January 5, 2012 – By Arthur Leonard – Gay City News Facing legal questions for which no New Jersey precedent yet existed, Superior Court Judge Francis B. Schultz, on December 13, awarded the father of twin girls conceived through gestational surrogacy sole custody of the two five-year-olds. That ruling came despite the court having earlier ruled that the surrogacy contract signed ahead of their birth was void as a matter of state law....

By Deborah Skolnik, Parenting.com updated 12:10 PM EST, Wed November 30, 2011 CNN.com — There was a time when gay parents and single adoptive mothers were unheard of, but the new norm is that almost anything works well as long as there’s a dedicated adult and plenty of love Christopher Fraley, 42, and Victor Self, 41, Parents of 20-month-old Coco Christopher Fraley and Victor Self have been married three times — to each other. They...

by Arthur Leonard – November 1, 2011 South African Court Approves Surrogacy Contract for Gay Male Couple The North Gauteng High Court in Pretora, Republic of South Africa, issued a judgment on September 27, 2011, approved a surrogacy contract involving a male same-sex couple and a woman who agreed to be their gestational surrogate. In the Ex Parte Matter Between WH, UVS, LG, BJS. The case provided an opportunity to apply the terms of Section...

  9.28.2011 – PRWEB.com American experts, a surrogate mother, French parents and academics weighed in on a topic that divides France, where surrogacy is still illegal. Instead of pros or cons, they concentrated on providing guidelines on how surrogacy can be carried out ethically. The ethical principles Dr. Doyle outlined include fully informing and protecting surrogates and donors from medical and psychological risks, treating them with dignity...

By SABRINA TAVERNISE – New York Times – August 25, 2011 REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — So much for San Francisco. The list of top cities for same-sex couples as a portion of the population does not include that traditional gay mecca, according to new census data. In fact, the city, which ranked third in 1990 and 11th in 2000, plummeted to No. 28 in 2010. And West Hollywood, once No. 1, has dropped out of the top five. The Census Bureau data,...

May 20, 2011 New York Times By JOSHUA GAMSON We came to Bowling Green, Ky., home of our good-humored surrogate, Gail, with a court order from California designating me and Richard — my husband in some states, though not in Kentucky — as the future baby’s legal parents. I’d been hoping to avoid Kentucky. Its laws make it seem unwelcoming to gay people and ambivalent about surrogacy. I figured that culturally it would be red-statey too,...

May 16, 2011 –  PrideAngelAdmin Amanda Broomhall, 39, from Penhill, has two children of her own, but since 1997 has helped couples from all over the UK have babies. Surrogacy UK has recently recorded a surge of interest following high-profile surrogacy stories concerning Elton John and Nicole Kidman. Miss Broomhall said that surrogacy was something she “fell into”.She said: “I can, so I thought why not if it helps somebody...

April 7, 2011 – New York Times By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A French family detained in Ukraine for trying to smuggle out twins born to a surrogate mother is asking any sympathetic country to grant the children citizenship. The family was detained last month while trying to take the 2-month-old girls into Hungary. France does not recognize the citizenship of children born to surrogate mothers and is refusing to issue passports...

Huffington Post – Frederick Hertz – March 8, 2011 A recent decision by the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston illustrates the complexity — and the nastiness — of one particularly ugly gay divorce. The partners lived in Houston but they traveled to Canada in 2003 to get married and then they registered as domestic partners in California in 2005. Because of the restrictions on gay partnerships and parentage in Texas, they arranged...