Senate Bill 729
Exciting, news! Our IVF insurance bill, SB 729, passed the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday. This is the farthest our bill has ever advanced, and it would not have happened
May 18, 2023
Category: Action Alert
In solidarity with Asian Pacific Islander families
We are appalled and outraged at the surge of violent attacks against Asian American and Pacific Islander members of our community. Anti-Asian violence is as old as the earliest API communities in this state, with documented hate crimes dating back to the 1850s. But the COVID pandemic has brought with it a pandemic of racist response…
March 16, 2021
Reflecting on Black History Month
This Black History Month I want to take a moment to reflect. And I want to invite you to join me, to take action. This month
February 18, 2021
OPEN LETTER ABOUT CORONAVIRUS AND THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITIES
Over 100 Organizations Sign On To Letter Outlining Added Risk As the spread of the novel coronavirus a.k.a. COVID-19 increases, many LGBTQ+ people are understandably
March 11, 2020
Our Families On Trial
This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in what promises to be one of the most significant civil rights cases
October 8, 2019
East Bay funding: in process, stay tuned!
A quick update on our ongoing work securing the resources we need to provide the support programming, school trainings, and family advocacy we so love
June 19, 2019
Help us save Oakland funding!
Our Family Coalition’s Oakland-based programming needs your support! For over twenty years, Our Family Coalition (OFC) has served Oakland and East Bay LGBTQ+ families, providing
May 29, 2019
Conservative parents are engaged: are you?
Dangerous anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is in full swing, and we need to respond. Less than two weeks following the California Department of Education’s passage of the
May 23, 2019
Are you ready to become OFC’s next Interim ED?
Dear community and families, Earlier this week, I announced that I will be transitioning out of my role as Executive Director of Our Family Coalition
May 17, 2019
Equality Act of 2019: Don’t believe the (negative) hype
As any quick Google search on “Equality Act” will show you, the right wing is working overtime to discredit this piece of historic legislation. It’s
May 8, 2019
Urge Congress to advance the FAMILY Act Today!
Our Family Coalition calls on Congress to advance the the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, a major piece of legislation reintroduced in Congress on
February 14, 2019
We can and must defeat this anti-LGBTQ family amendment
Every week we are faced with another gratuitous challenge to the gains LGBTQ people and our families had so recently made, or an affront to
July 14, 2018
Families Belong Together
On June 20th the Trump Administration signed an executive order apparently stopping their policy of separating families at the border. This is a false victory, with severe repercussions.
June 26, 2018
Win, lose, or draw: we still have work to do!
Dear families and friends: This morning’s Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case wasn’t a win, or a loss: it was a draw. “Religious
June 5, 2018
New GOP “license to discriminate bill reintroduced.” Act now.
The GOP is bound and determined to use the calamity of Trump’s presidency and their current House and Senate majorities to do as much damage to
March 9, 2018
Help us get the expanded Parental Leave bill across the finish line!
From our colleagues at the California Work and Family Coalition: Great news! It looks like we have a deal with the Governor’s office on our
September 8, 2017
