Starting Queer Families Town Hall

It was great meeting everyone at the Starting Queen Families Town Hall last night! The event was put on by the Yale LGBT Affinity Group and the Yale Fertility Center. It was chock full of medical and legal advice about starting a family through surrogacy and third party donation. Many thanks to LaShawn Bushay for inviting the GFP to speak.

There will hopefully be another Town Hall about queer families in six months, so if you weren’t able to attend this time, we would encourage you to look out for the next one!

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Pride New Haven a great success!

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Erin Burke and Amelia Scancilio at Pride New Haven, September 20.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Pride New Haven Block Party on Saturday and stopped by our booth! It was great meeting so many members of the New Haven LGBTQ community and spreading the word about the Gay Fathers Project.

photo 5The Project even got a shout-out in the New Haven Register, which you can read here. If you stopped by our booth and would like to participate, please feel free to email us at erin.e.burke@yale.edu.

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Erin addressing the crowd with emcee Piper Daily.

A special thanks to Amelia Sancilio and Tom Coben for their help setting up and to Elaine Guevara, Louise Guard, Liz Genne-Bacon and John Kelleher for breaking down.

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Gay Fathers Project volunteers and supporters.

Pride was a great event and we are already looking forward to next year!

The Gay Fathers Project will be at New Haven Pride!

New Haven Pride

The Gay Fathers Project is excited to be participating in Pride New Haven!  Look for our table at the Crown Street Block Party on Saturday, September 20th from 4 PM to 10 PM!  Crown Street will be closed to traffic from Church to Orange for our Pride New Haven celebration.

The Block Party will feature drag shows on an outdoor stage, vendors, local food trucks and games including twister and the famous Dunk-A-Queen booth. Stop by and say hello and sign up to participate in the Project!

Yale Club of San Francisco Talk August 24, 6:30 PM PST

Erin Burke will be presenting the 2014 Yale Club of San Francisco Summer Graduate Fellowship Talk entitled “What about gay fathers? Hormones and fatherhood in male same-sex couples.”

The talk will be held August 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM at PaperG (530 Bush St., Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94108, map). 

This event is open to the public, but seating at PaperG is limited so please register here to attend. 

Family Week attendees, stop by to participate!

The Gay Fathers Project is in the For ‘n’ Aft room of the Provincetown Inn today and tomorrow from 10am to 4pm. Stop on by to hear more about the Project or to participate!

If you can’t make those times, feel free to contact us (erin.e.burke@yale.edu) and we can arrange an alternative time.

Family Week starts tomorrow!

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The Gay Fathers Project is packing up and traveling to Provincetown, MA tomorrow for Family Week! Look for us at the Community Partners Exhibition during registration on Saturday and Sunday and at the “For ‘n’ Aft” room in the Provincetown Inn on Monday and Tuesday.

Family Week is run by the Family Equality Council and is a week full of activities and programs for LGBTQ parents, children, families, and friends! We can’t wait to meet everyone and hope to see you all there!

One month until Family Week!

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Only one month left until Family Week in Provincetown, MA! Family Week is run by the Family Equality Council and is a week full of activities and programs for LGBTQ parents, children, families, and friends! This year, Family Week will be held Saturday, July 26 to Friday, August 1.

The Gay Fathers Project will be participating in the festivities and looking for interested participants. Look for us at the Community Partners Exhibition during registration on Saturday and Sunday and at the “For ‘n’ Aft” room in the Provincetown Inn on Monday and Tuesday.

 

Looking for meeting space in Boston

The Project will be in Boston this weekend, and we are looking for a space to meet participants on Saturday, 4/5. If you know of a free meeting space in downtown Boston, please contact us at erin.e.burke@yale.edu.

We will also be meeting participants at Connexion Church (an LGBTQ friendly church) on Sunday from 12-4. Connexion is located at 149 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02145. Hope to see you there!