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Lesbian mommy blog Mombian reports: The White House photostream now includes a photo of First Lady Michelle Obama with Andrea and Logan Smith (10 months). Andrea is the executive director of Green Florida and wife of Equality Florida executive director Nadine Smith—and their son is absolutely adorable. (It’s all about the cheeks. Or maybe the eyes. Total cuteness either way.)

Homeland Security today announced a proposed rule change that will allow gay families to go through U.S. Customs together. Zack Ford notes at Think Progress: “Before, married same-sex couples had to go through customs separately because the policy referred to married couples, and thus fell under the purview of the Defense of Marriage Act.” Yet another advance from the Obama …

Today Slovenia will hold a national referendum on a bill that would further restrict the adoption rights on same-sex couples. Under the current legislation, same-sex married couples have no right to adopt children from a third party, but it allows gays to adopt children of their partners. The Civil Initiative for Family and Children’s Rights movement has been arguing that …

One of Chile’s longest-running LGBT rights cases has ended with a win for the good guys: Karen Atala (left), an openly gay judge in Chile, has finally won back custody of her three daughters after a nearly eight-year court fight, officials say. Atala, 48, was stripped of custody of her children in 2004 when she revealed she is a lesbian. …

Both chambers of the Virginia legislature today approved a bill that will make it legal for adoption agencies, however they are funded, to refuse gay couples. The state House voted 71-28 to pass the legislation Friday. Earlier in the day, a Senate committee endorsed its version of the Republican-backed measure on an 8-7 party-line vote. Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell is …

It’s rather obvious, but still. Gay parents “tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents,” said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compared with an almost 50 percent accidental pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, …

It’ll never happen, but the idea does deliver a smile.

A special message from Move On and Zach Wahls.

YouTube says: “Surpassing the President and various presidential hopefuls in views, the #1 video on our list comes from a young man in Iowa speaking candidly to his government. Zach Wahls’ 3 minute speech defending gay marriage has been viewed more than 18 million times.” YouTube’s 2011 Political Top Ten1. Zach Wahls speaks about family2. President Obama at the 2011 …

JMG reader Subtle Knife commands you to watch this!

Two lesbian moms brought their kids to the city council meeting in Troy, Michigan so that homophobic Mayor Janice Daniels could see an actual gay family in person.

“As a gay parent I’m really not comfortable with this. Even if that eight-year-old kid wanted to do it, even if confronting Michele Bachmann was the kid’s idea, even if the kid was excited about being in a YouTube video, this just isn’t cool. The enemies of LGBT equality use small children as props in their misleading commercials and at …

The Center for American Progress has posted an in-depth analysis of America’s gay families. Lot of interesting stuff there.

Visit the Movement Advancement Project for more.

The number of gay couples adopting children has tripled in the last ten years. “It’s a stratospheric increase. It’s like going from zero to 60,” said Miami attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, who has coordinated more than 100 adoptions for gay and lesbian families in the last year. “I think many really dreamed of doing this but it wasn’t something they ever …

Fort Lauderdale’s Sun-Sentinel reports on the environment for Florida’s gay families since the lifting of the state’s ban on adoptions. For 33 years, Florida barred gays and lesbians from adopting. That changed last October, when Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled the law unenforceable and the state declined to challenge it. Since then, family law attorneys estimate …