Associated Press

Rhode Island’s House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation allowing gay couples to enter into civil unions

LGBT equality supporters are protesting openly gay Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox’s decision to support civil unions rather than back same-sex marriage legislation

The R.I. House Speaker, a key legislative champion of marriage equality, said he was abandoning a push to pass gay marriage legislation this year.

A lesbian cadet who resigned from West Point last year has been rejected for readmission to the academy even as the military moves toward repealing DADT

The Virginia Board of Social Services voted to reject a proposed adoption policy that would have allowed gay couples to adopt

A former Rutgers University freshman who prosecutors said used a webcam to spy on his roommate’s same-sex encounter was charged Wednesday with a hate crime

The Calif. Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would require schools to teach gay history in social studies classes

The NBA fined Kobe Bryant $100,000 on Wednesday for using an anti-gay term in frustration over a referee’s call.

A N.J. school district has stopped blocking LGBT Web sites on high school and middle school computers after students alerted the ACLU

U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is pushing the Obama administration to halt deportation proceedings against the same-sex spouses of U.S. citizens

The Wash. state Legislature passed a bill that would recognize marriages of gay and lesbian couples performed elsewhere

Lady Gaga has urged young Malaysians to protest the censorship of lyrics in her hit song that encourage acceptance of gays.

The Obama administration called on the United Nations’ Human Rights Council to condemn discrimination against LGBT people

The founder of a Southern California church says he disapproves of an anti-gay statement church leaders ask choir members to sign

Three gay American tourists were assaulted at their vacation cottage in St. Lucia

The Maryland House of Delegates avoiding voting on a same-sex marriage bill and sent it back to committee

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the First Amendment protects the notorious Phelps family’s anti-gay protests at military funerals

A bill that would specify same-sex marriages are void in Wyoming appears to be in trouble after lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on Monday.

The debate to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland shifted to the House of Delegates on Friday, a day after senators approved the measure.

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee is on Thursday scheduled to hear two bills that would repeal the state’s marriage equality law

GLAAD announced it will honor Ricky Martin and Kristin Chenoweth in its Media Awards ceremonies is NYC and L.A.

Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday will sign a civil unions bill in front of a crowd of over 900 LGBT advocates

The Hawaii Senate on Friday approved legislation that would allow civil unions in the state

Both houses of the Wyo. state Legislature this week passed measures that would cease recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages

Majority leaders in the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate are both sponsoring legislation that would allow gay couples to marry

A report shows that a former assistant state attorney general who was fired for harassing a gay University of Michigan student was previously warned about using state resources for anti-gay attacks on politicians

A federal appeals court will decide whether Louisiana must put both fathers’ names on the birth certificate their adopted child

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered that passport applications for youth under 16 refer to guardians as either “parents” or “mother” and “father”

A Texas appeals court ruled that the state attorney general cannot block a divorce granted to two women who were legally married in another jurisdiction.

N.J. on Thursday will hold a conference to address issues surrounding prevention of suicides by LGBT youth

The Navy has fired Captain Owen Honors over his broadcasting of lewd (including anti-gay) videos on an aircraft carrier

A man who faked his identity online to lure young girls into relationships has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

A man who attacked and robbed a gay man last October received an eight-year prison sentence

Police investigating damage to 40 LGBT books as possible hate crime

Maj. Margaret Witt, who was discharged from the Air Force under DADT, has been reinstated

No soldiers have been discharged under DADT since the Defense Dept. adopted new rules concerning the policy