A conversation with Lisa Gray on founding LGBTQ+ Parents of Central Florida 20 years ago
About two decades ago, the Orlando Sentinel published a feature on Central Florida’s “gayby boom,” spotlighting parents like Lisa Gray (née Krall), who worried about raising children without legal recognition for both parents. At the time, Florida law barred gay adoption, leaving many parents without rights in cases of illness, separation or worse.
Gray, who carried the pregnancy, told the Sentinel she had even taken the precaution of asking her partner’s brother to serve as a sperm donor so her partner would have some measure of protection if tragedy struck. “Can you imagine how she would feel if I died in a car accident and my parents stepped in and took our child?” she asked.
