Our 16th annual issue cover story features Ryan Nickulas, beauty expert and reality TV star. Nearly twenty years ago Ryan met finance executive Desmond Smith when Ryan was a waiter. Through the years Ryan's career blossomed in the beauty industry leading him to become a reality TV star on The A-List: New York. Read about the details of their relationship and road to parenting.

Journalist Chris Gajilan and Reverend Leah Fowler are a couple with impressive careers including studying with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and working for Oprah. But this power couple has another focus–their daughter Kai. They also have good advice for parents.

Have you ever imagined a LGBTQ friendly community where there are multiple families in the neighborhood with gay parents? Former Upper West Side Manhattanite realtor couple Randy Rabney and Fran Lichtman found that community in New Jersey.

Claudia Stallman is the founding director of New York’s Lesbian and Gay Family Project, an organization that produces Pride and Joy Families fun and educational events for LGBTQ families. In this issue Stallman talks about their signature event, Family Fun Days and Weekend Conference for LGBTQ individuals and their families held in upstate New York. They also organize Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Experience Across the Lifespan Provider Trainings.

Each year, Gay Parent Magazine - New York includes local parent support group contact information and event listings in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area. Editorial contributors in this issue include Deadra Albrecht-Frasch, Gary Hurtubise and Beverly Prince-Sayward.

Gay Parent Magazine - New York is an annual magazine for the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT). Publishes every May 1st. Gay Parent Magazine-New York is included with paid subscriptions for our nationally distributed issue for those living in the New York tristate area. 24 pages, 4 mb digital file. Buy this issue now.