Black Lives Matter’s Influence on an LGBTQ+ Activist Group Dedicated to LGBTQ+ Families (2018-2024)

Bibliographic Data

ID21798430
AuthorsÉglantine Zatout (corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume1
Publication date2026-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransatlantica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/16jv5
OpenAlexW7167816115
LanguageEN
References cited7

Following George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, several companies and non-profit organizations started to acknowledge Black Lives Matter as a movement and to confront racial inequality from within. This article explores the way one LGBTQ+ organization dedicated to families, Family Equality, implemented changes. It started by hiring more diversely, which impacted their rhetoric in particular on the topic of adoption. Before 2020, it focused on the injustice of denying competent applicants because of their sexual orientation without taking other characteristics into account. After 2020, it did not hesitate to denounce institutional racism within the child welfare system. This rhetorical shift influenced its relationship with other groups. It started collaborating with groups outside the LGBTQ+ umbrella such as those fighting for the civil rights of racial minorities and even partaking in events outside the LGBTQ+ community

Civil rights · Injustice · Racism · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sexual orientation · Welfare · Child Welfare and Adoption · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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