KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield -- the Knoxville lawmaker who is behind the controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill making its way in the Tennessee state legislature -- was ejected from Knoxville bistro on Sunday because of his anti-gay views.

According to Tennessee lawmaker Joe Ragan, gay “feelings” can be controlled by “mentally healthy adult human beings,” and questioned, “Should society avoid disapproving of pedophilia, prostitution, murder, etc., because practitioners of those behaviors may commit suicide at higher rates?”

GORDONSVILLE, Tenn. — Another gay teen has been lost to anti-gay bullying — Phillip Parker, 14, died last week, the victim of an apparent suicide. His parents said Phillip was constantly bullied because he was gay.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A controversial piece of legislation dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill -- which would ban Tennessee public schools from teaching about LGBTQ issues -- was delayed from [...]

If it weren’t discouraging enough that the Tennessee legislature will consider a “license to bully” bill and reconsider the “don’t say gay” bill, the new session has opened with the introduction of a blatantly transphobic bathroom bill.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- A Tennessee woman who was denied visitation rights with her lesbian partner at the Rolling Hills Psychiatric Hospital in Franklin has been allowed a special visit and will commence regular visits during hospital's normal visitor's day Sundays.

ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. -- Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn't take any more bullying.

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. -- A transgender woman was arrested after she exposed her breasts in public in a protest against a local driver’s license office that refused to accept her surgeon’s letter confirming her partial surgery and her Social Security status as a woman.

LEXINGTON, Tenn. -- The parent of an 11th grade Lexington High School student said her son, Kasey Landrum, 16, was issued an in-school suspension after he was caught wearing makeup 10 minutes after school ended.

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. – The Monroe County Board of Education has agreed to allow students to wear T-shirts in support of the formation of a gay-straight alliance (GSA) at the school, according to a statement released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

More than 83,000 people have signed an online petition at Change.org, demanding that authorities launch an investigation into allegations that a Monroe County Tennessee high school principal assaulted a student for wearing a homemade t-shirt in support of another student’s efforts to form a Gay-Straight alliance in the school.

The Gibson County, Tenn., pastor accused of attacking his gay son and partner when they tried to attend church services last Wednesday, is now facing charges in another crime.

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. -- A few weeks ago, we brought you the story of Sequoya High School in Madisonville, Tenn., where senior Nathan Carroll was attempting to start a Gay Straight [...]

A gay Gibson County, Tenn., couple said they were assaulted when they tried to attend church services at the Grace Fellowship Church in Fruitland last week. Jerry Pittman, Jr., said the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church -- his father.

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. -- Nathan Carroll, a Tennessee high school senior, has been bullied most of his life for being gay. The openly-gay teen attends Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tenn., [...]