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The Rev. Mpho Tutu, daughter of the renowned human rights advocate and an activist herself, married medical professor Marceline van Furth.

A volunteer for the LGBT advocacy group Integrity Uganda was found beheaded on a farm during a search for a missing priest. Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin points to the Anglican blog Changing Attitude, which says that searchers found the head of Pasikali Kashusbe in a pit latrine on the farm of Badru Kiggundu, the electoral commission chairman, in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso District. They were looking for the Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared last month after delivering a sermon supporting gay people.

Before a jubilant crowd of 400 guests on New Year’s Day, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, former pastor at Christ Church in Plymouth, and now a ranking official of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts married the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. And Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, the state’s highest ranking Episcopal official, presided.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is from the church’s liberal Catholic wing, and has supported equal rights for gay people in the church, but recently has taken a conservative line. With the expected consecration of out lesbian Canon Mary Glasspool in Los Angeles threatening to divide the church even further Dr. Williams said it wasn’t helped by those who ignored the fact that many regular worshipers are gay.

Jayne Ozanne says she tried to reconcile her faith and sexuality for years, a process that saw her go through 'conversion therapy' and contemplate suicide.

On December 5th cheers reverberatedacross the country with the news that at the 114th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles two women were elected as bishops -- Rev. Diane Jardine Bruce of California and Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool of Maryland.  While both elections bring their own controversy, Glasspool's keeps the church's issue of queer bishops front and center.