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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Tags: dbags, mike huckabee, evangelical, god, newtown, connecticut, massacre, shooting, blames, gays, same sex parents, mother and father, christianity

Predictably, Mike Huckabee has once again wagged his wrinkled blame finger at the LGBT community as he attempts to place responsibility on same-sex parents for the horrific Newtown, Connecticut massacre. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 01 November 2012
Tags: gay dads, same sex parents, family, blast, respond, mitt romney, homophobia, anti gay, video, national adoption month, lgbt

Amazing gay dads, with help from TLC Child & Family Services, have released a video response to Mitt Romney's career of homophobia at the expense of same-sex parents to kick off National Adoption Month. Watch it after the jump.

 
Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 03 October 2012
Tags: glaad, amplifier awards, jc penney, outstanding lgbt image in mainstream advertising, pr, cooper, todd, first pals, gay dads, video acceptance, claire, mason, families, same sex parents

GLAAD handed out its annual Amplifier Awards honoring the best in LGBT advertising and PR Tuesday night. Though its year in advertising boasts a string of reasons it deserved the top honor last night, JC Penney's "First Pals" catalogue image featuring dads Cooper Smith Koch and Todd Koch and their kids Claire and Mason stood out. 

The family sent in a video acceptance speech as they received the Outstanding LGBT Image in Mainstream Advertising award from GLAAD. Check it out after the jump!

 
Written by Instinct Staff | Sunday, 16 September 2012
Tags: rupert everett, gaylebrities, can't think of anything worse, same sex parents, gay dads, being raised by, wtf, what's your instinct, bigotry, discrimination, homophobia

Updated Monday, 2 p.m. EST

GLAAD and the Family Equality Council have put on their muck boots, yellow gloves and sanitary masks and stepped in to Rupert Everett's anti-gay mess. 

So, what what do the LGBT organizations have to say to the gay actor for unleashing homophobic comments about same-sex parents over the weekend? 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 17 September 2012
Tags: rupert everett, gay geek dad, responds, replies, gaylebrity, same sex parents, gay dads, can't raise kids, anything worse

Over the weekend you guys thought of dozens of things "worse than being raised by two gay dads" in response to a bitter-party-of-one anti-gay quote from openly gay actor Rupert Everett. Blogger Gay Geek Dad had some thoughts of his own for the self-hating traitor. Check them out after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 30 August 2012
Tags: university of texas, austin, mark, regnerus, calls off, investigation, flawed, study, no evidence, bias, same sex parents, parenthood, anti gay, witherspoon institute, nom, frc

Has the University of Texas at Austin just implicitly agreed with junk science to condemn loving same-sex parents?

Despite receiving widespread calls from the scientific community to retract Mark Regnerus's infamous "study" on same-sex parents (which didn't even really study same-sex parents), U of T has decided to call off the official investigation it had promised earlier this summer. 

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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Tags: dbags, bigots, christianity, religion, hate groups, bryan fischer, endorses, kidnapping, underground railroad, same sex parents, gay, lgbt, families, zack ford

It was previously unthinkable, but yep, hate group leader Bryan Fischer has sunk to a new low. How much lower can he go?

Hell (to use his own ideology as a reference point)?

Bryan really polished his D-bag of the Day Year Forever crown late Tuesday night when he endorsed the kidnapping of children from same-sex helmed-households. Details follow. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Tags: glsen, lgbt youth, gender non conformity, reports, studies, research, bullying, gay, elementary schools, students, same sex parents, toolkit

Our focus on the well-being of LGBT high school students is certainly warranted, but a groundbreaking report just-released by GLSEN shows that elementary schools are just as in need of our attention.  

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 05 January 2012
Tags: iowa, judge ovrom, ruling, same sex parents, birth certificate, listing, heather martin gartner, melissa gartner, lesbian, mckenzie, midwest

Heather Martin Gartner and Melissa Gartner, parents of McKenzie, will both be named on their daughter's birth certificate after a lengthy court battle in Iowa. 

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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Tags: adoption, same sex parents, households, russia, international

In a move that certainly didn't put children in need of loving homes first, negotiators for a new deal on Russia - U.S. international adoptions quickly decided that same-sex parents are banned from adopting Russian children. The negotiation, which is expected to last up to a month, started early on Wednesday, and only took a matter of hours for discrimination against hopeful GLBT parents to get the stamp of approval.

The reasoning? Russia does not recognize marriage equality, said Alina Levitskaya, the spokeswoman for the international negotiations.

You know what, Alina? The majority of the U.S. doesn't either. Though we're behind the rest of the free, civilized world in that aspect, at least the U.S. does recognize that children shouldn't...

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