HBO Max. Growing up in the 1980s, Russo-Young had what felt like a conventional New York City childhood: two parents and a sister growing up in a downtown apartment.The only difference?
Russo-Young, now 40, had two moms, Robin Young and Sandy Russo.At the time, “being gay meant that you were not going to have children,” Young says in the film. “It was like you were giving up that right to have a family.” But Russo “always wanted kids.”Same-sex marriage was not yet legal and lesbians couldn’t use sperm banks to conceive, so the loving couple took matters into their own hands and researched DIY artificial insemination. “We wanted gay men as donors,” says Russo.
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