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This guy needs to stop talking.

Twilight star Ashley Greene has stolen some of costar Kristen Stewart’s thunder now that nude pics of her have turned up on the Web. And Ashley’s not going to take it lying down. The actress who plays Alice Cullen in the smash vampire series is ready to sue anyone who reposts her naked pics

The state immediately asked for a stay of the order, which would allow the marriage of two women — one of whom is terminally ill — to stay in force while a challenge to Indiana's same-sex marriage ban makes its way through the courts.

The appeal will be filed by the end of business today, says her attorney.

It's more bad news for antigay Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, as the nation's highest court rejects her request to delay marriage equality in the Sunshine State after January 6.

On the growing list of school teachers making controversial statements on Facebook and then getting in trouble for them, you can add Missouri math teacher Jim Whitney. The Joplin High School teacher is in trouble after making a comment on the Facebook page of a former student last week who posted a link to a news article about a gay 15-year old from Canada who committed suicide after being bullied.

Dozens of students turned out Friday to protest the resignation of Christine Judd, the lesbian dean and athletic director of Cathedral High School in Massachusetts, who said she was forced to step down after she married her partner.

The Mississippi school that cancelled Constance McMillen's prom also suspended a transgender student, giving no explanation. Reports have emerged that Juin Baize, 16, was suspended within hours of his first day at Itwamba Agricultural High School. Baize was given a suspension note just hours into his first day at school. Kristy Bennet, legal director of the ACLU in Mississippi, said they would not be pursuing the case.

A Boy Scouts of America board member on the Ohio River Valley Council has resigned following the Boy Scouts ousting lesbian mom Jennifer Tyrrell, according to a release from GLAAD. “Ms. Tyrrell's removal goes against my fundamental beliefs of how we should treat our fellow human beings and is, in my opinion, wholly discriminatory,” wrote former board member David J. Sims wrote in a letter dated April 27.

The surviving members of the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary have sent a cease and desist letter to the National Organization for Marriage, which has been using one if their most iconic songs during its antigay "Summer for Marriage" tour. Kathleen Perrin of the Courage Campaign notified Peter Yarrow that the organization was using the group's recording of the Woody Guthrie song "This Land Is Your Land" during its rallies without permission. Yarrow said NOM's use of the song was "heartbreaking" and that he would contact the organization.

A state court in Colorado provides the 24th consecutive ruling favoring the freedom to marry, but includes a stay with the decision.

A same-sex couple in Phoenix has turned to the media after a wedding planning service declined to marry the two women, citing religious beliefs.