Tag: LGBTQ families

When Sal Stow went out to pick up packages off the front porch, she was surprised to find a note tucked under a rock on the front mat. But what she couldn’t have possibly known was how much her front porch has meant to the young person who wrote the note. While the local county commissioners refused to fly the pride flag from court buildings, Stow, and her wife, Meghan Stabler, proudly fly two rainbow flags at their house. And...

Ari Nagel, a 43-year-old math professor at the City University of New York, is widely known as “the Sperminator” for freely donating sperm to women around the world who want to have children. He has reportedly impregnated over 50 different women, and the most recent is Kaienja Garrick, a 18-year-old homeless bisexual woman who plans on raising her child with Dee Slobert, her girlfriend of three years. Two years ago Garrick left her mother’s home in Queens to avoid continual...

Even if the couple is married and both are listed on the birth certificate, the Trump administration says they may not be a family because they were "born out of wedlock." A Trump administration change to how immigration law is implemented has led to the children of same-sex couples being denied American citizenship. Several years ago, the State Department issued rules to how it would implement the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Before, under the INA, a child born to...