Sentences with phrase «lesbian families»

My specialties with parents include work with divorced families; Gay and Lesbian families; adoption; grief and loss; parenting developmentally delayed and autism spectrum disorder children; and children with significant behavioral and emotional challenges.

To this end we have supported special programs in cross-cultural therapy, working with gay and lesbian families, Orthodox Jewish families, and families struggling with life - threatening illness.

EFT effectiveness spans various cultures, with traditional and nontraditional families, and with gay and lesbian families.

When Three's a Crowd: Ex-Lovers and Lesbian Families in 2 Girls in Love.

Many gay and lesbian families adopt children domestically as well as through intercountry adoption.

In addition to our core clinical track, we have supported special programs in cross-cultural therapy, working with gay and lesbian families, with Orthodox Jewish Families and with families facing life - threatening illness.

She conducts workshops on a variety of marital and family issues for traditional and non-traditional families including blended families, families of adoption, gay and lesbian families.

Headed meetings to develop policies on controversial membership issues: roles of non-Jewish spouses, gay and lesbian families, interfaith weddings.

Two works from her series on lesbian families and their domestic spaces are recent additions to the Walker's permanent collection.

She says Opie's photographed Tea Party rallies, Obama's inauguration, surfers and lesbian families across the country.

Her unique form of social documentary photography has led her to create work about subjects ranging from lesbian families and San Francisco's S&M community to high school football players and surfers.

With her new project States of Union, photographer Alix Smith gives a sense of legacy and context to her portraits of gay and lesbian families by referencing classical works.

Opie's earlier portrait series include Portraits (1993 - 1997), from which the Whitney images were drawn, as well as Domestic (1995 - 1998) and In and Around Home (2004 - 2005), which document the domestic spheres of lesbian families in cities across the U.S., as well as the artist's own family.

According to Butler, Opie is admired for a generous and technically brilliant exploration of American communities and citizenship, including Tea Party rallies, President Barack Obama's inauguration, surfers, high school football players and lesbian families across the country.

But even as they share these amazing moments with their children and other gay and lesbian families.

«It is wrong to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution, and it is shameful to use attacks against gay and lesbian families as an election strategy,» said Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said in a statement.

The six lesbian families profiled in the film had their children through known donors, unknown donors, and adoption.

By age 4, this question will likely come up in single parent, blended, or gay or lesbian families.

In gay or lesbian families, you can talk about a man or woman who gave a seed or egg to help your child grow.

Since the 1980s, there's been more and more intentional gay and lesbian families.

Gay and lesbian families still face a good deal of discrimination if the couple lives outside the big educated cities of the country.

• Front Range Lesbian Families, PO Box Drawer E, Denver, CO 80218, Holly 303-466-1482, Eric Rude / Adult Programs GLBTCCC 303-733-7743 • Northern Colorado Our Families, contact Sierra at [email protected] or [phone] • The GLBT Center of Colorado P.O. Box 9798 Denver, CO 80209 - 0798 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.glbtcolorado.org / • The Lambda Community Center 212 South Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.lambdacenter.org / • Aspen Gay and Lesbian Community Fund PO Box 3143 Aspen, CO 81612 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] • Colorado Springs Pride Center PO Box 607 Colorado Springs, CO 80901 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.yourpridecenter.org / • Equal Rights Colorado PO Box 9798 Denver, CO 80209 - 0798 Phone: [phone] x309 Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalrightscolorado.org / Connecticut • Families by Choice, eastern Connecticut, call Tirza at 860-456-1110 • Gay Fathers of Western Connecticut.

Anya, a previous board member, states, «Plenty of spaces simply claim to be open to gay and lesbian families, but Camp Common Ground truly achieves the integrated, open and affirming community so many of us hope to create.»

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To get onto Baby Buds» email list, [email protected] • Our Family Coalition, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group, 415-981-1960, PO Box 13505, Berkeley, CA 94712 - 4505, www.ourfamily.org • Gay and Lesbian Parents of Los Angeles, # 109 - 346,7985 Santa Monica, West Hollywood, CA 90046, [phone] • Lesbian Mothers & Our Children c / o GLCSC, 1625 N. Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028, 213-993-7608 • The Pop Luck Club, P.O. Box 69865, West Hollywood, CA 90069, tel: [phone], [email protected], www.popluckclub.org • Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center of Santa Clara County's support / social group for Mothers and Fathers with younger children.

It covers every aspect of creating and raising a gay or lesbian family, from alternative insemination to adoption, from co-parenting to surrogacy.

While these findings from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study are positive, they risk blinding us to the fact that children of LGBT parents may still face certain unique issues and challenges.

Other Parenting Organizations and Resources Alameda Parents & Kids Meet - up and Baby Sitting Co-op Baby Boot Camp Stroller Fitness Exercise Classes (several locations) Then Comes Baby (Oakland) Blossom Birth (Palo Alto) Contra Costa Child Care Council MOPS Mothers of Preschoolers (Bay Area) Our Family (Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Family Group) Community Well (San Francisco) Natural Resources (San Francisco) Parents Network (Berkeley) Parents Place (Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Rafael, Santa Rosa) Stroller Hikes (Bay Area)

And artist Nicole Eisenmann — a painter whose name is spoken in the same sentences as George Condo, John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton — has depicted scenes of lesbian family life with her partner, Victoria Robinson, at the Leo Koenig gallery.

Oscar for Positive Relationships: The Kids are All Right A close - knit, lesbian family is challenged when the mothers» sperm donor visits.

Whether, when, and how to come out is a continuing question; and negotiating roles in a same - sex relationship is a persistent challenge,» say lesbian family therapists Julie Mencher and Suzanne Slater in their work - in - progress on the lesbian family life cycle.

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A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

For instance, the SPLC documents its decision to include the Family Research Council by citing the evangelical lobbying group's promotion of discredited science and unsubstantiated attacks on gay and lesbian people.

Key policies include introducing a Guaranteed Annual Income; ensuring universal access to quality childcare and early childhood education; cutting debt for post-secondary students; honouring the Kelowna Accord with Aboriginals; expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual Canadians; and easing the income support levels required for immigrant family sponsorship.

That's why so many religious people are working so hard to deny gays and lesbians their civil rights that harms them and their families.

It may be necessary for the pastor to consider holding two services if the family is not willing to face members of the gay and lesbian community.

Here's that mother, Deb Word, who has founded a group Fortunate Families to help Catholic families with lesbian daughters and gay sons, in her owFamilies to help Catholic families with lesbian daughters and gay sons, in her owfamilies with lesbian daughters and gay sons, in her own words:

Gay men and lesbian women are physically and psychologically abused, they are excluded from families, frozen out of churches and discriminated against in a variety of legal ways.

Same thing with an only daugther of a family, the dad want to have a son so bad to continue his legacy he influenced the daugther so much she grew up a lesbian.

Almost 9 out of 10 Americans know someone who is gay or lesbian (87 %), and those people are more likely to say homosexuality is morally acceptable (19 %) than those who don't have a homosexual friend or family member (3 %).

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

The Pew Research Center found that among the 14 % of Americans who changed their mind from opposing same - sex marriage to supporting it in the last decade, the top reason given was having «friends, family, acquaintances who are gay / lesbian.»

Through a friend, Harel found an Orthodox lesbian who also wanted a traditional family.

He argued that the constitution of the Federal Republic committed the state to uphold marriage and family and that by honoring a lesbian activist, the state was acting in contradiction to its own basis.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

Gays and lesbians live in your community, paying taxes, supporting schools, falling in love and forming families - just like heteros.exuals.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

We have a lesbian / manly in our family.