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Sam and Todd were asked to perform at a benefit honoring Wanda Sykes. Here you find behind the scenes footage from rehearsal and performance of the Eric Clapton song "Change The World". Hosted by the Family Equality Council who fight for civil rights of gay families. The Council present the Leffew Family their Equality Circle Award. You can get to know them on their own YouTube channel at: http://youtube.com/depfox

Text from their blog and web site at http://gay-family-values.com

"We are: Jay, Bryan, Daniel, and Selena, known on youtube as the Depfox family. When Prop 8 was approved in California on November 4'th, 2008, we were a private family living in Northern California. Like many other gay families, we were angered and saddened by its passage but, had nowhere to go to express that anger or to talk with others who understood what it means to have your rights stripped away in such a manner. We did a search for "gay families" on the internet and found nothing reflecting what our lives really looked like.

Thus we put our first video onto Youtube. Just a simple video of our family sitting around the dinner table talking to Youtube listeners about Prop 8. That video did better than we could have ever expected and we saw a need to show people what a gay family really looked like. We wanted to put a face on the fight for marriage equality and to break some stereotypes about GLBT families.

The purpose of this sight is to support the GLBT community in a variety of ways: First, to continue to show the world what a gay family looks like in a raw and unvarnished way. This has always been the aim of all our Youtube videos. This site will serve as an archive and alterative source to view those videos. We also wish to provide news on the fight for marriage equality from all over the nation.

Secondly, we wish To show young GLBT people that they too can have the lives they want but have been told they cannot have. We have recieved countless Emails from young GLBT people stating that they didn't believe that they would ever be able to meet someone fall in love, and have a family. Our answer to everyone who feels this way is,..."Yes you can!" We are glad that our videos provide hope and show that building a family is possible. Jay and I felt the same way as many of you did When we first came out, but we did it and so can you. We have been asked often "how we adopted" and in this site we hope to give the GLBT community, resources and support to begin their own family building journey."

-- The Leffew Family


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About The Family Equality Council ...

In 1979 a group of gay fathers got together and formed the group that would eventually become Family Equality Council. Knowing that there were other gay dads out there somewhere, they were committed to finding one another and forming a network of support.

Originally called the Gay Fathers Coalition, in 1986 this fathers group expanded to include lesbian moms, prompting a name change to the Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International (GLPCI), a volunteer grassroots chapter-based organization whose primary purpose was to connect with and support local gay and lesbian parenting groups, while advancing the cause of the lesbian and gay parenting community.

Children of LGBTQ parents have unique needs and learn, grow and find support with one another. In 1990, a group of youth convened and initiated a new program of GLPCI, called Just For Us. By the mid 1990s that group had established a steering committee and separate program status, and shortly thereafter the group changed its name to Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE). In 1999, the GLPCI Board of Directors endorsed the wishes of COLAGE to become an independent organization, operating under its own tax-exempt status. COLAGE became an independent organization on January 1, 1999.

In 1998, recognizing our growing movement and the need to lead by being inclusive examples, GLPCI changed its name to the Family Pride Coalition in order to include bisexual and transgender parents. In 2007, in order to better capture the full breadth and scope of our work and our collective vision of a world that treats all loving families equally, we thought it was important to change our name to Family Equality Council. Our new name and expanded vision reinforce our commitment to working across communities and issues and to joining forces with other progressive advocacy groups to create meaningful change for all loving families.

For more information and to support The Family Equality Council, please visit:
http://familyequality.org


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