to them.
  • Text that reads, "Transgender day of remembrance 2021"
    Family Equality Recognizes Transgender Day of Remembrance 2021
    Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an important time to honor the memory of the lives that have been taken by anti-transgender violence throughout the years.
  • LGBTQ+ family on bed together
    LGBTQI+ Families Need Paid Family Leave Too
    Everyone’s talking about paid family leave—from Pete Buttigieg to Meghan Markle—so let's talk about why paid family leave is SO important for our families.
  • Illustration of a nametag that says, "My pronouns are" over an orange background
    Pronouns Day: The Journey to Discovering Pride + Joy in my Pronouns
    This International Pronouns Day, Jess Venable-Novak shares their experience as a nonbinary parent and how they've found pride + joy in their pronouns.
  • What Pride Means to Me: Reflections from Weston Charles-Gallo on National Coming Out Day
    Outspoken LGBTQ+ advocate and friend of Family Equality, Weston Charles-Gallo, shares what pride looks like for him.