Mom's Apple Pie: The Newsletter of the LMNDF

For over two decades, the Lesbian Mother's National Defense Fund (LMNDF) produced and distributed a newsletter titled "Mom's Apple Pie." The newsletter included letters and pleas from women needing financial support for their current custody battles, drawings, reflections and poetry from lesbian mothers, news updates on relevant court cases and legal changes across the nation, and much more. Following are excerpts, scanned from the original newsletters which were obtained from library archives. As more newsletters become available for scanning, the material included will be updated to more evenly represent the time span of the LMNDF's activities. Around 1990, the LMNDF changed names to become the Lesbian Mother's Resource Network, as can be seen in the following excerpts.

This essay, published in the Winter 1990 newsletter, was written by a woman struggling to keep custody of her children while openly identifying as a lesbian.

Also from the Winter 1990 newsletter, this reflection is shared by a lesbian mother who wasn't allowed to raise her son.

Lesbian mothers in the midst of custody battles often felt isolated and alone. The LMNDF provided lesbians with critical support in difficult times. One way they did this was by collecting and sharing local resources for lesbian mothers. This list of resources was published in the Fall 1990 newsletter.

Building the list of resources was a collaborative effort, as can be seen by this plea for contributions that accompanied the publication of the list.

"Mom's Apple Pie" was also full of cheerful images of lesbian mothers, like this one from the Fall 1990 issue.