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LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

Pull up a chair and check out some of these great recent stories about LGBTQ families, including ones on donor kin, becoming a parent at an older age, and sharing household responsibilities!

Nuclear Family. Photo Credit: Limor Inbar. Courtesy HBO

HBO’s “Nuclear Family”: A Landmark Lesbian Parentage Case and a Daughter’s Search for Understanding

It is many a queer parent’s nightmare: your child’s sperm donor sues for paternity. When it happened to Robin Young and Sandy Russo in 1991, it precipitated a landmark four-year court battle that indelibly marked 9-year-old Ry Russo-Young and her 11-year-old sister Cade. Yet Ry, now an award-winning filmmaker, had never really been able to process her feelings about what happened. Her attempt to do so, and to understand the other side of the story, led her to create Nuclear Family, a three-part documentary that premieres this Sunday on HBO.

Photo credit: Peter Salanki; adapted under a CC BY 2.0 license

Bi the Numbers: How Many Bisexual Parents Are There?

It’s Bisexual Awareness Week, which seems like a good time to remember that there are millions of bisexual parents—and that no matter who they are parenting with, they are part of our community of LGBTQ parents!

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Aetna Admits It Wrongly Denied Fertility Coverage to Queer Mom

After a lawsuit by a queer mom, insurance giant Aetna has said it improperly denied her fertility coverage and will review similar cases. Whether this means a larger change towards equal treatment of LGBTQ people under their policies remains an open question.

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How You Can Help Fight the Texas Abortion Law — and Why It’s a Queer Issue

The Texas abortion ban that was just upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court is a hugely frightening development for anyone who can get pregnant and for anyone who cares about reproductive rights, including not only abortion access but also assisted reproduction. That’s enough to make it a queer issue—but it has even more possible ramifications for other civil and human rights issues, including LGBTQ rights.

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More New Picture Books on Gender Identity and Expression

Coming out this week and next are two picture books featuring transgender girls (one told from her sibling’s perspective), one about a kid whose mom is a transgender man, and one about a boy who wants to dance ballet!

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What the Buttigiegs’ Parenthood Means for All of Us

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten have become parents. This puts them among the highest-visibility LGBTQ parents in the country, and that visibility has the potential to help further the acceptance of LGBTQ parents as a whole. They cannot, however, do this alone.

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Basketball Babies

Some of the most exciting recent LGBTQ parenting news is that not one but two queer couples in women’s pro basketball are expanding their families! Watch a short film about one couple’s experience and see photos here.

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