HRC Blog

HRC applauds the leadership of Children's Home and Aid for their commitment to ensuring that qualified LGBT individuals and couples are able to become foster and adoptive parents to the thousands of children and youth in Illinois’ foster care system.

The National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association, a network of 933 programs that are recruiting, training and supporting volunteers to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courtroom and other settings, has turned to HRC’s “All Children All Families” (ACAF) initiative to help increase volunteers’ LGBT cultural competency.

Through HRC's All Children All Families program, child welfare professionals from two states went through training to better understand the challenges facing LGBT parents and youth.

From the House floor Georgia Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey defended the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, rolling out an antiquated and sexist argument that the law reinforces so-called traditional gender roles.

LGBT-inclusive short film tells a story of love, adoption and the many forms of family.