Gay & Lesbian Issues

CONCORD, N.H. - A New Hampshire House committee is recommending against repealing the state's five-week-old gay marriage law. Full Story »

MOHAWK, N.Y. - The bullying by classmates and taunts of "homo" only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled "I hope you die" on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Comedian, actress, talk show host, philanthropist, gay rights activist and mother to four kids, Rosie O'Donnell is no stranger to controversy. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban is attracting nationwide attention in the form of "friend of the court" briefs. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - Where there's the Web, there's a way. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - Gay-rights campaigners and secularists called on Tuesday for protests during a visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI this year after he condemned equality legislation seen as friendly to gays. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court may have stopped broadcasts of California's same-sex marriage trial, but that has not prevented filmmakers from re-enacting it for the Internet. Full Story »

A high-profile legal duo is taking the case against Prop 8 all the way to the Supreme Court. Here's a look at the arguments so far Full Story »

MEXICO CITY - Mexico City's mayor says he will defend the capital's gay-marriage law and insists the ordinance will take effect in March despite an appeal by federal prosecutors. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In surprising testimony, a witness called to defend California's gay marriage ban testified on Tuesday that legalizing same-sex matrimony would "improve the well-being of gay and lesbian households and their children." Full Story »

San Francisco - On the 17th floor of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in a city known for being at the edge of social change, a federal trial is under way that could lead to a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage in America. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The influence of homosexuals in US politics is significant and growing, an expert testified, as opponents of same-sex marriage opened their case in a federal trial challenging California's gay marriage ban. Full Story »

San Francisco - Lawyers defending Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage, brought their first witnesses to the stand Monday to to testify that gays and lesbians enjoy a rising level of political and cultural support in America. Full Story »

San Francisco - On Friday, Day 9 of the federal trial challenging California’s gay marriage ban, lawyers for two unwed same-sex couples are expected to call their final witness: a psychologist to testify on the nature of sexual orientation. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal employee in California is suing the Obama administration to force it to provide health benefits to her same-sex spouse. Full Story »

CONCORD, N.H. - Three weeks after the state legalized gay marriage, opponents on Wednesday asked a House committee to repeal the law. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - The appointment of Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Richard Walker to the bench was held up for two years during the late 1980s in part because he had angered gay rights activists. Full Story »

BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Malawi's government said Monday that it is unmoved by international criticism of the trial of a gay couple charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency, felonies for which they could be imprisoned for up to 14 years. Full Story »