Pride Foster Family Agency (located in Califronia) has seen happy endings for needy children placed with gay foster parents, and I bet they’ll continue to.

Florida, Kentucky and Mississippi are among states that restrict gay and lesbian couples from foster parenting or adopting. Big shock.

Cathy Stansell, the director of Pride Foster Family Agency, is almost all smiles when she talks about the needy children placed with individuals and couples who have realized their dream of becoming parents.

In fact, the only time her jovial mood darkens is when she recounts the occasional complaints when a child’s relatives learn that the foster parents just happen to be gay.

“I’m sorry, this is a sore spot with me,” she said. “This is like where a drug-addicted parent who has neglected this kid and left him alone is criticizing someone’s sexuality — and this person is taking good care of your kid while you get your life back together.”

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Everybody’s sin is nobody’s sin.

~Kinsey

Read Everybody’s Sin is Nobody’s Sin: Alfred Kinsey and the Breaking of Sexual Silence

Check out Gwendolyn Ann Smith’s opinion piece on HR 418 (the Real ID Act) and how it will affect her life.

George W. Bush has signed a law that is a time bomb for me as a transgender woman. In a worst-case scenario, this one law could strip away my entire identity.

The measure in question is the so-called Real ID Act (HR 418). This bill contains three distinct parts. It alters U.S. asylum laws as related to potential terrorists, sets aside the rule of law to expedite the construction of a border fence between California and Mexico and creates federal regulations and standards for state driver’s licenses and identification cards.

This passed through the United States Senate only — thanks to the Act being tacked onto a supplemental military spending bill that was apparently too important not to vote for. If it were not an attachment, it may have been far harder to get this piece of legislation through Congress.

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Sounds like just another case of if we don’t talk about it, it will go away to me.

China has closed a Web site providing news and information to the country’s lesbian and gay community, according to press reports.

The www.gaychinese.net site has apparently been blocked since April, with its manager telling the AFP agency that the government claims it is too explicit.

However, site manager Damien Lu says the site was purely providing an online news resource to the many lesbian and gay people in China. He rejects the claims that the site was “violating the Chinese government’s rules.”

A popular AIDS activist said the closure of the Chinese language Web site would hit the gay community hard, telling Agence France-Presse that the content was vital to many vulnerable people and their families.

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From Planetout.com:

Without revealing every plot twist (and don’t read on if you’d rather not know anything about the opener before it airs), the fifth season premiere finds the guys dealing, for the most part, with decidedly adult issues.

For starters, Michael and Ben (Robert Gant) wonder if it’s time to leave their Liberty Avenue apartment building (essentially a gay dorm) for a more tranquil and grown-up home. Not surprisingly, Brian, a refreshingly contrarian voice, isn’t a supporter of the move, asserting, “Some of us queers prefer dancing and fucking to kiddies and picket fences.”

Meanwhile, Michael throws a surprise 10th anniversary party for Melanie (Michelle Clunie) and Lindsay (Thea Gill), where the women finally inform their friends that they have split up. Michael, who assumed the baby he fathered for the lesbians would grow up in a two-parent home, is shocked. Might he decide the infant would be better off raised in a household such as his and Ben’s? Can you say “lawsuit”?

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What else ya got for me? This:

*Gay couples gather at ConCourt
*MTV’s gay channel, Advocate publisher on same team
*Champagne & Cake Greet Gay Couples On First Anniversaries
*Homosexual Book in North Carolina Elementary School Prompts Legislation
*Mass. Dad Becomes Icon for Pro-Family Protest Against Homosexual Agenda in Schools
*HRC RELEASES ‘TO HAVE AND TO HOLD?’: THE STORIES OF COUPLES DENIED THE RIGHT TO MARRY
*Scots may be asked sexual orientation
*’Sin no more,’ God told us, including homosexuality
*Why gays don’t lust after Eve
*When government and religion meet
*Bible ‘against homosexuality’
*Bush’s House Homophobe

How can two men doing it be acceptable? What a way to pass on AIDS!

From Homosexuality wrong!

Just How Gay Is the Right, an OP-ED piece on the war on gays, appeared in the May 15th New York Times. I thought I’d take a look and see what some of the reactions have been in the blogosphere.

What they’re saying…

Seeing the Forest: I’ll say it a little clearer: The rabidly anti-homosexual wingnuts are obviously gay and ashamed of it.

Why else would they be insisting that the presence of gay people risks “luring” straight people to become homosexual? This wouldn’t even occur to a person who is not fighting such urges…

Nick Lewis: This isn’t about “gay rights” folks…. Our obligation — and I do mean that — is to finally crush, and humilate this movement of hypocritical, sexually retarted, scat munching, sociopathic bigots who are so arrogant as to call themselves the “moral majority”; their goal is no less than deficating upon the world’s oldest democracy with thier disgusting orgy of hypocrtical hate. Our inability to stop this movement of hate mongering toddlers will one day be a mark of shame on all Americans. The tide must turn now. We, those of us who know that hate, ignorance, love of war, greed, and hypocracy go not only against the teachings of Jesus, but even our veru evolutionary heritage… where have we been?

Power Line: Throughout his long column, Rich associates Allen Drury’s point of view with his own, and he suggests that Drury–a fan of the “the constitutional checks and balances that ‘Advise and Consent’ so powerfully extols”–would have been on the Democrats’ side in the current battle over the filibuster.

This perspective is so strange that it requires a moment to untangle. First, for those unfamiliar with Drury’s novel, its villains are liberals, and its heroes conservatives. At the height of the cold war, the President, a supreme politician in declining health, nominates as Secretary of State an an appeaser named Robert Leffingwell. A bipartisan coalition favoring a strong defense against Soviet expansionism forms against Leffingwell in the Senate, and ultimately defeats his nomination. Along the way, the liberals learn that Brig Anderson, a rising star in what is clearly the Republican Party, had a brief homosexual experience while in the Army during World War II. The liberals use this fact to blackmail Anderson, trying to force him to vote for Leffingwell. Anderson commits suicide instead, and his death galvanizes the conservatives’ opposition to the far-left nominee and his unprincipled liberal allies…

What’s your take?

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Check out Melanie Reason’s interview with Ragan Fox at getunderground.com.

Fox just released his first book, Heterophobia, in January 2005.

Malaysiakini.com takes a look at the connotation of lifestyle and the belief that one can be reformed in Muslim culture.

I refer to the Rentakini article It’s a Muslim issue: How gay are you? The article raised pertinent thoughts on the topic of HIV/Aids and homosexuality vis-a-vis the Muslim perspective.

It states the anxiety faced by many gays and lesbians who are torn between the teachings of Islam and their compulsion towards loving an individual of the same sex. PT Foundation chairman Hisham Hussein is so right in saying that homosexuality is not a Malay Muslim issue - rather it is a phenomenon.

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Jeffery Price died last year from a self-inflicted gunshot to his head. He was 20-years-old. Redstate.org features this piece from the Wilkes-Barre, PA Times Leader in a post by Marcia Ellen. It leads us through the life of Jeffrey, a young man made to believe his sexuality was a sin.

From his journal:

“I’m sorry I ever labeled myself as gay. Now it’s too hard to escape. I know if I start now at this young age I can become the man I’m supposed to be. The man that feels right. The man that has a family. But I want that with another man.”

And check out the comments below the post. Who knew homosexuality isn’t a political issue for conservatives and Republicans? I know tons of people who would disagree with that one, myself included.