Williams Institute

CBS News is reporting on a new study which examines the economic benefits of marriage equality in California.

The Williams Institute - at U.C.L.A. School of Law - projects that approximately 70,000 out-of-state couples will travel to California to marry there.

Research coming from the UCLA School of Law spotlights Ohio's growing trend of same-sex parents.

Same-sex couples are raising nearly 12,000 children across Ohio and more than 2 percent of the state's adopted children.

The UCLA study notes that lesbians and gay men in the Buckeye State are forming committed relationships more than ever before - jumping from just under 19,000 in 2000 to nearly 30,700 by 2005.

The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting on the battle gaining momentum against Utah's adoption ban, which was passed in 2000. Utah is one of three states with the adoption prohibition.

Fair-minded advocates hope to get adoption restrictions on all cohabitating couples, including same-sex couples, lifted. Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck, a Democrat representing Salt Lake City, is sponsoring the bill.

After Congress ordered states in 1997 to move faster to find more families willing to adopt, child-welfare organizations joined together to get legislatures to allow any qualified parent to adopt, irrespective of sexual orientation.

Gays and lesbians are fighting to become parents in many parts of America. More and more of us are working within the framework available to us and getting the job done.

Every family's story is unique.

Is homosexuality still viewed as a sin? A recent Gallup Poll found Americans nearly evenly split between those who saw homosexual relations as "morally acceptable" (47 percent) and those who saw them as "morally wrong" (49 percent).

According to polls, our community is gaining friends.

Little League sign-up was the final straw.

Cynthia Garnette and her partner have two sons - one born to Garnette, one her partner adopted at birth - but Virginia law made it impossible for them, as a same-sex couple, to both be legal parents of both kids. It occurred to Garnette one day, as she was taking her 5-year-old son to play baseball, that she could run into trouble registering him because of her tenuous legal situation.