her number is up. and do you know what she looks like? of course i remember what she looks like. she s a beautiful redhead. okay. that was a while ago. what if she dyed her hair. i think i m more nervous about meeting her mom. a big day for gary and tony. they re picking up the mother of their future child. oh, my god, how are you? hello, i m gary. you changed your hair. i did. an agency has located holly. a florida woman willing to sell her eggs for $8,000. i wanted somebody who had my background. because it was going to be gary s you know, sperm. so i wanted somebody who had green eyes. i wanted somebody who was irish and dutch. gary and tony picked holly. her employer doesn t want her to
tonight, something you will see only on cnn. soledad o brien explores the journey of a same sex couple trying to start a family. here s a sneak peek from tonight s special. when i met gary, i realized i could live my life happily. high to come out. reporter: what did you say? i said, mom, remember i told you i was seeing somebody. his name is gary. i was a little surprised, and i said, well, are you happy? he was crying. tears were running down his cheeks. he was happy. she said, do we have to tell your father? i said, vaent wale, yes. reporter: their struggle took on a new face. are you prepared to make your vows to one another? reporter: they founded the wedding party and staged mass
rambo or samurai, but you know, what i m a person who said, em going to get off of my [ bleep ] and do something, and i will be darned if i sit back and let anybody say this or that when they weren t there. i am on dialysidialysis, and i life on the line. my life was on the line not because of them, and not because of packkis over or al qaeda anybody else, but when you step up and put your life on the line, we will talk, but until then, you shut your mouth and you sit down and you get to the back of the bus. better off, get off of the bus, because this ain t your bus. this ain t your ride. i m sorry, i m a little bit edgy, and i m very tired from the long trip and stuff like this, and i don t mean to be that way, but i am that way. gary faulkner says he has no
it might seem an unlikely step for two men who spent a lifetime fighting for gay civil rights. were you activists early on here? absolutely. it was with act up. it felt so good to finally yell out and say, no. theirs is a story of how love changed everything. tony remembers the moment they met. gary was across the room across a crowded dance floor and our eyings met. that s such a cliche. it s totally true, it absolutely happened that way. they married in canada. the u.s. doesn t recognize the marriages of same-sex couples. though five states grant gay couples limited marriage rights. we ve been talking about having a family for a while. family to them meant having their own biological child. that means doctors, lawyers and a whole lot of money.
use her last name because she s donating her eggs it a gay couple. did it ever give you pause to be donating eggs for two men who clearly can t have a baby? it never even crossed my mind. why would that bother me. they need eggs, i have eggs. they deserve to have a family. for gary and tony, this is more than a financial transaction. i know a lot of people in your position don t want to have any kind of contact or relationship or whatever. and just the fact that you re open to it at all. i m so glad that we were able to meet and discuss this. holly has been taking fertility drugs to increase her egg production. now her eggs will be extracted so they can be fertilized with gary s sperm. there s an egg, she s doing great. the doctor emerges with good news. we did great. the egg retrieval went great. we got 14 eggs. when the donors have the ability