It Just Flowed
"Big" and "family" are two words that have always gone together for Gabe Tiogangco and Jeff Fox, so adopting two children - not once, but twice - was not that big a deal. Both are from large families ... Read More

From Baby Claim To Baggage Claim
Dan McGougal and Dirk Budd will never forget their 20th anniversary present. Dan had approached Dirk several times about adopting children, but Dirk was always hesitant ... Read More

The Sum Of All Of Us
One wonders how Cynthia Fritts could remain spiritual or still believe in God. This summer, Cynthia's husband Don, the retired captain of the nuclear submarine U.S. Pasadena, died suddenly, leaving her and their son, Will, alone ... Read More

A Promising Future
They gather every week, bonding, sharing, and supporting one another over the simplest of college staples ... coffee. But this is more than just a group of students gossiping or studying for the next exam. The University of Hawaii's ... Read More

Family...Redefined
Wade Bahn remembers texting his life partner Monoiki with a pressing question: What does "drag daughter" mean? A young girl who just transitioned from man to woman had entered Wade's place of work ... Read More

Making History
Justice Steven Levinson had no idea on his first day on Hawaii's Supreme Court in April of 1982 that he was about to change the history of the world. “It’s time for real aloha to be extended to the LGBT community" ... Read More

The Struggle For Equality
On Thanksgiving Day 2009, Valerie Smith and Nathalie Sowers, a couple for three years, traveled from their Honolulu home to marry in Victoria, Canada. Nathalie, a graduate of Maryknoll High School ... Read More

No More Fear
After experiencing bullying, ridicule, and trauma all through grade and high school in the small, nearly all-white town of Ossian, Indiana, Don Bentz knows the importance of family as a bedrock of love and support ... Read More

A Life With Meaning
Kailua's DeDe Young still remembers when her intended husband Benji was told that he should "go back to Hawaii and marry one of your own kind." It was the early 1960s and Dede, born and raised in Georgia, had gone to Tennessee ... Read More

Marriage Is...
Theresa and I have been together for 10 years, together as a couple for seven, married for six. We know what marriage is ... Read More

A Gift From God
After a series of near-misses and misunderstandings, Keola Akana, 54, and Ethan Wong, 35, celebrated their first anniversary as a couple at last year's Light The Night For Equality candlelight vigil ... Read More

Husbands Without Borders
Jon-Paul “J-P” Bingham still remembers what Alan Spector was wearing the night he made him dinner at his apartment in San Francisco. And Alan remembers the amazing dinner J-P made. "We met on the internet" ... Read More

The Struggle For Equality
On Thanksgiving Day 2009, Valerie Smith and Nathalie Sowers, a couple for three years, traveled from their home in Honolulu to marry in Victoria, Canada. Nathalie, a graduate of Maryknoll High School... Read More

Protecting Our Family
Suzanne King, 49, and Tambry Young, 46, a couple for nearly 29 years, embody the struggle that lesbian and gay citizens are engaged in to protect their families. Tambry and Suzanne are both native Hawaiian and have lived in Hawaii ... Read More