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• GEIA CAN’T AFFORD ANOTHER ANTI-LGBT BILLINVESTING IN THE FUTUREATLANTA IS A MAJOR HUB FOR THE FILM DTRY AND HOP TO BEE AMAZON’S SEND HOMETOWN. BUT GEIA’S LATT HOMOPHOBIC BILL ULD SRE BIG BS AWAY.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED MAR. 23, 2018 7:36PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 01, 2018 5:13AM EST OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEASTGEIA N’T AFFORD TO PASS AN ANTI-LGBT ADOPTN BILL. LERALLY. POWER PLAYERS THE FILM DTRY, AS VARIETY REPORTED, HAVE ALREADY BEGUN PUTTG PRSURE ON GEIA TO ABANDON SB 375, A “RELIG EEDOM” BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW ADOPTN AGENCI TO TURN AWAY SAME-SEX UPL—AS HAVE LARGE ATLANTA-HEADQUARTERED BS LIKE DELTA AND CO-COLA. AND AS CNBC NOTED, THE ANTI-LGBT BILL, WHICH CLEARED THE STATE SENATE LAST FRIDAY, ULD ALSO HARM ATLANTA’S CHANC TO ATTRACT AMAZON’S VETED SENDARY HEADQUARTERS—OR HQ2 FOR SHORT. IN OTHER WORDS, GEIA STATE LEGISLATORS ARE ONCE AGA JEOPARDIZG THE ENOMIC GROWTH OF THEIR STATE ORR TO HURT LGBT PEOPLE. IT’S A PROCS THAT I’VE WATCHED HAPPEN ONE TOO MANY TIM. WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO ATLANTA FOR SCHOOL 2010, I MISTAKENLY BELIEVED—AS TOO MANY AMERINS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE SOUTH DO—THAT I WAS HEADG TO A CULTURAL AND ENOMIC BACKWATER. I ENJOYED EATG CHICK-FIL-A—BUT THAT WAS JT ABOUT THE EXTENT OF MY FAIARY WH GEIA; EVERYTHG ELSE WAS A BUNDLE OF STEREOTYP I HAD ABSORBED OM WATCHG THE STONE MOUNTA-BORN KENH CHARACTER ON 30 ROCK. LTLE DID I KNOW HOW EPLY I WOULD FALL LOVE WH THE SOUTH—NOR DID I REALIZE THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO GEIA THAN WAFFLE I.IT QUICKLY BEME CLEAR THAT GEIA—AMONG S MANY STRENGTHS—WAS ON S WAY TO BEG A MAJOR HUB FOR FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTN. AS THE ATLANTA BS CHRONICLE REPORTED, THAT DTRY WAS SIZED AT A STAGGERG $9.5 BILLN 2017. HELL, THE DAYS SOME FILMMAKERS AREN’T EVEN PRETENDG THAT THEIR ATLANTA-SHOT FILMS ARE SET SOMEWHERE ELSE—BABY DRIVER BEG THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF A FILM TO EMBRACE AN EXPLICLY SOUTHERN SETTG. I WATCHED THIS GROWTH HAPPEN, AS ATLANTA’S R-CLOGGED HIGHWAYS BEME REGNIZABLE TO THE RT OF THE UNTRY AS A WALKG DEAD POSTER. GEIA’S ENOMIC GROWTH AND RISG STATURE, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN NCURRENT WH NEAR-NSTANT ATTACKS ON THE STATE’S LGBT MUNY. IT’S ALMOST LIKE SOME STATE LEGISLATORS RE MORE ABOUT HURTG ALREADY MARGALIZED LGBT NSTUENTS THAN THEY DO ABOUT THE STATE’S NTUED SUCCS. IN 2015—RIGHT BEFORE I MOVED OUT OF THE STATE—THE SWEEPG ANTI-LGBT “RELIG EEDOM” BILL SB 129 SAILED THROUGH THE SENATE. IT ULTIMATELY FAILED AFTER WAS TIMATED THE LEGISLATN ULD EFFECTIVELY ST THE STATE OVER $1 BILLN. I WATCHED THE PROTTS UNR THE GOLD DOME OF THE CAPOL BUILDG BUT, THE END, I KNEW WASN’T THE IMPASSNED PLEAS OF MY IENDS THAT STOPPED SB 129, BUT THE STATE’S BOTTOM LE. THEN 2016, SOCIALLY NSERVATIVE STATE LEGISLATORS TRIED AGA WH HB 757—ANOTHER ANTI-LGBT “RELIG EEDOM” BILL—ONLY TO BE SHOT DOWN BY REPUBLIN GOV. NATHAN DEAL, WHO VETOED THE BILL AFTER PASSED MARCH. DEAL’S CISN, AS THE DAILY BEAST AND OTHER OUTLETS REPORTED, ME AS DISNEY, THE NFL, AND OTHER BIG BS PUBLICLY DISAPPROVED OF THE IMPENDG LAW AND, SOME S, THREATENED BOYTTS. BUT ANTI-LGBT LEGISLATORS, UNTERRED, WENT BACK TO WORK ON THIS NEW ADOPTN BILL, SB 375, WHICH IS PHEMISTILLY LLED THE “KEEP FAH ADOPTN AND FOSTER CARE ACT.” ACRDG TO THE BILL’S TEXT, SB 375 WOULD “ALLOW A CHILD-PLACG AGENCY” TO CLE CERTA SERVIC “BASED ON THE CHILD-PLACG AGENCY’S SCERELY HELD RELIG BELIEFS”—AND BAR THE STATE OM “DISCRIMATG AGAST OR G ANY ADVERSE ACTN AGAST A CHILD-PLACG AGENCY BASED ON S SCERELY HELD RELIG BELIEFS.” IN PLA ENGLISH: ADOPTN AND FOSTER RE AGENCI N TURN PROSPECTIVE MOMS AND DADS AWAY JT BEE THEY BELIEVE BEG GAY IS BAD—EVEN THOUGH, AS COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL’S “WHAT WE KNOW” PROJECT SUMMARIZED, THE REARCH SUGGTS THAT CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL “FARE NO WORSE THAN OTHER CHILDREN.” IT IS A HEART-WRENCHG AND CEL PIECE OF LEGISLATN FOR A STATE THAT REPORTEDLY HAS 11,000 CHILDREN FOSTER RE. I WAS FAIAR WH QUEER PEOPLE GEIA WHO WERE TRYG TO ADOPT—AND THEY FACED MORE THAN ENOUGH OBSTACL WHOUT HAVG A BILL LIKE THIS PILED ON TOP OF THEM. SB 375 HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BY THE STATE SENATE A 35-19 VOTE, AS THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTUTN REPORTED, AND GOV. DEAL HAS YET TO TAKE A PUBLIC STANCE ON . AND SO LGBT GEIANS ARE FDG THEMSELV YET AGA AN UNENVIABLE POSN: WATCHG THE BS MUNY AND THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY WORK HARR TO PROTECT THEM THAN THEIR OWN ELECTED OFFICIALS. THE MSAGE OM THOSE SECTORS TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE IS CLEAR: PASS THIS LAW AND WE ALL LOSE MONEY.“LEGISLATN THAT SANCTNS DISCRIMATN AND LIMS OPTNS FOR CHILDREN NEED OF A PERMANENT HOME TAK FURTHER AWAY OM OUR GOAL OF ATTRACTG VTMENTS THAT IMPROVE THE LIV OF GEIA FAI,” METRO ATLANTA CHAMBER CHIEF POLICY OFFICER KATIE KIRKPATRICK TOLD VARIETY. I REMEMBER OM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE THE UNEASY FEELG OF KNOWG THAT SODA, AIRPLAN, AND BOOM MICS ARE WHAT STAND BETWEEN YOU AND AN ALL-OUT ASSLT ON YOUR RIGHTS. GEIA IS NOT NORTH CAROLA, WHERE AN ANTI-TRANSGENR “BATHROOM BILL” WAS PASSED 2016, G WISPREAD BOYTTS AND ANGERG THE NCAA. IT’S ALSO NOT MISSISSIPPI, WHICH ALLOWED THE MOST ANTI-LGBT LAW THE UNTRY TO GO TO EFFECT OCTOBER 2017 AND STILL HASN’T REPEALED . THE PEACH STATE, LIKE TOO MANY OF S NEIGHBORS, MAY NOT HAVE MANY EXPLIC LGBT PROTECTNS—BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, HAS BEE A STATE THAT WALKS BACK OM THE EDGE OF PASSG POTENTIALLY DISASTRO ANTI-LGBT LEGISLATN. WHEN YOU LIVE ATLANTA AS AN LGBT PERSON, THERE’S A NAGGG VOICE YOUR BRA THAT WONRS WHAT LIFE WOULD BE LIKE IF DELTA AND COKE AND THE FILM DTRY WEREN’T THERE. WOULD THE STATE HAVE PASSED A DISASTRO “RELIG EEDOM” BILL LIKE INDIANA DID 2015? PERHAPS. THE UNFORTUNATE REALY IS THAT BS NCERNS—AND NOT MORAL NVICTNS—ARE OFTEN WHAT TAK TO KILL LGBT BILLS THE SOUTH. AND GEIA, BS SEEMS TO BE GOOD ENOUGH TO KEEP THE WORST BILLS OM BEG LAW. THAT MAY BE WHY THE MOTN PICTURE OF ASSOCIATN OF AMERI IS EXPECTG HISTORY TO REPEAT SELF WH SB 375. A SPOKPERSON FOR THE TRA ANIZATN TOLD VARIETY, “AS WE SAW THE LEGISLATURE LAST YEAR, WE ARE NFINT THAT GEIA WILL NOT ENACT ANY KD OF LEGISLATN THAT WOULD PERM DISCRIMATN AGAST ANY DIVIDUAL.” IN THE END, THE ANTI-LGBT ADOPTN BILL WILL PROBABLY PERISH—WHETHER THE LEGISLATURE, OR ON DEAL’S SK— THE NAME OF THE GEIA ENOMY. BUT, THE MEANTIME, LGBT PEOPLE GEIA HAVE TO WATCH THEIR RIGHTS GET YO-YOED ONT OF THEIR EY FOR THE THIRD TIME AS MANY YEARS. AND SEEMS LIKE ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE STATE LEGISLATURE’S NSTANT ATTEMPTS TO PASS SOMETHG—ANYTHG—ANTI-LGBT WOULD START TO MAKE BIG BS JT AS SKTISH AS ACTUALLY PASSG SOMETHG WOULD. SAMANTHA ALLEN
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG THEIR ADOPTED BOYS
• GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT

GEIA CAN’T AFFORD ANOTHER ANTI-LGBT BILLINVESTING IN THE FUTUREATLANTA IS A MAJOR HUB FOR THE FILM DTRY AND HOP TO BEE AMAZON’S SEND HOMETOWN. BUT GEIA’S LATT HOMOPHOBIC BILL ULD SRE BIG BS AWAY.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED MAR. 23, 2018 7:36PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 01, 2018 5:13AM EST OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEASTGEIA N’T AFFORD TO PASS AN ANTI-LGBT ADOPTN BILL. LERALLY. POWER PLAYERS THE FILM DTRY, AS VARIETY REPORTED, HAVE ALREADY BEGUN PUTTG PRSURE ON GEIA TO ABANDON SB 375, A “RELIG EEDOM” BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW ADOPTN AGENCI TO TURN AWAY SAME-SEX UPL—AS HAVE LARGE ATLANTA-HEADQUARTERED BS LIKE DELTA AND CO-COLA. AND AS CNBC NOTED, THE ANTI-LGBT BILL, WHICH CLEARED THE STATE SENATE LAST FRIDAY, ULD ALSO HARM ATLANTA’S CHANC TO ATTRACT AMAZON’S VETED SENDARY HEADQUARTERS—OR HQ2 FOR SHORT. IN OTHER WORDS, GEIA STATE LEGISLATORS ARE ONCE AGA JEOPARDIZG THE ENOMIC GROWTH OF THEIR STATE ORR TO HURT LGBT PEOPLE. IT’S A PROCS THAT I’VE WATCHED HAPPEN ONE TOO MANY TIM. WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO ATLANTA FOR SCHOOL 2010, I MISTAKENLY BELIEVED—AS TOO MANY AMERINS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE SOUTH DO—THAT I WAS HEADG TO A CULTURAL AND ENOMIC BACKWATER. I ENJOYED EATG CHICK-FIL-A—BUT THAT WAS JT ABOUT THE EXTENT OF MY FAIARY WH GEIA; EVERYTHG ELSE WAS A BUNDLE OF STEREOTYP I HAD ABSORBED OM WATCHG THE STONE MOUNTA-BORN KENH CHARACTER ON 30 ROCK. LTLE DID I KNOW HOW EPLY I WOULD FALL LOVE WH THE SOUTH—NOR DID I REALIZE THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO GEIA THAN WAFFLE I.IT QUICKLY BEME CLEAR THAT GEIA—AMONG S MANY STRENGTHS—WAS ON S WAY TO BEG A MAJOR HUB FOR FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTN. AS THE ATLANTA BS CHRONICLE REPORTED, THAT DTRY WAS SIZED AT A STAGGERG $9.5 BILLN 2017. HELL, THE DAYS SOME FILMMAKERS AREN’T EVEN PRETENDG THAT THEIR ATLANTA-SHOT FILMS ARE SET SOMEWHERE ELSE—BABY DRIVER BEG THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF A FILM TO EMBRACE AN EXPLICLY SOUTHERN SETTG. I WATCHED THIS GROWTH HAPPEN, AS ATLANTA’S R-CLOGGED HIGHWAYS BEME REGNIZABLE TO THE RT OF THE UNTRY AS A WALKG DEAD POSTER. GEIA’S ENOMIC GROWTH AND RISG STATURE, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN NCURRENT WH NEAR-NSTANT ATTACKS ON THE STATE’S LGBT MUNY. IT’S ALMOST LIKE SOME STATE LEGISLATORS RE MORE ABOUT HURTG ALREADY MARGALIZED LGBT NSTUENTS THAN THEY DO ABOUT THE STATE’S NTUED SUCCS. IN 2015—RIGHT BEFORE I MOVED OUT OF THE STATE—THE SWEEPG ANTI-LGBT “RELIG EEDOM” BILL SB 129 SAILED THROUGH THE SENATE. IT ULTIMATELY FAILED AFTER WAS TIMATED THE LEGISLATN ULD EFFECTIVELY ST THE STATE OVER $1 BILLN. I WATCHED THE PROTTS UNR THE GOLD DOME OF THE CAPOL BUILDG BUT, THE END, I KNEW WASN’T THE IMPASSNED PLEAS OF MY IENDS THAT STOPPED SB 129, BUT THE STATE’S BOTTOM LE. THEN 2016, SOCIALLY NSERVATIVE STATE LEGISLATORS TRIED AGA WH HB 757—ANOTHER ANTI-LGBT “RELIG EEDOM” BILL—ONLY TO BE SHOT DOWN BY REPUBLIN GOV. NATHAN DEAL, WHO VETOED THE BILL AFTER PASSED MARCH. DEAL’S CISN, AS THE DAILY BEAST AND OTHER OUTLETS REPORTED, ME AS DISNEY, THE NFL, AND OTHER BIG BS PUBLICLY DISAPPROVED OF THE IMPENDG LAW AND, SOME S, THREATENED BOYTTS. BUT ANTI-LGBT LEGISLATORS, UNTERRED, WENT BACK TO WORK ON THIS NEW ADOPTN BILL, SB 375, WHICH IS PHEMISTILLY LLED THE “KEEP FAH ADOPTN AND FOSTER CARE ACT.” ACRDG TO THE BILL’S TEXT, SB 375 WOULD “ALLOW A CHILD-PLACG AGENCY” TO CLE CERTA SERVIC “BASED ON THE CHILD-PLACG AGENCY’S SCERELY HELD RELIG BELIEFS”—AND BAR THE STATE OM “DISCRIMATG AGAST OR G ANY ADVERSE ACTN AGAST A CHILD-PLACG AGENCY BASED ON S SCERELY HELD RELIG BELIEFS.” IN PLA ENGLISH: ADOPTN AND FOSTER RE AGENCI N TURN PROSPECTIVE MOMS AND DADS AWAY JT BEE THEY BELIEVE BEG GAY IS BAD—EVEN THOUGH, AS COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL’S “WHAT WE KNOW” PROJECT SUMMARIZED, THE REARCH SUGGTS THAT CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL “FARE NO WORSE THAN OTHER CHILDREN.” IT IS A HEART-WRENCHG AND CEL PIECE OF LEGISLATN FOR A STATE THAT REPORTEDLY HAS 11,000 CHILDREN FOSTER RE. I WAS FAIAR WH QUEER PEOPLE GEIA WHO WERE TRYG TO ADOPT—AND THEY FACED MORE THAN ENOUGH OBSTACL WHOUT HAVG A BILL LIKE THIS PILED ON TOP OF THEM. SB 375 HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BY THE STATE SENATE A 35-19 VOTE, AS THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTUTN REPORTED, AND GOV. DEAL HAS YET TO TAKE A PUBLIC STANCE ON . AND SO LGBT GEIANS ARE FDG THEMSELV YET AGA AN UNENVIABLE POSN: WATCHG THE BS MUNY AND THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY WORK HARR TO PROTECT THEM THAN THEIR OWN ELECTED OFFICIALS. THE MSAGE OM THOSE SECTORS TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE IS CLEAR: PASS THIS LAW AND WE ALL LOSE MONEY.“LEGISLATN THAT SANCTNS DISCRIMATN AND LIMS OPTNS FOR CHILDREN NEED OF A PERMANENT HOME TAK FURTHER AWAY OM OUR GOAL OF ATTRACTG VTMENTS THAT IMPROVE THE LIV OF GEIA FAI,” METRO ATLANTA CHAMBER CHIEF POLICY OFFICER KATIE KIRKPATRICK TOLD VARIETY. I REMEMBER OM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE THE UNEASY FEELG OF KNOWG THAT SODA, AIRPLAN, AND BOOM MICS ARE WHAT STAND BETWEEN YOU AND AN ALL-OUT ASSLT ON YOUR RIGHTS. GEIA IS NOT NORTH CAROLA, WHERE AN ANTI-TRANSGENR “BATHROOM BILL” WAS PASSED 2016, G WISPREAD BOYTTS AND ANGERG THE NCAA. IT’S ALSO NOT MISSISSIPPI, WHICH ALLOWED THE MOST ANTI-LGBT LAW THE UNTRY TO GO TO EFFECT OCTOBER 2017 AND STILL HASN’T REPEALED . THE PEACH STATE, LIKE TOO MANY OF S NEIGHBORS, MAY NOT HAVE MANY EXPLIC LGBT PROTECTNS—BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, HAS BEE A STATE THAT WALKS BACK OM THE EDGE OF PASSG POTENTIALLY DISASTRO ANTI-LGBT LEGISLATN. WHEN YOU LIVE ATLANTA AS AN LGBT PERSON, THERE’S A NAGGG VOICE YOUR BRA THAT WONRS WHAT LIFE WOULD BE LIKE IF DELTA AND COKE AND THE FILM DTRY WEREN’T THERE. WOULD THE STATE HAVE PASSED A DISASTRO “RELIG EEDOM” BILL LIKE INDIANA DID 2015? PERHAPS. THE UNFORTUNATE REALY IS THAT BS NCERNS—AND NOT MORAL NVICTNS—ARE OFTEN WHAT TAK TO KILL LGBT BILLS THE SOUTH. AND GEIA, BS SEEMS TO BE GOOD ENOUGH TO KEEP THE WORST BILLS OM BEG LAW. THAT MAY BE WHY THE MOTN PICTURE OF ASSOCIATN OF AMERI IS EXPECTG HISTORY TO REPEAT SELF WH SB 375. A SPOKPERSON FOR THE TRA ANIZATN TOLD VARIETY, “AS WE SAW THE LEGISLATURE LAST YEAR, WE ARE NFINT THAT GEIA WILL NOT ENACT ANY KD OF LEGISLATN THAT WOULD PERM DISCRIMATN AGAST ANY DIVIDUAL.” IN THE END, THE ANTI-LGBT ADOPTN BILL WILL PROBABLY PERISH—WHETHER THE LEGISLATURE, OR ON DEAL’S SK— THE NAME OF THE GEIA ENOMY. BUT, THE MEANTIME, LGBT PEOPLE GEIA HAVE TO WATCH THEIR RIGHTS GET YO-YOED ONT OF THEIR EY FOR THE THIRD TIME AS MANY YEARS. AND SEEMS LIKE ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE STATE LEGISLATURE’S NSTANT ATTEMPTS TO PASS SOMETHG—ANYTHG—ANTI-LGBT WOULD START TO MAKE BIG BS JT AS SKTISH AS ACTUALLY PASSG SOMETHG WOULD. SAMANTHA ALLEN

” Claiborne | Fox | Bradley | Goldman has always been a strong supporter of Geia Equaly and Lambda Legal their efforts to legalize gay marriage Geia.

Now, adoptn for gay upl and dividuals is more wily available; a gay man who marri a man wh a child may adopt his hband’s child as a stepparent, and a woman whose wife giv birth to a child may also plete a stepparent adoptn. However, the battle for legal regnn of fai wh same-genr parents is not over, and the gay adoptn bate ntu.

Hodg addrsed marriage, did not addrs parentage; while gay marriage and adoptn are related, the are still separate issu. Unfortunately, we still do not have clear gay adoptn laws tablishg the parental rights of non-blogil parents. If you are seekg to secure a fay through gay and lbian adoptn, we are the most experienced lawyers for you.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

Please read the followg to learn more about our private adoptn and stepparent adoptn servic for lbian and gay uple adoptn. Gay men may utilize egg donatn and gtatnal surrogacy to have children. Every fay’s circumstanc are unique, and that is pecially te for lbian and gay upl adoptg or pursug ART.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG THEIR ADOPTED BOYS

Public OpnRearch atttus towards LGBTQ+ issu Geia have intified a strong opposn to LGBTQ+ rights, reflectg unrlyg homophobic sentiments. Geia SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Geia? Homosexual activy Geia is legal.

Current statSce Feb 15, 2000Equal Acrdg to article 140 and 141 of the Geian Penal Co, the age of nsent for both homosexual and heterosexual sex is 16. Gay and transgenr people bee parents diverse ways cludg adoptn, technology, and prev heterosexual relatnships.

LGBT adoptn is the adoptn of children by lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr (LGBT) persons.

GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT

More and more birthparents are choosg to place their children wh same-sex upl, th givg gay and lbian adoptive parents an advantage, and makg the procs quicker.

Geia Equaly’s missn is to advance fairns, safety and opportuny for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muni and our alli throughout the state. Deal vetoed an even broar anti-gay measure 2016 after outcry om Hollywood, sports leagu and major the polil lcul for Geia’s lears may have changed over the past two years.

Like a lot of gay guys, I grew up believg I’d never have a fay, and now seems like ’s fally possible.

Same-sex adoptn statistics suggt that more and more gay upl are adoptg. Today, 4 percent of adopted children and 3 percent of foster children are raised by gay and lbian parents, and 2 ln more LGBTQ dividuals are terted adoptg.