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...battles over gay and lesbian parental rights that have been the most hotly disputed. In some cases, the homosexuals are the parents who want the government to mind its own business. That was the situation with Sharon Bottoms, a birth mother who lost custody of her five-year-old son Tyler in a high-profile 1996 case. A Virginia court ruled that a nonparent--Sharon's mother--should raise Tyler because Sharon's lesbian lifestyle made her unfit...
...trend, however, is for courts to look beyond whether a parent is gay in evaluating parenting claims. Last March a New Jersey appeals court awarded visitation rights to the former partner of a lesbian mother who had helped raise their children. And two years after the Bottoms case, a court in the same Virginia county quietly awarded custody to a lesbian mother over her former husband. A key factor: in the course of the Bottoms' appeals, the Virginia courts dropped their doctrine that gays are necessarily unfit parents...
Somerville--the most densely populated city in New England--has a "fairly sizable" gay and lesbian population that represents a "politically active constituency," Clark said...
Michael K. T. Tan '01, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), said Harvard's organizations--both BGLTSA and GirlSpot--fill those needs well...
...only accepts men, but they do have a national sister lesbian sorority, Lambda Delta Lambda...