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SAN FRANCISCO — More California couples tied the knot in July following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling allowing same-sex marriages in the state than in any other month since 2006, according to new data.

LIMBE, Cameroon — A Cameroon man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking that nation’s laws against homosexuality.

EDINA, Minn. — An openly gay University of Minnesota political science major is spearheading a petition asking Minnesota’s Gov. Mark Dayton and state lawmakers to pass a law in the upcoming 2014 legislative session that would ban “ex-gay” therapy for minors.

KEOKUK, Iowa — An Iowa record store owner is hoping to use his business space for same-sex marriages, a move that could prove competitive with nearby Illinois.

CHICAGO — The U.S. District Court in Chicago has ordered Cook County’s clerk to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, one of whom is terminally ill.

MOSCOW — A Moscow dance club popular with the LGBT community suffered its second attack in as many weeks when unknown assailants late Saturday night released an as yet identified noxious gas inside the main portion of the club.

HONOLULU — A number of Hawaii state lawmakers have received what appears to be a “lump of coal” for their Christmas stockings, sent by an anonymous citizen rebuking the legislators for voting against the state’s marriage equality bill earlier this month.

NEW DELHI — Gay rights activists sang songs and carried rainbow-colored flags while marching to the beat of traditional Indian drums Sunday, as they paraded through India’s capital to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays in the deeply conservative country.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. — A high school football captain has been charged with fatally stabbing his lover with a steak knife after an argument over ending their relationship.

PARIS, Tenn — The owner of a health food store in Tennessee was beaten unconscious Wednesday evening by three men who used anti-gay slurs before robbing him and writing “fag” across his forehead.