All posts tagged "family"
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''Conscience Clause'' Bills Pass through Legislature
With today's vote in the Virginia House of Delegates, it's now up to Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) to sign – or not – a measure...
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Virginia Adoption Bill Passed
The Virginia Senate today passed a bill that critics say indirectly bans LGBT people, and potentially other subgroups, from becoming adoptive or foster parents. All...
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Virginia Discrimination Reinforced
Virginia's State Board of Social Services voted 5-1 Dec. 14 to approve regulations on adoption that allow state-licensed private adoption and foster care agencies to...
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Making a Clean Break
Despite a controversial walk-up to the passage of D.C. marriage equality in 2009, a recently introduced bill before the City Council that would permit same-sex...
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Couples Win Baltimore Benefits
Even as two Baltimore County police officers became the latest to win equal employment benefits for their same-sex spouses last week, Maryland Attorney General Doug...
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Seeking Adoption Equality
On Monday, Oct. 31, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act – a bill previously introduced in the House by...
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Gansler Warns of Ballot-Box Fight
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler told supporters of marriage equality that he believes same-sex marriage will be passed by Maryland's General Assembly and signed into...
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Mapping the New ''Gayborhood''
When David Lippe and his partner, Valentine Garcia, moved into their house on Seaton Street in Northwest D.C. 17 years ago, they were one of...
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Children Caught in the Middle
Each year, more than 100,000 children in the United States foster care system are waiting for adoptive homes, according to the U.S. Department of Health...
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News Analysis: The Changed Landscape, and the New Focus
Although the changed political winds in Washington, D.C., spell an end to any likely chance of the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act or...
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Alaska candidate Joe Miller: Homosexual cures, choices are a state issue; wants Constitutional ban on gay marriage [video]
”My respect with when answering this question before, is that...
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Neil Patrick Harris expecting twin babies: Tells why now, and of partner’s skills as a dad
”Last week was our first week back . And now we’re having twin babies in October. So, as if things weren’t busy enough! Now...
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One macho, conservative dad’s advice to fathers of gay sons
”I’m a wood splitting-type guy. But sometimes macho men like myself, we must understand that different people have different interests, and we must be accommodative....
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Parenting Questions
Andrea Peyser's scathing New York Post review of The Kids Are All Right – titled '''The Kids' are not all right'' – attempts to dismiss...
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Limited Leave (Updated)
Changes to be announced tomorrow, June 23, regarding expansion of family-leave benefits for gay and lesbian families will be limited to an expansion for individuals...
