Facts to debunk some of the myths that set families up for discrimination Misconceptions and misinformation about LGBTQ families can perpetuate stereotypes and lead to actions and policies that harm our children.
Let’s, therefore, debunk 10 long-running myths and offer some useful facts for countering them. • Myth: LGBTQ parents are a new phenomenon.
Fact: We first hear of out LGBTQ parents in the 1940s, mostly in the context of cases that denied them child custody after divorce from different-sex, cisgender spouses.
By 1956, the lesbian civil rights group Daughters of Bilitis held discussion groups on lesbian parenthood. And queer parents in the broadest sense go even further back, arguably to the Greek poet Sappho (c.