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Researchers have turned a skin cell into an egg. Here's what that means for LGBTQ+ people

A new in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) technique is signaling promise for same-sex couples looking to start families.

Playing With Yourself Has Been Perfected Over Millions of Years: Report

The sexual behavior may have evolved to help decrease acquiring sexually transmitted infections.

Op-ed: To Sperm or Not to Sperm

How an average gay man made peace with his looks and embraced his basic appearance.

Gay Man Sues Canada Over Sperm Donation Restrictions

He says the current restrictions on queer men from donating sperm in Canada is discrimination.

Which Partner Provides the Sperm in Gay Family Planning?

Kim Bergman, Ph.D., offers advice to same-sex couples seeking a biological connection to their kids.

WATCH: Kansas Sues Sperm Donor for Child Support

A man who donated sperm to help a lesbian couple conceive found himself on the hook for thousands of dollars in child support payments, sought not by the parents, but by the state of Kansas.

Lifetime Show Will Address Gay Sperm Ban

An upcoming episode will focus on the FDA's ban on sperm donation by men who have sex with men.

Lesbians Must Split Custody of Sperm Court Rules

A lesbian former couple must share the sperm they bought in 1999, a court rules.

Gay Black Man Discovers He Can't Donate Sperm

From donating blood to donating sperm, men who have sex with men have a hard enough time donating blood, but semen donation is even more difficult.

Why Melissa Etheridge Spurned Brad Pitt's Sperm

One reason the rock 'n' roller didn't choose the actor, she says, is that he had no prior experience being a dad.

The FDAs Lesser Known Insult is a Ban on Gay Sperm Donors

The FDA not only bans gay and bi men from giving blood, they actively discourage them from donating sperm. Will the agency ever change its ways?

Irish court sides with sperm donor over lesbian moms

A man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple won a legal fight Thursday to keep his biological son in Ireland. The judgment by Ireland's supreme court judgment was a first in the nation, a predominantly Roman Catholic country where the rights of same-sex couples and sperm donors have not been spelled out.

Sperm Donor With Genetic Condition Doesn't Tell Lesbians He Contacted

James MacDougall fathered 15 children without telling the women using his services that he had fragile-X syndrome.