Tomorrow is the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. This year, the global theme for this important day is family. Family is vital for all of us, it is what we care about first and foremost.

Ideally, our family accepts and supports us, nurtures us with life skills, and helps us seize social and economic opportunities. Whether we are straight or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex (LGBTI), we depend on our families’ love and support. Unfortunately, for LGBTI people, their family is too often a source of hostility or

violence, of pressure to conform to patriarchal norms, or of flat-out exclusion from family resources.

In some societies, LGBTI individuals who start their own families receive legal and societal protection. In many countries, however, laws and stigma constrain the terms by which LGBTI people have children, adopt, and live together. — blog.wb.org/blogs