To celebrate Pride Month, let’s explore how surrogacy and egg donation allow LGBTQ+ couples and individuals to create the families of their dreams. These processes benefit not only LGBTQ+ families but also the egg donors and gestational carriers who play a crucial role in helping them achieve parenthood. Finding an Egg Donor Many LGBTQ+ couples…
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month! This month, we honor the history of the gay liberation movement led by the activism of trans and gender-nonconforming organizers. Pride has evolved immensely over the past few decades, entering the mainstream in waves unheard of just twenty years ago. However, though much has changed in the eyes and opinions…
I’ve been seeing a lot of bad media around surrogacy recently, and I just have to say…There are some horror stories out there. There are people who have gotten a terribly raw deal. And there is a stark truth that surrogacy has also had big beautiful results for families, and has forever changed lives in…
It used to be that when we talked “LGBTQ Family Building” and “Families of Choice” we were exclusively singing the praises of NON-biological family. The focus was on the kinship networks we built out in the world as teens/adults post-coming out. These were families built out of necessity, when biological families of origin weren’t supportive,…
Last week we announced our next FREE Family Building Conference at the San Diego LGBT Community Center and introduced everyone to one of our collaborators, Katherine Ellis-Hernandez, PhD, Family Health Psychology. Today we want to introduce everyone to the Family Matters program at the San Diego LGBT Community Center.
