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Celebrating Father’s Day in a moms-only family

Kim Bergman - Special to SDGLN
June 13th, 2013

Father’s Day and Christmas may be completely separate holidays – but to my family they’re very similar. While my family may take a Christmas vacation every year, we don’t celebrate Christmas. As Jewish Americans, we’ve had to accommodate the dominant cultures’ calendar – and we make it work.

World’s largest study on gay parents finds the kids are more than all right

Katie McDonough - Salon
June 6th, 2013

According to preliminary findings from the world’s largest study on the issue, the children of gay parents are doing equally well or better than the children of straight parents on a number of key health and well-being indicators. (Not that it’s a competition or anything!)

SDGLN Poll: Readers reveal whether they are gay parents

SDGLN Staff
May 20th, 2013

SAN DIEGO – Three in 10 readers of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News who took our poll say they are gay parents.

Our poll question was: Are you a gay parent?

The results, which are not scientific, reveal that 30% of readers are gay parents and 70% are not.

The new SDGLN Reader Poll question asks readers: What do you think of FilmOut San Diego's billboards promoting the LGBT Film Festival?






Iowa high court rules children born to married lesbian couples have two birth parents

SDGLN Staff
May 3rd, 2013

DES MOINES, Iowa - Tthe Iowa Supreme Court today built upon its ruling in Lambda Legal's landmark case, Varnum v. Brien, which ordered that same-sex couples and their families be treated equally under Iowa law, and ordered the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) to provide an accurate two-parent birth certificate to all children born to lesbian married parents in Iowa.

The Court was unanimous in ordering the State to treat children of lesbian couples as having two parents at birth.

Chely Wright: Pregnant with twins | VIDEO

Megan Townsend - Entertainment Media Fellow, GLAAD
January 24th, 2013

Out country singer Chely Wright announced that she is pregnant with identical twins on this week’s Gwissues with Howard Bragman. Wright and her wife Lauren Blitzer-Wright said, “We feel like God blessed us with twins. We feel our entire relationship has been blessed. We feel lucky and ready to take on the challenges.”

Elton John, David Furnish are parents for second time

SDGLN Staff
January 16th, 2013

LOS ANGELES – Elton John and David Furnish are daddies again.

The power couple said via the pop superstar’s website that their son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born on Friday, Jan. 11, in Los Angeles.
The baby weighed 8 pounds and 4 ounces, and was given birth by a surrogate mother.

John, 65, and Furnish, 50, are the parents of 2-year-old Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, also born in California via a surrogate mother.

France’s first baby of 2013 born to lesbian couple

Joe Morgan - Gay Star News
January 3rd, 2013

A woman in a lesbian relationship has given birth to the first baby of the year in France.

The baby boy, named Sacha, was born on the morning of New Year’s Day between midnight and a minute past midnight at the Moulins Hospital Centre.

His birth mother Maude has been in a PACS civil union with her partner Delphine since 2010, according to France TV.

Sacha, measuring 48.5 cm long and weighing 2.92 kilograms, was conceived through artificial insemination.

Ryan Murphy tweets photo of his baby boy

SDGLN Staff
January 2nd, 2013

LOS ANGELES – Proud papa Ryan Murphy on New Year’s Day tweeted the first public photograph of his infant son Logan Phineas Miller Murphy, who was born on Christmas Eve.

“Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes. Logan is one week old and doing great. Happy new year!” Murphy tweeted.

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Ryan Murphy-David Miller welcome baby on Christmas Eve

SDGLN Staff
December 27th, 2012

The creator of NBC’s hit sitcom “The New Normal,” about a gay couple who are planning to become parents, and his husband became first-time daddies on Christmas Eve.

Ryan Murphy and hubby David Miller emailed friends and family that their son, Logan Phineas Miller Murphy, was born at 9:47 am on Dec. 24 and weighed 6.6 pounds and was 21 inches long at birth.

The fictional couple on “The New Normal” are still waiting for their baby to arrive.

Study: No difference in development of foster kids adopted by gay or straight parents

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
October 23rd, 2012

High-risk children adopted from foster care by gay parents fare equally in their cognitive and emotional development as those adopted by heterosexual parents, according to a new UCLA study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

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