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Pop star Lady Gaga has made a somber plea to U.S. senators to repeal the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. In a video released Friday, Lady Gaga calls on the Senate to repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, as well as her fans to get calling their […]

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A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a community college student who claimed a professor violated his right to free speech by stopping him from finishing a speech against gay marriage. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday unanimously overturned a lower court decision allowing Los […]

Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has formalized his union with his longtime partner Michael Mronz in a private ceremony in Bonn on Friday, the daily newspaper Bild announced in its Saturday edition. Although only close family were present for the ceremony, media reports say the Mayor of Bonn officiated the couple’s union. In Germany, gay […]

Russia’s top gay-rights activist says he was kidnapped and pressured by his captors to withdraw a complaint against Moscow authorities from the European Court of Human Rights. Nikolai Alekseyev resurfaced early on Saturday in Moscow after being arrested at the capital’s Domodedovo airport late on September 15 as he prepared to board a flight to […]

A California man was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of attempted murder and committing a hate crime after an employee at a Denny’s Restaurant was stabbed in the neck and throat. Police said the unnamed waiter was at work in the restaurant, which was closed, when Curtis Martin, 24, knocked on the closed Santa […]

Gay and lesbians may be gaining more rights across the nation, but they should steer clear of Montana Republicans, who have included the criminalization of homosexual acts in their party platform for 2010. The party adopted the official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy […]

David Cicilline, the openly gay mayor of Providence, won the Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s Rhode Island congressional race. He’s vying to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District.

A 15-year-old Indiana teen took his own life last week in what is thought to be another suicide at least partially connected to school bullying, a result of the teen’s perceived sexual orientation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to schedule a vote next week on the annual Defense Authorization Bill — legislation that contains language that would allow the Defense Department to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”