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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is among many Republican U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidates around the country who have spoken out against gay adoption and other LGBT issues.

An agency that regulates charities in the UK has reconfirmed its original ruling against a religious adoption service that had refused to place children with gay and lesbian couples.

Mexico’s Supreme Court voted Monday to uphold a Mexico City law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples, drawing jubilant cheers from gay advocacy groups and angry protests from the Catholic Church.

In two separate court rulings, New York state has bolstered the rights of gay and lesbian families.

Lousiana lawmakers struck down a measure that would have offered gay and lesbian prospective parents greater family parity by allowing them to adopt.

Mexican federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will try to overturn Mexico City’s gay marriage law on the grounds it violates the constitution.

A lesbian couple has been granted sole custody of an infant by a Miami judge, in direct defiance of a Florida-wide ban on such adoptions.

Actress Cynthia Nixon will be among those in attendance at the Saturday launch of a campaign to overturn Florida’s ban on gays and lesbians from adopting children.

A French court has ruled in favor of a same-sex family seeking to adopt.

In Europe, churches are assailing laws that provide equality to same-sex parents looking to provide homes to needy children.