sperm donor

Popular surrogacy agency for the gay and lesbian community - Growing Generations - recently announced the launch of Fertility Cryobank on its blog. Fertility Cryobank is one of the few sperm banks in the country to provide recent photos and a comprehensive genetic evaluation for each donor - and it's the only sperm bank in the world to provide videos of every donor, as well as rigorous psychological and IQ testing.

Gail Taylor, President, today announced the launch of Fertility Cryobank, the world’s first sperm bank to offer donor videos. Fertility Cryobank is one of the few sperm banks in the country to provide recent photos and a comprehensive genetic evaluation for each donor. It is the only sperm bank in the world to provide videos of every donor, as well as rigorous psychological and IQ testing.

BBC News reports on research that suggests children conceived using sperm donors should be told of their origins at an early age. The study is one of the first to research the views of donor offspring. The offspring, aged 13 to 61, were all on the U.S. Donor Sibling Registry, which helps offspring search for their biological parent and any siblings.

Daryl Hendrix donated his sperm to Samantha Harrington, who conceived twins. Now Hendrix believes he has a constitutional right to parent the children.

Lucy Durnin - from U.K.'s Pink News - is reporting that an Irish gay man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple has lost his legal bid for guardianship to his biological child.

The man filed the proposal in court although he signed an agreement that he would not seek the role of father but - instead - act as a 'uncle' and have access to the child at the discretion of the couple.

Gay Dads Australia is in the process of archiving Australian media reports in relation to Gay Dads, Lesbian Mums/Moms and Rainbow Families in Australia. The sites aim is to provide a resource for those people interested in looking at how our Rainbow Families are portrayed in the Australian print and television media.

In the late 1980's, a married doctor in Nassau County, New York donated his sperm to a friend and her female partner.

The man included his name on the child's birth certificate, believing it would give the boy "an identity". The donor orally agreed he would not have any rights or benefits in the child's upbringing. However, he regularly sent money, gifts and cards which were signed "Dad" and "Daddy," and enjoyed regular phone chats with the child.

The donor said he had contact with the child from his birth until 1993, when the mothers and son moved to Oregon.