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Raised by Lesbian Moms (My Experience)

2021

A long overdue video sharing my story of being raised by 2 moms.

26:00 min

Raising LGBTQ+ Kids

Your child just came out to you. Now what? Here are some things to keep in mind. 

Article
Christy Olezeski
2022
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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.

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Michael LaSala
2025
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The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second edition of Lesbian Parenting has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting.

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D. Merilee Clunis, G. Dorsey Green
2025
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The Changing Ways Parents React to Their Kids Coming Out of the Closet

A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.

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Natalie Escobar
2018
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Advice to Parents on Raising a Happy and Healthy LGBTQ Child

When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.

Article
Steven Petrow
2020
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The Fight for Fertility Equality

A movement has formed around the idea that one’s ability to build a family should not be determined by wealth, sexuality, gender or biology.

Article
David Kaufman
2020
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As Awareness Grows, More LGBTQ+ Couples Consider Fertility Options

In the LGBTQ+ community, people are becoming increasingly aware of the fertility options available to them.

Article
Amanda Adeleye
2021
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If These Ovaries Could Talk: The Things We’ve Learned About Making an LGBTQ Family

Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins, the creators and hosts of the popular podcast If These Ovaries Could TalkK, realized the world needed to know there was more than one way to make an LGBTQ family.

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Jaimie Kelton, Robin Hopkins
2025
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Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades.

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Laura Mamo
2025
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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