Blog posts from March 2013

Janis Hetherington: 'There are a lot of gay families out there'

11 March, 2013

Janis Hetherington sits with her back erect on a pink chaise, in a pink room. We are in the understated grandeur of her 17th-century longhouse in a sleepy town in Oxfordshire, which she shares with her long-term partner, Barbara. Her grey hair is ...

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Jayne Torvil's IVF misery revealed: fertility facts you need to know

09 March, 2013

Jayne Torvill has spoken out about her difficult and heartbreaking experience of trying to conceive by IVF.Despite improvements in IVF success rates, Jayne revealed how her desperation to become a mum took over her life before she came to the deci...

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Being: The Donor Conceived Perspective

07 March, 2013

Another full house for the final event of Progress Educational Trust's 'When it Takes More Than Two' series. This time attendees were invited to consider gamete donation from the perspective of the donor conceived. Two donor-conceived ...

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Japanese fairy-tale Gay wedding at Disney resort

05 March, 2013

TOKYO — The wedding was a fairy-tale affair, with flowing dresses and a three-tiered cake set in the most coveted of Japanese venues: the Tokyo Disney Resort.Koyuki Higashi and her partner of one and a half years tied the knot in front of 30...

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Children in gay adoption are at no disadvantage study shows

03 March, 2013

Recent Study shows children adopted by lesbian and gay couples are at no disadvantage.Fears that children do less well in life are completely unfounded, according to the first study into how children and parents in non-traditional families fare co...

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