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Gay individuals should be able to adopt.

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.