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KIDS WITH LESBIAN OR GAY PARENTS DO JUST FINE: STUDY FINDS NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHILDREN OF GAY, LESBIAN OR HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES

By Robert Preidt MedlinePlus.com

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long-term study of children adopted by gay and lesbian parents has found that the kids are well-adjusted through middle childhood, researchers say.

Nearly 100 two-parent families were included in the study, half had gay or lesbian parents. All had adopted children. The kids were assessed at two points: at preschool age, then five years later.

The researchers found no differences between those with same-sex or heterosexual parents. The study focused on behavior problems, stress levels, couple relationships, family function and relationship adjustments over time.

“To the best of my knowledge this is the first study that has followed children adopted by lesbian, gay and heterosexual parents over time from early to middle childhood,” said study author Rachel Farr, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky.

“Longitudinal research [like this] offers insight into what factors may be the best or strongest predictors of children’s development, over and above information that can be gathered at only one time point,” she said in a university news release.

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orientation, children in the study had fewer behavior problems over time if adoptive parents said they had less parenting stress, Farr noted.

“Higher family functioning when children were school-age was predicted by lower parenting stress and fewer child behavior problems when children were preschool-age,” she said.

Farr said these findings suggest that the family structure doesn’t seem to matter as much as the way a family functions.

These results support many positive outcomes among adoptive families headed by lesbian, gay or heterosexual parents over time, Farr said. This information may be useful in legal and policy realms, she added.

More than 4 percent of all adopted children in the United States -- about 65,500 -- have same-sex parents, so “the findings may also help to move public debate forward about parenting and child outcomes across a diversity of family forms,” Farr said.

The study was published online recently in the journal Developmental Psychology.

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LESBIAN COLLEGE COACHES STILL FACE DIFFICULT ATMOSPHERE TO COME OUT

By Shannon Ryan, ChicagoTribune.com

Courtney Graham said everything was going smoothly with her assistant coaching job with Drake University’s women’s basketball team. The Bulldogs were building the program, and Graham said she was handling her recruiting and scouting responsibilities well, resulting in bonuses and positive performance reviews.

That changed, she said, when she brought her now-wife to a game to sit in the family section in November 2014.

In a federal lawsuit filed in late December, Graham alleges that as a result, head coach Jennie Baranczyk ostracized her from the team, told her she was not acting like herself, diminished her duties and asked her to resign in May 2015.

Graham turned in her resignation a month later after, she said, undue pressure from Baranczyk.

“She loves coaching,” Graham’s attorney, Tina Muhammad, told the Tribune. Graham, now married with children, declined to comment to the Tribune directly. “If you think of a traditional coach who is only focused on scouting, games, plays, what are we doing next week — that’s her focus.

Vanderbilt coach Stephanie White yells to her players in the first half against Tennessee on Jan. 5, 2017. (Mark Humphrey / AP)

“She wasn’t on any type of agenda. She wasn’t looking for homophobic behavior. It did blindside her. She was just there doing a job.”

Drake has denied the allegations. A university statement in reply to the suit said the school and Baranczyk “have a strong commitment to diversity, tolerance and non-discrimination.”

Regardless of the suit’s outcome, the case has stirred lingering questions about homophobia in college athletics and the specific challenges lesbian coaches face. Stereotypes about women in sports lead to a don’t-ask-don’t-tell atmosphere that keeps many closeted, coaches and advocates told the Tribune.

“There is still a lot of fear out there among lesbian coaches about coming out and suffering professional consequences as a result,” said Pat Griffin, a Massachusetts Amherst professor who has studied and written about homophobia and sports.

“There’s this whole stereotype that there’s a lot of lesbians in sports and it’s a big paradise and everyone is happy and nobody has a problem anymore. I often hear we have to focus on homophobia in men’s sports because women’s sports is so terrific. It’s a little bit of sexism and homophobia.”

While public support has strengthened in recent years for college athletes who come out — including former Missouri football player Michael Sam, UMass men’s basketball player Derrick Gordon and Purdue women’s basketball player Bree Horrocks — Griffin said gay men and women in sports must navigate homophobia differently.

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WNBA star Brittney Griner came out after her college career at Baylor and said her coach, Kim Mulkey, had told players to remain closeted.

Stereotypes about female athletes, Griffin said, can cause coaches to fear how they and their program will be perceived.

“If a gay man comes out on his team, there isn’t the assumption that, ‘Oh, my god, the rest of them must be too.’ In some ways, it’s perceived as less of a risk (than for female players),” Griffin said. “And as (a male coach, you) do not have to worry: ‘Will this affect my ability to recruit as a straight ally (to gay players)?’ The stakes are different because of the different ways homophobia works in men’s and women’s sports.”

‘You want to be honest’ It’s even rarer — and in many ways more difficult — for gay college coaches to publicly confirm their sexuality.

sibly. In recruiting, everyone has this fear.

“The world is changing, but it seems like there’s this cloud that continues to hang over sports and coaching, especially for women coaches.”

That feeling is compounded by the fact that men have increasingly been hired to coach women’s teams, pushing women out of these jobs. In 1972, more than 90 percent of women’s college teams were coached by women; that number fell to 40 percent in 2015.

Graham’s lawsuit against Drake is far from the first of its kind.

In 2015, former Minnesota-Duluth coaches in women’s hockey, softball and women’s basketball sued the school for sexual orientation discrimination. The case remains in discovery and could go to trial this summer.

Former women’s golf coach Katie Brenny won a From subtle aspects of coaching such as includsex and sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit ing family in media guides or against Minnesota after “The world is changing, her duties were reduced inviting the team to their home for a cookout to more significant but it seems like there’s this to secretarial work when areas such as recruiting and job the golf director learned cloud that continues to hang she is a lesbian. security, the culture of college athletics continues to make their over sports and coaching, sexuality feel like a career risk.

Former Penn State especially for women women’s basketball In Portland, Ore., where former coach Rene Portland had coaches.”

Portland State coach Sherri Mur- — Former Portland State coach Sherri a “no lesbians” policy for rell said “lesbians are as common decades and ultimately Murrell as food trucks,” Murrell’s sexualresigned in 2007 after a ity was no secret and no big deal. But she made former player filed a lawsuit that was settled out national headlines with the simple — and typical of court.

— decision to include her wife and children in the media guide.

At Belmont University, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., women’s soccer coach Lisa “Much has changed but much has not,” said Howe agreed to resign in 2010 after telling her Murrell, who became the first openly gay Division players she and her partner of eight years were I basketball coach in 2009 after taking the job in expecting a baby. Howe signed a confidentiality 2007. “If (coaches) are outspoken or more public agreement with Belmont that prohibits her from about it, it’s just one more thing to cause them speaking specifically about her parting with the to not get a job or cause them to get fired posuniversity.

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“I knew there would be a risk in coming out,” she said. But she said she grew tired of being closeted, especially as she was planning a family.

“It’s hard when you’re hiding part of yourself at work when you’re trying to be a role model to 20-year-olds,” said Howe, now executive director of the Nashville LGBT chamber of commerce.

“There are young people taking their lives.

There are young people getting kicked out of their homes and families. I (was) on a daily basis sending this message: It’s OK to be gay as long as you don’t tell anyone or hide it. Or maybe I (was) sending the message it’s not OK. “It finally became such an internal struggle that it was affecting a lot of parts of my life. It affected how well I was coaching, my happiness, my relationships with friends and my partner. You get tired of lying. I wasn’t outright lying, but I wasn’t being honest. If you’re a person of integrity, you want to be honest.”

Changing the Culture Vanderbilt women’s basketball coach Stephanie White, a former WNBA head coach with the Fever and assistant with the Sky, is currently the lone publicly gay Division I head basketball coach.

She said she must gauge a team’s inclusive atmosphere before accepting a job.

At Vanderbilt, her wife and kids were mentioned during an introduction to the public, and the family was welcomed on a giant video board — and she knew she had made the right decision.

“Vanderbilt as a university doesn’t shy away from social issues,” White said. “They encourage students to have a voice. They encourage dialogue on tough subjects. I like that.

“One of the things (before taking the job was) I just talked about my family and (how) family being around me is important. I read body language as much as what is coming out of someone’s mouth.”

Coaches said they need straight allies and appreciate it when a lesbian coach finds the courage to speak out. But a significant, long-lasting culture change that makes lesbian coaches feel safe in coming out must be implemented by top college administrators, who are typically straight men.

“It’s up to college administrators to set the tone,” Griffin said. “I don’t think we see enough of that.

I don’t think a lot of college administration even sees it as a priority because they’re too busy thinking about how to make money.”

Progress has been made, coaches acknowledged.

A generational divide on the issue is evident.

Today’s players and young assistant coaches — straight and gay — are more comfortable with players expressing their sexuality, coaches said.

“I work with athletes and they’re like: ‘Gay teammates? Who cares as long as they help us win,’” Griffin said. “But when you talk to the coaches, they’re still concerned: ‘What do you do if you have teammates dating?’ or ‘What if I have a lesbian on the team?’ They’re still asking really basic questions.”

LGBT SportSafe, an inclusion program for college administrators and coaches to create accepting atmospheres, works with 26 athletic departments across the nation and partnered with the America East Conference. The NCAA set firmer requirements in 2016 for sites to host or bid for major events, and it withdrew championship games from North Carolina because of a controversial bill many believe discriminates against transgender people.

But until the atmosphere feels safe for gay coaches to come out, some say, enough hasn’t changed.

“It still is a big deal because people can’t feel they can be their authentic selves as a coach,” Howe said. “Until we see more out coaches, I’m not going to feel like that culture has changed.”

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We’re just made different and that’s ok but in terms of gun ownership, it’s very important to have your needs understood.

After I purchased my gun, I needed to learn how to shoot it and practice. I’ve utilized several shooting ranges and as I had imagined, it was a very intimidating space.

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There is also a sofa and television as well as refreshments. At Gun World, they really have thought of everything.

Unfortunately, Randy passed away unexpectedly leaving Kim to run the business and run it, she has. I don’t know what Gun World was like before Kim took over but she has certainly made the atmosphere welcoming and inviting to women! When you walk in, you immediately feel at ease. There’s usually at least one woman there to greet to you. Because the range is welcoming, couples bring the family and utilize the lounge to preoccupy the kids while they use the range. Kim has added a variety of concelaed carry purses as well as other goodies for women. They offer ‘ladies only’ shooting classes, too! Maybe it’s the woman’s touch at Gun World that makes it feel so welcoming, but one thing is for sure, you feel a warmth when you walk in the door that you won’t find at any other gun range. Take a look for yourself. Gun World is located in Deerfield Beach and you can check out their ad on page 44.

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OITNB’S SAMIRA WILEY AND LAUREN MORELLI REVEAL HOW THEY CAME OUT & FELL IN LOVE

By Dawn Ennis · LGBTQNation.com

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heirs is a love story made in Hollywood — and Astoria, Queens, where “Orange Is the New Black” is made. Writer/producer Lauren Morelli came out in 2014 after falling in love with Samira Wiley, who played Poussey on Netflix’s hit show. They met on the New York City soundstage in 2012, and for the first time are revealing how the magic happened.

“We spent four days in a row working together,” Wiley told Out. “Honestly, I thought she was gay the first time I met her.”

Wiley has been out for several years, a proud lesbian in a religious family. Her parents are pastors of the first black Baptist church to perform same-sex union ceremonies in Washington, D.C. “I’d already seen Samira’s audition tape and immediately had a crush on her — the complication being that I was married to a man at the time,” Morelli said in the interview with Out. “I came to New York to shoot my first episode. I was on set, sitting in front of the monitors, and she and Lea DeLaria, who plays Big Boo, walked up to me. Our set is like a lesbian utopia, and I remember thinking, They’re flirting with me.”

Morelli spoke openly about the shift in her sexual attraction, and how open she was with her then husband, for the first time.

“I had started questioning my sexuality as a result of being in the writers’ room and

talking about all the themes on the show. I was very open with my husband and told him. That turned into a year of going to couples therapy.

“I had a few queer women around me, but not many I could talk to about such a huge, vulnerable thing.

Samira became my outlet, and through that process I fell in love with her. Being with her felt too good to be true.”

Morelli separated from her husband, got her own place in Los Angeles, and began dating Wiley. One of the most dramatic moments being the death of Poussey on the show, which Morelli scripted.

“I was obviously honored to write the episode in which Poussey is killed,” she said.

“When I sat down to write that scene and typed the part when she dies, I just started sobbing. I called Samira sobbing so hard that I couldn’t get the words out. I’d never had the experience of not only killing a character, but killing a character played by my girlfriend.”

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After working together, vacationing together and learning about each other’s strengths and weaknesses, faults and virtues, Morelli took Wiley away to Palm Springs in October 2016 to pop the question.

Before heading out, Wiley said she couldn’t help but notice her girlfriend was acting odd.

“She got home and was just not ready to go, and I was confused. She asked me to sit next to her. Then she got me up, and we started dancing together, and she pulled a ring from behind the couch.

Lauren has been married before, so I wanted her to tell me she was ready, her to be the one to propose.

I didn’t know she was as ready as she was.

I was completely shocked. I was crying uncontrollably and kept backing away from her. I asked her after, “Who knows about this?” and she said, “Oh, everyone. Your parents know.” We didn’t tell anyone else for a few days. That was really important to us — to have some time where it was just ours.”

Then they each posted the news on Instagram. “I was so nervous and terrified she knew it was coming, but she was so shocked that I couldn’t get her to stop crying,” Morelli told Out. “She was hyperventilating.

I thought, Oh, this is not good. This has gone too far. She was very clear she’d wait for me to be ready, so to give her something I knew she wanted so much was incredible. It was the most magical day of my life.”

“There’s this Sara Bareilles song we love called ‘I Choose You.’” said Wiley. “For so long in our relationship, I wasn’t ‘the one.’

I was just waiting and being supportive of Lauren’s journey. To see her embrace her sexual orientation the way she has is like that song: ‘I choose this life as a gay woman, and we choose to spend this life together.’ I think — I know — I would not be where I am without Lauren. When I was first being thrust into the public eye, I wouldn’t talk about my orientation. Being with Lauren taught me self-love.”

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FLORIDA’S GROWING HOMELESSNESS PROBLEM

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ccording to the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) you are considered homeless and are eligible for the SNAP/Food Stamp Program if you: (1) have no fixed, regular place you sleep at night or (2) the place you sleep at night is one of the following: a shelter, a half-way house, the home of someone else if you are there less than 90 days or a place where people do not usually sleep such as a doorway, a lobby, a bus station, a hallway, or a subway. (1)

increase.

I interviewed 45 people for this article, all which preferred to remain anonymous. They either currently live in a halfway house, have lived in a halfway house or currently work in the addiction field.

All of the people I asked confirmed that they had gotten drug tested 1-5 times a week.

They also said they were all required to go to AA meetings 5-7 times a week and that the clientele within the treatment centers, halfway houses and AA meetings was So what exactly is a halfway house? Halfway predominantly white. All of the people that Houses are transitional living places for were in halfway houses said they had come those in recovery from drugs or alcohol. In from a rehab, treatment center or detox some states, because of legal requirements, and that it was strongly recommended to go the term “sober living house” is used. to a halfway house. These halfway houses Some people go to halfway houses bill up to “All of the people that were can from a treatment center, prison, or $1,000 for in halfway houses said they each urine a homeless situation, while others go there to be in a sober and clean had come from a rehab, test. Some environment to begin the recovery call treatment center or detox people process. Some residents are in it liquid gold and that it was strongly since the Drug halfway houses due to court orders.

(2) It seems as if a lot of them have recommended to go to a Treatment been popping up lately. An estimated Industry halfway house.”

4,000 halfway houses are currently is valued located in Florida. Although now that drug at $35 billion a year. The price to live in addiction and alcoholism are considered a halfway house runs from $200-$800 a disabilities under the ADA (Americans with week. Everyone I spoke with had to make a Disabilities Act) I don’t see that number “commitment” to stay at their prospective going down soon. If anything it will probably house. The minimum commitment was

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for six months. During their commitment they went to a 12-step meeting every day, predominantly Alcoholics Anonymous.

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Incorporated is a corporation with over 2 million members worldwide in 181 countries. Over one million members are in the United States. (3) So does AA really work? Dr. Lance Dodes writes in his book The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs in the Rehab Industry: “There is a large body of evidence now looking at AA success rate, and the success rate of AA is between 5 and 10 percent. Many people don’t seem to know that because it’s not widely publicized.

There are some studies that have claimed to show that AA is useful. These studies are riddled with scientific errors and they say no more than what we knew to begin with, which is that AA has probably the worst success rate in all of medicine.” (4) I also saw an interesting film by Monica Richardson called The 13th Step, where she talks about how the people in AA have covered up multiple sexual assaults, rapes, murders and suicides. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Incorporated claims that every group is autonomous and therefor they

are not responsible. They are responsible however in collecting money from these autonomous groups. AAWS Inc. had a recorded $27,181,001 in just in 2011 (5) alone. I have some resources at the end of the article if you are curious as to their current financial status.

It just all seems very cyclical. Go to detox, go to rehab, go to a halfway house, go to AA, and if that doesn’t work do it all over again.

People who want to work with addicts seem to have good intentions, at least all of the ones I talked to. Although all of the data raises many questions. Is this business corrupt? Is it setting people up to fail? Are these addicts going through a revolving door so to speak since these companies want repeat customers? Are all of these halfway houses and rehabs a result of AA? Why are so many people becoming addicted? Dan

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Munro writes that, “the vast majority of addiction treatment is based either partially or entirely on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, but is there scientific evidence to support AA as clinical treatment? Should addiction treatment centers make enormous profits by simply funneling substance abusers into AA?” (6) So now that we know how and why these halfway houses, treatment centers and AA is profiting, why are so many people getting addicted now more than ever? To answer this question I would like to use a quote from Charlotte Kasl as to why she believes addiction has become so prevalent.

“Capitalism creates addiction because it rests on making people feel insecure, unlovable, and ashamed in order to have them purchase all kinds of things to make them—allegedly—attractive, lovable and powerful.” She also writes, “Psychic numbing is another term for denial, something most addicted people are familiar with. Your life can be falling apart and you still maintain drugs aren’t causing any problem. The same is true in our society when it comes to violence toward women and children. We hear political speeches condemning the taking of hostages in the Middle East, but I’m still waiting for the presidential speech that says, “We won’t stand for these bullies who rape our women and children. We won’t tolerate prejudice and assault on people of color. We won’t stand for women being held hostage by violent and abusing men.” Like addicted people, our leaders blind themselves to seeing what is in their own backyard. And the masses follow suit with mass psychic numbing, often using addictive substances

to ensure the denial. As if in a trance addicted people set aside their alleged values and sometimes ruthlessly pursue their addiction. The military-industrial complex does the same, maintaining their addiction to control and violence. (7)” It’s sad to see so many people suffering, and instead of helping them it’s gone to “How can I make a profit off of these people?”

Sources: 1 SNAP/Food Stamp Program Rights for People Experiencing Homelessness « Food Research & Action Center. (2016). Retrieved from http://frac.org/federal-foodnutritionprograms/snapfood-stamps/homeless-persons-rightsunder-the-snapsnapfood-stampprogram/ 2 Welcome Home. (2016). Retrieved from http://halfwayhouse.com/ 3 Service Material From The General Serice Office. (2016, January 1). Retrieved from http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/smf53_en.pdf 4 Dodes, L. M., & Dodes, Z. (2014.). The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-step Programs and the Rehab Industry 5 Munro, D. (2015, April 27). Inside the $35 Billion a Year Treatment Industry. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2015/04/27/inside-the-35-billion-addiction-treatmentindustry/#3e5e370067fd 6 Munro, D. (2015, April 27). Inside the $35 Billion a Year Treatment Industry. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2015/04/27/inside-the-35-billion-addiction-treatmentindustry/#3e5e370067fd 7 Kasl, C. S. (1992). Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps. New York, NY: HarperPerennial.

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THE CLOSET, CHICAGO Known as one of Chicago’s best LGBT bars, the Closet is “big fun in a Ii’! gay bar,” according to the Chicago Bar Project. The neighborhood favorite, often viewed as a home away from home for queer women in Boystown (the irony), was established in 1978

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GOSSIP GRILL, SAN DIEGO San Diego’s award-winning women’s bar, Gossip Grill, started as a small but trendy lesbian dub.

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LIPSTICK LOUNGE, NASHVILLE Seeking some camaraderie in Nashville’s east end? You’ll find it at Lipstick Lounge. With a crowd of regulars and a steady stream of live music.al acts, this melting pot barroom offers an atmosphere both electric and friendly.

PEARL BAR, HOUSTON Boasting the best musical acts, burlesque shows, and stand-ups in all of Texas, Pearl Bar is Houston’s resident women’s space. Pearl is renowned for its free-spirited outdoor concerts, patio hot tub soirees, and dance events.

L4 LOUNGE, CHARLOTTE NC A short drive from uptown Charlotte, L4 Lounge offers a high-energy time for its partyhearty patrons. While it’s geared toward women, men are welcome to enjoy the good music, beautiful DJs, and strong drinks.

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HENRIETTA HUDSON, NEW YORK CITY Manhattan’s number I lesbian bar for over 20 years, Henrietta Hudson is Gotham’s go-to place for lesbian culture. Henrietta Hudson (a feminine take on the nearby river and the explorer) prides itself on age and gender diversity and an allwelcoming atmosphere for LGBT folks, tourists, and allies. The West Village haunt even hosts same-sex marriages and has been awarded Best Lesbian Bar - New York City. Owner Lisa C. started HH in 1991 after her working at Chubbyhole, another iconic lesbian bar in NYC.

WILDSIDE WEST BAR, SAN FRANSISCO A Bay Area classic, Wild Side is a truly San Franciscan establishment, from its backyard beer garden to its vintage selection of jukebox records. Opened in 1962 by Pat Ramseyer and partner Nancy White, this haven has lived through the times of Harvey Milk into a new age of LCBT history. Pat died in 2010, but she lives on through the Wild Side.

WILD ROSE, SEATTLE One of the oldest lesbian bars on the West Coast, Wildrose is part clubhouse, part restaurant, and part refuge, making it a favorite among Seattle’s queer community. The Rose has been proudly women-owned and -operated since 1984.

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