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PORTERVILLE, Calif. — Three gay rights activists are facing charges Wednesday morning after protesting a city council vote to reject a proclamation passed by the mayor last month that declared June as LGBT Pride month in Porterville.

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a website to build support for his fight to keep the state’s sodomy laws on the books, and to attack Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland lawmaker hopes to be elected the nation’s first openly gay governor.

LAS LUNAS, N.M. — An openly gay New Mexico high school student who spoke out against bullying died Tuesday after his family removed him from life support following a suicide attempt over the weekend.

HELENA, Mont. — A civil-rights organization has filed a new lawsuit against the state in an attempt to win for gay couples the same benefits that married couples have.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Jón Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital city, on Monday submitted a proposal to end the city’s political and cultural relations with Moscow, after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two anti-gay bills into law.

ADEN, Yemen — Two militants from an Al-Qaeda linked group on Monday killed a man in the provincial capital of Huj who they accused of being gay, a police source said Tuesday.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Eric Ohena Lembembe, a prominent LGBT rights advocate and journalist was found dead at his home in Yaoundé, Cameroon on Monday evening. Lembembe was the executive director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (CAMFAIDS).

CHICAGO — Marriage equality supporters in Illinois are launching a $2 million statewide campaign aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Setting an important legal precedent, Istanbul’s Criminal Court on Monday issued a landmark ruling against a religious Turkish newspaper for its use of anti-gay language, saying it illegally offended LGBT people.