Adoption Resources • ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL Jody Hall, LLC International Adoptions for the LGBT community 972-231-2933 AdoptMeInternational.org • FAMILY TO FAMILY ADOPTIONS Pregnancy & Adoption Center 1000 Austin Street, Suite B, Richmond TX 281-342-4042 Fam2Fam.org • HOPE COTTAGE Leslie Clay Pregnancy & Adoption Center | PRIDE Training 4209 McKinney Ave, Dallas TX 214-526-8721 x 242 HopeCottage.org [...]
FATHERS KNOW BEST | When Lucas Grape-Krueger, center, attends Austin College in the fall, his dads Roger Grape, left, and Steve Krueger will suddenly have plenty of time on their hands. They plan to have date nights, travel and even turn their son’s room into a media center. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) The Grape-Krueger family looks [...]
HAPPY COUPLE | Josie, left, and Constance Siegel got off to a rough start, but a few years later, they were happily married. (Dakota S. Byrd/ Dallas Voice) Life as a lesbian couple where one partner is trans can be tough, but Constance and Josie Siegel, and their children, prove that love makes a family [...]
Without benefit of legal marriage, same-sex couples in Texas have to take extra steps to protect themselves and their children DRACONIS VON TRAPP | Staff Writer intern@dallasvoice.com Even as the LGBT community around the country celebrated this weekend with same-sex couples who were able to legally marry in New York state for the first time, [...]
Using a parent facilitator to develop a parenting plan can save couples time, money and heartache TAMMYE NASH | Senior Editor nash@dallasvoice.com When two people pledge themselves to a committed relationship, whether the “I do’s” are legally recognized or not, they intend the relationship to last ’til death do them part. That’s the romantic side [...]
ZAYN HAS TWO MOMMIES | Despite their divorce, Denise, left, Hope and Zayn remain a family. (Arnold Wayne Jones/ Dallas Voice) How one couple turned the drama of divorce into a nurturing environment for their son RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com After nine years together, Hope Rivera and Denise Jayroe came to a tough [...]
Child ID event at Fruit Bowl Brian Walker, an agent with New York Life will be conducting a Child ID event at the HRC Disco Fruit Bowl fundraiser Sunday, Aug. 7, with bowling sessions starting at noon and 3 p.m. Organizers have said the session starting at noon is being especially geared for couples with [...]
Today’s LGBT youth have options available that the gays and lesbians of yore would not have dreamed possible DAVID WEBB | The Rare Reporter What a difference a few decades and the evolution of new generations can make in society, particularly when it comes to the development of a new community. When I first moved [...]
Experts offer advice on easing the stress for LGBT parents sending little ones off to school, and for LGBT students headed off to college TAMMYE NASH | Senior Editor nash@dallasvoice.com You can’t tell it by the temperatures outside, but summer is drawing to a close — at least for the children who will be heading [...]
LGBT parents in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex have a large number of resources available to them, from attorneys who specialize in LGBT family law issues, to support groups that give them the chance to meet and socialize with other families like theirs. One of the newer — and perhaps lesser known — of these resources [...]
