E181: Erik Alexander - Love is Love
Erik Alexander, aka NOLA Papa is a parenting blogger, author, and podcaster, on a mission of raising awareness of the many challenges that LGBTQ+ families face and hopes to destigmatize labels and help create a world where we can all happily coexist. This is an amazing episode where many delicate subjects are talked about with openness, acceptance, and most importantly love, because at the end the day, love is love.
Learn more about NOLA Papa and by "The Secret Mermaid Revue" at : https://nolapapa.com/
In Eriks Own Words:
My name is Erik Alexander and my husband and I are from New Orleans, Louisiana. We have two independently assertive daughters and an eager baby boy trying to keep up with his sisters.
We strongly feel that as an LGBTQ family, especially in the south, it's important for us and others like us to help light the way for the ones that need hope. We live in an incredibly divisive time and right now visibility is critical to help destigmatize and normalize same-sex families.
We love our children just as any other straight family does, if not more than some.
Just like them, we would do anything on Earth for our babies. We do that every single day, regardless if we are two dads.
It is my mission to broaden the one-sided view of the stereotypical American family. We too are living the American dream. We are the new normal, a loving family that teaches our children acceptance of all walks of life and the importance of being kind to one another.
Our place in this world is earned, not owed.
My hope is that through my blog, Nolapapa.com, I am able to bury my insecurities, my fears, and my failures- for all to read, in hopes to see my weaknesses sprout and transform into self-improvement, and resilience, and embrace an unapologetic renewal. My past helped make me who I am today- but who I am tomorrow depends on how I choose to get there, today.
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