After a big shift, it seems to take some time for the dust to settle, to start seeing the ripples of change and how it all plays out. The big change I’m referring to here is the recent Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage. I often find myself feeling a little (or maybe a…
Today I would like to offer a resource share and hope some of you are able to attend this web-wide workshop. Tune in Wednesday night, September 23rd from 8:00-9:00 PST for TODAY’S Action Equality Elementary School Webinar. Listen in with me to learn about “specific steps and resources that families–and educators—can take to assure that…
While County Clerk Kim Davis was in jail this past Labor Day weekend for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, her lawyer released this statement: “She’s not going to resign, she’s not going to sacrifice her conscience, so she’s doing what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, which…
For years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and their families faced difficulties in getting health coverage and access to medical services they needed. However, thanks to the passing of the Affordable Care Act and a recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, these situations have drastically improved for the LGBT community and their…
“Well-managed surrogacy is the very best of human collaboration, and we should be doing everything we can to support it. Until we do, parents and children will be put at risk, an increasing proportion of them same-sex parents.”
The “Path to Parenthood” can take many roads. However, folks that utilize assisted reproduction are intimately connected to the choices (and roads) that diverge on the long journey between us and the existence of the little ones that look to us for nurturing. There are lots of decisions along the way that are confusing and…
