June is Pride Month, a special 30 days marked to celebrate and support the LGBTQ community. City Mom Collective’s Sister Sites provide a wealth of resources for anyone wanting to learn more about this community, support their LGBTQ friends and family members, and celebrate this month with their own kids.
LGBTQ Pride Month
Learn the history of Pride Month, as well as ways to celebrate the LGBTQ community.
What Pride Taught Me: How to Discuss and Celebrate as a Family
Motherhood and the LGBTQ Experience
Being an LGBTQ parent and/or parenting LGBTQ child is unique experience in motherhood.
Coming Out as LGBTQ {Realizing Your “Perfect Life” Isn’t Perfect}
Family Building
Same sex couples face unique challenges when building their families.
Gender
Gender is a much talked about topic right now, and it’s important to hear from women directly affected by this issue.
What I Learned about Motherhood from the Mother of a Trans Child
LGBTQ Allyship
Even if we are not LGBTQ mothers ourselves or raising LGBTQ kids, we can be allies to this community and raise our children to be loving and accepting of all.
Books
Reading books is one of the best ways to learn about a community and build empathy.
A Bookshelf Full of Pride: 12 LGBTQ+ Children’s Lit Recommendations
10 LGBTQ-Positive Books to Show Kids How Beautifully Diverse The World Is
Additional Resources
The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.
PFLAG is a network of hundreds of chapters and more than 250,000 members and supporters works to create a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.
GLAAD has been at the forefront of cultural change, accelerating acceptance for the LGBTQ community.
Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families.
Rainbow Families supports, educates and connects lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) families, parents and prospective parents by offering a wide variety of education programs, support groups, opportunities to connect.
Happy LGBTQ Pride Month mamas!
