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10 April 2012Federal lawsuit against Nevada seeking marriage equality 6 A gay rights group has filed a federal lawsuit today against the governor of Nevada, Republican Brian Sandoval, in a bid to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in the state. -
10 April 2012Maine: New anti-gay group campaigns against equal marriage 9 Two outspoken opponents of equal marriage have started a new political action committee (PAC) in Maine, with the explicit and exclusive aim of campaigning against efforts to bring marriage equality to the state through a referendum this November. -
10 April 2012Video: New York University Athletics department makes It Gets Better film 8 New York University Athletics Department has released a poignant It Gets Better video to support the work of the Trevor Project. -
10 April 2012Rick Santorum who pledged to invalidate marriages of gay couples bows out of Republican race 40 Rick Santorum has pulled out of the race to become the Republican party candidate for US president. -
10 April 2012Mormon university’s gay students may film It Gets Better video but must stay celibate 17 An It Gets Better video made by students at the Mormon Brigham Young University in Utah did not violate the school's honour code, an official has said. -
10 April 2012Chaz Bono first trans person to receive GLAAD’s Stephen F Kolzak award 4 Chaz Bono will be the first transgender person to receive the Stephen F. -
10 April 2012European court rules homophobic cleric Abu Hamza can be extradited to US 66 The European Court of Human Rights has said the anti-gay Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri may be extradited to the US on terrorism charges. -
9 April 2012Obama opposes Minnesota’s proposed anti-marriage equality measure 5 President Obama's campaign group in Minnesota has issued a statement today, saying they will oppose the state's proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as strictly that between one man and one woman. -
9 April 2012Anti-discrimination bill results in Anchorage called into question over allegations of voter fraud 6 The recent, much-contested gay rights ballot initiative in Anchorage, Alaska - which would have banned discrimination in the city on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity had it passed - has put the city at the centre of a huge controversy over allegations of voter fraud, disenfranchisement, uncounted ballots and more. -
9 April 2012Senator John Kerry seeks to prevent lesbian being deported to Pakistan 8 John Kerry is aiming to help prevent one half of a married lesbian couple in Massachusetts from deported back to Pakistan. -
7 April 2012Video: Mormon students make “It Gets Better” video 30 Twenty-two students at the Brigham Young University in US, owned and run by the Mormon church, have made a video for the It Gets Better project, where they talk about reconciling faith and sexuality. -
7 April 2012New York: Catholic official quits over archdiocese’s anti-gay stance 23 Joseph Amodeo, an official affiliated with the New York Roman Catholic archdiocese, has quit the junior board of Catholic Charities over a heterosexuals-only policy implemented by the church for homeless people, the Associated Press reports. -
6 April 2012Study: Majority of US Latinos accepting of gay people 24 A study released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center has found that 59 per cent of US Latinos think that society should be accepting of homosexuality, while this figure climbs nine per cent higher with second generation Hispanics. -
6 April 2012Maryland court hears lesbian divorce case + A lesbian couple who were married in California are petitioning for divorce at a high court in Maryland, where same-sex weddings are not recognised, for the second time, after their first petition was thrown out two years ago. -
6 April 2012Gay couple to use White House Easter event to confront Obama 6 A gay couple plan to ask President Obama to sign an executive order banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation at Monday’s annual Easter Egg roll, which takes place on the White House lawn. -
6 April 2012Possible gay link to death of French academic in New York 15 A married Parisian academic who was found dead in his Manhattan hotel room on Tuesday this week is said to have been using gay hook-up websites on his laptop prior to his death. -
5 April 2012School district will let student wear anti-homophobia t-shirt on Day of Silence 15 A high school student in Cincinnati, Ohio will not be barred from wearing an anti-homophobia t-shirt on the National Day of Silence this year while a law suit proceeds. -
5 April 2012Apology after student disqualified from pageant for equal marriage hope 14 A school district in the US has apologised to a student was was pulled off stage and disqualified from a competition for saying he would like to marry another man. -
4 April 2012Boston Court hears anti-DOMA appeal 3 A federal appeals court in Boston, Massachusetts, has begun hearing arguments today about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples. -
4 April 2012US Catholic school fights back against anti-gay lecture 50 A group of senior students at Minnesota's Catholic DeLaSalle forced a mandatory lecture to end abruptly due to their virulently anti-gay rhetoric, with homosexuality compared to bestiality.
