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The number of single fathers has risen dramatically in the U.S. and more than tripled in Allen County - in Indiana - in less than two decades, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. Last year, there were an estimated 3,344 single fathers in Allen County, defined by the census as male householders with no wife present, living with their own children younger than 18 years old.

Earlier this month, a Circuit Court judge in Florida struck down the state's ban on gay adoption in order to allow a foster parent in Key West to adopt the son he had been raising. The Miami Herald offers more information about Wayne Larue Smith his partner Daniel Skahen and their 12-year-old son:

People Magazine is reporting that Clay Aiken is coming out of the closet, by appearing on its cover with his newborn.

The latest People shows Aiken holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay." The cover also has the quote: "I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things."

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Pitt said Wednesday.

On July 22, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department charged an 18-year-old gay man with filing a false police report after he accused his father of assault.

Lambda Legal is filing a discrimination complaint with the New York Attorney General’s office on behalf of a gay couple in New York barred from posting their online adoptive parent profile by Arizona-based Adoption Profiles, LLC and Adoption Media, LLC solely because they are a same-sex couple - violating New York antidiscrimination laws.

The Family Equality Council and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) ask community members to contact FX Networks and express their concern about a defamatory claim by an anti-gay activist that appears - unchallenged - in the June 24 installment of 30 Days.

This Father’s Day, a group of LGBT and straight-ally families will spend their holiday in a way that is both extraordinary and profoundly commonplace: they will attend services at Saddleback Church, the mega-church founded by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life.

The following day, the families will join leaders from Saddleback Church for a private meal and conversation.

Gary Day has filed suit against the Social Security Administration. Day is a disabled father, whose repeated requests for assistance for his children has been ignored for over two years. Indications in the government's responses point to anti-gay discrimination.

The following video shows what can happen when constitutional amendments are passed. Tom and Dennis Patrick lost their joint health benefits when Michigan passed an amendment to "protect" families. The Patrick family lost their shared health insurance after Michigan's attorney general ruled that state employees could no longer share benefits.