Family Equality Council

We'll be in Cape Cod July 26 thru August 2 celebrating new and old friendships with families like yours. Each summer, Provincetown is transformed into a huge playground for kids with GLBT parents. And Family Equality Council is once again hosting a large part of this massive event. COLAGE will again offer its workshops and activities too.

The Family Equality Council recently blogged about a new initiative - called Project Harmony.

The post says, "The project will deepen and broaden the Family Equality Council’s work, ensuring that the issues and concerns of families of color are part of the national dialogue on LGBTQ family equality."

Newly hired program manager, Lisbeth Meléndez-Rivera will be coordinating the effort.

Family Equality Council has announced on its blog that February 1st will be the start of Dive Into Diversity Days: National Diversity Book Month for Children.

julia's post on the blog says:

The producers of Buddy G provided a guest post on the Family Equality Council Blog, January 23rd.

The post helps us understand the producers' frame of mind while creating something totally original from scratch:

"How did we make Buddy G? We closed our eyes and ears to those who said we couldn't do it, and we threw our caution and money to the wind."

Parents.com is saying Harlyn Aizley, author of “Buying Dad” and editor of “Confessions of the Other Mother”, did not attract enough visits on her Parents.com blog - called "Are You My Mothers?" - to continue being an employee at Meredith Corporation. She's been fired.

Virginia Gaffey contacted the Family Equality Council to help provide resources to the Milton School Committee (the local school board) on LGBTQ family inclusion - and to establish a “next steps” plan with the superintendent.

FEC's Dustin Knight provides a blog update about the situation. He writes:

Virginia Gaffey's 9-year-old daughter was escorted around school by a bodyguard - and eventually transferred to a different school - because of continued harassment from schoolmates in her elementary school.

Speaking to the School Committee, Gaffey (pictured) claimed that Milton Public Schools, in Massachusetts, is failing to teach students about tolerance and diversity,