The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from February 2006

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from February 2006

Peter Shalit.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 14, 2006... One gay man upset after Gene Shalit's review of Brokeback Mountain on NBC's Today show on January 5 was his gay son, Peter--only Peter was upset not because he disagreed (he's used to that) but because he felt other gay people were...

The military's tipping point.(FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF)(Editorial)
February 14, 2006... For Christmas a family member gave me a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book The Tipping Point, knowing that I admired Gladwell's reporting for The New Yorker magazine. (Gladwell cut his journalistic teeth covering the AIDS epidemic for The...

Against "don't ask, don't tell".(TIME LINE)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... 1993 President Clinton approves the military's antigay "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network forms to defend targeted soldiers. 1995 Lt. Zoe Dunning beats a military discharge, arguing that acknowledging...

Let the games begin.(ARCHIVES: (08.05.82))(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... As gays and lesbians from around the globe prepare for not one but two large-scale, Olympic-style sporting events this summer--the result of a contentious split between the Federation of Gay Games and its initial host, Montreal--it's...

Brokeback avalanche.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2006... What a terrific interview of Heath Ledger by Alonso Duralde ["Hot, Hot Heath," January 17]! While Ledger has been doing plenty of interviews recently with national media, he often comes off as reticent, intensely private, and at times even...

Get Carter.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2006... I was very impressed with former president Jimmy Carter in his Q&A with Scan Kennedy [January 17]. I have always believed in the separation of church and state but would immediately find myself jumping on the bandwagon in favor of same-sex...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com.
February 14, 2006... In the December 20 issue we asked: Can openly gay and lesbian youths win over the hearts and minds of rural America to support LGBT equality? Reader comments from www.advocate.com * "Visibility is everything. Openly gay and lesbian...

The marrying kind.(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2006... In your January 17 time line ["The News of Our Lives"], you write for October 1: "Connecticut's civil unions law goes into effect, but few couples take advantage of it." According to a December 13 story in The Hartford Courant, "In the first...

True blue.(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2006... Thanks for the insightful article "The 2006 Gay Agenda" [January 17]. As a resident of Seattle, I have an observation that I think is worth noting in regard to how you define red and blue states. You imply that Washington is a red state. The...

Son also rises.(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2006... I just read your Best of the Year issue [January 17] and was disappointed that no mention was given to Gregory Maguire's latest novel, Son of a Witch, on your Top 10 Books list. Here's a book pitched directly at a mainstream audience in which...

Having a ball in New Orleans.(MARDI GRAS)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Despite the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, 65-year-old George Patterson, secretary of the gay Mardi Gras group the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon, is keeping his beleaguered city's spirit alive. But putting together a series of balls for...

Local victories.(NEED TO KNOW)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Gays and lesbians across the country had newly ascendant out elected officials to celebrate in January: * CHRISTINE QUINN, a lesbian New York City council member, was elected by her peers to the post of council speaker, widely regarded as...

Alito: friend and foe?(SUPREME COURT)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... How would conservative federal judge Samuel Alito vote on issues affecting gay and lesbian equality if they came before him on the U.S. Supreme Court? Early in his confirmation hearings Alito touted a ruling he made in favor of a high school...

Gay kiss unfit for discussion.(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Despite a traditionally macho culture, Mexico has become very gay-friendly in some areas, including the resort community of Los Cabos. So it came as a shock to many when two gay men claimed they were thrown out of a luxury hotel there for...

Selling Haring's gift.(South of Market Child Care Center auctions Keith Haring painting for funds)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... When the late gay artist Keith Haring painted a mural for the South of Market Child Care Center in San Francisco in 1985, his only instruction was that the mural should benefit the children of South of Market. Now the center says it is using...

Shalit on his gay son.(archives)
February 14, 2006... Still think Gene Shalit is a homophobe because of his Brokeback Mountain review? Read the NBC critic's moving 1997 "Viewpoint" article about his son's coming-out, only on Advocate.com.

Free the world.(commentary)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... It's time to turn our attention to the plight of our LGBT brothers and sisters in other countries and demand an end to human rights violations, write Chuck Wolfe (pictured), of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute, and Long...

Brokeback response.(arts & entertainment)
February 14, 2006... In a passionate personal letter, Diana Ossana, who cowrote the screenplay to Brokeback Mountain, responds to Karel's Advocate.com commentary on the film. Ossana recalls how "young Matthew Shepard was found [left for dead] not five minutes from...

Cross country.(REPORT)
February 14, 2006... 1 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. In a case filed by gay couples seeking the right to marry in the state, more than 250 religious and civil rights groups on January 9 filed eight separate amicus curiae briefs urging the California appellate court to...

The Microsoft effect?(antidiscrimination bill)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Shortly after software giant Microsoft pulled support for a pro-gay antidiscrimination bill in Washington State last year, the bill lost in the state senate by one vote. Gay rights leaders accused the company of kowtowing to antigay religious...

No lesbian photographers.(discrimination against gays)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Fired just for being gay? In 34 states it's still legal, and that's what North Carolina photographer Laurel Scherer says happened to her and her partner after the couple's wedding announcement appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times. ...

Travel.(gays and lesbians travel more)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... A new survey reveals that gays and lesbians are twice as likely to travel abroad than their straight counterparts. For your next vacation, are you planning to travel to an overseas destination? GAYS AND LESBIANS: 14% STRAIGHTS: 7% ...

Baptist proposition.(RELIGION)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... When the Reverend Lonnie Latham supported a directive urging fellow members of the Southern Baptist Convention to convince gays and lesbians to turn straight "and reject their sinful, destructive lifestyle," no one imagined he could actually be...

Transgender Barbie?(Concerned Women for America fights over Mattel Inc.'s mistake)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... The antigay group Concerned Women for America thought it had found the latest warrior in the battle over transgender rights. But it wasn't an activist fighting for those who struggle with gender identity. It was a plastic doll. In January...

Now they're Related.(Peter Paige again in gay role)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Fresh from his directorial debut--Say Uncle hits theaters in June--out actor Peter Paige has landed a recurring role on the WB's Monday sitcom Related as the gay son of Renee (Christine Ebersole). "Patrick is astoundingly different from...

Casanova, Hostel, Grandma's Boy.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Films, all rated R for sexual content or violence, playing at the Sandy, Utah, 17-screen theater that canceled a booking of Brokeback Mountain, scheduled to begin January 6. The theater, owned by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller; declined to give a...

Stern's new gay sidekick.(MEDIA)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... After former Star Trek actor George Takei recorded his autobiography in his own deep, mellifluous voice, the Howard Stern show edited together bits and pieces and "had me saying the most preposterous things," Takei recalled. Now Stern and...

Rants raves.(REPORTS)
February 14, 2006... "We double-check our material carefully, but Spacey's name got through." --PAUL PATRICK, organizer of the U.K.'s LGBT Project, which included Kevin Spacey in an online list of famous gay people on December 29. The actor's name was later...

Know thy neighbors.(First person: Tom Lang)
February 14, 2006... My partner of 18 years, Alex, and I are both small-town antique dealers from the north shore of Massachusetts. We were thrilled to be married in our home state when same-sex marriage became legal there in 2004. It was shortly after our...

GLAD's marriage battle.(SHORT ANSWERS)(Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders )
February 14, 2006... The gay rights group Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders on January 3 filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts attorney general Tom Reilly to block a petition-driven ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage, which was legalized in...

A gay general in New York?(ELECTION)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Lesbian candidate Karen Burstein won a difficult Democratic primary for attorney general in New York in 1994. But last-minute antigay attacks by her opponents in the general election derailed her momentum, and she lost to Republican Dennis...

Friend or foe?(REPORT)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... FRIEND GOV. MARK WARNER of Virginia, for an executive order that prohibits Virginia state agencies from discriminating against gays in hiring and promotions. He also bought a new hose for the inevitable cross burnings on his lawn. FRIEND...

Vincent Schiavelli.(actor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 14, 2006... VINCENT SCHIAVELLI, 57, an actor whose many television and movie credits include a role in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and what many believe was the first gay character on television, a set designer in the short-lived ABC sitcom...

Susan Bergman.(author)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 14, 2006... SUSAN BERGMAN, 48, the older sister of actress Anne Heche and the author of the 1994 book Anonymity, chronicling her father's secret gay life, of brain cancer at her home in Barrington, III., January 1. Heche, widely known for her relationship...

Marjorie Kellogg.(author)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 14, 2006... MARJORIE KELLOGG, 83, an author and playwright whose many works often featured characters with mental and physical illnesses, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., December 19. Kellogg, who is survived...

Pietro Sambi.(is Vatican's representative to United States)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Archbishop PIETRO SAMBI, a Vatican leader who has repeatedly denounced gay rights, as the Vatican's new representative to the United States, in December.

Gay prison dorm.(CLOSED)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... The GAY PRISON DORM at Rikers Island in New York City, over a period of several weeks that began in November. The dorm is one of the last of its kind in the country and will be replaced by a unit for all prisoners who feel threatened, gay or...

Chita Rivera.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
February 14, 2006... She's been nominated for eight Tony awards (winning twice) and in 2002 received the Kennedy Center's lifetime achievement honor. She'll live forever in theater history for her roles in the original West Side Story and Chicago. So it's no...

Help for gay Wanderers.(GEN Q)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... After leaving what he describes as an unacceptable situation at home, 15-year-old "Jamie" entered the foster care system in Massachusetts. Each time he was placed in a home he was afraid to come out, certain that he would not be accepted. And...

Yvonne Neis.(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... "Good or bad, I end up being the poster child for gay kids in my community because I know everyone deserves equality and respect regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. I am willing to fight to make my opinion heard, and I know I...

Duquesne University.(shouldn't call itself as a Catholic university)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... A Catholic school that allows gay students to meet "shouldn't be touting themselves as a Catholic university," says Diane Gramely of the antigay American Family Association of Pennsylvania. Gramely came to her conclusion after Duquesne...

The Advocate GenQ poll.
February 14, 2006... How should religious schools accommodate openly gay students? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before February 7 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appear in the March 14 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies...

A rumor is enough.(Lutheran High School sued fo lesbian discrimination)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... What's in a rumor about being a lesbian high school student? At California Lutheran High School it can get you kicked out. That's what happened to two girls in October after faculty members of the private Wildomar, Calif., school (near...

Gay rights.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Among high school seniors in the class of 2006: SUPPORT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNIONS 74% OPPOSE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING SAM E-SEX MARRIAGE 74% SUPPORT ADOPTION BY SAME-SEX COUPLES 63% ...

Outspoken: Michael McManus.(GEN Q)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Growing up in the Midwest definitely has its perks. Endless fields of com, dairy cows on nearly every corner, and flannel shirts worn by men with mullet hairdos. Yes, I am proud to say I'm a corn-fed, flannel-wearing, hamburger-eating...

Gays face off in D.C.: under the threat of congressional veto, two out politicians are battling over how the city should recognize same-sex couples.(WASHINGTON ADVOCATE)
February 14, 2006... Is it time for the city of Washington, D.C., to take baby steps or a bold leap in the move toward LGBT equality? Tension between those two approaches is playing out on the city council as its members grapple with securing marriage rights for...

Dreier to the GOP's rescue.(WASHINGTON ADVOCATE)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... As more tales of corrupt lobbying activity seep out of the nation's capital, the GOP is in the midst of damage control. And, on January 9, House speaker Dennis Hastert picked California Republican congressman David Dreier, chairman of the House...

40+ years of Valentine's Days: same-sex couples together more than four decades defined commitment years before today's fight for marriage equality.(MARRIAGE)
February 14, 2006... They all said it would never last between these two silly boys--what with all the breaking up and getting back together. Like clockwork, between every Halloween and New Year's Day, with party season in full swing, Marvin Burrows and his...

Kicking ass, dropping weight: how I lost 50 pounds through self-defense.(SPORTS AND FITNESS)
February 14, 2006... Like all my major life changes, my transformation began with lesbian relationship drama. My girlfriend went on vacation, remained incommunicado for a week, then phoned during a layover at a Midwestern airport and unceremoniously dumped me. The...

Pro football's lesbian heroes.(SPORTS AND FITNESS)
February 14, 2006... We aspire to be the NFL," says Meghan Ireland, general manager of the Albany [N.Y.] Ambush, one of the 15 teams and counting of the Women's Professional Football League. "We've modeled ourselves after them. The NFL is ahead of us by 30 years,...

Frozen in the closet: why don't those fabulous Olympic figure skaters come out? An out ex-skater and judge gives us the inside scoop.(SPORTS COMMENTARY)
February 14, 2006... After a four-year wait, gay sports fans are once again looking forward to one of our favorite dramas on television: the figure skating competitions at the Olympic Winter Games. Starting February 10 our gay TiVos will be purring at peak capacity...

The last battle: with increasing pressure on Congress to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," a group of out veterans unveils a plan to bring conservatives to their side and win the right to serve.(Cover Story)
February 14, 2006... On a morning in 2002, Alex Nicholson quietly packed his bags and left his military base near Tucson for the last time. A friend he once trusted had outed him to commanding officers, and Nicholson had been given an honorable discharge under the...

Robert Stout: in 2004, U.S. Army sergeant Robert Stout was seriously wounded by a rocket-powered grenade while fighting in northern Iraq.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 14, 2006... Robert Stout: in 2004, U.S. Army sergeant Robert Stout was seriously wounded by a rocket-powered grenade while fighting in northern Iraq. After winning the Purple Heart, he created a firestorm after publicly coming out in various media reports....

Lord of illusion: author and former Advocate columnist Norah Vincent on Self-made Man, her engrossing new book about passing as male for 18 months.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
February 14, 2006... One night in New York City, writer Norah Vincent went out in drag as a prank and discovered that she could pass as a man. Walking around the East Village, bracing herself for the usual catcalls and penetrating stares of the men in front of the...

Closeted in plain sight: Yale law professor Kenji Yoshino talks about his new book, Covering, inspired by how gay people hide themselves in public--to the detriment of our fight for equality.(BOOKS)
February 14, 2006... Do you kiss your boyfriend at the airport? Correct the salesperson who assumes your spouse is someone of the opposite sex? If you instinctively draw back in situations like these, you understand "covering"--out Yale law professor Kenji...

Hey, kids, let's make a CD: a night of drinking tequila and strumming guitar with L Word star Leisha Hailey led to Amy Cook's impromptu The Bunkhouse Recordings.(MUSIC)(Sound Recording Review)
February 14, 2006... A black velvet desert sky, shades of love, and naked guitar strums feature prominently on singer-songwriter Amy Cook's third CD, The Bunkhouse Recordings. Cook recorded the gentle folk set in Marfa, Texas, outdoors, under the moonlight, at the...

Freaky deaky: gay music video director John Roecker takes stop-motion animation to bizarre places in his debut feature Live Freaky! Die Freaky!(DVD)
February 14, 2006... Shelve that copy of Pink Flamingos and say sayonara to Blood Sucking Freaks--there's a new most-offensive-movie contender at your video store. Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor...

Fitness too routine: does your workout need a high-tech tune-up? Here are some great new ways to keep you feeling your best.(TOYS)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... The latest version of Adidas Intelligent Shoe, the 1.1 ($250) improves on the 1's ability to change its cushioning on the fly to adapt to how hard you're running, It's one step closer to making you into the $6 million man or woman you've always...

Suave savage.(TOYS)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 14, 2006... Like your luxury with a kick? Cadillac's XLR roadster is an iron fist in a velvet glove. Get in, and the car practically reaches out to embrace you. The XLR's plush interior-supple leather, heated seats, and wood trim--bespeak Cadillac's...

Brokeback pyramid.(NOTES FROM A BLOND)
February 14, 2006... People keep telling me there's never been anything like Brokeback Mountain. But they've never been inside the Step Pyramid in the necropolis of Saqqara, not far outside Cairo. Let me explain. In Brokeback Mountain two men living otherwise...

Hot new Gossip.(MUSIC)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... Standing in the Way of Control, the third studio full-length from the Gossip, is a step up for the trio. Their potent punk rock still induces frantic dancing, but the 10 songs also showcase some of openly queer lead singer Beth Ditto's...

A Year Without Love.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2006... A Year Without Love * Directed by Anahi Berneri * Starring Juan Minujin * Strand Releasing This striking film tells a sharp and sexy story of one gay man's steady climb to dignity and fulfillment against great odds. Winner of the Teddy...

Amazingly graceful.(Book of Daniel)(Brief Article)(Television Program Review)
February 14, 2006... The Book of Daniel * Starring Aidan Quinn * NBC, Fridays Working as a hybrid of Six Feet Under and 7th Heaven, NBC's new dramedy The Book of Daniel is just clever and real enough to successfully separate itself from a dreary...

Glam sham.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 14, 2006... Glam sham Doll * Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy * Anchor C Despite the lip service glam rock paid to style-as-substance with its silver lame space suits and sexual ambiguity, there's no denying that its icons communicated something...

Sweet relief.(Katrina CD, vol. 1)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 14, 2006... The Katrina CD, Vol. 1 * Recording Artists for Hope * Wonderboy This benefit album for victims of the 2005 hurricane season was helmed by openly gay Houston inspirational singer Christian Andreason, who opens the 18-song set with...

Light reading.(A Wall of Light)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 14, 2006... A Wall of Light * Edeet Ravel * HarperCollins * $23.95 Early inA Wall of Light, which is set in Tel Aviv, main character Sonya indulges in a hot shower while remembering that some people don't have water enough to drink. This...

Marc Andreyko.(CULTURE SPOTLIGHT)
February 14, 2006... DC Comics' acclaimed Manhunter series, about a federal prosecutor turned masked vigilante by night, gave its readers a couple of shocks in January. Obsidian-a character whose tumultuous backstory includes childhood abuse, romantic frustration,...

Valentine's edition.(HOT PICKS)(Calendar)
February 14, 2006... FILM April's Shower Throughout February (Here TV) In out writer-director Trish Doolan's comedy, a wedding shower for a best gal friend turns into a lesbian comedy of eros. Queer Eye's Honey Labrador produces and costars. BOOK...

After Brokeback.(BROADSIDE)
February 14, 2006... The upper west side of Manhattan is one of those demilitarized zones where you never expect to encounter any of the prejudices still prevalent in all those red states west of the Hudson River. So when my boyfriend and I went to Loews Lincoln...

Nuggets & bites.
February 14, 2006... "While gay rights groups are decrying [Gene Shalit's] review as a bigoted and blindsided take on [Brokeback Mountain], our gut reaction is something else entirely. Shalit is behaving in a perfectly normal fashion, if he were to have fallen...

Peter Guber.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 28, 2006... Peter Guber knows the movie business like no one else. In the 1980s he produced smash hits like Flashdance and Barman. In the early 1990s he ran Sony's Columbia Pictures, overseeing A Few Good Men and Philadelphia. Still a producer, Guber also...

The city and the mountain.(FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF)(Editorial)
February 28, 2006... It's unprecedented, this new gay movie that's al] the talk. It's a same-sex romance that portrays gay men's emotional lives in a way my friends and I are awestruck to see on-screen. We all agree that its unspooling of a passionate yet rocky...

Brokeback's film journey.
February 28, 2006... October 13, 1997: Annie Preulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" appears in The New Yorker to immediate acclaim. October--December 1997: Writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana option the story with their own money and write a first draft....

Names project begins.(ARCHIVES: (10.13.87))(Brief article)
February 28, 2006... In this issue The Advocate profiles the Names Project as it struggles with funding and internal conflicts. But when the magazine first reported on the project nearly two decades ago, the fledgling organization had growing support and a clear...

The word on word.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... I would like to thank you for the interview you did with Jennifer Beals, definitely the "Soul of The L Word" [January 31]. This show has inspired me in every possible way and given me a voice I never knew I had. Living in Europe, the fans can...

Savaging West.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... Thank you for Dan Savage's tirade against deposed Spokane mayor Jim West ["No Excuses for West," January 31]. I too have little sympathy for him. If he is a victim of homophobia, it is of his own making. I grew up listening to his bombast from...

Gay in the Middle East.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... Thanks for Patrick Moore's article on the hypocrisy of news coverage in the Middle East ["Murder and Hypocrisy," January 31]. As we constantly complain about Islam's attitudes toward gays, there are a few points that don't get mentioned. There...

Living dangerously.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... Further to your interview with Michael Shernoff [Q&A, January 31], unprotected or bareback sex between gay men (or even straight folk for that matter) should not be shocking. All people practice self-destructive behaviors (usually only for...

Pioneer days.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... In the January 17 issue, John Morgan Wilson writes about Hollywood actors who come out of the closet afar decades of being in the closet ["There Won't Be Trumpets"]. He believes that these people should have come out of the closet decades ago...

Keeping the faith.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2006... Andrew Sullivan rightly condemns the Catholic Church's purge of gay seminarians [Against the Current, January 17], but a more informative writer would explain why he remains Catholic despite huge theological disagreements with that...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
February 28, 2006... The caption on page 38 of our January 31 story "Where Has the Gay Art Gene?" misidentifies Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation director Wayne Snellen as Fritz Lohman. And in our Q&A with Michael Shernoffon page 4, the results of an Internet survey...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com.(THE ADVOCATE Poll)(Brief article)
February 28, 2006... In the January 31 issue, we asked: Has Ford permanently hurt its image with LGBT consumers--despite telling the antigay AFA to take a hike? * I think it has. Ford just seems so wimpy. The fact that the AFA threat was even responded to...

Welcome to Marry-land?(MARRIAGE EQUALITY)(Brief article)
February 28, 2006... Maryland doesn't offer civil unions, and same-sex couples there may never need to agitate for them. They're now gunning for full marriage equality. At the end of January, Baltimore city circuit judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down a...

Poor paper trail.(gay parents' adoption)(Brief Article)
February 28, 2006... Virginia may not be the most gay-friendly state, but a proposal to bar gay adoptive parents in other states from getting both of their names listed en birth certificates issued in Virginia just went too far, according to a state senate...