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Many Gay men are now becoming Dads via surrogacy. There are Surrogacy Agencies in the United States, Thailand and India all helping Australian Gay men become fathers. Altruistic Surrogacy is also now legal in Victoria and some other states of Australia. This forum with be the fifth held in Melbourne and will be presented by members from Gay Dads Victoria. The free forum will be held in Prahran and provide an opportunity for gay men to find out more about Surrogacy and the options available in Australia and other countries.

Hi All
I am helping to put together a series of questions together to help match Gay Men/Couples with Lesbians/Couples who are looking for a donor. I want to cover all options such as (a) Co-parenting, (b) Known Donor Dad and (c) Anonymous Donor Dad etc.

The aim would be to help find out what the Lesbian Couple was looking for OR what the Gay Men are looking for by matching answers to questions. The "question" is ....what should be the "questions"?

Doesn't any one have such a list? Or know of a resources that I could use to help get this going?

Cheers
Rodney

SURROGACY FORUM FOR GAY MEN
Gay Dads Australia
www.gaydadsaustralia.com
info@gaydadsaustralia.com

JUNE 06 2009
2:00-4.00pm

Many Gay men are now becoming Dads via surrogacy. There are Surrogacy Agencies in the United States, Canada and India all helping Australian Gay men become fathers.

Surrogacy for Gay Men
{a community forum}

A community forum for all those interested in becoming dads through surrogacy is being held at 7pm on 30 September 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.

Presented by members of Gay Dads Victoria, the forum will provide an opportunity for local gay men to find out more about Surrogacy and the options available in countries such as the United States, Canada and India.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper in New South Wales, Australia has reported that a gay couple has had the ban on them becoming foster parents overturned and have been awarded $10000 compensation. The story appeared in the Daily Telegraph by Bruce McDougall.

[ More Australian Gay Parenting News available at http://gaydadsaustralia.blogspot.com ]

A GAY couple have won a landmark discrimination case after they were banned from becoming foster parents because they are homosexual.

Children born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to lesbian mothers will have the same rights as those of heterosexual couples, under law changes announced by the NSW government.

Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said he had accepted NSW Law Reform recommendations extending "parental presumption" provisions to cover gay mums.

It was estimated 20 per cent of the state's female same-sex couples had children, Mr Hatzistergos said.

The change affects those born through IVF or artificial fertilisation only, by granting parenting rights and obligations to the non-biological mother.

Hi from Australia. Late last year (2007) we worked with National Geographic in Australia to present a story of how we (Rodney and Jeff) became dads to a wonderful baby boy called Ethan.

You can view it on You Tube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSayHl535HE