[Photo by Christopher Gannon, AP, in The Columbia Missourian.]
Above: Dawn BarbouRoske, second from left, of Iowa City leans towards her partner, Jen BarbouRoske, after learning of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday in favor of legalizing gay marriage. Between them is their daughter Bre, 6. Their other daughter, 11-year-old McKinley, left, reacts to the ruling.
We extend our hearty congratulations to lesbian families in Iowa, who as of yesterday began to be able to receive the myriad legal protections afforded by state-recognized partnership.
In http://lucfr.co.uk/2020/05/08/leicscelebrate-shortlist/ LesbianFamily.org news, we have two new additions and a transition:
- Geek and Lawyer, who live and write in Australia, joins the buy antabuse in canada TTC listings,
- adventures in making a baby has joined the Expecting listings, and
- Creating a Miracle moved from TTC to Expecting
Welcome, yay, and congratulations!
Two more blogs are on deck (also an addition and a transition), and as soon as we can find out what the URLs are, we’ll announce them here. This makes for as good a time as any to remind you to include your URL in a comment when you’re letting us know you want to be listed or shifted. 🙂
Over the past several weeks, a wonderful handful of folks have written in and offered to help tend the LesFam field here. Next week I hope to run a welcome post, and will invite the new folks to introduce themselves (and the returning old folks to re-introduce and update us). ‘Til then, we raise a sippy cup to you, Iowa!
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