Tag Archive for: lgbtq rights

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…

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…

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…

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…

Queer Family Planning: A Introductory Guide
If you’re a queer person, LGBTQ family planning may seem like a monumental feat. It already takes more energy to navigate everyday life when you come up against challenges that have to do with your identity. Because of the bigotry that’s…

How Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Impacts Their Financial Plan
Marriage for same-sex couples has recently come into the media spotlight after Justices Thomas and Alito attacked the 2015 landmark decision to legalize it—a reminder to all of us that this important freedom is still on shaky ground. But even…

Why I Decided to Work with an LGBTQ Specialty
Fifty years ago this month, we will celebrate the seminal event that brought the LGBT rights movement to the forefront: the Stonewall Riots. Even though the LGBT rights movement began decades before the riots, this event catapulted LGBT people…