Salon.com, by Heather A. O’Neal – March 24, 2012 Tommy has two moms and one gay biological dad. But at the age of 4, he had an announcement: He wasn’t like us. A week after my partner, Abbie, and I were married at Brooklyn’s City Hall, our 4-year-old son Tommy came out to me. Tommy had been excited about our wedding. He’d picked out his own tie and asked me to wear my hair like Princess Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.” But...

March 22, 2012 – GayFamilySupport.com I am a wife and mother, together with my husband we are parents of gay children. We have two sons, one is gay, the other bisexual and this is my story. When I first believed my eldest son may be gay, I felt sick in the stomach literally. I went straight to my husband and told him of my thoughts and why I thought this way. He was a little shocked with my news but as there was no real proof of my theory he...

 Daily News By Matt Borden Thursday, July 28th 2011 You might think it strange that, as a straight man, I shed tears of joy when I learned that same-sex marriage was coming to New York. Even I was taken aback by my own reaction, because for me and my wife, life won’t be much different. However, as one of the millions of people who were raised, or partially raised, by a gay couple, I felt indescribable relief knowing that the stigmatization...

July 20, 2011 – New York Times – By FRANK BRUNI Even in a city as diverse as New York and a neighborhood as progressive as the West Village, a little kid knows that having two dads is different. Eight-year-old Maeve certainly did. She knew, too, that the world didn’t see her family exactly the way it saw others. Her dads, Jonathan Mintz and John Feinblatt, could tell. “She understood that there was something, for lack of a better...

Hello! My name is Mark Milner. I am a single gay male residing in Miami Beach, FL. Most gay men who are approaching thirty and living in South Beach are interested in three things: the nightlife, their suntans and how big their pecs are. Being small framed, standing at 5’6” and appearing young for my age, you might expect nothing less from me…but nothing could be farther from the truth. I am a yoga instructor who lives a very quiet...

We are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Abigail Elizabeth. Born: June 18, 2010 at 5:31am. Weight: 6 pounds, 4 ounces. Height: 19.5 inches long It has been a long anticipated adoption process with challenges, pitfalls and heartbreak, but with enough perseverance , determination and love we can finally start our forever family.  Our journey has not ended, but finally begun and are excited to welcome our new little girl into our...

July 16, 2010 – New York Timesa By JERRY MAHONEY AFTER five loving, fulfilling years with my boyfriend, Drew, I suddenly found myself online, looking to meet a woman. I spent hours poring over profiles, bios and stats, looking at poorly lighted digital pictures and videos of awkward faces uttering tightly rehearsed self-promotional pitches. I narrowed the flash mob of candidates to six. Then I summoned Drew for his approval. Together we...

by  Michael Jensen – AfterElton.com Kevin and Scotty are doing it on Brothers & Sisters while Ricky Martin did it in real life. Now CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien is doing an In America documentary on the phenomenon of gay men having babies via surrogacy. Titled Gary & Tony Have a Baby and airing in June, the two-hour special follows Gary and Tony, two life-long gay activists, on their quest to have a biological child of their...

By GLAD.org 04.19.2010 7:00am EDT Niles and Thiago da Silva met on a Sunday morning in 2002 at the Quincy Center T stop just outside of Boston. They struck up a conversation, had a lot to talk about, and agreed to get coffee together in Boston. Coffee turned into lunch, lunch turned into a hike, a hike turned into more coffee, which turned into dinner. They were engaged six months later and legally married in Massachusetts in 2004. “We knew from...

March 29, 2010 New York Times By JON MOOALLEM The Laysan albatross is a downy seabird with a seven-foot wingspan and a notched, pale yellow beak. Every November, a small colony of albatrosses assembles at a place called Kaena Point, overlooking the Pacific at the foot of a volcanic range, on the northwestern tip of Oahu, Hawaii. Each bird has spent the past six months in solitude, ranging over open water as far north as Alaska, and has come back to...