Two Local Authors Make A Historical And Artistic Pilgrimage To Document Lesbian Mothers.
By Margaret Regan
FOR BARBARA SEYDA and Diana Herrera, the gayby boom
first hit home back in 1993 at a boisterous Thanksgiving dinner
in a New Mexico farmhouse. Gayby? It s no misprint: An elision of the words gay
and baby, the gayby boom s a real phenomenon. The
National Center for Lesbian Rights gives a rough estimate of the
number of lesbian mothers in American as between five and 10 million.
And that s not even counting gay dads, who sometimes, but not
always, join genetic forces with the lesbian moms.