Oct 31st, 2007
“More accepted…” but “it’s still there.”
“It” being homophobia mixed in with racism.
San Francisco Chronicle has a good article about diversity within LGBT families, as well as a reminder that even in “accepting” cities and states, these families still face discrimination and prejudice. One family profiled in the article clearly illustrates the impact of inequality:
Jadallah, 43, and Karraa, 45, felt those inequities directly after Jadallah gave birth to their twin boys. At the time, they lived in Santa Barbara, where she was a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara. They petitioned for Karraa to adopt the twins but were rejected by a judge because they were same-sex partners. (Five years later, after the passage of Assembly Bill 25, they succeeded in cross-adopting all three children.) As a result, Karraa couldn’t put the children on her health insurance at work, so Jadallah paid extra to add the boys to her student insurance and sought MediCal for well-baby care. The couple also were turned down for university-owned married student housing, so they paid more to rent an apartment in town.
(Emphasis mine.)
Read the article:
Same-sex couples raising children less likely to be white, wealthy
by Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
More about diversity in LGBT families — and media’s role in “disappearing” images of that true diversity — can be found in my book, Families Like Mine, pp. 26-31.
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