As Florida awaits an appeals court ruling that may legalize gay adoption, state Sen. Nan Rich (D-Weston) is doing an end run around the court. Rich, who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians fr...

"A measure that would bar gay and lesbian couples from adopting children is sparking protests in Frankfort. Opponents gathered in the Capitol on Wednesday to call on lawmakers to defeat the legislation. Their calls for "fairness" echoed through the marble hallways. Louisville civil ri...

"Courts can oversee a custody dispute between lesbian parents who adopted in Illinois even though Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships, the state Court of Appeals said in a decision released Friday. The court ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Constitution requires Michigan courts to...

Over at Daily Kos, a straight woman is flabbergasted by the adoption form sent to her by the state of Florida. As I am a straight, married woman, and my husband is a straight, married man, it never occurred to either of us that--after the volumes of paperwork we had to complete as a couple, the copi...

Two more LGBT rights bills failed to get out of committee in the Utah legislature yesterday. Dead are the bills to allow gay and unmarried couples to adopt and the bill that would have protected LGBT folks from housing and employment discrimination. The haters framed their arguments against the bill...

Kentucky state Sen. Gary Tapp (R) wants to make double-extra sure that no dirty homos are allowed to adopt children and yesterday introduced a bill that will ban all unmarried couples from adopting. Human rights group The Fairness Campaign called Senator Gary Tapp’s bill "deceptively-worded." "It ...

"The state Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court judge erred in granting a lesbian joint custody of her former partner's adopted daughter. The justices said in a unanimous ruling this week that the woman had no standing to petition for custody in Family Court because she was not the c...

So I was reading this typically OUTRAGED!! story on World Net Daily about the state of California having pitched in for two measly billboards promoting gay adoption.... Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, a California pro-family organization, released a statement saying...

The Human Rights Campaign has published their "State To State" report, a comprehensive listing of what legislation may be coming regarding LGBT rights in every state in 2009 as well as what happened in 2008. Their summary for the coming year: · Marriage equality: Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Ve...

"A Spanish court says a judge has been suspended for attempting to thwart a woman’s effort to adopt her lesbian partner’s child. The Superior Justice Court in the southeast Murcia region says it suspended Judge Fernando Ferrin Calamita for two years. The court also ordered the Catholic judg...