By Alex Temblador Jennifer Schenk and her wife Amy Syres met while working for an orphanage organization in Haiti 6 years ago. They fell in love, started dating, and decided to leave the organization to start their own: Second Mile Haiti, a non-profit that aims for family preservation in Haiti. After beginning Second Mile Haiti, […]
By RoiAnn Philips I never expected to stand in front of a hundred family members and friends in a long white dress, lighting candles, exchanging rings, and proclaiming my love and commitment to a woman. I never expected a ceremony like ours to be fully and legally binding. I never expected to want to be […]
TLoren Parisella Turned away for the night because they are a lesbian couple, Loren Parisella and Elizabeth Prestano are suing the Sleep Inn, whose parent company is Choice Hotels International, in Brooklyn for discrimination. The 20-something Staten Island couple filed their complaint in the in Brooklyn Supreme Court on December 17. They also filed a […]
Portlandia and Transparent star Carrie Brownstein was giving a reading of her book Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, when during the Q&A session, she was asked to officiate an impromptu lesbian wedding. Kendall Oshiro and Genevieve Hernandez asked Brownstein to marry them right then and there. Luckily, Brownstein had become a recently ordained minister […]
By Alex Temblador A Spanish lesbian couple, whose names have not been released, went to Fundación Jiménez Diaz, a hospital, to receive IVF treatments under a financial assistance program that Spain’s Ministry of Health had enacted in 2013. The couple was denied financial assistance on the basis that they didn’t have a male partner, a […]
By Alex Temblador For same-sex couples, it takes time and effort to create a family. There’s the question of whether to go with adoption, IVF, or surrogacy. Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon of Ohio, a white lesbian couple, decided to go with IVF. After Cramblett and Zinkon chose a sperm that reflected a white, blonde-hair, […]
