Results for: gay marriage
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New Study Questions Whether There Really Is “No Difference” Between Gay and Straight Parents
“This study cannot answer political questions about same-sex relationships and their legal legitimacy.”
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Did You Hear The One About The Anti-Gay Politician Secretly Donating Sperm to Lesbian Couples?
Bill Johnson is a Republican politician from Alabama who campaigned on a platform against gay rights. He’s also been secretly donating sperm to lesbians. He has a “human need,” you see.
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Gay People Suddenly Everywhere According To Census Data
“Middle America is safer and more welcoming for gay people than ever before, which is good, because it’s most of America.”
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Anthony Makk Won’t Be Deported, Can Stay In US to Care For His Husband
Anthony Makk can stay with his husband Bradford Wells in the US, at least for two more years.
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Michigan’s Anti-Gay Law That Hurts Domestic Partners Meets an ACLU Lawsuit
Michigan has passed a law denying domestic partners of public employees any benefits, but the ACLU isn’t happy about it.
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Illinois Catholic Charities Drop Gay Adoption and Foster Care Lawsuit Over Civil Unions
Catholic Charities Illinois called off their legal fight to continue providing foster care and adoption services for heterosexual couples only. They’d rather just provide adoption services for no one.
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For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real
“Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”
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It Gets Worse: Radio Host Uses Penn State Sex Abuse to Discuss Gay Adoption
What does the Penn State sex abuse scandal have to do with gay adoptive families? Oh, that’s right, nothing.
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Lesbians Face Discrimination in Dollywood, a Vermont Inn and a SF Gertrude Stein Exhibit
Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my t-shirt
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How To Be A Gay Family In An Unfriendly State, According To The New York Times
Do you know what a revocable living trust is? It might be the difference between having a family tragedy be heart-breaking or world-ending.
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Lesbian Marine Marries a Man, Lives With Girlfriend, Might Go to Prison For It
The story of how a lesbian Marine and her girlfriend managed to live off base and get married – just not to each other.
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Gays Get Hospital Visitation Rights, Live in the South With Kids, Can Marry in D.C.
“People grew up in church, so a lot of us lived in shame. What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”
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Immigration Officials To Gay Binational Couples: Just Kidding, No Deportation Holds
Binational gay couples don’t have cause for celebration after all, according to US immigration officials.
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What It Feels Like For A Lesbian Household: Recent Studies On Gay Families
Lesbian families are a thing – but to the scientific community, they still sometimes seem like an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Melissa Etheridge. Here are some of the hard facts.
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Christine O’Donnell Reminds Us That Gay Family Members Do Not a Homo-Friendly Politician Make
Did you hear the one about the [homophobic politician] and their gay [daughter/sister/brother/friend]? So did we, and you know, it’s really not funny anymore.
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Costa Rica Says Yes To The (Lesbian Wedding) Dress
Costa Rica’s solution to Prop 8 was to not let voters pass one — an attempt to have a voter referendum banning civil unions was shot down by the nation’s top court. We support this policy, and want everyone to learn a lesson from our friends and neighbors in Latin America.
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Is School a Battlefield For Your Homogay Heart?
Some things change and some things stay the same, like kids getting bullied in school for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Also, a new survey reveals that most Americans think gay families are kinda normal-ish.
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Zero Percent Of Kids With Lesbian Parents Report Abuse, Gay Moms FTW
Zero percent of teens with lesbian parents report instances of abuse; probably this means everyone should have two moms, like Riese. Also: You can get married over Skype now, Dan Choi is eloquent on Veterans/Remembrance Day, and meeting Autostraddlers and making friends will make you happy.
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Fifth-Grader with Two Moms Falls, Gets Injured, and Nobody Makes a Sound
Jenna Bissell is being discriminated against in the fifth grade because she has two moms. Happy Mother’s Day! Also, Iowa hates gay campers, David Dean Bottrell hates Setoodeh’s Newsweek article, and important historical milestones for gays in Lithuania and the Philippines.
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Gay Adoption in Florida: You Lose Some/Often But You Win Some Too
This week has been disheartening for a lot of us queer activists, but cheer up a little bit because Legal Eagle Jessica is here to share some GOOD NEWS about gay adoptions in Florida.