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Welcome back to SheWired's exclusive series Out on Campus. This week, Virginia Commonwealth University's Fatima Sissoko shares what it is like coming out on her campus. Her first week there, she 'met a hyper, flamboyant gay boy' who invited her 'to his lover-at-the-time's apartment.' When she woke up in jail, after drinking, and being arrested, for the first time, he was the person she called, and that's just the beginning.

A Richmond billboard purchased by Parents of Ex-Gays and Gays claims that studies of identical twins prove that there is no 'gay gene.'

The Supreme Court has unanimously decided to further delay lifting Virginia's marriage ban.

An appeals court has refused to delay its decision striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban — but the Supreme Court could still intervene.

Judges ruled 2-1 that barring marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe says he will not appoint special counsel to defend his state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in federal court Thursday.

Not only will Attorney General Mark Herring not defend the ban, he's joined the plaintiffs who are suing to overturn the law.

Two lesbian couples in Virginia have filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's constitutional and statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and recognizing such unions performed outside of the state.

U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips has denied a request by the Justice Department to stay her ruling against any further enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts called for information regarding the stay to be filed by Monday.

A high school student asked Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli about the constitutionality of his letter suggesting that state universities did not have to establish antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians at a forum Friday at Liberty University. The attorney general replied that his advice would not be a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because "the category of sexual orientation would never have been contemplated by the people who wrote and voted for and passed the 14th Amendment."

The West Virginia Supreme Court has allowed an infant to remain in the care of her same-sex foster parents in Fayette County. In a unanimous decision on Friday, the justices decided Fayette Circuit Judge Paul Blake was in the wrong when he allowed the Department of Health and Human Resources' approval to have the infant removed from her foster home. 

The latest development stemming from a Richmond billboard that proclaimed 'no one is born gay' has a much more accepting message.

I'm Afraid of Virginia Wolf is filmmaker Anna M. Albelo’s latest project, and the production team needs your help! Here is the film’s synopsis: