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Steve Majors, communications director for the same-sex advocacy group Family Equality Council, says many young gay men once believed living openly gay meant not having children. But with the rise of same-sex marriage, gay men have pioneered the use of reproductive technology to have children. Majors says single gay men now email him or show up at parenting seminars, wanting to learn more about starting a family.

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State and national legal groups are trying to sway the Florida Supreme Court in a parental-rights case that pits two lesbian partners who used in-vitro fertilization to have a child but later ended their relationship. The Brevard County case is unprecedented in Florida because the fertilized egg of one woman was implanted in her then-partner, who gave birth. The couple began raising the child together, but a legal battle began after a break-up that included the birth mother moving to Australia with the child.

It won't be long before 1-year-old quadruplets Derrick, Brianna, Anthony and Cason begin speaking their first words and calling out for mommy. But it may be quite some time before society and the legal system recognize same-sex couple Laura Cavin and Sheri Green, of Naples, Fla., in the same way. Through the wonders of modern medicine, each woman carried two of the quadruplets, but they must adopt the other two to each have legal custody of all four.

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