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Happy Mother's Day! How My 9-Year Old Daughter Is More Butch Than I Am

Tristan Higgins | Posted 05.10.2013 | Gay Voices
Tristan Higgins

On this Mother's day, I thought it appropriate to share a story about me and my daughter. Here goes!

WATCH: Texas Woman Has Jaw Wired Shut After Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Posted 03.01.2013 | Gay Voices

A Texas-based lesbian claims she was beaten unconscious after coming to the defense of bullied child at a playground. WFAA reports that 27-year-ol...

My Two Moms: The Prospect Of Parenting

Robyn Harper | Posted 03.25.2013 | Gay Voices
Robyn Harper

While matters of gender and biology may be relevant to making a child, it is parenting that makes a parent. The ability and the desire to love a child unconditionally has nothing to do with one's gender.

Great News For Lesbian Parents

Posted 11.06.2012 | Gay Voices

Good news for lesbian parents: a new study has revealed that teens living in homes with two mothers are proving to be more successful at school and ge...

An Overdue Apology To Moms, From A Fitness Guru

Lisa Belkin | Posted 07.30.2012 | Parents
Lisa Belkin

More than one new mother will feel vindicated by her admission to People that she hadn't been to the gym for two weeks, and she'd started drinking coffee again after two years of abstaining from caffeine. And that's not all...

'Put Me In, Coach!' A Mom Steps Up As A Little League Volunteer

Veronica Rhodes | Posted 05.01.2012 | Women

“Thumb to thumb!” the old man shouted, holding up his hands in front of his chest. “Thumb to thumb – what does that mean???” His crooked f...

A Giant Leap For Lesbians

Lori Sokol | Posted 05.01.2012 | Gay Voices
Lori Sokol

Little did Queen Margaret of Scotland know in 1288, when she anointed every fourth year as a leap year to encourage women to be more assertive in the dating game, that 2012 would see gay women, more than any other group, successfully upturning long-held female traditions.

Teens Raised By Lesbian Parents Just As Happy As Those Raised By Heterosexual Couples, Study Finds

Posted 01.12.2012 | Gay Voices

A new Dutch study has confirmed what Zach Wahls has been trying to tell us all along: that the quality of life among teens raised by lesbian parents d...

Veronica Rhodes: Coming Out At School

Red Room | Posted 01.23.2012 | Parents
Red Room

My younger daughter started first grade this month and it wasn't pretty. Shrieking, crying, clinging and begging to go home. If that wasn't enough, she outed me to her teacher on day 2.

Open Letter to My Unborn Daughter (or Son)

Staceyann Chin | Posted 10.24.2011 | Black Voices
Staceyann Chin

Every time I see a photo of some pregnant woman, hands resting gently on her swollen middle, get the urge to wrestle her to the ground and demand why she is perpetuating the lie that pregnancy is this stress-free.

Children Of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

The first study to track children of lesbians from birth to adolescence finds that these kids do better than children in straight families on certain ...

Armageddon in California

Sara Whitman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Sara Whitman

I am a suburban lesbian mom. I live in Massachusetts. Last I checked, the end of the world has not occurred. No plagues, no locusts, no hell fire and damnation.

How My Lesbian Boss Makes Me a Better Father

John Koch | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
John Koch

At Prop 8's absolute worst, manufacturing a defined "difference" between straight and gay relationships will manifest itself in a manufactured difference between straight and gay parents.