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What Mother's Day Means To Our Family

Lillian Rivera | Posted 05.13.2012

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On this Mother's Day we will honor our little family of three. We will celebrate our love, our commitment, and our journey as parents of an amazing child who inspires us to laugh, love, and enjoy and accept life's lessons.

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My Bi-Sexual Family, And The President

Corbyn Hightower | Posted 05.10.2012

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My oldest child is the product of a gay relationship. Yesterday, with one simple sentence, the President of the United States and the most influential leader in the world uttered the words that legitimized the family of my firstborn.

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The Birds And The Bees, With A Twist

Cheryl Dumesnil | Posted 05.09.2012

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Recently my wife and I realized that while our older son could recite the egg/sperm/donor story at age 2, we're not sure what our younger son knows about his beginnings. We decided to wait for a teachable moment to arrive, which happened one morning last week.

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A Giant Leap For Lesbians

Lori Sokol | Posted 05.01.2012

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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.

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Virginia Lawmakers Should Do What's Best For Kids

Gary J. Gates | Posted 04.09.2012

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Virginia's proposed law goes well beyond protection of religious freedom by affirming the right to discriminate in adoption and foster placement by any agency (religiously based or otherwise) based on any moral objection to certain types of parents.

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Another Victory for Gay Parents and Their Children

Nadine Smith | Posted 03.10.2012

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On Dec. 23, 2011, Florida's 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that the state of Florida must recognize the parental rights of two lesbian moms, one the biological mother who contributed the egg and the other who was the birth mother.

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Iowa Lesbian Parents Win Groundbreaking Birth Certificate Case

Des Moines Register | Posted 03.06.2012

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The Iowa Department of Public Health has been ordered to issue a new birth certificate listing both members of a same-sex marriage as the legal parent...

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Zach Wahls: Love Makes a Family

Jennifer Chrisler | Posted 02.14.2012

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It's obvious that Zach Wahls is a loved kid. You can instantly tell by the way he talks about his family. The wild popularity of Zach's testimony is so important because not everyone has had the opportunity to get to know families like his.

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Open Letter to My Unborn Daughter (or Son)

Staceyann Chin | Posted 10.24.2011

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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.

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Hostile North Carolina Court Decision Jeopardizes Lesbian Parentage

Frederick Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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A recent decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court appears to have invalidated potentially thousands of second-parent adoptions by same-sex couples in that state.

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The Kids Are All Right? No Way!

Joan Garry | Posted 05.25.2011

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You're wondering how a lesbian mom and gay rights activist can possibly have any issues with the first mainstream feature film with box office stars as lesbians who raise a family together. Do I have to be so damned picky? Yes, I do.

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Children Of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011

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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 ...

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Pillar of Truth

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this month, a Boulder Catholic school created a stir when it expelled a student whose parents are lesbians. The Catholic hierarchy should be quicker to kick out wayward priests rather than children.

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Lesbian Parents Of Child Barred From Colorado Catholic School Speak Out

9News | Dan Boniface and Jamie Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOULDER - For the first time, the lesbian couple at the center of a Catholic school controversy is speaking out. The couple's two children are not be...

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