family equality

The timing of Family Equality Council’s Los Angeles Awards dinner on February 11, and the choice of star honoree Chad Griffin, could not have been more apropos, coinciding with a major victory on February 7 in the fight for marriage equality. Special guests and awards presenters included Modern Family stars Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the latter who performed a humorous tune about the joys of every day parenting.

Jane Lynch summarized the theme of the annual awards dinner of Family Equality Council when she stated that we are all in this fight together. At the event, held last Saturday at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Lynch presented an award to the plaintiffs in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial challenging Proposition 8. The recipients echoed Lynch’s remarks that marriage equality rights are intimately tied to the rights of LGBT families.

The Family Equality Council has gone high fashion!

All the right-wing propaganda is true: LGBT characters on television are influencing Americans. A new poll finds that viewers of shows such as Gleeand Modern Family grow more tolerant of same-sex marriage.

The New England Journal of Medicine cites easier access to health care as the primary reason.

Family Equality Council has announced the honorees for the 2012 Los Angeles Awards Dinner. The dinner will take place at Universal Studios’ Globe Theater on February 11, 2012.

Family Equality Council hosts annual Families in the Desert for GLBT parents and kids. This weekend my partner and I are headed to Palm Springs to part-tay, with sippy cups in hand. Our three-year-old son will be along too as we join an estimated 60 LGBT families October 8-10 for some wild LGBT family fun, including rubber ducky races and a wildlife show, all part of Families in the Desert, sponsored by the Family Equality Council.

Jim Daly, the president and CEO of Focus on the Family, which funds attacks against marriage equality across the country, concedes in a new interview that his side has “probably lost” on the issue. Focus on the Family continues to join groups like the National Organization for Marriage to fund antigay campaigns and constitutional amendments, such as the most recent effort to ban marriage equality in Minnesota in 2012.

Families headed by GLBT parents need to come out urged Family Equality Council Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler. The leader of the national organization that advocates for the rights of GLBT parents made the call to action during her State of the Movement address to attendees of the annual Families in the Desert conference of gay and lesbian parents, held in Indian Wells, Calif., September 31 – October 2.

In confirmation hearings that lasted more than eight hours today for his nomination as secretary of Defense, former senator Chuck Hagel reiterated his commitment to treating gay and lesbian soldiers — and their families — equally.

The Family Equality Council will celebrate more than just the 30th anniversary of the organization tonight: Jennifer Chrisler, executive director, will ring the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell accompanied by dozens of children and their LGBT parents.

Brave teen Madison Galluccio urged the New Jersey Assembly to allow her fathers the right to be married. Galluccio, of North Haledon, says current laws make her and her family feel less than equal. The state's legislature is debating a marriage equality bill, which both houses will bring up later this month. Republican governor Chris Christie is threatening to veto it.

Now playing a hauntingly alluring witch in Conan the Barbarian, in theaters August 19, McGowan talks to The Advocate’s Brandon Voss about her equality activism, LGBT family, dream lesbian crush, and her desire to do a guest spot on Glee.

While other members of her family rally against marriage equality, Marie Osmond has endorsed it as a civil right. Osmond took her stand when she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer as Person of the Week on ABC’s World News Friday night.

Jennifer Chrisler, head of the Family Equality Council, told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin today that antigay leader Tony Perkins might “open his heart” if he accepts her invitation to dinner with her family. Chrisler extended the invitation after Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, discussed his opposition to same-sex marriage and denounced gay parents in an interview with Baldwin last week, and Baldwin challenged him to justify his views, asking him among other things if he had ever been to the home of a same-sex married couple.

A retired U.S. Army colonel explains why he supports the freedom to marry in a new video airing on TV stations statewide in Oklahoma.