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News (USA)
Go for a smoke? New study says most teens lighting up are queer or questioning
Researchers found gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning teenagers smoked more than those who said they were straight. Trans teens were inexplicably left out.
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News (USA)
Hey, Ben Carson: watch these proud dads of trans kids explain it all
In talking about his family’s journey, one dad says, “This is a family transition, and that’s what it needs to be.”
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News (World)
Mom’s perfect response after stranger ridicules her son’s Elsa dress
“Because he doesn’t understand the gender stereotypes YOU think he should conform to, but most importantly because he is awesome!!”
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News (USA)
Massachusetts court to hear gay parental rights case
The same state court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the U.S. is now being asked to decide a complicated case about the parental rights of a once-partnered but unmarried gay couple.
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News (USA)
Decision finally made in Arkansas birth certificate lawsuit
Arkansas health officials are “holding off” on giving certificates to any same-sex couple that wasn’t directly involved in the suit.
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News (USA)
Oklahoma high court reinstates same-sex couple’s parenting lawsuit
The Oklahoma Supreme Court said it is in the child’s best interest to grant the non-biological parent a hearing to explore custody and visitation rights.
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Couples press for end to Mississippi’s last-in-the-nation gay adoption ban
Four lesbian couples pressed a federal judge on Friday to overturn the ban, but lawyers for the state argued the lawsuit should be tossed out.
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News (USA)
Officials: Nebraska birth certificates changing to list same-sex spouses
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has quietly changed state policy and plans to list the names of both same-sex spouses on their children’s birth certificates.
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News (USA)
Does every kid really need a mother and a father?
You hear it all the time from anti-gay groups… but what does the science say about same-sex parents?
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Life
As same-sex marriage becomes more widely accepted, ranks of gay dads increase
More so than heterosexual couples or lesbians, who can bear their own children, gay men face high hurdles en route to parenthood. The main avenues open to them – adoption or surrogacy – can be costly and complicated. But many gay men are going out of their way to become dads, and as they celebrate Father’s Day this year, they can anticipate that their ranks will swell if the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.