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Lesbian & Gay Parenting
Organizations
Legal Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street,18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
(Contact information varies by state)
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project (ACLU)
125 Broad Street,18th Floor
New York, NY , 10004
(Contact information varies by state)
Publications available:
- Too high a price: The case against restricting gay parenting. (2004).
- Families of value: Personal profiles of pioneering lesbian and gay parents.
- Protecting families: Standard for child custody in same-sex relationships.
(1999).
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Lambda Legal
120 Wall Street, Suite 1500
New York, NY 10005-3905
Telephone: (212) 809-8585
Email: legalhelpdesk@lambdalegal.org.
Publications available:
- You don't need to choose. As a parent, you have rights. (2004)
- What's best for your kids? (2004).
- The rights of lesbian and gay Parents and their children.
(2002).
- Protecting families. (1999). Return to top
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
30 Winter Street, Suite 800
Boston, MA 02108
Telephone: (617) 426-1350
Email: gladlaw@glad.org
Publications available:
- Adoption: Questions and answers.
- Protecting families: Standards for child custody in same-sex relationships. (1999).
National Center for Lesbian Rights
870 Market Street, Suite 570
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: (415) 392-NCLR
Email: info@nclrights.org
Publications available:
- A lesbian and gay parents' legal guide to child custody. (1989).
- AIDS and child custody: A guide to advocacy. (1990).
- Lesbians choosing motherhood: Legal implications of donor insemination and co-parenting.
(1991).
- Lesbian mother litigation manual. (1990).
- Preserving and protecting the families of lesbians and gay men . (1991).
- Recognizing lesbian and gay families: Strategies for obtaining domestic partnership benefits. (1992).
Family Support Organizations
Colage: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
2300 Market Street
Box 165
San Francisco, CA 94114
Telephone: (415) 861-KIDS
E-mail: kidsofgays@aol.com Return to top
Family Diversity Projects Inc.
PO Box 1246
Amherst, MA 01004-1246
Phone: (413) 256-0502
Fax: (413) 253-3977
E-mail: info@familydiv.org
http://www.familydiv.org
Family Diversity Projects, a nonprofit organization in Amherst, MA, has created four award-winning traveling rental exhibits that tour communities, schools (K-12), colleges, mental health centers, libraries, houses of worship, workplaces, and conferences, nationwide and internationally. The four exhibits include:
- Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Their
Families (also a book published by University of Massachusetts Press);
- In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families (with a full curriculum resource guide);
- Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families (also a book published by University of Massachusetts Press); and
- Nothing To Hide: Mental Illness in the Family (also a book published by New Press).
By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full range of diversity, our traveling exhibits are designed to help reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from the "norm."
Love Makes a Family is a museum-quality traveling exhibit that includes photographs and interviews with families that have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBT people and their families. At the most basic level, Love Makes a Family combats homophobia by breaking silence and making the invisible visible. By encouraging people of all ages-beginning in early childhood-to affirm and appreciate diversity, this traveling rental exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all families.
Designed for audiences of all ages, Love Makes a Family challenges stereotypes about LGBT people and helps dismantle homophobia. The photo-text rental exhibit consists of ready-to-hang framed photographs and text. The companion book, Love Makes a Family (published by the University of Massachusetts Press), was named the Best Book about Gay and Lesbian Issues by the Association of Independent Publishers. All of Family Diversity Projects' exhibits include gay- and lesbian-parented families.
For information about how to bring a Family Diversity Projects exhibit to your community (or
to get information about the companion books), please contact the address and numbers listed at the beginning of this entry.
Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International (GLPCI)
P.O. Box 50360
Washington, DC 20091
Telephone: (202) 583-8029
E-mail: glpcinat@ix.netcom.com
Publications available:
- Books for children of lesbian and gay parents. (1995).
- GLPCI directory of resources. (1995).
Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
1726 M Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 467-8180
E-mail: info@pflag.org
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