There is no roadmap for LGBTQ+ people starting a family, which is both exhilarating and terrifying. For Modern Queer Family we're exploring all the ways we form our families, looking at the support we're still denied, and celebrating those changing the narrative.

Living

Gen Z Are Officially Less Straight Than Any Other Age Group

Nick Levine

9 Oct 2022

Modern Queer Family

The Radiant Beauty Of Queer Parenthood – In Pictures

Joanna Cresswell

21 Jan 2022

Parenthood

“Are You Called Mummy Or Daddy?” – My Life As The Non-Bio Mother

Sadhbh O'Sullivan

24 Dec 2021

Modern Queer Family

50k For A Family: The Cost Of Having Kids When You’re LGBTQ+

Updated 8th November, 2021: On 7th November, Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans announced they are launching discrimination action against the NHS, specifically

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

Global News

How The NHS Is Contributing To Fertility Treatment Inequality

For Modern Queer Family, Refinery29 reported on how LGBTQ+ people spend astronomical amounts of money to start a family as they are left with no choice but

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

All The Single Mothers

My Life As A Single, Lesbian Mum

One in four children now grow up in lone parent homes but despite being more common than ever, there is no one path to single parenthood. For some, single

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

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Living

How Coming Out As Queer Changed My Relationship With My Kids

Homosexuality was finally decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967. A landmark step towards equality. This was followed with the long-overdue introducti

by Almaz Ohene

Modern Queer Family

Adoption Was Our First Choice, And The Best Choice

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Akutu-Carter’s | LGBT Family🇬🇧 (@that_a.c_life) Adoption is just one of the many routes that prospecti

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

Modern Queer Family

How To Raise A Boy In A Patriarchal World – According To Queer Pa...

Raising children is a monumental challenge. Raising them to be the kind of people you want to meet in the world, even more so. In the patriarchal system th

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

Modern Queer Family

My Life Raising A Queer Family In The Lesbian Capital Of The UK

To fresh eyes, Hebden Bridge might seem like any other well-preserved former mill town in rural Yorkshire. Factories-turned-flats are scattered throughout

by Marie Southard Os...

Modern Queer Family

Why Haven’t I Seen A Queer Family I Identify With On Screen...

Ever since I surreptitiously watched noughties Scottish drama Lip Service as a kid and realised lesbians exist, finding onscreen representation of myself h

by Elete Nelson-Fearon

Modern Queer Family

In A Transphobic World, Your Chosen Family Means Everything

Every December, my chosen family and I hold ‘Queer Family Christmas’ a week before the 25th. It is a way for us to celebrate our chosen family

by Robin Craig

Modern Queer Family

If You’re Queer, Starting A Family Is Exhausting, Terrifyin...

For a large part of my life I’ve thought about having kids the same way I thought about getting married: I understood it as something that people do but

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

Sex

14 People On Growing Up With Queer Parents

by Vanessa Golembewski

100% That Butch

Photos Of A Butch Woman That Challenge What Pregnancy ‘Shou...

At some point, Ari Fitz kind of forgot that she even has a womb. The YouTuber is a masculine, black, queer woman — and in embracing her masculinity and w

by Kasandra Brabaw

Coronavirus

What The Pandemic Has Meant For Queer Women Who Want Kids

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

LGBTQ+

Honest Conversations With Trans Kids

For all they are talked about in the media, it is rare that we hear from young trans and non-binary people themselves. The lives and feelings of these kids

by Juno Roche

Queer Voices

12 Kids Of LGBT Parents Share Their Experiences

by Amelia Abraham

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