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The patchwork quilt of U.S. state laws on same-sex marriage, which Washington is now poised to legalize, leaves gay and lesbian Americans with different rights depending on geography.

This year's Conservative Political Action Conference , being held in Washington Thursday through Saturday, will welcome back several key organizations that had boycotted the annual festival because it had allowed a conservative gay group to be listed as one of many co-sponsors.

SEATTLE Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay church best known for protesting military funerals, says its members will be at Saturday's memorial service for Charlie and Braden Powell, the two children who died when their father allegedly set fire to his house.

We know the names--Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara. We might even deeply admire their work.

St. Petersburg, Russia, officials recently passed a bill that could take away some of its LGBT citizens' rights by now fining individuals up to $16,700 for the "promotion homosexuality," All Out , a LGBT advocacy group, reported.

Uganda's government says it does not support a parliamentarian's decision to reintroduce a bill that originally proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

A video of an Atlanta gang attacking a 20-year-old gay man went viral this week.

On an episode of Ellen DeGeneres' talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," the comedienne made fun of the anti-gay organization that demanded JC Penney fire the celebrity as its spokeswoman because she is a lesbian, TV NZ reported.

Such concentrations can be visible in the form of rainbow signs on bars or shops in places like Old Compton Street in London and Manchester's Canal Street.

A Colorado student faced misdemeanor charges on Wednesday for flinging glitter toward Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney in an increasingly frequent protest act some commentators say should be subject to prosecution.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington state voted in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage. Two Republicans voted in support of the bill. "With today's vote, we tell the nation that Washington state will no longer deny our citizens the opportunity to marry the person they love," said Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Demorcrat who has vowed to sign it...

On a chilly winter afternoon, Andrej Pejic settles into a Manhattan cafe with a cup of Earl Grey tea, sitting gracefully, long legs crossed.

Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, center, is congratulated by Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, left, and Drew Hansen, D-Kitsap County, after the House voted to legalize gay marriage in Washington state Wednesday, Feb.

A QUEENSLAND gay couple are fighting for custody of their six-year-old boy after they were accused by US child protection authorities as being members of an international pedophile ring.

The Supreme Court has nine justices, but if the constitutional fight over same-sex marriage reaches them this year, the decision will probably come down to just one: a California Republican and Reagan-era conservative who has nonetheless written the court's two leading gay rights opinions.

The state of Iowa - where same-sex marriage is legal, mind you - is having the Iowan pants sued off its Iowan ass by Lambda Legal on behalf of a married couple who suffered one of the biggest slaps in the face by their government that we've ever reported.

A day after the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Proposition 8 - California's 2008 voter-approved ban on gay marriage - the big question is: What happens next?

Former GOP chairman Michael Steele said that gay rights should not be equated with black rights in an exchange with LGBT activist and former Lt.

CNN anchor Don Lemon sounded off recently, saying that being a black, gay male is the worst thing to be in the African-American community.

A Democratic-backed bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state won final legislative approval on Wednesday in a largely party-line vote that moved the state one step closer to becoming the seventh to recognize same-sex nuptials.