New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the "Every Child Deserves A Family Act" which if passed will prohibit discrimination against members of the LGBT community that want to adopt or foster children. 

More after the jump.

We guess he forgot to mention this while on the campaign trail every day for months last year??

Paul Ryan is now coming out in support of gay adoption. 

Golf claps. More after the jump.

Check out a married gay dad's open letter to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia regarding the supposed "deleterious" effects of same-sex parenting. 

Jack Montgomery and his husband, Kelly Vielmo, adopted three siblings out of the Washington D.C. foster system. 

We think that kind of makes him an expert on the subject.

Watch Jack's powerful open letter/video montage after the jump!

There will be a lot more orphaned Russian kids if Vladimir Putin has his way. Russia's President has had it with foreign gay couples adopting children in need of loving homes from his country, and is prepared to end the lovefest.

It appears members of the Supreme Court aren't above stating outright lies.

Justice Antonin Scalia made the comment during Tuesday's Prop. 8 hearing that “there’s considerable disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single-sex family, whether that is harmful to the child or not.”

Only that's not true. And considering he had an amicus brief submitted by the American Sociological Association (ASA) on that specific subject, he should have known better.

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Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has voted to uphold legislation that bans gay couples from adopting children. 

Details after the jump.

We're seeing some forward movement in Germany with regards to gay couples being allowed to adopt children.

Details after the jump!

Never one to shirk controversy, designer Karl Legerfeld debuted his Chanel 2013 Spring Haute Couture collection today in Paris and used the show to present his own endorsement of marriage equality in France. 

And how? Two stunning brides walking hand in hand in matching haute couture wedding gowns as the showstopper!

Tres chic!

Watch after the jump!

Carla Bruni, the former first lady of France, doesn't seem to have any problem diverging from her husband, former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative views. 

Differing from her hubby, Bruni says she's in favor of both same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples. 

More after the jump. 

In the first study to compare and track the progress over time of high-risk children adopted out of foster care by gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples, it's been found that children "adopted from foster care by gay parents fare equally in their cognitive and emotional development as those adopted by heterosexual parents."

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Call it the luck of the Irish if you will, but now gays (and umarried twosomes) in Northern Ireland can adopt!

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This story, brought to our attention by our friends at Towleroad, warmed the cockles of our cold dark hearts!

These guys deserve a medal (or twelve)!!

Arizona gay couple, Steven and Roger Ham have legally adopted 12 children with an assist from a Washington state attorney. Considering we can't keep a cactus thriving, this is kind of a big deal.

More on their story and video after the jump.