• Some LGBT people will make good parents, others will not; assessing them is the same as for any other unmarried people/couples;
• LGBT parents are as valid parents as anyone else: they expect that the adoption professional do not query their ability to parent on the ground of their sexuality or “community”;
• LGBT parents are just like anybody else: they understand that their ability to parent will be queried, on the basis of their ability to parent;
• There is not one unified LGBT community… “our lot” covers as many different sub-cultures are there are in any other community in Ireland;
• LGBT people expect to be treated as individuals;
• LGBT people have a specific worry about being accused of being potential abusers, and to be amalgamated with pedophiles;
• LGBT people’s sexuality is like any body’s sexuality: it is a matter of intimacy between consenting adults;
• LGBT couples do not deprive a child from gender balance in role models: children are raised into a community, not a closed entity with only their parents;
• LGBT couples have a better understanding of how oppressive forces work in society, and how to deal with “being different”; some may have more difficulties with it though, so assumptions can be made in that area;
• LGBT people are not activists who use the adoption process to make a political point;
• The LGBT community is divided on the issue of raising children, adoption and the institution of marriage;
• Prospective adoptive parents may have a specific “LGBT community reaction” to deal with, and a specific fear of rejection once they have adopted;
• It is important to build a support network for their “pink household".

Pink Adoptions wrote: »

This has been the occasion for intense debate.
Do we go for the very "politically correct" acronym?
How many letters?

L,G? we all agree
B? some are not sure
T? very controversial, a lot of support group do not include them on purpose, as they are not always perceived (or perceiving themselves) as a sexuality. No one is even sure what they T should stand for: transgender, transexual, transvestites all fall under "T" but some of them do not want the others associated with them and/or cross-dressers who sometime identify with "T"
Q?Q? Very american, stands fr Queer, for Questioning, for Queerious even, and is often duplicated as QQ
S, A, for Straights/Supporters (SS was never suggested...), or for Allies

We agree letteres were colder.
Pink is cosier.
Pink is also a very maternal color.
And pink is a universal, though controverisial, color attached to the LGBT(...) community.

So we know people may not like.
We ask them to get over it... think about the real issues, and think about the children

To everyone I asked: what better name would you have come up with? few can find a satisfactory answer. LGBTQQASAdoptions was not an option...
Here are some of the options discussed we rejected:
(we ruled out ".ie" domain, so Irish had to appear)
- IrishGayparents (too limited)
- TwoIrishDads (really too narrow)
- IrishSameGenderParents (what about singletons?)
- IrishSame-SexParenting (same as above, plus the word "sex")
- IrishAlternativeAdoptions (what is the alternative: adopting or... not adopting? Gay ro straight? ; also there is an "Alternative Parents" group. "Alternative" can sound a bit like "not quite the norm". Our desire to adopt is normal, and we are not "alternatif". We aim at being mainstream!)

And others I cannot remember or am not allowed to mention.
Maybe in a year we will call for a competition to change our name :-)

But we are not alone... and with BAAF we are in good company...
http://www.pinkparents.org.uk/
http://www.baaf.org.uk/res/pubs/books/book_pinkguide.shtml