Just as Arkansas politicos squashed a gay foster parent ban, UCLA's Williams Institute and the Urban Institute have released a study on the adoption and foster rates for gay and lesbians. Apparently, 35% of lesbians between the ages of 18 and 44 have birthed a child, while 16% of gay men have adopted. Those numbers will only increased, researchers claim, as 52% of male homos and 41% of homettes claim they want guppies.

Certainly this information's interesting, but we're most intrigued by researcher Gary J Gates' comments:

Research measuring child well-being among children raised by LGB parents shows no negative consequences. In fact, studies show that these parents tend to have a higher percentage of qualities that are highly desirable.

On average, LGB adoptive parents and same-sex couples raising foster children are older and more educated than other foster parents. In addition, many LGB adoptive parents have access to more economic resources than other adoptive parents.

Study claims a third of US lesbians have had a baby [Pink News UK]

• There's a scourge wreaking sartorial havoc on gay communities - men who refuse to age gracefully. Pretty scary, right? Don't worry, Patrick Huguenin can help. First, you have to decide where you're coming from and where you want to go. We're leaning toward a rake (pictured). Pretty sexy for a sketch, no? [Genre]

• Outrage! outraged over Ghana's anti-gay laws. They best be careful, lest they have another Nigeria controversy. [UK Gay News]

• Arkansas advanced a bill to ban gay adoptions. Fuckers. [Arkansas News]

• Mr. Show on reparative therapy. [QueerSighted]

• Where's The Simpsons Movie premiering? Springfield, of course. Which Springfield? That depends on which one's got the most Simpsons love. [Houston Chronicle]

• Lesbians love Amy Winehouse and her drunken ways. But, really, who doesn't? [AfterEllen]

• Matt Sanchez had a little chat with Michelangelo Signorile. Joe from Joe.My.God's totally got the audio. Best if taken with a grain of salt and a whole lotta disbelief. [Joe.My.God]

• Gay veteran and Don't Ask activist, Eric Alva to General Peter Pace: "Judging gay men and women in the military for factors unrelated to their fitness to serve undermines our military's effectiveness." [Pink News UK]

• HRC said something, too. [HRC]

• General Peter Pace to world: "I admit I shouldn't have said anything, but I'm still not apologizing to a bunch of immoral butt fuckers. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go fuck Ann Coulter up the ass." [HuffPo]

• Finally, a friend sent us the video for a German toilet commercial. Let's just say it makes us reconsider how, where and when we do our next line of blow. See for yourself, after the jump...

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• In Britain, authorities say they've foiled a plot to blow up plans traveling between the U.K. and the U.S. [NYT]

• The Rev. Fred Daley, a gay priest who claims a vow of celibacy, was supposed to head to Lesotho on an AIDS relief mission on Sunday but had his participation pulled by organizers at the Catholic Relief Services. The reason? Not that he was gay, says CRS, but that he's a gay rights advocate. "Sounds like 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'" [ABC News]

• In New York, a preacher is fighting to display Biblical passages on outdoor billboards. She bought and paid for the ads – which read "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womenkind. It is an abomination" – but when Staten Island's borough president saw them, he lobbied the billboard owner PME to remove them. PME, meanwhile, accepts plenty of ad dollars from the borough. [Pink News]

• In Missouri, Jolie Justus is set to become the the first openly gay state senator. [U.S. Newswire]

• In Arkansas, the Young Democrats elected as its president Hendrix University's Josh Blevins, the org's first openly gay leader. We've since been notified that the press release we referenced contained many factual errors, among them: Blevins is not, in fact, gay. Meanwhile, many of the quotes cited in the press release are apparently made up, as is the name of Blevins' school; it is Hendrix College. Further, he is no longer a student there. [PR Web]

• Also in Arkansas, candidates for the lieutenant governor position are battling over whether to make a campaign issue out of the the State Supreme Court's reversal of a ban on gay foster parents. [Advocate]

• In California, a gay synchronized swimming team from San Francisco was banned from the FINA World Masters Championships at Stanford University because of official Olympic rules, which state the sport is for women only. [Advocate]

In another blow to folks like the American Family Assocation and anyone who's attempted to enter our bedrooms from the bench, the Arkansas Supreme Court came down on the state's Child Welfare Agency Review Board, which has explicitly prohibited gay couples from being foster parents since 1999.

Arkansas cannot ban homosexuals from becoming foster parents because there is no link between their sexual orientation and a child's well-being, the state's high court ruled Thursday.

The court agreed with a lower-court judge that the state's child welfare board had improperly tried to regulate public morality. The ban also violated the separation-of-powers doctrine, the justices said.

The board instituted the ban in 1999, saying children should be in traditional two-parent heterosexual homes because they would be more likely to thrive.

In its ruling, Arkansas' high court stated specifically the board's attempt to determine "public morality" was unacceptable and testimony from a Review Board member showed its decision was "based upon the board's views of morality and its bias against homosexuals" and not the welfare of children.

Court rejects ban on gay foster parents [AP]