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Never one to shy away from political comedy, Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat, Bruno and The Dictator fame is developing a film, tentatively called The Lesbian.

The cult movie with a ground-breaking lesbian love storyline, I Can't Think Stright has launched a crowdfunding campaign to become a webseries that aims to push the boundaries of the web format. Acclaimed writer and director Shamim Sarif and producer Hanan Kattan are answering requests from fans of the film by raising money to produce the series starring Sheetal Sheth.

The suspect was just released from prison, serving a 10-year sentence for a similar attack at Jerusalem Pride a decade ago.

Ellen DeGeneres' staff called 911 for the talk show host when she began suffering chest pains during a meeting on the Warner Bros. lot Monday,

The Mississippi school district that canceled a high school prom because a lesbian student wanted to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo was ordered to pay $81,000 in legal fees to the student, Constance McMillen. U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson signed the order on Monday, ordering the Itawamba County School District pay the fees to McMillen.

The Arkansas supreme court ruled Thursday that a 2008 ballot initiative that barred gay and lesbian couples from adopting children was unconstitutional. "Act 1 directly and substantially burdens the privacy rights of 'opposite-sex and same-sex individuals' who engage in private, consensual sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing their eligibility to foster or adopt children," Associate Justice Robert L. Brown wrote.

Wyoming residents are one step closer to voting on a constitutional ban on marriage equality now that the senate has passed a measure on Thursday calling for the ballot initiative.

It's unclear whether same-sex couples can currently marry in Idaho.

Openly gay actor TR Knight's Grey's Anatomy character Dr. George O'Malley flatlined for good and will not be returning the series. Meanwhile, Knight's best gal pal and costar Katherine Heigl's future at Seattle Grace remains a toss-up.

A federal appeals court has ruled California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional, upholding retired U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker’s 2010 decision in the high-profile case and setting up what could be an eventual showdown over the ballot measure at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that members of the Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for their incendiary antigay demonstrations, are protected under the First Amendment in protesting military funerals. In an 8-1 ruling issued Wednesday, the court found in Snyder v. Phelps that the church's 2006 protest of the funeral of a soldier who was killed in Iraq did not disrupt the service, and that Westboro "addressed matters of public import on public property, in a peaceful manner, in full compliance with the guidance of local officials."

The Department of Justice is asking the ninth circuit court of appeals to rule before the end of day Wednesday on a federal judge’s rejection of its request for a stay of her worldwide injunction on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Federal Judge Virginia Phillips rejected the Justice Department's motion for a stay Tuesday afternoon.