It has captured broad interest for one reason: Pearce's current partner happens to be Amanda Bearse, costar of the Fox sitcom Married.With Children and a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay lobbying group. While the issue has indeed, until recently, been little acknowledged by gay organizations and by the lesbian and gay press, Clark's case is changing all that. The 'dirty little secret' Clark refers to is the growing incidence of such lesbian-versus-lesbian battles for custody or visitation rights in which 'nonbiological' mothers such as Clark are generally left out in the cold by a legal system that does not recognize their relationship to the child.

Clark and Pearce were scheduled to go to court January 27 to determine Clark's rights with regard to the 10-year-old girl they had been raising together. 'It's like this dirty little secret in the gay community,' charges Tena Clark, a record producer engaged in a lawsuit against her former lover, Dell Pearce.

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