LGBTQ+
Explore fertility and family building options, support, resources, and stories for anyone under the LGBTQ+ rainbow who is trying to grow their family.
LGBTQ+ TTC/Fertility Group
This group is open to anyone under the LGBTQ+ rainbow who are trying to grow their families. It is a partnership between Family Equality, LGBTQ+ Perinatal Wellness Center and AllPaths Family Building. Registration is required via this link.
This group typically meets on alternating Wednesdays.
Polly’s Journey: Someone shouldn’t have to experience tragedy for things to be equal.
Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) and recipient of the 2024 AllPaths Advocacy Award, Polly Crozier shares her own challenging family building story, as well as her advocacy for parentage equality inclusive...
Reproductive Options for Transgender People
Join Dr. Samuel Pang, reproductive endocrinologist at Boston IVF, for an overview of reproductive options for transgender people, from banking of gametes, the impact of hormone therapy on gamete preservation, and more.
Biological Family Building for LGBTQ+ Persons
Join Dr. Mark Leondires, medical director of IllumeFertility and founder of GayParentsToBe for this overview of biological family building options for LGBTQ+ people. This discussion covers clinical options for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people that are...
All About Surrogacy
Join Bruce Hale, an Massachusetts attorney specializing exclusively in assisted procreation, for an introduction to surrogacy drawn from his extensive experience as a legal practitioner and as a parent who has gone through this remarkable process...
Is Your Door Open? Four Million LGBTQ+ Folks are Expanding Their Families and Need Your Support
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 2 By: Jess Venable-Novak, Director of Family Formation at Family Equality Eleven million American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ+). Many of them have expanded...
Mommy Days
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2 By Rachel Vorkink There are so many ways to resolve fertility and family building challenges and we think it is important to have open conversations about all of them. That's why each issue of the RNE Magazine...
Voicing Our Truth
By Kathleen and Melanie “Everything looks good. Your scans all came back clean. You’re young and healthy so I am very optimistic.” Melanie and I started our journey to parenthood in September of 2018. Obviously, our journey included a lot more doctors and...
Crashing Waves
In the mid 1990s, when I burst from the closet at 16 years old, waving my rainbow flag, I began my long journey out as a LGBTQ person. I was, all at once, alive for the first time in my life. I recall the moment when I finally allowed myself this identity. A...
LGBTQ Routes to Parenthood
“So, which of you is the real Mom?” This is the kind of question, amongst many others, that LGBTQ families hear when they are out and about with their children, which thankfully is happening in growing numbers, even though the sensitivity of questions has...
Lesbian and Gay Family Building Using Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
Samuel Pang, MD Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Fertility Specialist Reproductive Science Center of New England Medical Director and Director, Donor Egg Program Historically, lesbians who have not had children through prior heterosexual...
The Fertility Rollercoaster: Bringing Our Dreams to Fruition
By anonymous My partner and I decided we wanted to have a family a long time ago. By the time we made the decision to get started, we had already been together for over ten years. I think after you have been together with someone for at least ten years,...
Do We Deserve Another IVF Attempt?
By Susan Manning Tink, tink, tink... My nail taps the vial of the trigger shot before I inject it into my wife’s abdomen. The bubbles of air atop the medicine seem to mock the bubbles of anxiety in my stomach. Or maybe they’re bubbles of guilt? Of wonder? Of...