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• This Week In Gayness: Sean Penn's Next Movie

  A lesbian wedding announcement in a Utah paper is causing a (small) stink in the conservative state. About.com wonders what will happen if Proposition 8 passes, thus banning gay marriage in California.  Only 64% of gay people have come out to a family member, but 80% of gays would like to integrate suburbia... Read More... Posted Aug 06 2008, 11:34 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: movies, lesbian, Barack Obama, james franco, adoption, this week in gayness, sean penn, gay marriage ban, california, charlie crist

• Foster Father Of Sex Act Kids Arrested For His Own Sex Acts

  John Cantrell, foster father and Santa Claus (obviously) to a whopping 27 adopted children, including some who performed in the infamous child sex show before he rescued them, has been arrested on unrelated charges of sexual assault from two decades-old cases. Now one of the six trials of suspects in the Mineola, TX child sex ring case is on shaky ground... since Cantrell was supposed to be the prosecution's star witness... Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 02:31 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: texas, santa claus is comin' to town, adoption, sexual assault, child abuse, sexual abuse, trials, sex show

• Brad and Angelina: Stop the Insanity!

  Angelina hasn't even popped out her twins yet (children number six and seven) and already she's planning on adopting another kid? Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 04:41 PM by Emily Farris with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: babies, brad pitt, adoption, angelina joile, brangelina, familties

• Hold the DNA! Is the Twins Who Married Story a New Urban Legend?

  Remember last Friday when Scanner Bryan brought us the story of the twins who were separated at birth and later married? It was Scanner Bryan, an adoptee's, worst fucking nightmare. Did anyone have a hard time buying the story even though it came from the BBC News, a supposedly reputable news source? Yeah, us neither. How easily fooled we are by media corporations. Maybe. Read More... Posted Jan 15 2008, 03:17 PM by Emily Farris with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: politics, marriage, incest, catholics, twins, adoption

• Today in Awkward Moments: Couple Marries, Discovers They're Twins

  OK, kids, first person singular: I, Scanner Bryan, am an adoptee. My biological parents were 15 and, er, 19 (I think) -- just a couple kids in a jam who felt that handing off their newborn to another couple would be the best thing for all concerned. That's not a decision that I've ever regretted their making, and frankly, although being adopted can often be the source of great insecurity, social confusion, and even tendancies towards self-destruction, I've quite literally never had any problems with it whatsoever. Why do I mention this? Because the following scenario, which may just sound gross or crazy or kinky to non-adoptees, is still pretty much my worst fucking nightmare. (PS: Major spoiler ahead if your knowledge of mid-90's indie movies isn't fairly encyclopedic.) Read More... Posted Jan 11 2008, 03:36 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: marriage, scanner bryan, divorce, incest, adoption, first person singular