There is this whole argument that in order to prove
that lesbian or gay parents can be good parents,
the kids have to turn out straight.
The sexuality of your parents doesn’t make a difference.
That's what it's about: good parenting.
My parents divorced and then a couple of years later my mum came out.
To me it wasn't as if my parents were getting divorced because my mum was coming out,
my mum was coming out as a separate event.
My experience in playschool or primary school didn’t change when my mum came out.
I was still the nerdy kid with glasses,
wearing funny clothes, with a slightly odd family.
It's not that different having LGBT parents,
you don't turn out worse for it.
It's just like another divorced family.
The bonuses of having two mums or having a LGBT family
is that you become a bit more open minded.
You are more aware that people have different lifestyles.
Having a lesbian mum has made me aware
of the possibility that I might not be straight.
It hasn't changed my own sexuality.
It's just made me that bit more aware,
which means that I'm open to the possibility that I could
one day fall in love with a woman as well as with a man.
I'm engaged to a guy at the moment, and we're getting married next year,
but to me marriage is about commitment and love.
It's not about gender.
There's a big debate about nature and nurture in relation to sexuality.
I think it's a mix of both,
but I don't think the nurture aspect has anything to do with your parents' sexuality,
apart for the awareness aspect.
That's what research shows, that it's mainly biology,
but there is a little bit that is not biology.
I think lesbian and gay parents have
fewer rights than straight parents,
but that's because of historical prejudice.
It's just taking time, as these things do,
to get through into legislation and the rights and into general acceptance.
Historically, people saw same sex relationships as wrong...
that has just kept going.
A lot of it is automatic, people don’t think about what it means.
A lot of people who say,"Oh, that's so gay", it’s just an insult,
they don't think it might affect somebody else,
who may or may not be gay, but may have a gay family member.