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A Washington State middle school teacher’s pin sparked a lesbian mother to launch an online campaign to get the teacher to apologize and to ban teachers from sharing their political views in the classroom.

A Texas professor who published a controversial study about gay parenting admitted his research is flawed but still stands by his findings that children from same-sex couples are worse off than children from straight parents.

A three-year-old boy was refused enrollment into an Albuquerque, N.M., Christian school because his parents are a same-sex couple, in violation of the law, according to the boy’s parents’ lawyer.

"It’s a relief to read about other kids with two moms," commented one child. According to the 2010 census, children with same-sex parents live in 96% of U.S. counties.

An Australian lesbian couple prevailed in court over the sperm donor they had turned to for help in conceiving their daughter. It’s the latest twist in the legal problems same-sex parents face across the globe.

In October 2008, racing against California’s gay marriage ban, Chloe and Frankie Frankeny wed legally in San Francisco with one chore already done: Chloe had taken her wife’s name two years before.

A Catholic adoption advisory service that refuses to help gay couples cannot win an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, Britain’s charity regulator said Thursday.

An agency that regulates charities in the UK has reconfirmed its original ruling against a religious adoption service that had refused to place children with gay and lesbian couples.

The ’Every Child Deserves a Family Act,’ which was introduced by U.S. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) on Oct. 15, would penalize states with outdated adoption policies that restrict access based on marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

The Montana state supreme court has ruled in favor of a woman whose former same-sex spouse, now married to a man, sought to exclude from parental custody of their two children; in a separate document, one Justice denounced homophobia as a "societal cancer."