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27 March 2012
Secret documents reveal anti-gay marriage group planned to divide gay and black voters 48 Confidential documents made public in a court in the state of Maine today revealed the leading opponents of same-sex marriage planned to defeat campaigns by "fanning the hostility" between black and gay voters and by casting President Obama as a radical enemy of marriage.
5 January 2012
Michele Bachmann bows out of presidential candidacy race 34 Michele Bachmann has confirmed she will not be the Republican party's candidate in the US presidential elections this year.
30 December 2011
Best big companies for gay staff in the US revealed 8 The Human Rights Campaign has released its annual rankings of US companies by the support they give to LGBT employees, and revealed that nearly a quarter of the 850 companies surveyed scored full marks.
18 October 2011
Call for New Jersey teacher to be sacked for anti-gay Facebook comments 52 Gay rights groups are calling for the sacking of a New Jersey teacher who wrote on Facebook that homosexuality is "perverted" and "breeds like cancer".
12 October 2011
Gay rights campaigner Frank Kameny dies aged 86 25 Frank Kameny, the US gay rights campaigner, has died aged 86.
4 October 2011
Obama ‘still working’ on gay marriage views 95 US President Barack Obama says he is "still working" on his personal view of gay marriage.
3 October 2011
Obama attacks Republican booing of gay soldier 25 Barack Obama has criticised Republican presidential candidates for staying silent when a gay soldier was booed at an Orlando debate.
16 September 2011
Gay troops prepare for end of military ban 25 The ban on openly gay US troops will come to an end on Tuesday, 18 years after it was signed into law.
6 September 2011
Lesbian congresswoman Tammy Baldwin hopes to become first out gay senator 21 US congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has entered the race to win retiring Wisconsin senator Herb Kohl’s seat in 2012.
27 May 2011
Human Rights Campaign backs Obama for re-election 11 America's largest gay rights organisation, Human Rights Campaign, is backing President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.
24 May 2011
Tennessee governor signs bill to wipe out gay legal protection 70 The governor of Tennessee has signed a bill which gay rights campaigners say will wipe out all any laws which protect LGBT people from discrimination.
3 May 2011
Law firm loses clients over refusal to defend anti-gay marriage law 29 A US law firm has lost two high-profile clients over its refusal to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.
14 April 2011
Basketball star Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 for anti-gay slur 35 US basketball star Kobe Bryant has been handed a $100,000 fine for using a homophobic slur against a referee.
3 March 2011
Video: Hip-hop star producer Russel Simmons joins fight for gay marriage 4 Russel Simmons, the co-founder of hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, has become one of the first major black music figures to join the fight for full marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples.
16 November 2010
Thirteen gay activists arrested after White House DADT protest 7 Thirteen gay rights campaigners have been arrested after handcuffing themselves to the White House fence in protest at the ban on out gay troops.

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