It annoys me to represent long standing relationships that have braved all of the lack of support and hostility as "See, we are just like everyone else" or sexless and dead. We are not. Relationships among lesbian parents did not survive if we didn't work like hell on them and even then the lack of social support makes it unlikely.

My problem with that movie was that is made a joke of those of us in thirty year relationships who raised children through all the homophobia, lack of awareness, distrust from our own communities (we want to be heteronormative breeders), constant educating people (No, we are not raising them to be gay), justifying that no we don't need a man in the home to raise healthy sons, etc.

Please get someone who has a clue and an ounce of respect for this of us who carried papers with us all the time to prove we had legal rights to our children when the next straight couple over could be seen without question. Those of us who were threatened with fraud investigations, etc. Our community had no sense of history and we harm ourselves in this way.

alex