Save the date: It’s that time of year again! On Tuesday, June 1, I will be hosting the 5th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day.
Over the past five years, hundreds of bloggers from around the world have participated, including lesbian moms, gay dads, bisexual parents, transgender parents, adult children of LGBT parents, LGBT individuals without children, and straight allies. Some bloggers told stories about their paths to parenthood, or tales about their children; some wrote about LGBT relatives or friends; others discussed current political events; and several spoke of why their faith obliges them to support LGBT rights. This year’s writings should be equally diverse and compelling.
Here’s how it works:
- Blog on a topic related to LGBT families on or before June 1, 2010.
- Complete the form at the bottom of this post to submit your entry. I encourage people to post on June 1; I am posting the form now in case anyone really wants to submit something early.
- I’ll compile the posts and highlight them here on June 1. Come back and read the stories and insights of our community and allies.
Any blogger who wants to support LGBT families is welcome, LGBT or not, parent or not. I encourage those who don’t usually post about LGBT families or LGBT issues, as well as those for whom every day is Blogging for LGBT Families Day. Give it a spin based on your usual blog topics. There’s no set formula or format. Photos and videos are also welcome.
The lists of contributions from 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 are still online for your perusal.
Please also grab a banner after the jump and promote the event on your site, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The more people who participate, the more impact our voices will have.
Please download the image(s) you want to your own computer (and then upload them to your blog, Facebook, etc.), rather than link to the image files here. (If I find people are doing that, I will change the image names so old image links won’t work.)
Instructions:
- Right-click the image (Mac users: click and hold) and choose “Download image,” “Save image as…” or “Save picture as…” Follow the prompts in the dialogue box to save to your computer.
- Upload to your blog or Facebook as you would any image.
- Link the image to http://www.mombian.com/save-the-date-blogging-for-lgbt-families-day-is-june-1/
my gayborhood, aloha!
i don’t have a blog, but i have a good story for your blog (mombian) day june 1. can i leave it here?
mahalo,
joyce davis
If you don’t have a blog, you can leave your story as a comment. Best to wait until June 1, though, and then leave it as a comment on the master post I’ll put up for the event. Thanks for participating!
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Our story should be called, In the Nick of Time. And if our son was named Nick that’d be an even cooler story. But his name is Kai. Kai William and he is 9 months old. We found out about him about 9 months and 3 weeks ago. We were on the foster-to-adopt list for nearly 3 years with no luck. We were open to any age up to about 10 and any race. Our homestudy was submitted for literally hundreds of children all over the states to no avail. In March 09 we told our caseworker that in Sept 09 we were going to discontinue our search. It was too heartbreaking to wait and we wanted to just move on with our childless lives. On August 5, 2009, we received an email from our worker asking if we were interested in the Private Infant Adoption program. We laughed because truly if we hadn’t been chosen for an older special needs child, why on earth would we be chosen for a newborn? Besides that we were trying to avoid the higher end costs of adoption by going the foster-to-adopt route. But we were curious, desperate and thought what the hell. We submitted our application the next day and the following day, August 7, 2009, we were contacted by our worker. She said a mother and father had chosen us to adopt their unborn child due in about 3 weeks!! Words will never be able to describe how we felt. Even writing this I feel my heart hammering in my chest at the memory. Fast forward to the present. We have a gorgeous blonde-haired, blue-eyed son that we still look at to this day in absolute amazement. He is the light of our lives and we are so grateful everyday for this priceless addition to our little family.