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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

308 - Diana Adams (Lawyer/LGBTQ Rights Activist)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Diana is the founder of a boutique LGBTQ family law and mediation firm based in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany, serving primarily same-sex couples and non-nuclear families. Diana is about supporting healthy, stable families, whether between same-sex couples, platonic co-parents, polyamorous families, or different-sex couples, by facilitating conversations that support the creation of clear personal agreements, as well as solid legal agreements to protect their families.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.

0:02.7

Agency

0:11.7

Yeah, everybody.

0:31.6

Coming to you from the van, we're down near Big Van National Park in southern Texas

0:39.1

as I record this.

0:40.8

Don't know where or when I uploaded some Starbucks along the way, hopefully.

0:46.3

But this episode is with a woman I've known for years now, four or five years Diana Adams.

0:53.1

She's a really whipsmart lawyer and a wonderful person.

0:57.8

She has dedicated her career to helping people with unconventional family structures.

1:06.1

So the lesbian couples who want to adopt children, people who have relationships involving

1:12.8

three people and property and all this kind of all the legal things that can come up when

1:18.4

the world is set up for a certain kind of relationship and you are find yourself in

1:23.5

a different kind of relationship.

1:25.7

She could be making a lot more money supporting the status quo, but instead she is what I would

1:32.8

call her.

1:33.8

I think she would agree a legal activist who is using her expertise and her substantial

1:40.1

education and very impressive intelligence to make the world a better, more compassionate

1:46.1

and more accepting place.

1:48.6

I'm really proud to call her a friend and after you listen to this, I think you'll see

1:54.8

why.

1:56.5

This is another commercial free podcast coming at you.

2:00.3

If you want to support it, you know how to do it.

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