By David Dodge

Oct 30

Oct 30 Hippie Hal: The Three-Peat Known Sperm Donor, Part II

David Dodge

Gays With Kids, Parenting

Part II of an article feautring "Hippie Hal" and his "wives"

Oct 26

Oct 26 Hippie Hal: The Three-Peat Known Sperm Donor

David Dodge

Gays With Kids, Parenting

Hal Offen blazed a trail of sorts in the world of known sperm donation... three times over.

Jul 22

Jul 22 Putting the 'Known' in Known Sperm Donor

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

"Did your childhood ever feel overly complicated?" I asked Flannery, who has two moms and a known donor.

Jul 15

Jul 15 The Gay Mormon Known Sperm Donor from Utah

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

I’ve had a lifetime to prepare my responses to the gay Mormon line of questioning, but I often find myself at a loss as to how to answer much of what’s posed to me about my known donor arrangement with Tori and Kelly.

Jul 8

Jul 8 The No Longer Reluctant Sperm Donor

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

As someone with the parental instincts of a fire hydrant, it was hard for me to understand why anyone would voluntarily put themselves through IVF, such an expensive and emotionally exhaustive process.

Jul 1

Jul 1 The Biological Grandparent Trap

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

Being the type of people they are, my parents readily gave their consent when I finally worked up the nerve to broach the subject of sperm donation. “Of course!” my father exclaimed loudly. “I’m supportive of anything that eases the ability of the L.G.B.T. community to have children,” he added, like a politician giving an official statement on the matter.

Jun 24

Jun 24 Sperm Donation Puts a New Layer on an Old Friendship

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

“So just blow up an air mattress for me!” I declared over another of our meals. “I’m moving in!” Tori’s eyes, already of Disney-character proportions, nearly popped out of her head.

Jun 17

Jun 17 At the Cutting Edge of Gay Family Law

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

I was always planning to relinquish my parental rights. According to Judge Torres, though, I never had those rights to begin with.

Jun 10

Jun 10 Who's Your Mommy? We Don't Know - Yet

David Dodge

NYTimes Sperm Donor Diary, Parenting

Where else, besides bad daytime television, have you ever heard of doubts surrounding the maternity of a child?

May 29

May 29 The Known Sperm Donor

David Dodge

Gays With Kids, Parenting

“You’d make such a great father!” friends and family will say, or at least the ones who have never seen me hold a newborn like a radioactive sack of potatoes.

May 15

May 15 The Equality Act Turns 40

David Dodge

Politics

In a year when we’ve seen the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL and same-sex marriage bans are falling across the country on a weekly basis — we still lack federal anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people.

Feb 2

Feb 2 The Right's New Same-Sex Marriage Messaging: Why They Lost in 2012

David Dodge

Politics

A study conducted with data collected by Vote for Equality (VFE) showed that a remarkable 15 percent of all voters became less supportive of marriage equality after viewing the ad, including a whopping 26 percent of all undecided voters.