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.