¿Cómo afecta el prejuicio hacia las personas gay a nuestra sociedad?

Las repercusiones negativas del heterosexismo llegan más allá del grupo objeto de este prejuicio. Algunos que se afectan son los miles de niñ@s que esperan a ser adoptados habiendo parejas dispuestas pero no permitidas a hacerlo. Como resultado podemos ver casos en donde niñ@s establecidos en hogares de parejas del mismo sexo viven en la incertidumbre de que se los puedan llevar, sin la seguridad de una adopción legal. Más aún en cada una de las historias que se pueden encontrar sobre la lucha que tienen las parejas del mismo sexo por adoptar se evidencia que el amor maternal o paternal no es exclusivo de parejas heterosexuales.
A continuación les incluyo una noticia de las antes mencionadas, les invito a que la lean”

All happy families: the looming battle over gay parenting
Reason, August-Sept, 2005 by Julian Sanchez
WAYNE LARUE SMITH had never been so happy to be called bitch.
About two months earlier, Smith and his partner, Dan Skahen, had taken in a 3-year-old foster child we'll call Charlie. The boy had emerged from the caseworker's car redolent of stale cigarette smoke, hair matted and tangled, barely able to walk, and, except for the occasional raspy cry, stone silent. "We think," whispered the caseworker, leaning in, "he's retarded."
Week after week, Smith recalls, Charlie refused to say anything. Then one day, as Smith was trying to prevent the boy from climbing around on the furniture, Charlie uttered the first word Smith had heard escape his lips: "Bitch!" Nonplussed at the vocabulary ("He didn't learn that language from us!" Smith says), Smith was nevertheless delighted that the child had said something. His silence broken, Charlie pressed his tiny fists to his hips and added "Asshole!" before scampering away. Within weeks he was speaking in complete--and more polite--sentences.
Charlie wasn't retarded. He had simply withdrawn from a world that until then hadn't given him much reason to be engaged with it. That sort of history, sadly, is shared by many of the children who find their way into the nation's foster care systems, which included half a million kids when the Department of Health and Human Services last counted, with some 126,000 available for adoption. At the end of fiscal year 2003, 30,000 of those children were in Florida, more than in any other state except New York and California, with more than 5,000 available for adoption.
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