I had a friend with a gay dad and his partner was her godfather. She called her bio dad “Dad” and her godfather by his given name.
Extremely bad taste snipped. Even I have some standards.
That would explain a lot, like the fur.
More seriously, I’m really not sure. I never thought much about it but I don’t know any gay couples that are raising kids.
A girl I used to date had two dads. She just called them by their first names.
I know of an all-male threesome who are raising children born to them through surrogacy. The biomoms are in the picture, and the kids simply call them all by their first names.
I read in today’s paper that the 2014-15 FAFSA will, instead of “mother” and “father”, have “parent 1” and “parent 2”. Some people are not happy about this, but I remember when my sister was in high school in the late 1980s, and school forms had “Mother’s address” and “Father’s address” and THAT was controversial. I mean, don’t you know that only the mother should ever be contacted by the school, and if she’s deceased, the school’s hands are tied? :rolleyes:
I assume Dan Savage’s kid says, “Hey Faggot!”
He hasn’t used that in the column for, what, ten years?
And he’s on record that they’re a “Dad - no, not you, other Dad” - family.
I just always assumed the kids would naturally pick different terms, the same way they tend to do for grandparents. Sometimes it’s lastnames, sometimes it’s a different form.
I had Papaw Jones and Grampa Lastname–although the names could switch-- and Mema(w) and Nana (nah-nah)–who never switched.
My sister’s kids call her Mama and her partner Mommy. (I would assume when they become teens it will be Ma and Mom) The adults picked out the terms just like my father is Pop Pop and her father is Grandpa. A conversation did take place between them regarding this.
**BigT-**Did your mortal enemy ever play the “memaw” card?
Maybe I’ll go with Dadtwo. 
not entirely joking
In her book Family Values, Phyllis Burke describes how, when her partner Cheryl got pregnant by artificial insemination, they decided the baby would call Cheryl “Mommy” and Phyllis “Auntie.” When the boy Jesse was 14 months old, he looked at Phyllis and said “Mommy” for the first time. When she tried to correct him, he insisted on “Mommy,” and later dubbed Cheryl “Mudder.”
Phyllis called her parents and told them “He calls me Mommy,” to which they responded “We knew you were his mother. We’re grandparents.” Cheryl said she knew Phyllis would be her child’s mother.
As Phyllis wrote “Jesse knew. Cheryl knew. My parents knew. I was the only one who had to be told I was his mother.”