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TAIPEI, Taiwan — More than 1,200 people attended a massive mock gay wedding banquet outside the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan, over the weekend to promote the marriage equality bill due to be introduced for a parliamentary vote soon.

Denver Police said via Twitter just before 6 p.m. Tuesday evening that Tilo Sandoval, identified as the suspect in last week’s brutal beating of a gay man, had turned himself in to police.

TALLINN, Estonia –Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople and leader of the Eastern Orthodox Communion, has labeled same-sex relationships as “reprehensible,” sinful, and said they will never be accepted by the Orthodox Church.

LOS ANGELES — The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, amended its constitution Monday to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity or gender expression.

RICHMOND, Va. — A statewide LGBT advocacy group is working to being an “equality” license plate to Virginia in support of LGBT rights.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Police in Cleveland, Ohio, have arrested a 13-year-old teen in connection with a second possible hate crime in less than a week at a local gay bar.

MOSCOW — A prominent Russian lesbian activist and journalist has announced her intent to out any closeted politician who votes in favor of new anti-gay legislation that would deny gay parents custody over their children.

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Four same-sex couples were waiting at the County Clerk’s office in Silver City, N.M., on Monday to be the first to obtain their marriage licenses when Grant County became the eighth New Mexico county to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

NEW YORK — A judge in New York on Monday refused to dismiss a complaint by a former teacher at a Catholic school was fired after notifying school officials that he was transitioning from male to female.

RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina National Guard announced Monday that it will begin recognizing same-sex marriages, a policy shift that could have substantial financial help for families not previously eligible for the same federal military benefits awarded to heterosexual couples.