"Children of same-sex couples tell their story"

I just came across this article from a few years back, written by the Boston Globe. It is insightful.

By Sally Jacobs, Globe Staff | March 7, 2004

When Molly Heller had friends over to play as a child, she made a lot of preparations. And they didn't involve asking for Cokes or cookies.

First, she pulled the pink triangle magnet off the refrigerator. Then, all the lesbian-friendly books and record albums had to be hidden. She scoured the house to remove any love notes between her mother and her mother's girlfriend. Just for good measure, she told her mother not to wear her Birkenstock sandals, because, of course, everybody knew that lesbians wore those. As for the bathroom wallpaper festooned with women, she just sighed.

"You de-gay the house," said Heller, now 33. "I was absolutely paranoid about my friends finding out."

A lot has changed since Heller and her sister grew up in a small town in Connecticut in the 1980s, when they knew no other children who had gay or lesbian parents. Gay families with children have gone from a rarity to part of everyday life in many communities. Gay marriage, once a distant prospect, is an imminent legal reality, at least here.

For more of the story: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/07/children_of_same_sex_couples_tell_their_story/