EDGE New England

A Florida circuit judge allowed a 23-month-year-old girl’s birth certificate to list a gay man and a lesbian couple.

Dale Liuzza, from Louisiana, says he has no parental legal rights in seeing his son after his partner took him away and moved to Washington State.

The Virginia Board of Social Services’ decision to scrap a proposal that would have banned adoption and foster care agencies from discriminating against prospective adoptive parents based on their sexual orientation highlights the ongoing debate over whether non-discrimination statutes apply to private agencies.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a voter-approved initiative that barred gay couples and other unmarried people living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents.

The Arkansas Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments March 17 from civil rights lawyers urging that a lower court’s verdict allowing gay and lesbian families to adopt be upheld.

In Louisiana, a court will decide whether only one man can to be listed on adoption papers, while the man who successfully challenged the state’s gay adoption ban officially became a legal parent.

An Australian tribunal has ruled that under existing law, religious organizations may discriminate against gays.

An Italian politician has claimed that there is a link between same-parent adoption and "the buying and selling of children."

Florida will immediately stop enforcing its ban on adoptions by gay people following a decision by a state appeals court that the three-decade-old law is unconstitutional, Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is among many Republican U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidates around the country who have spoken out against gay adoption and other LGBT issues.