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MCCALL, Idaho — Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to put a stop to local communities’ efforts to provide discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

PORTLAND, Maine — Ten same-sex couples exchanged vows Saturday during a group wedding in Portland’s largest park during an annual gay pride parade and festival.

With just days left before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Proposition 8, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) has compiled this look back at the last three years of working to overturn California’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the state’s domestic partner registry, which grants same-sex couples a number of legal rights.

ZAGREB, Croatia — Several thousand people held a gay pride march Saturday in Croatia, where conservatives backed by the influential Catholic Church want to make same sex marriage illegal, while neighboring Slovenia’s president led a similar march in his country’s capital.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that he’ll co-sponsor the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, becoming the 50th co-sponsor of the measure aimed at banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Boy Scout leaders have been reprimanded by the organization for marching with several Scouts in the Utah Pride Parade in Salt Lake City.

OMAHA, Neb. — Danielle Powell was going through a hard time in the spring of 2011, just months away from graduating from a conservative Christian college in Nebraska. She had fallen in love with another woman, a strictly forbidden relationship at a school where even prolonged hugs were banned.

WASHINGTON — Handing plum European posts to key campaign boosters, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to Denmark and tapped two major fundraisers for postings in Spain and Germany.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A community that has been seeing red over recent attacks against gay men today is turning pink.