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There are not a lot of online resources for kids with LGBT parents, or our families. These are a good cross-section of what's out there. If you know of an on-line resource that we should link to please
submit it to our webspinner. We are especially interested in anything by/for kids with LGBT parents.
Mini-Index
- Personal pages: pages by kids like us!
- Second Generation: Queer kids of Queer Parents
- Summer Camps & Conferences
- Families
- Moms
- Dads
- Transgender
- Resources for Children, Students, and Researchers
- Information about HIV/AIDS
Personal
- Alexandra and Michael Evans
- The kids didn't have their own site, but Alix and Michael's pictures are up here.
- Sol's page
- A collection of pictures, testimony about her lesbian family, and poetry from this 14 year-old activist and former member of the COLAGE Board of Directors.
- Jen, Lib, Sarah, Dann, Megan, and Chris Smallwood
- All of the Smallwood kids. Mainly pictures, but a few of them have their own pages.
- Daniel
- Daniel lives in the UK with his mom, who is a lesbian, though still married to his dad.
- Sonja Marie's Home Page
- Sonja is 23, and her site is really amazing. Tons of links to different mailing lists, TV shows, celebrities, as well as friends and family.
Second Generation
- The Second Generation Page
- for queer and questioning kids of glbt parents!
- Drago Renteria
- Drago is a deaf queer organizer, and coordinator of the incredible online resource for deaf queers, the Deaf Queer Resource Center. She is a second generation dyke.
- YOUTH RESOURCE
- Youth Resource has:
- YR Women: a monthly e-zine for lesbian/bi/trans women
- Young Gay Men Need to Know: brochures for young gay men
- Campus Links Webring: a network of over 40 college groups
- Queer Youth Webring: a network of over 250 LGBT Youth Homepages
- The ART Project: an online gallery of art by LGBT Youth
- much much more including monthly features, youth group listings, online communities for bisexual youth and trans youth, etc...
Summer Camps & Conferences
- Mountain Meadow Summer Camp
- A feminist summer camp in the North East for boys and girls primarily with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents.
- Camp Lavender Hill
- Providing children of LGBT parents and alternative to traditional summer camp.
For Families
- Our World Too
- Helping gay parents and their children cope with the issues that surround them at work, in schools, and in the community.
- PFLAG
- Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- Straight Spouse Network
- For Straight Spouses who have, or have had GLBT Spouses
- Alternative Family Magazine
- An international parenting magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender parents and their children.
- All Our Families Coalition and the Alternative Family Project
- two organizations specializing in counseling and community services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Family Pride Coalition (formerly known as GLPCI)
- A wonderful organization by, and for Gay and Lesbian Parents.
- Love Makes A Family
- the renowned traveling photo-text exhibit distributed by Family Diversity Projects.
- Families Like Mine
- A website dedicated to decreasing isolation for children with parents who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT), and bringing voice to the experiences of these families. It has special resources for families in Minnesota and also answers some commonly asked questions.
- Maybe Baby:
- Info, networking and more for prospective LGBT parents from this Australian organization.
- Parents Network
- regular updates, action alerts, news from around the world about our families from FPC. Send email to glpcinat@ix.netcom.com.
Subject: Parents Network
Text: Subscribe. - GLSEN
- Our Family
- We Are Family
- This cyber-organization is a good spot for lots of parenting and family stuff.
- NGLTF
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Homepage KID-Kids
- Dutch homepage for Gay parents and their kids (in Dutch)
- KID-Kids Messageboard
- Dutch messageboard for Gay parents and their kids for people to ask questions and subscribe to a mailing list
For Moms
- Lesbian Moms List Home Page
- Words of wisdom on how to create a family compiled from the lesbian moms discussion list. Good content.
- Lesbian Mothers Support Society
- An online resource for lesbian moms, prospective moms, etc. Good links, good content.
- Lesbian Moms List Home Page
- Words of wisdom on how to create a family compiled from the lesbian moms discussion list. Good content.
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
For Dads
- Gay Fathers Support Network
- Their site has email lists, general information, and other support services.
- Gay Parenting Resources
- More online and print resources for gay parents.
- Gay Dads email list
- Join a Gay Dad's email list! Send e-mail to majordomo@vector.casti.com and in the body of the message write: subscribe gaydads yourfirstname yourlastname.
Transgender
C.O.T. Children of Transexuals
- TransFamily of Cleveland
- TransFamily Of Cleveland is a support group for transgendered and transsexual people, their parents, partners, children, other family members, friends, and supportive others.
Resources for Children, Students, and Researchers
- The American Psychological Association's Public Interest document on Lesbian and Gay parents and their kids.
- This is a summary of most of the research on LGBT families. It's the best thing on-line for researching this topic from the social science perspective. It's big.
Information about HIV/AIDS
You can link from your page to ours.
The linking address is
http://www.colage.org
Sample text you could use:
Version #1: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) is a support and advocacy group for run by and for daughters and sons of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents.
Version #2: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) is a support and advocacy group run by and for daughters and sons of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents. They have newsletters, local groups, email lists, national conferences, pen pals and more.
Version #3 (the QueerSpawn-mix): Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere is a phat posse of queerspawn doing it for themselves. We're over that shwag psychologized stuff they put on us, so we're getting organized and energized to increase the peace for queer families.
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