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Relationship Expert: My family is supportive – but they tell gay jokes

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:01:44 +0000

Question: So I am a openly gay teenage boy and for the most part my family is supportive. However, I get really bothered because my family, especially the males, will always be making gay(...)

Ill. judge rules against Catholic Charities on foster care

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:30:31 +0000

(Springfield, Ill.) An Illinois judge ruled Thursday that the state can stop working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster care placements – something the state decided to do in July(...)

Wyoming, Kansas beat California for same-sex parents

logointern3 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:59:49 +0000

New data says that there is an increase in gay parents in unlikely states like Alabama, Wyoming and Kansas. Data from the 2010 Census shows more same-sex couples raising children in those areas(...)

Gay adoption rates spike despite setbacks

logointern3 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:00:35 +0000

GLBT parents are adopting now more than ever despite an often unclear path to adoption, according to U.S. Census information.

Of all children living in homes headed by same-sex couples in 2009,(...)

Is Starbucks anti-gay?

logointern3 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:00:52 +0000

A lesbian mother says she and her 3-year-old daughter witnessed homophobia first-hand at coffee giant Starbucks.

Missy Alison reportedly saw a superior berate and essentially terminate an(...)

Could prenatal DNA testing open Pandora’s box?

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:03:50 +0000

Imagine being pregnant and taking a simple blood test that lays bare the DNA of your fetus. And suppose that DNA could reveal not only medical conditions like Down syndrome, but also things like(...)

Culhane: Every reader needs Savage’s ‘Mother and Father’ posts to stop

John Culhane — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:50:02 +0000

This isn’t helping.

That’s what I think each time I see that Dan Savage has posted another in his “Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father” series. For those not familiar with these(...)

Catholic Charities sues Illiniois over gay adoption

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:03:29 +0000

A Catholic organization that licenses foster and adoptive parents has sued the state of Illinois over a new law that would require it to place children with gay or unmarried couples.

Catholic(...)

Would you stand up if you saw a waitress insult a gay family?

Jennifer Vanasco — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:15:48 +0000

I love ABC’s “What Would You Do?” series, a kind of social justice version of Candid Camera. It has been amazing to watch as, in episode after episode, strangers have stepped up in support of(...)

Bigotry Watch: The Rapture is coming! And it’s the gays’ fault. Sigh.

David Badash — Fri, 20 May 2011 22:21:09 +0000

The Rapture is coming! The Rapture is coming!

And the radical right – furiously working to get their last attacks on “the gays” in before they depart the Earth during Saturday’s promised(...)