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Change at Our Family Coalition

by Judy Appel Executive Director, Our Family Coalition After over ten years at the helm of Our Family Coalition, I will be concluding my time...
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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,...
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Alphabet Soup Episode 4: Racial Justice Edition

Featuring Amber Todd, Co-chair of Oakland Pride Tarah Fleming, Our Family Coalition's Education Director Food for Thought with Allen Johnson, Our Family Coalition's Development...
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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...
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The Equal Protection for All Families Act is one step closer to becoming the law!

This Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to pass the Equal Protection for All Families Act (Assembly Bill 960). This important bill - authored by...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What on Earth is “Family Activism,” anyway?

By Shareena Clark, Programs Coordinator, Our Family Coalition As of late, it seems like the phrase “family values” has been hijacked and co-opted to represent...