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NEW YORK — In the latest in a series of ongoing, high-profile demonstrations against the Russian government’s anti-gay laws, activist group Queer Nation will protest outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday while Russian government officials at the Exchange ring the closing bell.

A Nebraska prison inmate and his transgendered partner have lost another round in their legal fight to be able to visit each other and get married.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has accepted a recommendation from the state’s adjutant general to allow spouses of gay National Guard members to apply for federal marriage benefits.

KAMPALA, Uganda — A British man faces a court hearing in Uganda on Monday following the publication of images from his stolen laptop of him having sex with another man.

A Pennsylvania pastor charged under United Methodist law with officiating his son’s same-sex marriage is scheduled to go on trial Monday.

CHICAGO — One of the most high-profile religious leaders who opposed Illinois’ new same-sex marriage legislation says the law will have consequences for the church and society.

Missourians, meet your new governor: Jay Nixon, a Democrat. Though he has long worn the Democratic label, Nixon could have easily passed himself off as a moderate Republican during his first four years as governor.

KAMPALA, Uganda– Samuel Ganafa, the executive director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives and board chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was arrested earlier this week on charges that he had sodomized another man and infected him with HIV.

HOUSTON — A South Texas school district has reversed course and will allow a photo of a transgender student in a tuxedo to appear in the teen’s high school yearbook.

HERCULES, Calif. — A transgender student at a California high school said she was assaulted by three other girls in a transphobic attack captured on cell phone video.