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RICHMOND, Va. — The ACLU of Virginia says it will file a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s gay marriage ban.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Civil rights lawyers filed the first known legal challenge Tuesday on behalf of 23 men, women and children seeking to overturn a 17-year-old state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn’t allow it or civil unions.

TEL AVIV — Israel’s state prosecution said Monday that the suspect in the 2009 deadly attack on a gay youth center in Tel Aviv has confessed that the shooting was motivated by anti-gay bias.

FORT MEADE, Md. — Lawyers for an Army private who gave reams of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks asked a court-martial judge to dismiss some of the charges against him.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ top economic development official on Monday called for legalizing gay marriage and said that treating same sex couples equally under the law could make the state a leader in the South and attract new business.

Applying for a marriage license in Indiana is not a good idea for same-sex couples, even if you know or expect it is going to be denied. It could land the couple a possible three year prison sentence.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A prominent Ohio Republican says he is supporting an effort to overturn Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage. Jim Petro is a former Ohio auditor, attorney general and state chancellor of higher education.

KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A southwestern Michigan community is considering an ordinance that would ban discrimination in employment, public accommodation and housing practices.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey’s media regulator has rejected a demand by influential Turkish charities to censor coverage of LGBT events in the country’s media.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday threatened to jail gays and lesbians for failing to conceive an offspring as he launched his party’s campaign for this month’s general election.