Pennsylvania ends discrimination against gay and lesbian parents...in 2010!?

There's some truth to the red state-blue state divide when it comes to LGBT parents, but the law is actually more complicated than that. My post last week about Kentucky's recognition of a two-mom family is one example of a red state clearly understanding and respecting the families we create. Then there's the Pennsylvania case, also from last month, overruling a 25 year old opinion disfavoring

Oregon Supreme Court lets stand ruling that child of lesbian couple has two mothers from birth

Last July I wrote extensively about an Oregon appeals court decision declaring that a woman who consents to her partner's insemination is also a parent of the resulting child. The court reached its conclusion by reasoning that the law makes that provision for the husband of a woman who conceives through donor insemination and so it is unconstitutional (under the state constitution) to exclude a

Vermont judge orders transfer of custody to non-bio mom of Isabella Miller-Jenkins

The custody dispute over Isabella Miller-Jenkins is the longest running and most notorious dispute between former same-sex partners over a child they planned for and raised together. You can read much of the background in a February 2007 Washington Post Magazine article, and the GLAD website has more recent updates.Here are the barebones: Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller were partners, living in