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A lesbian couple in Texarkana, Texas say their local newspaper discriminated against them when it refused to print the couple's wedding announcement and accompanying engagement photo.

At least four gay Ugandans have been attacked since a publication printed personal information of the country's "top" homosexuals earlier this month. The small Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone published photos, names, and addresses of the targeted individuals. A headline on the paper read "Hang Them."

The editors of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student newspaper for the University of Arizona, have formally apologized for publishing a cartoon that seems to advocate violence against gay people. The apology says, "The Wildcat staff made a serious error in judgment in printing a cartoon that some readers felt was homophobic and inappropriate."

An opinion column in the February 11 edition of a Kansas high school’s student newspaper says same-sex relationships “just are not normal” and uses quotes from the Bible to advocate punishing gays and lesbians with death, according to The Wichita Eagle. Gay rights activists are calling on Wichita school leaders to "undo the damage and hurt" caused by the column, which ran in the editorial section of East High School’s The Messenger.

Let's all go announce our weddings and engagements in the Bowling Green Daily News!

The Laurel Leader-Call, a daily newspaper based in Jones County, Miss., on Thursday published a front-page story about the first same-sex wedding to take place in the state, between Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven

The Twilight actress has fallen for her personal assistant, her mother tells a London newspaper.

After a Unitarian Universalist minister wrote a pro-LGBT letter to the editor of an area newspaper, her church got an anonymous homophobic note.

David Kato, a prominent gay activist threatened with hanging on the front page of a Ugandan newspaper, was brutally beaten to death at his home in Kampala on Wednesday. Kato was the advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), which confirmed his murder in a news release. He was one of the plaintiffs who won a case against the Rolling Stone newspaper earlier this month.

Kate Kendell announced in a national newspaper opinion piece why she's formally left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Employees of the gay newspaper Southern Voice arrived at the publication's office Monday to find the doors locked and a sign posted saying the magazine was no longer in business. Window Media LLC, based in Washington, D.C., is the country's largest gay and lesbian newspaper publisher. The company also owns the Washington Blade, Genre Magazine, South Florida Blade and a handful of other gay publications.

U.K. newspaper The Guardian recently released its World Pride Power List, an index of the 100 most powerful LGBT people in the world. A number of noteworthy ladies made this year’s list and landed several coveted spots in the top ten.

An advice columnist at the liberal daily UK newspaper The Guardian tackled an incident of "forced" voyeurism when it responded to a letter submitted by a reader whose panties were severely ruffled by the sight of her two lesbian neighbors having sex… in their bedroom… without curtains.

As most anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account, computer, television, radio or newspaper has heard voters in North Carolina on Tuesday approved Amendment One, a far-reaching ban on same-sex marriage as well as other forms of relationship recognition for gay and lesbian couples.

A California lawmaker who helped pass a law requiring that LGBT history be taught in schools has come out as a lesbian, saying she wants to serve as an example to kids. Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani told her local newspaper that she's gay during an interview on Tuesday.

Just two days before being drafted into the WNBA as the top draft pick for the Phoenix Mercury (and a couple of days before confirming that she is openly gay), hoops star Brittney Griner signed a deal with athletics giant Nike. According to USA Today, Griner, 22, signed the deal with Nike, that the star described to the newspaper as being "big-time."

Chilean newspaper La Tercera reported today that the nation's government is considering legislation that would legally recognize same-sex civil unions. According to the Santiago-based paper, the bill — which could be presented to Congress as early as next week — would “grant legal rights to gay couples who have lived together for more than one year.”