Hi everyone. I thought I would share a few gay-relevant news stories that caught my attention as I was browsing the internet today...
Gay Straight Alliance meets every week, unnoticed by its opponents
ROCKTON - Citizens fiercely opposed Hononegah High School forming a Gay-Straight Alliance last summer, but since the Board of Education approved it in September the club has fallen under the community's radar as members meet weekly, sometimes just to play games or organize school-wide movie nights.
Let's give a big Right On! to the Hononegah High School Gay-Straight Alliance. When I was in High School, we never would have dreamed of having a group like this. Things like this give me hope.
Gay couples as committed as straight couples
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples are just as committed in their relationships as heterosexuals and the legal status of their union doesn't impact their happiness, according to new research.
In two new studies that compared same-sex and heterosexual couples using different factors and methods to assess their happiness, scientists found few differences.
This is just the kind of data that we need to combat the ignorant myths perpetuated by the social conservatives in our country (and around the world). The best way to beat a lie is to confront it with the truth...and preferably a peer reviewed truth taken from a major publication like Developmental Psychology.
Gay Jesus play angers Australian church leaders
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A controversial play that depicts Jesus being seduced by Judas and conducting a gay marriage for two apostles has been condemned by church leaders ahead of its opening in Sydney.
The Anglican Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, expressed his outrage at the plot of "Corpus Christi" on Sunday, calling the play "historical nonsense".
Now, this one was just fun. Enjoy!
Large majority of Swedes want to allow gay marriage: poll
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Nearly three quarters of Swedes are in favour of allowing homosexuals to wed, according to a poll published by the Svenska Dagbladet daily on Monday.
Seventy-one percent of the 1,000 people questioned in the Sifo Institute poll last week said gay people should be permitted to marry.
Stuff like this is also very encouraging. It just goes to show that people really do just fear the unknown. Once you force your way past the barrier of ignorance, people do eventually come around to the fact that gay families are just like other families (just with more glitter).
But the big winner for the happy warm feeling award was this blog...
My two dads - officially!
On Friday, January 18th, my husband's second parent adoption of our son Joshua became official, at least here in Colorado. We were the first couple here in ultra-conservative Colorado Springs in El Paso county (home of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, New Life Church, and former pastor Ted Haggard) to utilize the second parent adoption law, according to the judge.
As for AJ, Joshua, and me, even though we've been a family all along, it's really nice to have those papers making it all legal. There are too many "what-ifs" in life to put your family at risk. AJ and I know that a family is created by love, not legal paperwork. But the reality is that without that paperwork, there would always have been that possibility of "what-if" hanging over our shoulders. The fact that we don't have to worry about that anymore is a relief.
Maybe there really is hope for this world.
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My old high school was one of three in New Orleans(NOLA) that had a GSA. It actually started in the early 80's and was canceled and started up again when I was in 9th grade (2002-03). The surprising thing was that all these really popular kids were in it, strange. I know a big controversy on the NOLA high school circuit was that some parents feared a GSA would make their kids too tolerant. But after a while they realized that tolerance (and respect) was actually a good thing, or so the students told me. We also fell under the radar eventually.
Sometimes it's best to see with eyes