We each have a unique story to tell, even as we share the common themes of love, family, and acceptance. I encourage you all to read through the posts and find inspiration, insight, and maybe even some new friends.

I will be reading through all the posts myself in the coming days (couldn’t get them all read yesterday and manage the event), and trying to pull out some quotes that caught my eye. You’ve submitted some amazing posts. But don’t wait for me—go read, comment, and enjoy!

Mark it on your calendars, too—same time, next year!

To submit a post, complete the form at the end of this post. Older posts are welcome, too. If you don’t have a blog of your own (but only then), leave your contribution in a comment.

Please allow some time between submitting a post and its appearance in the list below. I will be updating the list as fast as possible, but new posts may not appear immediately—and there will be a hiatus now until the sun rises on 6/2, as I must get some sleep.

You can also tweet in support of LGBT families and use the hashtag #lgbtfamilies. Your tweets will then appear in the list over in the far-right sidebar. (You can follow the hashtag using your favorite Twitter software, too.)

Please encourage all your friends, LGBT and not, to participate!

After the jump, because the list is getting long: contributed posts, in chronological order:

1. Operacion Botones Blogging For LGBT Families 2011
2. So Close Blogging for LGBT Families Day
3. Diversity Role Models We are family
4. Gender and Schooling Blogging for LGBT Families – issues in schools
5. Denise on BlogHer Blogging for LGBT Families: Dear Ellen
6. www.oursimonfamily.blogspot.com In honor of LGBT bloggers Day: Our 2 mom family
7. Shannon on BlogHer A Tale of Three Mothers on Mother’s Day
8. Abiekt Tęczowe rodziny ["Rainbow Family"; Google Translate]
9. @Vermont Reflections and a Little Ranting
10. Peep Into My Life Moist and Buoyant: A Culture of Silence
11. O, Pioneers! LGBT Families, My Queer Family, and Queering Community
12. Chronicles of a Clueless Mom Promise of a Better Tomorrow
13. Fearlessly Create Gorgeous Chaos Fearlessly Create Gender Chaos
14. Ells and Baba Snapshots of a stay-at-home Baba
15. Defining Family Adoption Ashley’s Definition of Equality
16. Mama Lynx Love is Love
17. Doorknobs That Lock Wedding Vows for the Sandwich Generation
18. the brokins blogging for lgbt families
19. ScooterMarie It’s Mombian Day!
20. Middle-aged Diva A family is a family is a family
21. My year of living simpler Blogging for LGBT Families Day
22. My Imperfect Truth Out
23. hopefor2moms Choosing a Donor
24. Just One Day Toy Cars
25. Who Dem Is Blogging for LGBT Families: Our Commitment to You
26. SafariDad Dancing Is For Boys
27. Uncle Roger’s Notebooks of Daily Life Prop 8 (Guest Post by Sara, Age 7 (almost))
28. Uncle Roger’s Notebooks of Daily Life Fair (Guest Post by Jared, Age 9)
29. The Radical Housewife What do Minnesota family values look like?
30. Little Monster and Mommies On Luck & Family Values: Blogging for LGBT Families
31. Dressing My Truth Blogging for LGBT Families
32. Musings from Outside, Inside and Underneath Family by Choice
33. The Mouse’s Nest We are family, but we already knew that
34. Karen’s Healthy Lifestyle Blogging for LGBT Families
35. Kristin Craig Lai – Life Coach for Queer Parents Do these pants make me look straight?
36. Bionic Mamas A Thanksgiving
37. Morning Quickie Gay Hate Affects Everyone
38. Living Hypothetically Kona Weekend
39. Defining Family Adoption Joey’s Definition of Equality
40. Finding Snooze Family and rights
41. Mama non Grata Father’s Day, two-mom style
42. Up Popped A Fox A Child Shall Lead Them – A Sea Monkey Is Less Likely
43. Demzon Creations Tracker blogging for LGBT families day
44. Lemonpuss Family Day
45. Morning Quickie Same-Sex Civil Unions Recognized In Illinois
46. Two Hot Mamas Blogging for LGBT Families Day
47. Ain’t Nothin’ LGBT Families – Brief Words
48. Raising My Boychick Passing for straight: two years later
49. Peaches & Coconuts Happy Accidents – Blogging for LGBT Families Day
50. The Long Way Home Blogging for LGBT Family Day
51. West Philly Mama Our Known Donor Experience
52. the adventures of k & d Are we married? Don’t ask Florida for the answer!
53. Mother Issues Blogging Actual Mothering
54. Fresh Widow LGBT Families Matter in Grief Support, too
55. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents Don’t Devalue the Aunties
56. Quirky Fusion Blogging for LGBT Families Day
57. GLAAD Blog Blogging for LGBT Families Day: A Story About Growing Up
58. GLAAD Blog Sharing Stories on Blogging for LGBT Families Day
59. Lemonpuss Love Makes a Familyl (New Baby Edition)
60. Thirty-one (or ten) Jams, Queer Families, And Gabe’s Family
61. Mamablogue I Heart My Queer Family
62. labelsareforjars Queer Families; Visibility: Blogging for LGBT Families Day
63. We Are Fambly fambly: one more time with feeling
64. The Lovemasons Modern Family
65. Our Baby Sprout People are good and Love is real!
66. Jen and Kendra 6th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day!
67. UBE: Purple Yam — Sweet Insides of a Brown-Skinned Woman 1 June 2011 : Queer History Making
68. 040508.blogspot.com 6th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day
69. two dolla blogging for LGBT families: our lgbt family
70. Dressing My Truth Blogging for LGBT Families
71. Angels of Sodom Blogging For LGBT Families Day ’11!
72. Gin-Soaked Olive Local Honey
73. Lesbian Dad Absence of Malice (is not enough)
74. Upside My Head (Pay Attention Now) The straight people’s unofficial guide to the 2011 TC Pride Festival
75. All Because Two People Fell in Love An Open Letter to Governor Scott Walker
76. (maddox at) Neutrois Nonsense Queerious Questions
77. First Time Second Time Talking to kids about reproduction
78. Carfree with Kids Oh, and we’re queer too
79. Little Kids, Big City (Chicago Now) Blogging for LGBT Families Day
80. Plenty of Otherwise Change and bravery
81. Product of 2 Mommies Defense! (clap-clap) DEFENSE!
82. The Gay Bump Crazy what a year can bring…

1. A personal story about your child(ren)
2. A story about your own parent(s)
3. A personal story about an LGBT family you know
4. A philosophical reflection on what parenting means to you (or why you want to become a parent, if you are not yet one)
5. If I could change one thing to make my state/country better for LGBT families, it would be. . . .
6. Something you have in common with a non-LGBT family (if you are LGBT; vice versa if you are not)
7. A piece of local or national political news/legislation that affects you as a family (for good or bad)
8. A children’s book or show that reflects an important aspect of your family (family structure, race/ethnicity, values, etc.)
9. Why you think we need more children’s books/media that reflect a certain aspect of your family
10. If you could tell the world one thing about your family, it would be. . . .

Just post at your usual blog, and submit the post here to be added to the master list for everyone to see. (You can submit it through the form at the bottom of this post if you have it done already.)

Please 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/2011/05/02/save-the-date-blogging-for-lgbt-families-day-june-1/
• You may not modify the images and may only use them to link to the Blogging for LGBT Families Day posts at Mombian.

Just post at your usual blog, and submit the post here to be added to the master list for everyone to see. (You can submit it through the form at the bottom of this post if you have it done already.)

Please 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/2011/05/02/save-the-date-blogging-for-lgbt-families-day-june-1/
• You may not modify the images and may only use them to link to the Blogging for LGBT Families Day posts at Mombian.

Here’s how it works:

• Blog on a topic related to LGBT families on or before June 1, 2011.
• 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.

Additionally, you can:

• Tweet in support of LGBT families on June 1, 2011. Include the hashtag #lgbtfamilies. I will display the tweets in a scrolling box here at Mombian, or you can follow the hashtag using most popular Twitter software.
• Upload a video to YouTube or other video sharing service. Tag it “lgbtfamilies”. Complete the form at the bottom of this post to submit the permalink to your entry.

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 2010, 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/2011/05/02/save-the-date-blogging-for-lgbt-families-day-june-1/
• You may not modify the images and may only use them to link to the Blogging for LGBT Families Day posts at Mombian.

Here’s how it works:

• Blog on a topic related to LGBT families on or before June 1, 2011.
• 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.

Additionally, you can:

• Tweet in support of LGBT families on June 1, 2011. Include the hashtag #lgbtfamilies. I will display the tweets in a scrolling box here at Mombian, or you can follow the hashtag using most popular Twitter software.
• Upload a video to YouTube or other video sharing service. Tag it “lgbtfamilies”. Complete the form at the bottom of this post to submit the permalink to your entry.

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 2010, 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/2011/05/02/save-the-date-blogging-for-lgbt-families-day-june-1/
• You may not modify the images and may only use them to link to the Blogging for LGBT Families Day posts at Mombian.

As a further way of saying thanks, here’s the last of three giveaways of And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families. (My full review, which I wrote before I was contacted about a giveaway, is here.)

For today’s drawing, I’ll pick the winner randomly from all of the people who leave a comment on this post with their answer to the following question:

What’s the one thing you wish someone had told you before you became a parent? OR What’s the one thing you’d like to know before becoming one?

Comments must be left before 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time Thursday, June 3. (That’s 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time, June 4.)

Thanks to Insomniac Press for making this possible.

Full rules and restrictions after the jump.

Rules and restrictions: U.S. and Canada residents only, please. One entry per person. Don’t worry if your comment is moderated; once I approve it, it will appear based on the time you submitted it. Spam comments, including off-topic or purely commercial comments, will not count. If you win any one of the three drawings for this book, you cannot play again. If you are or have been a paying advertiser (or an employee of a paying advertiser) on Mombian, you can’t play.

You must also leave a valid e-mail address with your comment. Don’t leave a postal address, though. If you win, I’ll contact you by e-mail about shipping. I will then share the winner’s name and postal address with the publisher, for the sole purpose of allowing them to mail you your prize.

I am a member of the Amazon Associates program, and get a small referral fee from all purchases made at Amazon.com via links on this site. You are under no obligation to purchase through them.

To submit a post, complete the form at the end of this post. If you don’t have a blog of your own (but only then), please leave your contribution in a comment.

Yes, I am still taking posts; I know many of you are in different time zones, and I’m always a bit flexible about the deadline, in any case.

There are a few posts in the comments from people without blogs—be sure to check those out, too.

Posts after the jump, since the list is getting long.

1. Preparing for Baby Andaloro-Brooks Beginning the Journey
2. goodkin Suddenly Sisters
3. Mothership Dispatch We Are Not Pioneers
4. rosie’s growing snow peas How I Met Your Father
5. SarasNavel This year is a little different
6. The Mama Too Blogging for LGBT Families Day
7. The Gay Bump The Gay Bump Chooses a Name for Herself: Bear
8. The Strange Land Blogging for LGBT Families on Trinity Sunday
9. Operación Botones Third Test
10. The Boriqua Lens Blogging for LGBT Families
11. Feminists For Choice Friends By Chance, Family By Choice
12. Butt to Chair: Thoughts on the Writing Life Writing Contest–”Why I’m Proud of My Gay Parent(s)”
13. Pineapples & Artichokes Let’s talk about diversity
14. Mama non Grata Four same-sex, half-Jewish weddings and a funeral
15. Forever Reaching Witness for the Silent
16. En Familia Lots of adjectives for different families?
17. Per entendrens… El dia dels adjectius
18. Work, Love, Play Where did I really come from?
19. JosieHenley’s Weblog One of Seven Voices – Blogging for LGBT Families
20. Safari Dad LGBT Parents Have Slideshows Too
21. Abiekt Blogging for LGBT Families i inne
22. Oxala We are family – Blogging for LGBT Families
23. Mind Body Mama An Open Letter to Rachel Maddow
24. Doorknobs That Lock Family beyond our four walls
25. La Letra Escarlata Pensamientos bollomaternales
26. Familias LGTB Shelter
27. Gay Rights @ Change.org LGBT Parenting: When Preschool Strikes
28. Homoparental: La familia que crece Hoy es el día mundial de las familias homoparentales
29. Trans-Parent Summer Visitation 2010
30. Deseando y esperando
31. Our Big Gayborhood My Suzy Left You This Note
32. www.oursimonfamily.blogspot.com Happy Blogging for LGBT Families day!
33. Gay Rights @ Change.org All Families Are LGBT Families
34. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Blog Envisioning LGBT Families
35. The Mighty Misses Quinn “As the bombshells of my daily fears explode…”
36. 2 Mommies and 2 Boys Proud or Normal?
37. Gay Rights @ Change.org Where’s the Best Places for LGBT Families?
38. Mother Issues Obvious
39. Dangling Possibilities Mother May I
40. Middle Aged Queer Mom Becoming a Mother Lesbian
41. Life With the Kid Cooties
42. Crunchy Granola The New Normal
43. Sayen CroWolf For Mother’s Day, I Became a Father
44. Gay Rights @ Change.org Starting a Gay Family
45. Labels are for Jars Blogging for LGBT Families: A long-overdue announcement
46. Blabbeando On Father’s Day, People in Español magazine honors Ricky Martin
47. Gay Rights @ Change.org Starting a Gay Family
48. BlogHer Blogging for LGBT Families 2010
49. madrenosolohayuna.blogspot.com Celebremos el nacimiento de nuestras familias
50. DOMA Stories Jumping in the Deep End of the Pool
51. LizaWasHere Bad News, Good News for LGBT Families in 2010
52. El deseo de ser madres La historia de miles de familias
53. trzyczęściowy garnitur Blogujemy dla homorodzin
54. The Family Equality Council Blog Next Steps in LGBT Parenting
55. The Bilerico Project (Waymon Hudson) Blogging for LGBT Families 2010: My “Non-Traditional” Family (crossposted at Pam’s and HuffPo)
56. Mami y mamá…te amamos!!! Día de los blogs de familias LGBT
57. Elise Dodeles art Blogging for LGBT Families Day
58. Two Hot Mamas Blogging for LGBT Families Day
59. Now Entering: Life Bi Me You want to know? The LGBT Community has answers!
60. Up Popped A Fox Head Lice Don’t Discriminate
61. The Mouse’s Nest Family Portrait
62. @ Vermont Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2010: A Baby in the Works
63. we are fambly fambly. again.
64. We Love Children’s Books Read LGBT family stories to ALL kids
65. Two moms and a baby Expecting the Unexpected
66. Mamalicious It’s a day for GAY
67. Ovulín en Chinitilandia La ocasión lo merece
68. perambulate life long weekends
69. Friend of the Fam A Family Like Mine
70. Deb on the Rocks Blogging for LGBT Families
71. othermotherisnotamused.blogspot.com LGBT Families Day – Why Am I a Mother? Because It Is So Glamorous!
72. Gayby Boom! Opening credits to the organization who spreads the most love
73. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondent Pittsburgh LGBTQ Families
74. the adventures of kari The Chin family
75. Science and Money My Pomo Nuclear Family
76. The Adventures of Teo and Talia Family
77. LasDosMamis Blogueando por nuestras familias
78. Word In Edgewise Forms Over Substance
79. Joe My God OPEN THREAD: Fifth Annual Blogging For LGBT Families Day
80. Adventures of a Midwestern East Coast Liberal A Wedding Makes a Family
81. Uncle Roger’s Notebooks of Daily Life What Would You Blog?
82. Dos lesbianas, 9 meses y una nueva vida Celebremos nuestras familias
83. 040508.blogspot.com 5th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day
84. FemiKnitMafia’s Just the Two of Us Sharing Mother’s Day
85. Musings from the inside, outside, and underneath Because of a little piece of paper
86. One Potato, Two Potato Two Dads Stating a Family through Surrogacy
87. Two Dads, One Son Exposing The Homosexual Lifestyle
88. Before I Forget We’re just a couple of soccer moms. . .
89. Birth and Bloom How to Be a Good Ally to Queer Families
90. Lesbian Dad Face-making place-holder
91. Role Playing with Kids Blogging for LGBT Families Day?

I’m going to leave this post at the top of the page from now until the big day. With the holiday weekend coming up, I figured some of you might want to submit posts early.

Here’s how it works:

• Post at your own 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.
• If you don’t have a blog (and only then) you may leave your contribution as a comment. If you do have a blog, please submit the post link through the form below.
• 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.

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/

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/