This is Sweden's most famous gay couple, Jonas Gardell and Mark Levengood:

[Linked Image]

Gardell and Levengood have been together 'forever'. As soon as it became possible to register their partnership as a civil union, they did so, in the early nineties. But by then they had been an official couple for about ten years.

In 2003, Jonas Gardell became a father. He and Mark Levengood knew a lesbian couple, and the four of them had long discussed the possibility of having children. Gardell provided one of the women with his sperm, and that way the woman became pregnant. Their little son spends most of his time with his mother and her partner, but Gardell and Levengood visit all the time.

Then in 2006, Mark Levengood had a daughter with the other woman, Jonas Gardell's son's mother's partner. (I know, it is a mouthful...)

Anyway, I think Gardell and Levengood are more loving fathers than the polygamous man pictured in my previous post, the one who couldn't be too upset that one of his children had died.

Ann