by Anthony M. Brown, 12/26/09 It was 3:00 in the morning on December 26th in a West Virginia Walmart parking lot when it happened.  For me, disco changed to diapers a long time ago when I became a donor dad to lesbian friends, but the reality of fatherhood was enjoyed from a distance.   Now, with the arrival of Nicholas in September, I am a full-time dad and the fun-gay-New Yorker-activist shops at Walmart.   I am officially no longer a gay man....

December 13, 2009 21st-Century Babies New York Times - By STEPHANIE SAUL Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms. Kehoe and her husband, Scott, the idea seemed like their best hope after years of infertility. Working mostly over the Internet, Ms. Kehoe handpicked the egg donor, a pre-med student at the University of Michigan. From the Web site of California Cryobank, she chose the anonymous...

By The Associated Press 12.10.2009 3:30pm EST (Dublin) The Irish Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a gay man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple should be permitted to see his 3-year-old son regularly – in part because Ireland’s constitution doesn’t recognize the lesbians as a valid family unit. The ruling was a legal first in Ireland, where homosexuality was outlawed until 1993 and gay couples are denied many rights given to married...

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD Published: Thursday, August 6, 2009 5:09 PM CDT - Gay City News Last week, the Senate narrowly defeated a proposed amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, under which people who had licenses to carry concealed weapons issued by their home state would be allowed to carry such weapons everywhere in the US, including those states with stricter licensing criteria or outright bans. The main argument against the amendment was...