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[Australia - New Zealand] - We Speak to David from Fertility Connections...
Recently we spoke to David Formosa-Urquhart, the founder of Fertility Connections. David with his partner are gay dads and have set up Fertility Connections. We sat down and had a chat to David about...
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[Australia - Victoria] - VARTA Time to Tell Seminar - For Donor Conceived...
There is a seminar being run in Melbourne by the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA) on 18 May 2013 called "Time to Tell". Donor conceived children are one of the way the GLBTI...
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[USA] - Portland, Oregon - Magnet for Gay Couples Wanting Babies - USA Today...
Great story about Oregon being a place for surrogacy, showing it is not just California as a destination.[Source: USA Today]Portland, Ore., famous for its coffeehouses, indie music, microbreweries and...
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[Australia] - Help Support A Resource Kit for Rainbow Families - We Talk to...
In Australia (and indeed around the world) our Rainbow Families are thriving - often despite indifference, lack of recognition and sometimes extreme hostility. As a gay dad I try to be very active in...
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[Australia] - Seminars - EGG DONATION AND SURROGACY IN AMERICA with Daniel A....
Gay Dads Australia often gets notifications of seminars being held in Australia by overseas Surrogacy/IVF agencies. We will happily announce them on the Gay Dads Australia website however any...
View Article[Australia] "What has sexuality got 2 do with parenting?" by Brett Allen
“What has sexuality got to do with parenting?"“Not much,” is the short answer.Children raised by gay or lesbian parents develop socially and emotionally in much the same ways as children raised by a...
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[Global] Gays with Kids - Great New Gay Parenting site.
Gays with Kids is a great new Gay Parenting site helping "gay men navigate fatherhood". It is always great to see new sites like this, they come from a proud place and we should all support them....
View Article[UK] "Britain's first same-sex marriages take place as PM speaks of 'powerful...
David Cameron has hailed the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales as sending a "powerful message" about equality in Britain.The law changed at midnight, with a number of gay couples vying to...
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[USA] "Same-sex parents finding greater acceptance" by Gloria Hochman
'Where's the mom in this family?" puzzled 10-year-old Megan asked a few years ago as she glanced around the breakfast table. She had slept over in the Center City home of her friend Ashley and seemed...
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[Australia] Surrogacy Australia 3rd Annual Conference 24-25 May 2014 - Melbourne
For those who are interested in the Surrogacy Australia Conference being held on 24 - 25 May 2014 in Melbourne, I strongly recommend you head over to www.surrogacyaustralia.org and find out more.Gay...
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[USA] "Opponents in gay marriage lawsuits clash over impact on kids" By Kirk...
States fighting to defend their bans on same-sex marriages are focusing much of their legal firepower on kids, not adults.In hundreds of pages of filings in a federal appeals court, Utah, Oklahoma and...
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[US] "Why the Regnerus gay parenting study matters" by David Lampo
What do opponents of gay rights and same-sex marriage (SSM) do when they have no credible scientific evidence that heterosexual couples are better at parenting than same sex couples? They make stuff...
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[Global] "Parenting Spotlight: Talon and Tigger Travel the World" by Frank Lowe
Not all gay parents fit into the perfect little stereotype that is portrayed on shows like Modern Family and The New Normal. Just as in the straight world, we come in all shapes, sizes, and...
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[Australia] - The "Norrie" Case "NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and...
High Court of AustraliaNSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11 (2 April 2014)Last Updated: 2 April 2014HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIAFRENCH CJ,HAYNE, KIEFEL, BELL AND KEANE JJNSW...
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[NSW] - Proud Parenting – Sydney event for GLBTIQ Parents - 30 April 2014
Relationships Australia NSW is hosting a free parenting seminar for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer parents. The seminar will provide ideas about being the best and proudest...
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[Japan] - "Japanese court approves transsexual woman as adoptee mother"
The Osaka Family Court has approved the adoption of a 3-year-old boy by a woman in her 30s who changed her sex from male due to gender identity disorder (GID), the woman said Wednesday.It is believed...
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[Australia] - "Thousands of infertile Australians paying for surrogacy in...
THE booming offshore baby market has become big business with one surrogacy centre in India engaging 600 women to produce babies for wealthy overseas couples.Commercial surrogacy is outlawed in...
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[USA] - "Proud mom announces son as transgender with beautiful Facebook post"
When Jodi Gholson Oliver was recently told by her 19-year-old teen Jes Oliver that he was going to live his life as a male, despite being born a female, she respond in the best possible way.Read More.
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Australia: "At 25, I went from Party Town to Dad Town" by Michael James
IT’S funny how life can change.Three years ago at 25, life was racing along at a pace I could barely keep up with. I was working 70-hour weeks and powering through a seemingly unstoppable social life....
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[Australia] - "New push for adoption rights in South Australia" by Matt Akersten
An online petition calling on South Australia’s Premier to legalise adoption for same sex couples is picking up hundreds of signatures.In recent years, adoption laws have been altered to allow same-sex...
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