All major research studies, including a 2001 meta-analysis of two decades of studies on the topic, show that the sexual orientation of a parent is irrelevant to the development of a child’s mental health and social development and to the quality of a parent-child relationship.
When lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors need to turn to others for housing assistance, they often face three challenges: lack of family help, a shortage of welcoming housing and fear of discrimination and harassment.
What can we as gay- and lesbian-headed families do to protect the rights we have labored so hard to acquire from eroding away during the next four years, knowing full well that the majority of people in our country’s primary lawmaking and governing bodies are at the best of times disdainfully tolerant of us, and at the worst of times morally affronted by our very existence?