“Familia es Familia”: How an Oakland Nonprofit is Cultivating LGBTQ Acceptance in Latinx Communities
Coco Goytizolo on Losing his Partner to Cancer & Finding New Life Through their Twins
Jorge ‘Coco’ Goytizolo was with his partner, Phillip, for 16 years before he tragically passed away from stage 4 brain cancer. At the time, the couple had 3-month-old twins. Family Equality Council sat down and interviewed Coco about experiences dealing with loss and being a single father.
Bilingual, Bicultural, and Proud to be a Two-Mom Family
LGBTQ Families Across Borders: From Mexico to Indiana
I would always tell my son: remember that as long as you are in my heart and I am in your heart, we will make it through anything because we are a strong family. It is the same thing we would tell each other, Rosie and I, when we were those scared, young teenagers just wanting to love each other.
LGBTQ Families Urge the Senate to Vote No on Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination
Ginger and April are a married lesbian couple in Alabama with an eleven year old adoptive daughter. For years, before marriage equality was the law of the land, they were turned away by adoption agencies because they weren’t married.
How Discrimination Against Qualified LGBTQ Parents Almost Stopped One of America’s Most Decorated Pediatric Pulmonologists from Ever Adopting His Daughter
How Discrimination Against Qualified LGBTQ Parents Almost Stopped One of America’s Most Decorated Pediatric Pulmonologists from Ever Adopting His Daughter
Christopher Harris, M.D., is the type of person you would be incredibly grateful to meet, even though one would hope that you would never be
How the Family Separation Crisis Heightened Anxiety for Our LGBTQ Family
The horrifying news, images and sounds from the Southern border are raising all kinds of anxieties for LGBTQ families. In this guest post, Abigail Soto shares how the family separation crisis drove home the importance of securing a second-parent adoption for their two-mom family.
Our Adoption Story: On This Night, We Eat Pizza
“At only two short months of age he’d already had a whole life before we ever entered the picture — beginning with nine months in his first mother’s womb and continuing with social workers, cuddlers, doting nurses and doctors, lawyers and judges who made regular visits to this very courtroom…"
Our Foster-to-Adopt Success Story from New Orleans
Creating Our Family Through Adoption
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