LGBTQ+

June 15, 2012

“Parenting isn’t easy, when done correctly,” one of my moms once told me. As somebody who is not (as far as I know) a parent, I can only ruminate on the challenges I watched my moms endure in raising my sister and me, but it seems to be an accurate observation. Though, to be fair, this is coming...

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Zach Wahls

May 12, 2012

The President's support for gay marriage is a step in the right direction, but meanwhile, gay families are excluded from basic protections like family leave to care for one another in case of a serious health condition. Check out this op-ed about the issue: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-walsh...

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Janet Walsh

May 11, 2012

Mother's Day has always been a special day for me -- a time to celebrate my mother, grandmothers, but most importantly, my children. It's they, after all, who make Mother's Day (and every day) a day worth remembering. But this Mother's Day, I won't be able to celebrate with all my kids. Well, to...

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Jennifer Tyrrell

March 9, 2012

March 8 is International Women's Day - first celebrated over 100 years ago. International Women's Day brings attention to women around the world- the underserved, the underrepresented, the undervalued, the invisible, the hardworking, the poor. In October 2011, Family Equality Council, along with...

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Heron Greenesmith

Immigration

September 27, 2011

Being a new parent is hard. The sleepless nights, the sudden loss of free time, the aching biceps from carrying around a surprisingly heavy baby, the spit up, the bottles, the picking up, the picking up, the picking up. But during my most miserable nights of waking up at 12am, then 2am, then 4am –...

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Miriam Yeung

Health Care Blog Carnivals

July 7, 2011

In the banquet of spending cuts laid out as part of the debt negotiations, everyone seems to want a piece of Medicaid. Congress and the Administration are hungry for $4 trillion in savings, and while a powerful voting bloc of seniors helps protect Medicare, Medicaid serves people whose voices at...

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Kellan Baker

June 30, 2011

The Family Equality Council, America’s foremost advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families, today issued a statement congratulating New Yorkers for achieving marriage equality. On behalf of the 1 million LGBT parents raising 2 million children in our country today, I want...

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Jennifer Chrisler

June 24, 2011

Last year I visited Spokane, Washington, for a listening session on housing discrimination issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals and families. After hearing a number of compelling stories, I met Mitch and Michelle, a couple with children, a family like any other. But...

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Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña

May 11, 2011

May is National Foster Care Awareness month, a time when our country and Congress need to pay attention to the plight of the more than 424,000 children living in foster care. But we need to do more than be aware about this issue, we need to act. Recently the Every Child Deserves a Family Act was...

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Jennifer Chrisler

Health Care

April 27, 2011

This year’s annual LGBT Health Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Coalition for LGBT Health, was full of exciting news. The Department of Health and Human Services released a directive outlining a wide array of new and existing initiatives focused on the health of LGBT people and their...

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Jeff Krehely