Category: USA – LGBTQ Family
HRC Condemns Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s Statement of Support for LGBT Adoption Ban
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation strongly condemned Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s statement Wednesday supporting a discriminatory state law that bars prospective LGBT parents in same-sex relationships from adopting.
GLAAD and DignityUSA call on Pope Francis to meet with Catholic LGBT families
As news outlets across the globe prepare to report on the Pope’s upcoming visit to the United States, GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organisation, and DignityUSA, America’s foremost organisation for LGBT Catholics and their supporters, today called on Pope Francis to meet with Catholic LGBT families during his September 2015 visit to the United States.
Gov. Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill
Last night, on the day before announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, Governor Chris Christie shamefully vetoed important bipartisan legislation passed by the New Jersey Legislature – the New Jersey Gestational Carrier Agreement Act – that would have modernised New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth.
New Study Defies Anti-LGBT Parenting Critics
Findings show kids of same-sex parents no different from those with opposite-sex parents.
HRC Expresses Disappointment in Pope Francis’ Assertion That Children Must Have Opposite-Sex Parent
Statement to more than 25,000 faithful in Rome on Sunday comes on heels of the city’s well-attended LGBT pride festival, and support of same-sex civil unions by Italy’s Lower House of Parliament.
HRC Encourages Business Community to Maintain Domestic Partner Benefits
Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality won’t alter reality that LGBT families lack broad anti-discrimination protections, leaving them still vulnerable.