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It is increasingly common for lesbian women to conceive children with donor sperm -- often from a gay male friend, who may or may not agree to a co-parenting role; this article discusses the possibilities for unanticipated complications after a baby is...

Since 1989 when the first Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) was formed by a student and teacher to address homophobia in an American high school, more than 700 GSAs have been established to promote tolerance, and they are providing a place where GLBT youth ca...

Discussion of the positions of the major presidential candidates in 2000 on gay and lesbian issues, as well as the roles in Al Gore's campaign of Tammy Baldwin, a lesbian member of Congress, and campaign manager Donna Brazile, the first African-American...

The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has been targeted by civil liberties groups for removal, after he placed a statue of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom and made homophobic statements about a lesbian mother involved in a cus...

Echoing the campaign against a county gay rights law in 1977 by Anita Bryant, which triggered high levels of gay and lesbian activism all over the US, voters in Miami-Dade country Florida, in September 2002, will again vote on a ballot referendum, spons...

A lesbian couple in Ohio wanted to change their names in order to create a common family name for themselves and their daughter; the judges who first heard the case objected that this was "against natural law"; the women then spent over two years in var...

New York's Yeshiva University was found guilty of anti-gay discrimination in its housing policy which provides discount housing for graduate students only for married couples (inherently unavailable to lesbian or gay couples who cannot legally marry), i...

In the Australian state of Victoria, artificial insemination is available only to women who are married or partnered with a man; single heterosexual and lesbian women are bringing lawsuits to contest this law as a violation of Australia's federal anti-d...

A Minnesota student sues his school district on free speech grounds when he is asked to remove his "straight pride" sweatshirt. Article argues that the "straight pride" concept is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of gay pride (i.e., not that ga...