Tag: parents

A new documentary, El Canto del Colibrí, explores the relationship between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBT children. Everyone's coming-out is different, but Marco Castro-Bojorquez, the director and producer of the new documentary El Canto del Colibrí, knew from experience that the assumption that Latino immigrant men are homophobic was untrue. So he set out to use film to break that stereotype. El Canto del Colibrí, which translates in English to "the hummingbird's song," showcases Latino immigrant fathers and their relationship with their LGBT...

The father of a 13-year-old Staten Island teen who hanged himself this week after being mercilessly harassed by bullies at Holy Angels Catholic Academy posted a heartbreaking video to Facebook about what his family has been put through. Daniel Fitzpatrick, his son, left a two-page letter before taking his own life. “I gave up,” the teen scrawled on two sides of a single sheet of paper. “The teachers . . . they didn’t do anything,” he said, pouring his heart onto the page. …His parents said...

The amendment to the country's adoption law is considered to be the final step toward full equality for all LGBT people - gays and lesbians in Ireland, who are eager to become parents, but they weren't alllowed to do it according to the law. But now they are free to give an adopted child a chance to enjoy happy life in a full family of two moms or two daddies. Congratulations, Irish gays and lesbians! Now you can hear the laugh of...

Gay dads can't be caring? Who told it? Today a lot of children live happy life being adopted and brought up in same-sex family. To have two moms or two dads - is it a big problem? Homosexual families become a common thing in our contemporary society. But there is one problem. Not every society accept such couples. It means that a lot of same-sex families should hide their love to each other and to children. But is it...

Coming out isn't a simple thing for a lot of LGBT people. Some of them think over the plan of their coming out for years before they reveal their decisions to be gay, lesbian or transgender person to their nearest and dearest. Some people are afraid of relatives' reaction to such news. So they hide in their closets and don't tell anybody about their preferences. But there are LGBT people who have supportive parents who understand the choice of their...

Two dads in Toronto have spoken out – after they were stunned to find a photo of them being used by a candidate in Ireland who opposes surrogacy “for men”. The photo was snapped of partners BJ Barone and Frank Nelson, after their son Milo was delivered via a surrogate in Toronto two years ago. The photo of the family went viral at the time, and they received thousands of messages of support from around the world. However, they were stunned to...

The story is based on real life events and participants with changed names. It is hard to think of a relationship like this. However, in such situations to our help comes the cliché: “Love has no limits” and it actually proves to be true. Because otherwise, it would be beyond one’s strength to explain a relationship between a 20-year-old university student and a 50-year-old businessman. Tom had met Jason in Australia where he was on a concert tour, as he was...

These celebrities have enough time to perform on the stage and to raise their children. These gay couples proved once again that gay parents can be loving, caring and simply the best. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are parents to fraternal twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace who were born on October 12, 2010. Ricky Martin and his ex-husband Carlos Gonzalez Abella with their twins Matteo and Valentino in Vanity Fair. Elton John and his husband David Furnish are proud parents of...

While the supporters of “family values” and the right wing conservatives are freely attempting to dismantle the existence of same-sex parents, studies are showing fuel for the opposing arguments. Without stepping on a soap box and preaching a belief system, neutral entities have come out in support of same sex parenting with factual data that cannot be dismissed. Some of the following issues are clearly fuel for the defense of same sex parenting, and even document its equality, and...

Hi, I am Samantha! I am 16 years old, I am from USA and my former name was Samuel. I want to share my story to the world, because I want to help people who are experiencing the same situation I am in. I have been struggling my entire life with a problem that no one that I knew of have had. Ever since I was a little boy I liked playing with dolls and dressing up in my...

Do you remember this guy? Of course you met him in our previous part of the story Society dislikes me, but I have found happiness. Would you like to know what happened with him, so you have a chance to do it right now! This major turn in my life helped me realize that I have a lot more to understand about what drives is in our daily lives: it’s happiness, it’s that feeling of completion and satisfaction knowing that you...