Experiences of Students with LGBTQ+ Caregivers and their Families in K-12 Schools - 2023

Oct 15, 2026

A 2023 research report examining how students in K-12 schools experience LGBTQ+ caregivers and how these experiences shape their families. It highlights GLSEN’s mission to ensure LGBTQ+ students, especially those facing multiple marginalizations, can thrive, and describes partner organizations COLAGE and Family Equality supporting LGBTQ+ parents through advocacy, programming, storytelling, and research. The report includes project and research team acknowledgments and institutional details for documentation and citation.

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Research Report

Experiences of Students with LGBTQ+ Caregivers and their Families in K-12 Schools

2023

A Digital Land Acknowledgement

Research Report Experiences of Students with LGBTQ+ Caregivers and their Families in K-12 Schools 2023 [glsen.org/research](glsen.org/research) This report is a collaboration between the following organizations: GLSEN works to ensure that K-12 education is a place where all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) young people—particularly those with multiple marginalizations—can thrive at school. Learn more [at](at www.glsen.org)[ www.glsen.org](at www.glsen.org) COLAGE unites people with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and/ or asexual parent into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower eachother to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities. Learn more [at](at www.colage.org)[ www.colage.org](at www.colage.org) Family Equality is a national nonprofit that works to create a world where everyone can experience the love, safety, and belonging of family. Through policy, programming, storytelling and research, we advocate, support, and provide resources to LGBTQ+ families to ensure they have the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families. This work includes advocacy and programming for students with LGBTQ+ parents and caregivers. Learn more at [https://www.familyequality.org/](https://www.familyequality.org/) GLSEN Research Team Leah M Roberts, MS, PhD Candidate (Researcher, 2023) Shweta Moorthy, PhD, Director of Research and Best Practices, GLSEN (Project lead, 2023) Caitlin Clark, PhD, Leesh Menard, Joseph Kosciw, PhD (Survey design and data collection, 2022) Aaron Ridings, Chief of Staff and Deputy Executive Director for Public Policy and Research, GLSEN Project Team Nikhil Vashee, Rebecca Willman, Shelbi Day (Family Equality) Jordan Budd (COLAGE) Public Policy, GLSEN Communications and Marketing, GLSEN Report Design Carrie Chatterson Studio Photos in the Report Family Equality, COLAGE, Adobe Stock When referencing this document, we recommend the following citation: GLSEN, COLAGE & Family Equality. (2023). Experiences of Students with LGBTQ+ Caregivers and their Families in K-12 Schools. New York: GLSEN. © GLSEN 2023 First published in the United States of America in 2023 By GLSEN Some rights reserved. This report may be copied or redistributed in any format with full attribution to the copyright holder. No alteration may be made to the content of this material. This material may not be used for commercial purposes. All images in this report have been reproduced with the knowledge and prior consent of the artists concerned, and no responsibility is accepted by the producer, publisher or printer for any infringement of copyright, or otherwise, arising from the contents of this publication. Every effort has been made to ensure that credits accurately comply with information supplied. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT1 Especially in the past three years, most of our activities are virtual and digital. We want to take a moment to consider the legacy of colonization embedded within the technology, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. In Turtle Island, much of this infrastructure sits on stolen land acquired under the extractive logic of white settler expansion. We are using equipment and high-speed internet, not available in many Indigenous communities. The technologies we use leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect Indigenous people worldwide. As an organization, we recognize this history and uplift the sovereignty of Indigenous people, data, and territory. We commit, beyond symbolic rhetoric, to dismantling all ongoing settler-colonial practices and their material implications on our digital worlds. [Our website](Our website www.glsen.org)[ www.glsen.org](Our website www.glsen.org) runs on servers located on Turtle Island. To learn whose land you are on visit [h

FAQs

What is the main focus of the 2023 report?

The report focuses on students’ experiences with LGBTQ+ caregivers and how these experiences relate to their families in K-12 schools.

Which organizations collaborated on the report?

GLSEN, COLAGE, and Family Equality collaborated on the report, with GLSEN serving as a key research and mission-driven organization.

How does the report address land acknowledgment and digital infrastructure?

It includes a digital land acknowledgement discussing colonization embedded in technology and the importance of recognizing Indigenous sovereignty, territory, and data.

Oct 15, 2026

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