Provides an overview of political and legal change in Canada and the United States on three issue fronts: the recognition of same-sex relationships (including marriage); the acquisition of parenting rights and obligations by lesbian and gay couples; and the development of inclusive school policies and practices. In the first two areas it chronicles a policy “take-off” in Canada and a slow but steady of expansion of rights in the U.S. On schools, it finds disturbingly slow change in Canada, perhaps even less than the modest change in American education.