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Contents:

• GROWG 'TWO-MOM' APPROACH TO MAKG BABI LETS GAY UPL SHARE BLOGIL ROL
• MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY
• MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY
• MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD
• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

GROWG 'TWO-MOM' APPROACH TO MAKG BABI LETS GAY UPL SHARE BLOGIL ROL

S., "there is greater awarens and acceptabily" of same-sex relatnships, and "ls prejudice has allowed them to look at what their optns are" for havg children, he 65 gay women and 275 gay men or gay upl have been treated at his clics the last year, and doctors there report that "there seems to be an crease over the past uple of years, " he the Canadian study, doctors om the CReATe Fertily Center and the Universy of Toronto checked patient rerds for the last 17 years and found that the percentage of women same-sex relatnships g the center's donor sperm rose om 15 percent before gay marriage was legalized 2003 to 20 percent after the change.

MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY

Technologil advanc, together wh chang the law and social attus, mean that more and more gay and lbian upl are fdg a way to have a fay. The gay pri or simply pri mpaign has three ma premis: that people should be proud of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, that sexual diversy is a gift, and that sexual orientatn and genr inty are herent and nnot be tentnally altered.

MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY

Symbols of gay pri clu the Rabow lored flag, Greek lambda symbol, and also the pk and black triangl (You n see the logos on our homepage).

MAKG BABI THE GAY WAY

In the Uned Stat, 1 10 gay men intify themselv as fathers, and acrdg to the 2000 US Cens Report, one five gay male upl have children unr 18 years of age livg their hoeholds.

Some gay men and women had children when they were prev heterosexual relatnships but a growg number of gay upl are now choosg to start a fay together. The growg trend among gay male upl toward planng fai together follows the wake of the so-lled lbian baby boom and at a time when all same-sex upl are creasgly stgglg for equal rights, cludg the right to marry and have children.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

Common ncerns are that children of gay men will be stigmatized, that children of homosexual fathers are more likely to bee homosexual themselv, and that gay mal are likely to be sexual predators who may molt their own children. Although rearch has largely discreded those prejudic, the prenceived notns neverthels rema and may be one reason that some fertily programs appear reluctant to rpond to appeals om gay men to achieve fatherhood through assisted reproductn.

GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

It is notable that a recent survey of ART programs the Uned Stat found that fertily centers routely accept lbians but are ls likely to accept gay mal as patients, spe the support for nondiscrimatn gay and lbian parentg by such proment mastream anizatns as the Child Welfare League of Ameri, the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, the Amerin Amy of Fay Physicians, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, the. Ined, the Ethics Commtee of the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice recently published a statement support of fertily treatment for gays, lbians, and unmarried persons.

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

“We’re straights, we’ve got our one child, we’ve got pets, we own a hoe, we’ve got rs — and we jt also happen to have been a surrogate and a sperm donor for gay and lbian fai.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

A few months after that, Joplg offered to bee surrogate mother for the child their gay iends Ottawa, Michael Manci and Ernst Hupel, were hopg for. Stiller, 34, a homemaker om the Dallas, Texas, suburbs, lik to say that the number of gay people her acquatance before she met Friedman, a psychiatrist, and Wellisch, an ternist, amounted to zero. “Everythg I knew about gay people I knew om TV, which meant that everythg I knew about gay people I learned om ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘The L Word, ”‘ she said.