What’s a “queerspawn?” My first experience at Creating Change

In honor of a Founder and Revolutionary

Hope (Berry) Manley July 22, 1969- June 21, 2018

My Queerspawn Documentary… 18 Years Later

In the summer of 2000, a longtime dream of mine came true when my documentary, Our House: a very real documentary about kids with gay & lesbian parents, premiered on national public television. I was thirty years old then, the adult daughter of a lesbian…

Coming Out as Genderqueer with Lesbian Moms

On the day of my birth, I was given the name Jenny Isabel. I don’t know what my…

My Queerspawn Story

My father and mother divorced when I was still in diapers and my brother was just a toddler. My mother went back to college and there…

A Queer Cultural Display

Multicultural day filled the gym of our elementary school with colorful flags and knick-knacks from more than a dozen different cultures. As I walked my students through the displays, I couldn’t help but quietly reflect on my own culture. What would I put in a display representing my…

COLAGE Changed My Life

Someone on the KidSafe Blog asked this question to adult COLAGErs: Hi, I was wondering what it is like to be an adult…

The Rainbow Letters

Dear COLAGErs,

The Rainbow Letters started as a way to hear the stories of people like us who have lesbian…