SEATTLE (CNN) — David Wing-Kovarik and his partner, Conrad, were ready to adopt a child. They moved through all their requirements smoothly, even enrolling in an orientation and training course for prospective parents. Then they were confronted with their first real stumbling block. “Our adoption agent said, ‘Well, you both look the same on paper,…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The Roman Catholic Church announced a major campaign Thursday aimed at bringing attention to what it said were growing threats to religious liberty in the United States, including the pending White House rule requiring health insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to employees of Catholic organizations. An…
Theresa Erickson, a 2010 columnist for San Diego LGBT Weekly on gay parenting, was sentenced Feb. 24 to five months in federal prison and seven months home confinement in an adoption scheme that the U.S. attorney described as a “baby selling ring.” Erickson, 44, of Ramona, an expert on reproductive law, resigned her state bar…
The Virginia Senate passed two anti-abortion bills Tuesday that would aim to squelch women’s rights in the state by implementing one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion laws. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is urging LGBT allies and activists to speak out against the pending legislation which will inevitably affect LGBT families and prospective parents because…
The Virginia State Senate is debating the passage of the so-called “conscience clause” that would permit adoption and foster agencies to deny placing a child in a home based on moral or religious causes. President Obama has opposed the measure, prompting The Family Equality Council to praise the Administration in wake of the president‘s support…
HAVANNA – Cuba’s first daughter has said the country’s lawmakers will consider legalizing same-sex civil unions this year. Pink News.co.uk reported that Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro and the director of the National Sex Education Centre told Cuba Si that the Cuban justice minister, Maria Esther Reus, announced that “… it is going…
In this second part of San Diego LGBT Weekly’s look at the recent inaugural report from the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, questions have inevitably been raised about what needs to be done on a global basis to protect LGBT people worldwide. Among its conclusions, the report…
NEW YORK– Despite laws in some states that impede the practice, a growing number of lesbians and gay men are adopting children in the United States – at least half of them providing families for boys and girls from foster care and 60 percent adopting transracially, according to the results of an extensive new survey…
Gay and lesbian couples have gotten the baby bug within the last decade, says a new analysis at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law. Within the past decade, the adoption rates for gay couples has tripled. “It’s a stratospheric increase. It’s like going from zero to 60,” said Miami attorney Elizabeth Schwartz in a…
