OK – Episode 3 – Être parent

Lutter, bâtir, exister : récits LGBTQ+ (2025)
Published on June 5, 2025

LGBTQ+ families are increasingly visible… but are they fully understood and accepted?

Dans un quotidien parfois traversé de stéréotypes et d’injustices, this episode passes the microphone to LGBTQ+ parents. They tell us about what it means for them to raise children in a society that was designed with different models in mind. (Modifier la composition <Balado Lutter bâtir exister> exister dans le menu Gestion des compositions)

With the LGBT+ Family Coalition

Épisode 3 — Être parent

The SAVIE-LGBTQ podcast – a project of the Chaire de recherche sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres

From 2016 to 2023, the SAVIE-LGBTQ study examined LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in key areas for their flourishing (personal, professional, economic, etc). Thousands of LGBTQ+ people living in Quebec shared their stories, concerns and hopes.

Lutter, bâtir, exister : récits LGBTQ+ brings these testimonies to life. Each episode explores a theme of daily life — finding a place to live, starting a family, working, getting older — through the voices of LGBTQ+ folks and their relatives, as well as scholars and professionals.

This podcast is an opportunity to hear these stories from within : unique trajectories, real obstacles, but also strategies for resistance, solidarity and joy. This is an invitation to listen in a different way. To understand. And maybe, to change.

Learn more
About the podcast on the SAVIE-LGBTQ website (French only)
SAVIE-LGBTQ Project
Chaire de recherche DSPG (French only)
Quebec LGBT+ Family Coalition

  • Isabel Côté

    Professor in the department of social work at Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Emma Bouffard

    Doctoral student in psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Marie-Christine Williams-Plouffe

    Coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties

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