While the LGBTQ+ community still has a long way to go — especially for our trans, Black, Brown, and lower-income community members — we have seen dramatic shifts over the last decade.
I’m now 56. Growing up, I never dreamed that I would one day be able to legally marry, let alone form a family. I responded to the absence of that dream in the same way most of my gay peers did: cynically denying that the dream of having children was ever a dream of mine to begin with.