NEW YORK CITY FAMILY
Cade (daughter)
When I was growing up especially, there was a lot of, "I don't want to be considered a lesbian, because my parents are lesbians. I'm straight!" Until I just sort of woke up one day and was like, "Alright, who am I kidding? I'm a dyke!"
Ry (daughter)
I wouldn't say that having lesbian parents is an issue in my life, but I wonder, will it ever just be nothing? You know, where on a form it doesn't say mother/father. It's kind of like I wait for that day.
Robin (mother)
Coming out was such a wonderful thing in every way, but there was this one negative aspect to it which was being a lesbian meant that you didn't have a family. You couldn't have children. Then we heard through friends that a lesbian who had used artificial insemination had a baby. It was like what? It was almost like this mythic person who had done this amazing thing.
Sandy (mother)
Since the kids were born, people would say, "Oh, whose is she?" And we would say, "Both of ours." And they'd say, "No, really, I mean really, which one is the mother?" And we'd say, "We both are." And they'd go, "I mean who's the real mother?" (together) "We both are!"