In Gay Times (UK) (May 2008), there are a couple of fascinating pieces on same-sex parenting in the United Kingdom, which deals with what will probably happen when our own Parliament eventually gets around to amending our Adoption Act 1955. In some areas, New Zealand is ahead of the United Kingdom. While I understood that lesbians were able to access private fertility services to have their own children in the United Kingdom, apparently this didn’t apply to the state-run National Health Service. As for New Zealand, fertility services are regulated by the Human Rights Act 1993 in New Zealand, which forbids ...

If you've never seen Morgan Spurlock's show 30 Days, you're missing out. Spurlock, director and star of SuperSize Me has created a show in which he brings two sides of an issue together to live with each other for 30 days. Yes, it's reality TV, but unlike most reality TV it isn't horrible. In the most recent installment (Number Four), Same-Sex Parenting, Spurlock brings a Mormon California housewife who is staunchly against gay adoption to live with a gay couple raising 4 kids. The kicker is that these two guys are from the People's Republic of Ann Arbor ...

1… I find it double hilarious that the city of San Francisco wants to rename one of its largest sewage treatment plants in honor of Dubya.  In all fairness, the organizers of the renaming project say the name change is in honor of the excellent work done by the treatment plant, much like the fabulous job done by George in foreign relations, the environment and the economy.  That sort of efficiency has a price:  you get shit named after you. 2… John McCain thinks sanctions against Zimbabwe will hasten the fall of Mugabe.  Let’s see:  we’re talking about ...