Some lks to anisatns who offer support for lbian, gay and bisexual adopters, whether you are jt thkg about adoptn or an tablished adoptive fay.
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FIRST GAY UPLE TO BEE FATHERS UK OPEN SURROGACY CENTRE FOR SAME SEX UPL
Bra’s first gay fathers have opened the untry’s only surrogacy centre to ter for same sex upl. * first gay adoption uk *
Most lbian or gay applints who were approved were able to do so bee they were sgle rers who hid their sexualy, whereas those who were open about largely received negative and prejudicial attus. Dorian Jabri and Jane Skeat produced their report; Fosterg and Adoptn by Lbians and Gay Men, the first UK publitn to argue that the opposn to LGBTQ+ people fosterg/adoptg was unfound and based on discrimatory stereotyp.
Whilst this was a huge step forward, was the very same year that Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1987/88 was passed by Thatcher’s Conservativ; ‘A lol thory shall not promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship’. Thatcher said herself at the time that children who were tght they have a right to be gay were “beg cheated of a sound start life”. It was hugely protted by LGBTQ+ mpaigners at the time, as gave agenci who were already opposed to gay or lbian rers a lawful jtifitn for dog so, as well as makg agenci who were more generally quiet about the topic too nervo to approve any of the applints.
The ripple effect of this legislatn ed the formatn of the natnal Lbian & Gay Foster & Adoptive Parents Network, to provi support and mpaign for equal rights. Publitns released big stori g harmful language wh no proper verifitn of their claims (for example, the Sunday Exprs claimed children were ‘beg hand over to homosexual upl… spe expert advice that the youngsters may grow up to bee sexually viant themselv’), and the Government published a damagg paper on fay placement unr the Children Act 1989 which stated that ‘the chosen way of life of some adults may mean that they would not be able to provi a suable environment for the re and nurture of a child. ’ It ma the claim that ‘No one has a right to be a foster parent’ and that ‘Equal rights and gay rights polici have no place fosterg servic.