With the help of some of her teachers, she organized a discussion for the United Farm Workers at a local library. It was an organization that was helping women who had come out after having been married and had children, and their husbands were trying to take their kids away from them for being gay,” she said. Less than a year after Kozachenko was elected, out lesbian Elaine Noble was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Since I had already been pumping and had milk, I actually began to worry that I would have too much milk.

I know that even if I couldn’t breastfeed, I would still feel able to take care of our daughter, but for me, this really increased my confidence as a parent. In fact, the party had so much success championing for gay rights in Ann Arbor that Kozachenko didn’t feel the need to make it central to her agenda. Before this experience, the only thing I knew about breastfeeding was that I wanted to do it when I had a baby.What an amazing gift you’ve given your daughter and the mamas and papas and babies who have benefited from your milk supply.

Moral of the story — I totally recommend inducing lactation if you are a non-gestational parent expecting a baby.Like many college towns at the time, Ann Arbor had become a hot spot for student-led protest over the Vietnam War and racial injustice.