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How Being LGBTQ+ Shapes Your Finances

Even with recent societal and legal changes that have granted more protections, LGBTQ+ people still face many unique financial (and non-financial) challenges. It’s a major reason why the team at Thinking Big is particularly passionate about…
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Generational Differences in the LGBTQ Community and their Impact on Finances

When it comes to finances, our relationship with money is shaped immensely by our upbringings and cultural backgrounds, including our particular generation. For LGBTQ people, historical events like the Stonewall Uprising and the AIDS crisis…
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Let’s Have a Baby! Fertility Treatments for LGTBQ Family Planning

For the last installment of our Let’s Have a Baby series, we’ll be talking about Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Assisted Reproductive Technology as we know it was first successful in 1978, when Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert…
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Let’s Have a Baby! Adoption for LGBTQ Family Planning

In our next installment of “Let’s Have a Baby” we’re going to look at adoption for LGBTQ family planning. Adoption can be the go-to choice for many LGBTQ families. Some parents-to-be have been adopted themselves and know the deep and…
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Let’s Have a Baby! Surrogacy for LGBTQ Family Planning

My son was born by a gestational surrogate. The process was a whirlwind for my husband and me. We had to think about things like how would we find an egg donor? How much would this cost in total? Would our attempts fail? Or would this take years…