This LVW, we’ve partnered with LGBT Foundation to find out more about your rainbow families
WORDS BY SARAH
Happy Lesbian Visibility Week 2025. This year our theme is all about family. We’ve partnered up with LGBT Foundation, a UK-based national charity that focuses on LGBTQIA health and well-being, to hear what family means to you.
This is what family looks like to Sarah.
What does family mean to you?
Family for me is a mix of biological and chosen loved ones – feeling like my partner and I sharing a life together (with our cat), child-free by choice, is still full of family, meaning, purpose and connection.
Tell us about a typical day in your family life.
Family to me doesn’t need to involve children – it’s about the consciously slow start to the day, sipping coffee and cuddling with our cat. Throughout the day, I’ll message or call family and friends, arranging our next catch-ups.
How have things changed for LGBTQIA+ families over your lifetime?
The biggest changes have been same-sex marriage and the repeal of Section 28 and the increase in LGBTQIA representation in pop culture. Watching Sex Education recently and seeing the “mainstreaming” of gender and sexuality queering was like a breath of fresh air. Change is happening. Change has happened already.
What are your hopes for the future for LGBTQIA+ families?
I hope to see families of all shapes and sizes, small and big, with or without children, monogamous or poly, gender fluid or binary, biological or chosen recognised as family. I’d like to see broader diversity of family set-ups and not just cis het storylines featuring in pop culture.
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