History of Rainbow Flag Health Services

Part II: Fighting Discrimination

From the beginning, Rainbow Flag Health Services existed in a regulatory gray zone. Federal and state authorities had never anticipated a sperm bank that openly accepted gay men as donors, nor one built around known donors rather than anonymity. What followed was […]

History of Rainbow Flag Health Services

Part I: Origins

In March 1990, Newsweek reported on what it called a “gayby boom” in the LGBTQ community, noting that in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, at least 1,000 children had been born to gay or lesbian couples in the previous five years.