The lbian uple who lost their ctody battle over the children they had wh a gay man have spoken out for the first time. The uple say they were vastated to learn that the father would be given ctody of the two children for 152 days a year and that they were "horribly naive" not to e an anonymo sperm donor.
Contents:
- THE CTODY CCIBLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AUTHORY ABOUT GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAY CTODY FIGHTS REFE LEGAL PARENTHOOD
- ‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: LE EVANS AND BILLY PORTER TURN A GAY DIVORCE AND CTODY BATTLE INTO SAME OLD SAME OLD
THE CTODY CCIBLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AUTHORY ABOUT GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS
The Ctody Ccible: The Development of Scientific Authory About Gay and Lbian Parents - Volume 34 Issue 2 * gay custody battles *
As LGBTQ parents stggled to mata ctody of children after g out, they employed experts whose arguments were signed to assuage hostile judg, but which unwtgly created a standard that today puts parents like Geulas at risk of losg ctody of their the midst of the gay liberatn and lbian femist movements, many married men and women me out as gay or lbian. Faced wh the arguments, untls gay and lbian parents lost ctody and visatn ti began to turn when gay and lbian parents lled on psychiatric experts to ttify their fense, cludg Richard Green, one of a group of psychiatrists who fought to remove homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s list of mental illns 1973.
Instead, even as they fend the fns of LGBTQ parents, the experts ntued to ame homosexualy and genr nonnformy as negative tras that “good” parents would help their children dog so, they created a legal rerd, and psychologil study evince that today n be wield as a weapon agast parents who support their children’s transgenr or genr-nonnformg inti.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Le Evans and Billy Porter star as a gay uple whose marriage ends, sparkg a battle for ctody of their 8-year-old child, 'Our Son.' * gay custody battles *
The discrimatn they are facg fay urt today for supportg their children’s genr is a product of ntemporary opposn to transgenr visibily, but is also a legacy of gay and lbian ctody s that ma children’s genr and sexual normativy a basis for ctody termatns.
GAY CTODY FIGHTS REFE LEGAL PARENTHOOD
’” In his opn, which imposed strict limatns on visatn, the judge foced on the opposn wh the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) over the cisn to classify homosexualy as a mental illns, reasong that psychiatrists' abily to agree on how to fe or classify homosexualy dited that was impossible to know what effect Voeller's homosexualy would have on his children.
‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: LE EVANS AND BILLY PORTER TURN A GAY DIVORCE AND CTODY BATTLE INTO SAME OLD SAME OLD
Footnote 2 Voeller's trial illtrat the extent to which scientific thory ncerng homosexualy beme central to gay father and lbian mother ctody s, which were ligated creasg numbers after the APA's 1973 cisn to classify homosexualy as a mental illns. Footnote 10 As this article monstrat, the APA cisn to classify homosexualy as a mental illns did not sever the relatnship between scientific thory and gay rights adjuditn, which had leter nsequenc for gay men and women for much of the twentieth century.