Lesbian Parents

This subsection contains material on issues concerning lesbian parenting, including organizing around child custody, adoption, low-income households, barriers to reproductive health services, and social challenges faced by lesbian parents and their children due to heteronormativity and homophobia.

Archival Materials

Buttons

This button is part of the campaign to challenge heterosexist, traditional views and redefine what makes a family.
love makes a family

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  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
In 1988, Karen Andrews, with the support of her union CUPE, successfully took the Ontario Health Insurance Plan to court to broaden the definition of family to include her lesbian partner and her children so they could be covered by her benefits.
We are Family – Karen Andrews/Local 1996 – Access to OHIP Committee

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Lesbian Mothers’ Defence Fund – Pamphlet

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Lesbian Women Have Rights and So Do Our Children!

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  • Language:

    English
Motherhood, Lesbianism and Child Custody (1977)

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Motherhood, Lesbianism, and Child Custody: The Case for Wages for Housework

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Press Release – Gay Pride Week

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  • Language:

    English
The Child Custody Deal Isn’t Fit For Us

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tips on Fighting a Child Custody Case

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages Due Lesbians – Lesbian Mothers’ Defense Fund Launch

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Who Holds the Baby? Women & Child Custody

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    --

  • Language:

    English

Periodicals

Grapevine: Newsletter of the Lesbian Mothers’ Defence Fund

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Grapevine – Fall 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Fall 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Fall 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Fall 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Fall 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Fall/Winter 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Spring 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Spring 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Spring 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Spring 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Summer 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Summer 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Grapevine – Winter 1979-80

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English