International Family Equality Day (IFED) is Sunday, May 7, 2017! Family Equality Council, The Seattle Lesbian, Seattle Women’s Pride, and Eastside Total Health invite you to Ma Kai – Marination on Alki to eat, drink, relax, and enjoy your time with your modern families – while meeting some new friends during this sixth annual celebration!

For anyone interested, we will gather during the event to take a large group photo to be displayed via Family Equality Council. Please join us in representing your beautiful families!

This event is free and open to all ages. The lovely folks behind Marination have offered to donate 10% of earnings during IFED to Family Equality Council! Please support this philanthropic business. We’re honored to partner with Marination to help support all of our families via Family Equality Council.

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All over the world, more and more children are growing up in families where one or both of their parents identify as LGBTQ. Yet, each of these “rainbow families” have very different lived equality experiences, often depending not only on what country they live in, but what street they live on. In some countries, our families enjoy equal rights and social recognition, but in far too many others both parents and their children face overt discrimination and have to live under a constant threat of violence.

By celebrating IFED, Family Equality Council and our partners across the globe raise awareness among politicians and the general public about the need for equal treatment and recognition for all families, regardless of the sexual orientation or gender identity of their family’s members.

Read more about International Family Equality Day here: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalFamilyEqualityDay?ref=hl