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A group of pro-equality lawmakers in Illinois filed a bill in the Illinois General Assembly that could legalize marriage equality. The bill, filed by the state's openly gay Reps. Greg Harris, Deb Mell and Kelly Cassidy, would create the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act...

CNN's Roland Martin made national headlines this week for tweeting an anti-gay and violent comment.

President Barack Obama cited the repeal of the ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers as his administration's most important LGBT-specific accomplishments at a private fundraiser in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that raised $1.4 million for his re-election campaign.

Two Christian guest house owners who were ordered to pay damages after refusing to allow a gay couple to stay in a double room have lost their appeal.

To understand the "no" vote cast on same-sex marriage by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples "everything but marriage." In its new shape after post-census redistricting, Kirby's diverse South Tacoma and east ... (more)

President Obama, who has opposed same-sex marriage but is said to be "evolving" on the issue, is attending a fundraiser Thursday at the home of a lesbian couple whose 2008 Chicago nuptials were described in a local paper as the "wedding of the season." Obama will collect an estimated $1.4 million for his re-election campaign from an intimate group ... (more)

Anti-gay activists in Virginia are dancing with delight. They stood up to Teh HomoSEXshull Agenduh and showed them librulls that they don't cotton to Teh Ghey so much in the Old Dominion State.

Uganda's government has defended its right to debate an anti-gay bill but says the draft legislation does not have official backing.

President Barack Obama is raising money from gay and lesbian supporters as he seeks to fill his campaign coffers against determined GOP opposition.

The Virginia state Senate passed legislation Thursday allowing private adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs, including opposition to homosexuality.

A New Hampshire guardsman with terminal cancer traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge House Speaker John Boehner to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Oh no! Ellen DeGeneres mentioned One Million Moms, an affiliate of the hate group the American Family Association, because she mentioned them on her show.

A former human resources employee at the University of Toledo filed a lawsuit against the college because she was fired for writing an anti-gay article that criticized gay rights.

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.