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In a case that mirrors a similarly tragic outcome earlier this year in Oregon, a Los Angeles couple is being tried for viciously abusing and murdering the mother’s eight year-old son after taunting him for playing with dolls. You may not want to read any further. Before 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten to death by his mother and her …

Via the Daily Mail: When Jeff and Hillary Whittington, of San Diego, got the news in 2007 that they were having a daughter, the couple had no idea that in a few years’ time they will be raising a son instead. Last Thursday, the family were honored at the 6th annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, accepting the Inspiration Award after …

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A New Jersey couple has filed a lawsuit which demands that they be allowed to torture their 15 year-old son with “ex-gay” therapy. According to the lawsuit, the teen suffers from “unwanted gender identity disorder and unwanted same-sex attractions” and has contemplated suicide. It goes on to describe how he “began to think he would like himself much better if …

According to a just published study, the size of a man’s testicles can predict how involved he’ll be in the upbringing of his children. Researchers at Emory University, US, said those with smaller testicles were more likely to be involved with nappy changing, feeding and bath time. They also found differences in brain scans of fathers looking at images of …

Over at the Friendly Atheist, they’re having some fun with the cover of a new e-book about about beating the Jesus into your kids (so to speak), which features a photo of the cast of that godless pro-gay show, Modern Family. Readers at Friendly Atheist found the author on Twitter to happily clue him in and he’s just responded at …

More from Pew’s latest study: In 1985, a Los Angeles Times survey found that 64% of the public said they would be “very upset” if their child told them he or she was gay or lesbian. By 2004, that number had fallen by almost half (33%). Since then, it has declined another 14 points, to 19%. Instead, a majority (55%) …

Yesterday the Munich Evening News broke a story which claims that a local gay man has fathered 22 children via sperm donations to women in several countries. Gay Star News reports: He has never had sex with a woman but Markus K from Munich, Germany may be the gay dad with the most kids in the world – 22 so …

An Australian couple tells their three year-old son that he can’t marry Mommy because “she already has a husband.”  Boy: “I want a husband!” Father: “[Prime Minister] Julia Gillard says you can’t have a husband.” Much sobbing ensues.

New Zealand’s government gets the final say on what you can name your baby. Just released is the latest list of banned names. Lucifer cannot be born in New Zealand. And there’s no place for Christ or a Messiah either. In New Zealand, parents have to run by the government any name they want to bestow on their baby. And …

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The mother claims she should not have been arrested even though the “beating caused bleeding and left marks on the boy’s thighs, forearms, hands, torso and back.” She adds that the first police officer on the scene told her, “Parent to parent, I probably would have shot him. I probably would have shot both of them.”

Germany’s Constitutional Court today ordered the government to draft new laws allowing same-sex couples improved adoption rights. Via Der Spiegel: The Constitutional Court ruled as expected that one member of a civil partnership must be given the right to adopt their partner’s stepchild or adopted child. Until now, unlike heterosexual married couples, they were only able to adopt a partner’s …

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The final tally from 2011 is out. Gothamist has the list of girls’ names too. Looks like there’ll be thousands of Jaydens in the class of 2028.

The mother of Tyler Clementi, the gay Rutgers student who leaped to his death from the George Washington Bridge, says she’s riddled with self-blame but has come to a new understanding about her son’s sexuality. “I think some people think that sexual orientation can be changed or prayed over,” she said now, in her kitchen. “But I know sexual orientation …

According to the will of a recently deceased Manhattan businessman, his gay son must marry a woman to receive his inheritance. The son is already married to a man. A dear old dad left behind a final, unthinkable request for his gay son: get married — to a woman. The edict surfaced in the will of Manhattan businessman Frank Mandelbaum, …

A mobile DNA and paternity testing truck emblazoned with the slogan, “Who’s Your Daddy?” is working the streets of New York City. The “Who’s Your Daddy” recreational vehicle is selling DNA tests, mostly to fathers who suspect their children may not actually be theirs. “They flag us down, they pull us over, they talk to us,” owner and operator Jared …