Florida Consitution Doesn’t Prevent Gay Families

From the Sun-Sentinel.com.

Adelle Barsky-Moore is 5, and she doesn’t know about wedge politics and the Culture War. All she knows is that she loves her two dads and they love her.

Her parents, Allan Barsky and Greg Moore, have been together 10 years. They were married in Canada, Barsky’s native country, in 2003. They wear wedding bands, are registered domestic partners in Broward and live in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Barsky, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, is opposed to Amendment 2 on the November ballot. It would constitutionally define marriage in Florida as between a man and woman. It states, “No other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”

Meet Your Average LGBT Family - Living in a Dorm

Jill Schneiderman is a professor of earth science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Meg Stewart is an academic computing consultant at Vassar, as well. For four years now, Jill and Meg, along with their two children, Caleb and Tillie, and their dog, Molly, have lived in a faculty apartment in Vassar’s Josselyn House dorm.

Jill is a former board member of Family Equality Council; her family has attended almost every Family Week in Provincetown, MA.

Meg recently wrote to us with some exciting news–their family is being featured in Vassar publications for prospective students this year!

Read the whole story at familyequality.org.

Best Options in New Jersey for LGBT Families

PROGRAM AT PRIDE CENTER OF NEW JERSEY WILL HELP GAY & LESBIAN COUPLES IDENTIFY BEST OPTIONS TO HAVE A BABY

HIGHLAND PARK, NJ- On Tuesday evening, September 23, from 7-8:30 p.m., three leading experts on LGBT parenting will host a special “how to” seminar that will explain the medical and legal issues that gays and lesbians in New Jersey must address in order to have a baby.

Speakers at this special parenting event include:

• Dr. Jamie Morris, a board certified reproductive endocrinologist from Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, one of the leading centers for fertility treatments involving the use of surrogacy, IVF, donor egg and artificial insemination.  Dr. Morris will review the medical treatments available to help same sex couples have a baby.

• Psychologist Andrea Braverman, Ph.D., a specialist in emotional issues associated with same-sex parenting at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey. Dr. Braverman will review the emotional and psychological issues gays and lesbians may face when they decide to have a baby.

• Attorney Melissa Brisman, a specialist in parenting and reproductive rights for gays and lesbians.  She will review the legal considerations that gays and lesbians should address when they decide to have a baby, including contracting with a surrogate to carry a baby for you and strategies to make sure that both members of a same sex couple are legally named as a child’s parent or guardian.

For more info check out pridecenter.org.