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Sadly, halfway through the month that President Barack Obama declared National LGBT Pride Month, news that the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the first gay marriage case filed in federal court came out this morning. As the Obama Administration's voice for defense of current law, the department used discriminatory language, and were dismissive of the only two victorious US Supreme Court cases for LGBT civil rights.

A New Jersey judge said a Methodist-affiliated association broke state laws when members denied access to a lesbian couple who wanted to have their civil union ceremony on the organization's seaside boardwalk grounds. Ocean Grove, N.J., couple Luisa Paster, 64, and Harriet Bernstein, 70, were interested in using the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association's boardwalk pavilion for their civil union ceremony in March 2007.

Writer Lisa B. Valentino weighs in on the California supreme court's appalling decision to uphold the anti-gay marriage measure Prop 8. 'I realize that we are in the throes of an epic legal battle for civil rights -- again and still; and that I may seem idealistic and naïve. I assure you I am neither. Nor am I gay, straight, black, white, woman, man or otherwise described by human-born limitations and labels.'

A lesbian in Russia who was fined after protesting a local law banning so-called homosexual propaganda cannot be prosecuted under the law because it violates the United Nations' International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Delaware took a significant step toward equality Thursday when the house of representatives voted to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples. The proposal passed the senate last week and Gov. Jack Markell intends to sign the bill. Cheers erupted shortly after 7 p.m. when, in a bipartisan 26 to 15 vote, the Democratic-controlled chamber approved the proposal, which would provide same-sex couples in civil unions with the same rights and responsibilities as married couples, to the extent possible. Comparable same-sex unions including marriages from other jurisdictions would be recognized as civil unions in Delaware.

What does a lesbian Democratic state representative in Alabama have in common with a Republican who is a power player in the conservative group Eagle Forum? They’re working together to tear down the state’s archaic law about teaching sex ed in public schools

This week, we're outraged about lawmakers in Louisiana, Utah, Arizona, and Brunei who insist on making it even harder for LGBT people to live and love as they want.

New Yorkers are appropriately dressed and poised to tie the knot assuming that they are at some point allowed to do so by the “powers that be.” Protests were held yesterday in New York City, Rochester, Albany, and Buffalo to remind the state of New York’s lawmakers that the LGBT population was not going to be quiet until they were afforded equal marriage protections under the law.

Everyone from Tim Cook, to Ashton Kutcher, Miley Cyrus, Dustin Lance Black, and even Hillary Clinton, had something to say about Indiana's new 'license to discriminate' law.

In a landmark ruling, the Delhi high court overturned a colonial-era law banning gay sexual relations between consenting adults in India. The move is a great advancement for lesbian and gay rights in the country.

Did you know that Virginia is not for all lovers? Sure, depending on your personal understanding of baseball procedure, you can safely sprint to second base. You can even take romantic bubble baths, just like in those Cialis commercials.

The Broadway singer and actress tweeted her disgust with the newly passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana.

I feel sorry for Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida high-school senior who was arrested February 16, charged with sexual battery of a minor and later expelled from her school for having a sexual relationship with a younger girl.

Vitaly Milonov has a twisted 'sense of humor' and a long list of antigay moves in Russia.