Several New Hampshire lawmakers are sponsoring a bill to clarify the state’s policies on adoption by same-sex couples, and explicitly permit it in all 10 counties. Currently, adoption law allows a married couple or an unmarried adult to adopt. It does not specifically permit or deny it to two committed unmarried adults. This means that […]
The legal recognition of same-sex relationships is only a few years old. Many same-sex couples who wed or have civil unions have been together far longer, married in spirit if not in law. This makes it more likely they already have children when they marry, and their ceremonies become celebrations of the entire family. For
The Evesham School District of Marlton, New Jersey, under fire over a diversity-education film depicting same-sex families, has bowed to pressure and decided to eliminate the film from its curriculum. (See my original post on the matter.) Garden State Equality is asking everyone who can to join them and many other allies at the Evesham
A busy week, both in the U. S. and abroad: House Republicans in Alaska are backing an April advisory vote to ask voters if they would support a constitutional amendment to ban court-ordered benefits for the same-sex partners of public employees. The election would cost $1.2 million, nearly four times the annual cost of benefits
I was going to put this in my Weekly Political Update, but decided it deserved a post of its own: Officials from the Lexington, Massachusetts school district asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit of two couples who claim their parental rights were violated when books depicting same-sex families were discussed in their children’s
Quote of the day, from New York Representative Gary Ackerman: For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists. They’re very brave with the terrorists, and if the terrorists ever got ahold of this information, they’d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad. Ackerman
There must be some cosmic transposition going on in the lesbian blog world today. I’m writing about entertainment news, and AfterEllen is writing about Elmo. AfterEllen’s ScribeGrrrl reports on a serious matter, though. The Bush Administration wants to slash the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She relates that according to TV Squad, “A
The Washington Post has a lengthy article on the child-custody case involving former partners Janet and Lisa Miller-Jenkins. (I’ve covered this case several times before.) The Post says: These lawyers . . . are debating questions so profound that the answers have the power to affect legions of families gay and straight: Who is a
The Family Pride Coalition is once again organizing a contingent of LGBTQ families to participate in the White House Egg Roll. They explain: With your help, on April 9th, hundreds of LGBTQ-parented families will fill the White House Lawn, rolling easter eggs side by side with our fellow citizens. At Family Pride, we believe that
