LGBTQ-headed families Archives - Our Family Coalition

LGBTQ-Friendly Summer Camps

PACT Camp July 3-8, 2016 Tahoe City, CA www.pactadopt.org/events/ Putting It All Together: Adoption, Race & Family A Gathering for Adoptive Families With Children of

April 2, 2016

Alphabet Soup Episode 5: Family Equality Edition

https://vimeo.com/136872644 Featuring: Cathy Sakimura, Deputy Director & Family Law Director at NCLR Tarah Fleming, Our Family Coalition’s Education Director Food for Thought with Hali Martin,

September 4, 2015

Solo Parent Support

By Dr. Meghan Lewis As my bio-clock struck thirty, the resounding tick-tock of surging pregnancy urges pushed me eagerly into musings over a wide range

July 20, 2015

Thanks for Making Pride 2015 a Success – and a preview of our pics!

Dear Families and Friends, Wow! This year’s Pride was incredible, as the whole Bay Area celebrated our victory in the Supreme Court last Friday. Hundreds

July 1, 2015

The Alphabet Soup – Episode 3: Pride Edition

https://vimeo.com/130451133 In this episode of The Alphabet Soup with Our Family Coalition we discuss Family Pride. QMOC Anayvette Martinez and her daughter Lupita share their

June 16, 2015

The Alphabet Soup – Episode 2: Family Activism Edition

https://vimeo.com/123242715 In the second episode of The Alphabet Soup with Our Family Coalition, Julia and Zach of The Rainbow Letters share inspiring and powerful stories

May 4, 2015

A Night Out with Our Family…

By Martha Boesing There we were, my partner and I, invited by my daughter-in-law (Our Family Coalition’s Programs’ Director) to attend an astonishingly elegant cocktail

March 31, 2015

El Canto del Colibrí (The Song of the Hummingbird)

by the Somos Familia Events Team Somos Familia is an intergenerational community-based organization, and fiscal project of Our Family Coalition, that builds support for Latino

March 16, 2015

The Rainbow Letters

by Julia Winston and Zach Wahls We are Zach and Julia, and we have LGBTQ parents. Zach is a DI baby from Iowa with two

February 25, 2015

Pockets of Fun and Love at the Berkeley YMCA

by Maria Luisa Jimenez-Morales, Our Family Coalition Parent Our Family Coalition’s “LGBTQ Family Night at the Berkeley YMCA” last year was my first ever visit

February 16, 2015

Men Having Babies San Francisco 2015: A look inside the Bay Area’s largest Gay Surrogacy Conference

By Sam Chally, NWSC Also posted on NWSC Blog Wow! Over 160 future gay dads showed up for the 2015 San Francisco Men Having Babies

January 14, 2015

Our Family Forest

by Anthony M. Brown, Board Chairman of Men Having Babies When my daughter documented her family tree for a class project, there were so many

December 16, 2014

Top-10 Quintessentially Queer Self-Care Tips: Enjoying Parenthood & Partnership in the East Bay

Congratulations! You have mastered the art of early parenting. You’ve figured out how to make it through the day on very, very little shut eye;

December 11, 2014

What’s So Funny about “Transparent”?

Review of Amazon Studio’s series Transparent for Our Family Coalition The deep pathos about not living an authentic life is made very concrete with the double entendre

October 23, 2014

Everyone’s Schools Town Halls through a Queer Parent’s Eyes

Meghan Lewis, Family Advocacy Liaison, Oakland Unified School District I attended the last four “Everyone’s Schools Town Hall” gatherings sponsored by Our Family Coalition. As

October 8, 2014

VICTORY: Governor Brown Signs the Modern Family Act!

Dear families and friends, I am thrilled to share with you that the Modern Family Act (AB2344) is now the law! Over the past twenty

September 30, 2014

Banned Books Week Special: Some favorite kids’ lit titles

Banned Books Week (this year, Sept 21– 27): always a favorite among bibliophiles, and a particular favorite among we who keep finding books about us banned.

September 12, 2014