COLUMBIA, S.C. — A woman who says South Carolina officials refused to let her use her wife’s family name on her driver’s license has filed a federal lawsuit …

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A same-sex couple married in Washington, D.C., and seeking to have South Carolina recognize the union is suing the wrong people in the wrong court …

Updated: 6:30 p.m. EDT
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two federal cases challenging South Carolina‘s same-sex marriage ban inched forward this week, with one request to prevent officials …

BLUFFTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says any final decision on the legality of same-sex marriage in the state could be months away.
Attorney General Alan …

… Oct. 15, 2014, shortly after filing a federal lawsuit seeking the right to marry in South Carolina.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Equality and Lambda Legal on Wednesday filed a …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys have until next week to file motions in a lawsuit playing a key role in South Carolina‘s debate over the issuance of same-sex marriage …

… for a same-sex marriage license.
Updated: 12:45 a.m. EDT
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina‘s Supreme Court ordered probate judges across the state to stop taking application …

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is asking the state Supreme Court to stop a Charleston County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Attorney …

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A South Carolina court approved a same-sex marriage application Wednesday and plans to issue a license despite the state’s constitutional ban against the practice and …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge is asking lawyers for a couple who wants South Carolina to recognize their same-sex marriage and state attorneys to submit briefs after a …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will keep fighting to uphold the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Attorney General Alan Wilson (R …

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Five same-sex couples have been turned down for marriage licenses in a South Carolina county.
The couples had expected their requests would be rejected Wednesday in …

… employment law specialist M. Malissa Burnette and Victoria Middleton, executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina.
Neither federal law nor state law in South Carolina protect LGBT workers from …

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pulled a surprise win in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, throwing off expectations for the race for the GOP nomination.
Media outlets projected Gingrich …

… percent of South Carolina voters supported some legal recognition of same-sex couples.
In 2006, South Carolina voters adopted South Carolina Amendment 1 by 78 percent, that amended the constitution …

… said he feels the attack was a hate crime, although no such laws exist in South Carolina.
Last month, another South Carolina gay man — Joshua Esskew, 19 — was attacked outside …

Joshua Esskew
Officials in South Carolina have charged five men with the attack on a gay teen who was assaulted outside a convenience store in Rock Hill on April 9 …

An attack on a gay teen in South Carolina has prompted a state lawmaker to call for legislators to once again consider a hate crime bill.
John King
State Rep …

Joshua Esskew
The FBI on Monday confirmed it is investigating the brutal attack on a South Carolina gay teen who was assaulted outside a convenience store in Rock Hill on …

… South Carolina’s anti-trans legislation goes extremely far,” wrote Reed on her blog, “and South Carolina is now high on my list of states that could join the ‘worst …