A Nashville attorney said she is planning a lawsuit that challenging a new Tennessee law that prohibits local governments from creating anti-discrimination laws that are stricter than protections laid out by the state government.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday signed into law a bill that would prohibit local governments from creating anti-discrimination laws that are stricter than protections laid out by the state government.

Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield has spent the better part of the last seven years in the Tennessee legislature fighting for the "Don't Say Gay" bill, a law aimed at prohibiting teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms.

The Tennessee state Senate on Friday approved a controversial aimed at prohibiting teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms.

In this new video, openly gay actor George Takei takes on the Tennessee state legislature and its "Don't Say Gay" bill.

The Tennessee state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would prohibit local governments from creating anti-discrimination laws that are stricter than protections laid out by the state government.

The Tennessee state Senate adjourned Wednesday without voting on the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and now the bill's author, Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has put off Thursday's planned vote and rescheduled it for next week.

In this new video campaign, FCKH8.com takes aim at the Tennessee legislature, which is considering a controversial bill -- dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill -- that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms.

Tennessee State Rep. Bill Dunn said it’s too late in the year for the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill to be approved in the state House, and that he will not pursue passage this year

Tennessee lawmaker Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville), sponsor of the “don’t say gay” bill that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms, said Thursday that homosexuality is a learned behavior.

The Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that would nullify Nashville's new ordinance banning discrimination by city contractors against gay, lesbian and transgendered people.

A Tennessee Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms.

The Nashville Metro Council on Tuesday approved new rules for city contractors that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT people. Councilman Jamie Hollin called the vote "a milestone moment" for the city.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Two Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in the Tennessee state legislature that would prohibit use of the words "gay" and "homosexual" in elementary schools, and ban discussion of all LGBT topics whatsoever.

VONORE, Tenn. -- A lesbian couple in Tennessee who home was burned to the ground last September, has filed a lawsuit against the woman they believe set the fire -- their next-door neighbor.