Tag: gay adoption discrimination
Russia rips children from their dads under ‘gay propaganda’ law
For the first time, Russia has used its 2013 federal law prohibiting “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships” to split a male same-sex couple from their legally adopted 12- and 14-year-old sons.
The fathers brought their sons to a Moscow hospital in June over a suspected case of appendicitis. Doctors then alerted the Investigative Committee of Russia, and the Committee later charged the adoption agency with “negligence” for allowing the kids to be adopted by a gay man in 2010.
The Committee’s...
The mainstream media has been ignoring Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights for weeks
A Media Matters investigation found that major news networks have been largely ignoring the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights.
While several new anti-LGBTQ initiatives were announced in the past few weeks, four of the major broadcast and cable news networks did not cover them at all, while the other two spent less than 11 minutes in total covering the initiatives over a 10-day period.
Media Matters cited three attacks on LGBTQ rights from this past month. First, the Department of...
