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A spectator shouted "Have you no shame?" in Boise Friday morning after Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee voted against adding language to the Idaho Human Rights Act that would protect gay, lesbian, and transgender citizens.

The MSNBC host had a book to recommend to her viewers this week.

Saturday Night Live, and host John Hamm got political and a little gay this week, skewering  Congress with a take on The State of the Union Address, and in a separate sketch, imagining the possible effects pretty-boy Republican Senator Scott Brown could have on unsuspecting admirers like Sen. Barbara Boxer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and openly gay Massachusetts Sen. Barney Frank.

Texas Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa send a special Father's Day letter to his lesbian daughter.

Glee stars Darren Criss and Chris Colfer grace the new cover of Entertainment Weekly, which delivers a special report about gay teens on television. “How did gay teens go from marginalized outcasts and goofy sidekicks to some of the highest profile — and most beloved — characters on the likes of 90210, Pretty Little Liars, and Skins?”

The 'Add the Words' bill, which would have banned anti-LGBT discrimination, died in a party-line committee vote today.

The dog days are over, and the Fall TV season has begun!

If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that public opinion on marriage equality and gay rights is shifting dramatically, a subject Martina Navratilova addressed in an op-ed for Sports Illustrated since Washington Wizard Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in major league sports earlier this week.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Friday’s landmark marriage equality victory in New York is a sign of “progress," according to The Advocate. In a Monday morning address to the State Department group Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) in recognition of national LGBT pride month, Secy. Clinton said the win in New York "gives such visibility and credibility to everything that so many of you have done over so many years,” Politico reports.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline the 20th anniversary celebration for the State Department’s affinity group for LGBT employees Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has frozen the disabled veteran’s benefits until she pays back the full amount the VA mistakenly awarded for her wife and child.

Nearly two years after her wife died in Afghanistan, an Iraq veteran and National Guard member says the Department of Veterans Affairs will recognize her rights as a widow.

Married gay and lesbian veterans will now be eligible for the same benefits afforded to married straight veterans, according to an announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder today.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to release a memo that will extend equal benefits to gay diplomats and their partners.

A conservative running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates admitted that she had an affair with a female student back when she was a junior high school gym teacher in the 1970s. Linda Wall told the Associated Press that she was a different person 40 years ago when she had sexual relations with the unidentified student, who was a minor at the time. In 2006, she admitted under oath that she had been involved with a minor during a defamation hearing.