Lesbian Mom: Lesbian Mom Notebook, Mother Gift, LGBT Mother Journal, 200 pages, 8.5 x 11

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At the school where she taught, Carol faced constant prying into her life from fellow teachers, parents and the administration. It was like a lighting rod came down and jolted me back to the reality that neither myself nor my kids might not be fully accepted in this space.

The mental and physical consequences can be devastating ― and not just for them but also for so many of the people in their lives, especially their children, should they have them. He said: “It’s two different things too – from a female perspective, when you see two females together, you think, oh, they’re just girlfriends, they’re close. We did like this option but felt it would get confusing, especially when our child was older and going to school.It comes down to language and arming children with ideas and words they need to explain things to themselves and defend things to their peers.

That supposed dichotomy was on full display when Bautista posed in a trucker hat and a fitted t-shirt boasting a rainbow above the words “BE YOU” in a post shared on the ‘gram. My donor did his thing in the bathroom of my home, after which I was left to my own devices with the company of no one but my dog. ShehatesherhusbandIthinksheshouldleavehimandfindlovebutshedoesn’twantthatbecauseshedoesn’tseeminterestedinmenanymore!For her, visits with my siblings and me two weekends a month, for less than 48 hours at a time, became a bandage ripped off an open wound over and over again. My saving grace is that 90% of my friends — the village helping me raise my daughter — are queer-identified. Simply put, WLW life in adulthood is much different, and as much as we're a part of r/ActualLesbians, we wanted a space where WLW 25+ can discuss more specific 25+ things separate from teens or the younger crowd. They still want to pursue a further education, whether it's at a four-year institution or a community college or vocational school. Thousands of gay and lesbian parents lost custody of their children in the 1970s and early 1980s; stories about these wrecked families appear in the 2014 documentary “ Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ Custody Movement.