A gay San
Francisco city supervisor will soon father a child with a
lesbian friend. Such opposite-sex gay couples are charting
new ground.
The Bay Area Reporter newspaper reports
that openly gay San Francisco District 8 supervisor
Bevan Dufty is fathering a child with longtime lesbian
friend Rebecca Goldfader, who's due in October. The
pair is not romantically involved, but they do have plans to
begin living together. They also share a common desire many
people of all sexual orientations have: to create a family.
Beth Teper, executive director of Children of
Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), a social and
advocacy organization, says families with multiple
parents certainly exist and that LGBT families can actually
work quite well.
She tells the newspaper that "queer families
have been creating and forming their families in all
the ways they can throughout the last
millennium." She says there are many gay families
with coparents, adding that COLAGE has several member
kids known as "bothies," meaning they have two gay
dads and two gay moms.
As to Goldfader and Dufty's next steps, they're
looking into moving into a duplex with separate
quarters. "The most important thing to me is
community support--to have the people who can be there
for you in really simple ways and then ultimately be
there for you during the long haul," Goldfader told
the paper. (Sirius OutQ News)