The documentary Making Grace carefully examines the issue of lesbian parenthood in an insightful bit of filmmaking by director Catherine Gund. Here, a lesbian couple decide they want to have a child, and so proceed to figure out how to do so.

This ultimately leads them to an anonymous-donor sperm bank, where they are able to choose their sperm by leafing through a donor catalogue. We are brought into the intimate details of their decisions: which one of them will carry the baby? Who will stay home after the child has been born? How will they explain the two-mommies thing to their extended family? The film then shows us life for the couple after their daughter, Grace, has been born.

Making Grace is clever in its juxtaposing of what might seem extraordinary for a same-sex couple with what will seem mundane and universal (getting registered for their baby shower, for example). It clearly illustrates the next chapter in the lives of gay and lesbian liberation, where parenthood is not seen as such an alien thing. —Matthew Hays