Need 14 to 25 yo input of LGBT families - please read

This is an opportunity for 14 to 25 year olds that have been raised within LGBT families for their voices to be heard and their experiences to be counted.  If you know of anyone, please pass this on.  In the past these types of surveys have been used to authenticate that children raised in LGBT homes are as balanced as those in their hetero counterparts to mention just one such study that was useful that I remember hearing of.

I know that I worried before I had a child about how the world was going to treat her/him because of the family she would be born to.  Over the years she did experience painful situations that I wanted to rescue her from many times as kids can be so cruel and she did not seem to initially handle it well.  In time though she found her own way and has become an amazing advocate for her 'Gays' at her high school.  She participates in the 'Day of Silence' and has rallied her friends for a number of gay activist events.  She is in a Gay/Straight Chorus (yes, that makes a queer mom proud).


She has become an amazingly compassionate, kind, level headed young woman who does not understand why people judge each other for such stupid things as sexual orientation, gender or race.  Her experiences have made her much stronger within herself and she loves the richness of her life and experiences.  At her school events her family takes up more room than most of any of her classmates guests.  She calls us the lesbian Brady bunch (god, I hope I'm not Alice?) with a smile and a roll of the eyes.  Ms T





Perspectives on Marriage Equality: Listening to the (Missing) Voices
of Youth/Young Adults with Lesbian and Gay Parents

We are looking for participants for a project exploring the
perspectives of adolescents and young adults with lesbian and gay
parents. This study will recruit individuals between the age of 14 and
25 who have lesbian and gay parents, in an effort to gain their
perspectives on marriage equality.

We are interested in recruiting participants from various backgrounds/ family situations,
such as those whose parents have obtained civil unions, civil marriage, and domestic
partnerships, as well as those whose parents have been unable or
unwilling to obtain these types of partnership recognition. We are
interested in learning about how youth and young adults have been
impacted by marriage equality and marriage inequality, as well as
their general opinions on this topic.

If interested, please contact Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D., Professor of
Psychology at Clark University agoldberg@clarku.edu, or 508-793-7289.
Participants will complete confidential telephone
interviews (approximately 30 minutes to one hour) with Dr. Goldberg or
a trained graduate resident.