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  • Announcing Writing Contest Winners!
    This June, COLAGE and COLAGE’s Youth Action Board hosted a writing contest for young adults to share their experiences as a child of one or
  • Family Equality Opposes HHS’ Erasure of Data on LGBTQ Foster Youth and Parents
    Family Equality⁠—along with Lambda Legal, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Center for Adoption and Permanency, and the Center for American Progress⁠—Submits Detailed Comment Letter
  • Family Equality - Celebrating 40 Years
    Why we’re changing our name to Family Equality
    We’re celebrating our 40th anniversary this year, and as we plan for the next forty years and beyond, our Board of Directors and staff took
  • #LGBTQFamiliesDay Listening
    Listen to stories of the humor, love, and challenges our families navigate. By Emily McGranachan, Director of Family Engagement For one year I’ve produced Family
  • Celebrate #LGBTQFamiliesDay on June 3rd!
    #LGBTQFamiliesDay, an annual celebration organized by Mombian and sponsored by Family Equality Council, exists to honor and bring visibility to the many configurations of LGBTQ
  • Lovely Baby drinking milk from bottle
    Reproductive Health & Toxic Chemical Exposure
    By Corey Whelan Starting a family is an exciting time but also adds a ton of to-do’s to what is probably already a long list.
  • ECDF Lobby Day Group
    LGBTQ Parent and Foster Alumni Voices Heard Loud and Clear on Capitol Hill
    Congressman John Lewis:  We’re gonna get this bill passed. This week, Family Equality Council and FosterClub hosted briefings at the U.S. Capitol on “Ending Discrimination
  • Gay couple sitting in a meadow enjoying the view
    When an Adoption Plan Fails: A Coping and Empowerment Guide
    By Carolyn Berger, L.C.S.W Anne and Tori were at a hospital near Rochester, New York when they learned that the pregnant woman they had made
  • Summer Inspiration from Outspoken Voices
    Spring is officially here and summer isn’t far away. Family Equality is also coming up on one full year of our Outspoken Voices podcast! Releasing
  • Shot of a gay couple teaching their child how to walk
    First Came Love – How to Keep your Relationship on Track when Kiddo Makes Three
    By Andrea Mechanick Braverman, M.S., M.A., PhD Before you have a baby, it is easy to wonder how parents are not able to do simple
  • Candy Guinea and her Family
    Reflections of a Rainbow Parent for International Family Equality Day
    By Candy Guinea, Digital Marketing Coordinator As many other rainbow families are aware, growing our queer family was an emotionally difficult but hard-won journey. My
  • a cute family holding a sign that reads family
    What’s a Second Parent adoption?
    By Kathy Brodsky, L.C.S.W How I hate that term – second parent – all parents should be equal. Unfortunately, under the law, that’s not the