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Virginia’s House of Delegates rejected the nomination of an openly gay prosecutor to become the General District Court Judge and the state’s first openly gay judge.

Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook, and his partner Sean Eldridge are a powerful political couple in New York that recently donated $100,000 to an LGBT Maine campaign for a measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state.

The State of Rhode Island will now officially recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states as the result of an Executive Order signed by Governor Lincoln Chafee.

France’s new president Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises, including the legalization of gay-marriage.

President Barack Obama says it is "hard to say" whether his new stance supporting same sex marriage will hurt his re-election.

President Barack Obama’s shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform.

Gay couples who watched as Colorado lawmakers rejected a civil unions measure are taking comfort in the bill sponsor’s mantra: It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when civil unions become law.

President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it "expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody."

Several hundred protesters gathered Monday at the New Jersey State House to show support for a former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation and to call attention to what they see as injustices in New Jersey’s hate-crime laws.

The conservative Southeast Asian nation of Burma is starting slowly starting to accept its LGBT community as gay bars and media become more common.