'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• TENNSEE ERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BILL
• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• PUT SIGNS LAW BANNG GAY UPL OM ADOPTG
• IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI
• AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS
• GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS: LG OVERTURNED BY US SUPREME URT LGBT VICTORY
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

It all changed March 2016, when a feral judge overturned the gay adoptn ban Mississippi. This was a monumental moment for gay adoptn laws the U.

TENNSEE ERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BILL

Whereas prr to 2016, there were stat where gay adoptn was illegal, now there are none. As long as you meet the state requirements to adopt, you n move forward wh your adoptn stat allow gay adoptn for dividuals, married upl and upl a domtic unn.

However, for unmarried upl who want to adopt a child (eher heterosexual or homosexual), ’s not always possible to do so jotly. In many of the stat where gay adoptn was illegal for so long, was bee requirements were based on maral stat, not sexual orientatn. While is unnstutnal for married same-sex upl to be nied the right to adopt by a state agency, unfortunately, there are several stat which have passed laws agast gay adoptn based on relig eedom.

ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

This way, you n be rmed about your lol gay adoptn laws and any laws agast gay adoptn that might apply to your suatn.

Procr for Gay Coupl Lookg to Adopt.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Gay and lbian upl have been expandg their fai through adoptn for a long time, and as legislatn has changed over the years, more optns have bee available. While every gay uple's adoptn procs is unique, there are some standard procr and steps every adoptive parent mt go through, and facts and rourc that n be helpful when nsirg adoptn. Optns for Gay Parents.

OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?

Gay upl n explore all avenu of adoptn, cludg foster re adoptn, tradnal adoptn, and ternatnal adoptns.

In the past—and likely still today some areas of the untry—some gay upl have rorted to lyg about their stat so they uld adopt. When a gay uple adopts, is mon for one partner to adopt and the send to then apply to the urt as a send parent or -parent. A uple do not need to have a legally-regnized relatnship orr to pursue a send parent adoptn, which mak an appealg optn for gay upl who choose to not get married or enter to a civil unn.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Many studi have attempted to terme how children are beg raised gay and lbian unns.

Gay and lbian groups tend to show posive rults, while relig or nservative groups often dite negative rults. Many of the ncerns center around unrstandg sexual orientatn and tablishg whether children will velop emotnal problems due to havg gay parents.

Know that there has not been a sgle study showg that the children of gay or lbian parents are disadvantaged any signifint rpect. Support and Rourc for Gay Parents.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

Some gay upl fd that their parents—who may have been upset at one time about their children's sexualy—e around when grandchildren enter the picture. Hopefully, you'll have lots of support your ner circle, but numero onle rourc ​are available for new gay and lbian parents to help your recently-expand fay to grow and flourish. The exact number of gay upl who have adopted is unknown and is nstantly changg.

Dpe the fact that gay adoptn grows more monplace every day, the road ahead may be difficult and filled wh obstacl, so make sure you're both on solid footg and sure about your cisn before you start the adoptn procs.

""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v.

PUT SIGNS LAW BANNG GAY UPL OM ADOPTG

Some fah-based agenci had already not allowed gay upl to adopt.

”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs.

IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI

The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech. Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0.

AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals. Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife.

Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”. The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015.

GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS: LG OVERTURNED BY US SUPREME URT LGBT VICTORY

Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed. As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers.

In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian.

A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise.

He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia.

”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.