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GLAAD is calling on Clear Channel Communications and Cleveland radio station WMMS to suspend radio personality Dominic Dieter for telling a father to essentially arrange for his daughter to be raped if he suspects she's gay. [ Read more → ]

Civil unions head to the Senate in Colorado, but nobody seems to be quite sure who's going to sponsor the bill once it reaches the House. Early voting's begun in North Carolina, just in time for a big TV ad buy starting this week. And the bumpy road to repealing Ohio's marriage ban just got bumpier... [ Read more → ]

Jennifer Tyrrell, the volunteer den mother to her son’s Cub Scout chapter who was ousted from her position because she is gay, spoke out against the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay discrimination at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday. [ Read more → ]

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio — More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the Boy Scouts to reinstate a volunteer den mother who was ousted from her position because she is gay. [ Read more → ]

The Obama administration changes course in the fight to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Signature gathering is about to start in Ohio. And voters in North Carolina say they support relationship recognition -- so why are they also saying they'll vote to take it away? This week's Marriage News Watch report is here... [ Read more → ]

WAYNESVILLE, Ohio -- An openly gay Ohio teen, who is suing his school after being threatened with suspension for wearing a t-shirt containing the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe," will be allowed to wear the shirt after all -- but for 1 day only, a federal judge ruled this week. [ Read more → ]

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Tuesday announced that he had certified the petition for the proposed constitutional amendment that would repeal the state's existing ban on same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Lambda Legal on Tuesday filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against a Waynesville, Ohio high school on behalf of an openly gay student who was threatened with suspension for wearing a t-shirt containing the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe.” [ Read more → ]

A big win for marriage in New Hampshire, and California Democrats pledge to help the campaign to stop an anti-gay measure in North Carolina. But with alarming poll numbers out this week, will that help be enough? [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A new public health campaign in Columbus, Ohio, is attracting attention for its ads promoting sexual health among young gay men. The “Take Care Down There” campaign billboards and print ads feature shirtless men with arrows pointing below their waistlines. Makeda Porter,... [ Read more → ]

CLEVELAND, Ohio - More than 200 gay and lesbian couples from across the state of Ohio gathered in traditional wedding attire to participate in what organizers called the "largest illegal mass wedding ever held." [ Read more → ]

LOS ANGELES -- There's been a ton of new polling data from around the country, and it's all encouraging. And more bad news for the National Organization for Marriage: they're under investigation by the Minnesota Elections Board, and the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to play along with their attempts to hide donors. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine on Friday rejected a petition for seeking a ballot measure to amend the Ohio constitution and repeal the state's ban on same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A proposed amendment to undo Ohio’s 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage ban was submitted Thursday to the state Attorney General. The amendment would change the state's Constitution to read that the definition of marriage would be “a union of two consenting adults, regardless of gender.” [ Read more → ]

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A gay couple has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court against several officers from the Cleveland Police Department, alleging several officers of the department violated the couple’s constitutional rights stemming from an arrest last April. [ Read more → ]

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- A judge has sentenced 15-year-old Levi Sever to a 90-day sentence in a juvenile detention center for the October assault on an openly gay classmate that was recorded on video and then posted to Facebook. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on Monday announced it would represent the family of a Chillicothe, Ohio gay teen who was assaulted last month because of his sexual orientation. The brutal attack captured national attention when a video of the assault was later posted to Facebook. [ Read more → ]

It was a big night for many openly gay and lesbian candidates across the nation, with several races resulting in first-time victories for openly LGBT candidates in several state and local governments. [ Read more → ]

A student at Unioto High School has been charged with felony assault in the beating of gay teen whose mother said he was targeted because of his sexual orientation. The beating was captured on video using a cell phone and later posted to Facebook. [ Read more → ]

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Authorities and school officials at at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, are once again investigating the attack on a gay teen whose mother is calling the assault a hate crime, now that video evidence has surfaced that was not previously known to exist. [ Read more → ]