The same sex marriage debate has drawn attention to the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study. The NLLFS was initiated in 1986, documents the lesbian "baby boom" of the 1980s when lesbians first gained access to donor insemination. It is the largest, prospective longitudinal study of lesbian families in which the children were conceived by donor insemination (DI). The data gathered over the course of a twenty-five year period through regular interviews of mothers, their partners, and their children, at different stages of the child's development, will provide much needed information that will aid researchers, policy makers, educators, and lesbian families in matters pertaining to lesbigay families, gay marriage and civil unions.
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Dr. Gartrell was a guest on the longest running
LGBT radio program in Madison WI.
Listen to the show here.

The NLLFS was included in the New York Times Magazine story "When Mom and Dad Share It All", June 15, 2008.
For more information about this study and to read the article,
click here.

Dr. Nanette Gartrell was a guest on Boston's NPR news show
On Point: Inside Gay Unions.
Listen to the show here.

Dr. Gartrell and the NLLFS contributed to the article, "The Village People" from July's issue of The Advocate.
Read the story online here.

The NLLFS was featured in an article in the August, 2008, Portland Monthly.
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Photos © Gigi Kaeser from the exhibit/book: Love Makes a Family: Portraits of LGBT People and Their Families.
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