History Main / AllLesbiansWantKids

* Most of the women in Part 1 of ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' are bisexual, but it's the three lesbians that either express a desire for kids (Darcy) or already had one by the time the comic started (Adelie and Bella). [[spoiler:By the time of Part 2, most of the other women are also shown to be pregnant, but it's unclear if they actively wanted kids or if it was just a consequence of the fact that EveryoneHasLotsOfSex.]]

* ''{{Series/Liar}}'': Vanessa is a lesbian who's expecting a baby with her wife. The pair are the only lesbians shown.

* Averted with Scandal Savage in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', her dad Vandal Savage wants a grandchild which she point-blank refuses to give him because she suspects with good reason he just wants an organ donor.

* Really, within seconds of the lesbian couple in ''Film/TheBrokenHeartsClubARomanticComedy'' entering onscreen you can guess what their "drama" will be. Since the lesbians are Dennis' sister Anne and her partner Leslie, the couple's idea is for him to donate sperm to impregnate Leslie, so that their child is biologically related to both of them. The irony of this is that Dennis and Leslie [[MonsterInLaw despise each other]].

* Really, within seconds of the lesbian couple in ''Film/TheBrokenHeartsClubARomanticComedy'' entering onscreen you can guess what their "drama" will be.

* Creator/SpikeLee's ''Film/SheHateMe'' takes the trope UpToEleven in all its clichéd glory. Big time. Basically, a story about a ChickMagnet straight donor who has to give his semen to a bunch of lesbians who pay him in return. And he and his gigantic... ''sperm bank''... bring every one of them to orgasm. Creator/RogerEbert's [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040806/REVIEWS/408060304/1023 review]] [[EpilepticTrees theorizes]] that the film was a StealthParody, given Lee's reputation and the over-the-top offense.

** Pretty much every other lesbian who appears on ''Rick & Steve'' has or is trying to conceive a baby. In one early episode, Kirstin pretends to be a gay man so she can hook up with a gay guy through the internet and steal his sperm. Her hookup turns out to be... another lesbian also seeking sperm. And on the gay cruise episode, all the lesbians onboard are there for the lamaze classes, while all the guys are there to party and hook up. This shouldn't be too surprising, though, since ''Rick and Steve'' is built around turning ridiculous gay stereotypes UpToEleven.

* Most of the women in Part 1 of ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' are bisexual, but it's the three lesbians either express a desire for kids (Darcy) or already had one by the time the comic started (Adelie and Bella). [[spoiler:By the time of Part 2, most of the other women are also shown to be pregnant, but it's unclear if they actively wanted kids or if it was just a consequence of the fact that EveryoneHasLotsOfSex.]]

* A chapter of textbook example of this trope is played straight in ''Series/{{ER}}'' with Dr. Kerry Weaver and her firefighter girlfriend complete with custody battles, melodrama, and death.

A great deal of attention will be paid to what is an easy and minor part of the process: the lesbian couple's quest to find sperm. Sperm banks and adoption will almost never be seriously discussed. The TV lesbians will instead try to get sperm [[ChosenConceptionPartner from the men in their life]], be he a close friend, in-law, or random passerby and a truly improbable number will even opt for an "old-fashioned" impregnation with the sperm donor. If one can't be found, expect the lesbian couple go to increasingly [[ZanyScheme unlikely, embarrassing, and even illegal ends to acquire one.]] Expect some variation on a joke involving turkey basters.

A given female cast member is gay and has entered in a long-term relationship with another woman. At some point their [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking biological clock will go off]], and a pregnancy storyline will begin, since they only want ''biological'' kids.

** The token lesbians decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay man Brian, to be the biological father, which seems a bit less insane once you think about that that part of the plot was based on the [[Series/QueerAsFolk British version]], where Brian's counterpart is more of a nymphomaniac ManChild than {{Jerkass}} Brian.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan to allow his DNA to be overwritten with Leslie's and Robin carries the resulting triplets to term (which, thanks to her SuperSpeed, happens in one month).

** The token lesbians decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay HeroicSociopath Brian, to be the biological father, which seems a bit less insane once you think about that that part of the plot was based on the [[Series/QueerAsFolk British version]], where Brian's counterpart is more of a nymphomaniac ManChild than {{Jerkass}} Brian.

This trope is TruthInTelevision for some lesbians but [[NonIndicativeName not all of them.]]

* Averted'' in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', as Susan fell in love with Carol independently of her getting pregnant by her then-husband.

* The film ''Film/ICantThinkStraight'' ends with Leyla informing Tala that they must have children. It seems to be some kind of compromise she struck with her very traditional parents when she came out.

* The token lesbians in the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay Heroic Sociopath Brian, to be the biological father.
** Which seems a bit less insane once you think about that that part of the plot was based on the British version, where Brian's counterpart is more of a nymphomaniac ManChild than {{Jerkass}} Brian.

* This has been [[AvertedTrope averted]] with ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Willow, despite having been in two long term relationships.

* Appeared to be the only reason to include Carol's partner Susan in ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
** ''Averted'' in Friends, as Susan fell in love with Carol independently of her getting pregnant by her then-husband.

* Played with in ''Series/FlashForward2009'' where Janice, a lesbian, quite bluntly says she does ''not'' want kids, but is pregnant in her vision of the future.

* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' has a curious variation on this: set in the far future, the male and female crew of a colonization mission got into a dispute and split up, resulting in one planet in the system populated entirely by males, the other entirely by females. Generations later, both planets rely on genetic engineering to reproduce. For the all-female planet Majere, two women pair off, and they have their egg cells spliced together in a lab, and the resulting embryo is implanted in one of them who carries the fetus to term.So while the lesbian characters do want to "get pregnant" on the show, many times they just do this with ''each other'', skipping the "we need a sperm donor" step. Zigzagged with Jura, who spends most of the series trying to seduce Hibiki. Jura is in a committed lesbian relationship with Barnette, but Jura is only trying to seduce Hibiki for the ''specific purpose'' of using him as a sperm donor: her logic being that if she's the first woman from her planet in generations to conceive a child with a male, it will make her a global celebrity.

* Averted with Scandal Savage in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', her dad Vandal Savage wants a grandchild which she point blank refuses to give him because she suspects with good reason he just wants an organ donor.
* In the Creator/GailSimone run on ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Volume 3]], specifically ''The Circle'': all the women of the Amazon society of Themyscira are reincarnations of women who were murdered in their previous lives, many of whom were mothers. However, due to now existing under the ImmortalProcreationClause, they are unable to have children, but still maintain the strong maternal instincts from their prior lives. As a coping mechanism, several women carried wooden dolls called whittle babies; unfortunately, one woman just cracks from it all, she starts believing that the doll is her literal baby, forcing Hippolyta's personal guards to kill her. Further, the Circle look upon Hippolyta having Diana after literal divine intervention as a curse that would lead to Amazon society being ripped apart by envy. This was forwarded most of all by Alkyone, head of the Circle and a very fervent protector of what she percieves as Amazon culture. She eventually decides to try and kill baby Diana and later her as an adult (where, in a fit of grand irony, it's revealed that Alkyone herself suffered from the same sort of envy she warned about.)

* This formed part of the plot impetus for the film ''Film/UnderTheTuscanSun''. The protagonist's friends had booked a tour of Italy, but gave the tickets to her when their artificial insemination was successful.

* Two examples that exist on opposite ends of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism when it comes to the custody aspect are ''What Makes a Family'' and ''Two Mothers for Zachary'' respectively, the latter being based on a real life case.
* A chapter of textbook example of this trope is played straight in ''Series/{{ER}}'' with Dr. Kerry Weaver and her firefighter girlfriend complete with custody battles, melodrama and death.

** It's brought up again in Season 8, when a run in with [[spoiler:Willow's ex-boyfriend Oz]] shows that he now has a child. Willow is upset; [[spoiler:Oz]] assumes it's because of this trope and tells her there are ways for her to have a child. She reveals that her anger has nothing to do with him having a child but rather that he's allowed to have a normal future, while she can't when she is one of the top people in the Slayer organization and a sorceress supreme with much [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner-darkness]].

* The HBO series ''Bored to Death'' features a storyline about a lesbian couple who hit up one the male main characters for sperm in a coffee shop. [[Creator/EddieIzzard Like you do.]] When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.

* Referenced in ''Series/{{QI}}'' episode "Holidays", when Rob Brydon jokes that "a family runaround with an excellent safety record" would be a much better slang word for lesbian than "dyke."[[note]]Despite having Britain's two most prominent lesbian comics (Sandi Toksvig--the female Creator/StephenFry--and Sue Perkins) as regulars in recent series, this stereotype--to the series' credit!--is not referenced when they've shown up.[[/note]]

* Played with in ''Series/OneBigHappy''. Lizzy plays it straight. Her ex Erica is surprised at first, but warms up to it in an attempt to get Lizzy to come back to her. Kate doesn't mind the kid part, but still can't date Lizzy because she's her nurse and that'd violate protocol.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids, and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan to allow his DNA to be overwritten with Leslie's and Robin carries the resulting triplets to term (which, thanks to her SuperSpeed, happens in one month).

** He also kidnapped the male couple's child. The lesbian couple try to get him to give her back by showing that gay couples can have a loving normal family.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode where Peter gets a vasectomy, he goes to the sperm bank just in case he and Lois decide to have another child down the line. While there, he accidentally spills all the sperm samples, and refills them with his own. Shortly thereafter, a lesbian couple arrive to get a specimen so one of them can conceive. Months later, Bertram is born.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids, and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan to allow his DNA to be overwritten with Leslie's and Robin carries the resulting triplets to term (which, thanks to her SuperSpeed, happens in one month).

* In ''Videogame/TheOuterWorlds'', Junlei Tennyson states that she will be the last Tennyson to captain the Groundbreaker since she has no desire for children, meaning that she will have to look for and train successors from elsewhere.

* In the Creator/GailSimone run on ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', specifically ''The Circle'': all the women of the Amazon society of Themyscira are reincarnations of women who were murdered in their previous lives, many of whom were mothers. However, due to now existing under the ImmortalProcreationClause, they are unable to have children, but still maintain the strong maternal instincts from their prior lives. As a coping mechanism, several women carried wooden dolls called whittle babies; unfortunately, one woman just cracks from it all, she starts believing that the doll is her literal baby, forcing Hippolyta's personal guards to kill her. Further, the Circle look upon Hippolyta having Diana after literal divine intervention as a curse that would lead to Amazon society being ripped apart by envy. This was forwarded most of all by Alkyone, head of the Circle and a very fervent protector of what she percieves as Amazon culture. She eventually decides to try and kill baby Diana and later her as an adult (where, in a fit of grand irony, it's revealed that Alkyone herself suffered from the same sort of envy she warned about.)

* Played with in a back-up strip in the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' comic, where a horrific monster that wipes out the main cast turns out to be three kids, who turn out to be AllJustADream of LesbianCop Stephanopoulos. Upon waking, she dumps the adoption book she fell asleep reading in the bin.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' with Maggie, who really doesn't see herself as a mother, possibly because her own childhood was crappy (her family kicked her out after finding out about her sexual orientation). [[spoiler:This ends up driving a wedge between her and Alex, as Alex desperately wants kids and knows that Maggie will never change her mind. They do end up parting ways as AmicableExes]].