WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, released Promising Practices for Serving Transgender & Non-Binary Foster & Adoptive Parents, a groundbreaking new guide designed to help foster care and adoption agencies recruit, certify and support qualified transgender and non-binary adults to become resource parents for young people who need safe, welcoming homes….
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to significant attacks on the rights of LGBTQ people, an unprecedented number of parents of transgender young people have come together to sign a declaration of rights seeking protections for their children and all transgender people from discrimination, violence and harassment. The declaration, signed by 1,400-plus parents and organized by…
MUMBAI, India — For the first time ever 10 parents of LGBTQ persons came together in Mumbai, India for a closed door parents’ support group workshop that aimed to share experiences and also chart out a future course of action. Organized by Solaris Pictures, as part of its ongoing engagement with LGBT community and parents,…
Free event for the LGBT community to be held Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. (ET), hosted by Kristen Darcy. NEW YORK — National nonprofit, Path2Parenthood (P2P) and fertility expert and life coach, Kristen Darcy, have teamed up to bring urgently needed information on post-election legal safeguards for gay parents and hopeful…
In contrast to Rome’s well-attended LGBT pride festival last weekend, and support of same-sex civil unions by Italy’s Lower House of Parliament, the Pope Sunday stressed the importance of children having heterosexual parents. Addressing around 25,000 followers from the diocese of Rome, the pope said the differences between men and women are fundamental and “an…
NEW YORK– Path2Parenthood (P2P), formerly The American Fertility Association, has kicked off its 2015 HIV & Parenthood Initiative. “Dreams to Reality” is an education and outreach program highlighting medical advances that allow HIV-positive men and women to have genetically-linked children without passing along the virus. Funded by a generous grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation…
An unexpectedly huge hit, Coming Home, the story of a young man who comes out to his parents during the Chinese New Year holiday, has also had the unintended consequence of prompting many Chinese parents to ask if their child is, in fact, gay. BBC Trending first reported this unusual story after word leaked that…
World News Videos | ABC World News ABC News’ “20/20.” recently aired a special about Bianca and Nick Bowser, a transgender couple who are the parents of two boys. The Bowser children are 3 years old and 17 months. They live in Louisville, Kentucky, in virtual obscurity until now. “We fit … the basic definition…
A new YouTube video attacks the practice of ‘conversion therapy’ aimed at gay and trans youths, after the death of Leelah Alcorn, who committed suicide last month, after citing her parent’s refusal to accept her trans status and attempts to ‘cure’ her gender identity. The video by Laci Green of channel Sex+ speaks out against the practice….
A fast growing Change.org petition to enact ‘Leelah’s Law’ to ban transgender conversion therapy, in honor of transgender teen Leela Alcorn has reached more than 280,000 signatures. The 17-year-old teenager from Ohio whose suicide note blamed gay conversion therapy for her death, and called on others to “fix society” to prevent more transgender suicides. One…
