(Mbabane) Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this small southern African land of paupers and princes, mud huts and palaces. The government calls them the 40-40 festivities, marking King Mswati III's birthday and the anniversary of ... Full story...
(Tucson, Arizona) Days after being profiled on the television crime show America's Most Wanted a lesbian couple wanted for murder has been found dead in Arizona.
(Katmandu) Nepal's highest court has ordered the government to repeal laws against homosexuality and to enact legislation granting full rights to the country's LGBT population, including the right to marry.
(Trenton, New Jersey) Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to stop discriminating against gays and lesbians.
(New York City) Amendments that restrict civil marriage rights of same-sex couples – such as Proposition 8 that recently passed in California – have led to higher levels of stress and anxiety among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults, as well as among their families of origin, according to several .
(Washington) Colorado Democrat Jared Polis arrived in Washington this week for freshman orientation.
Polis became the third openly gay member of Congress when he was elected to represent Colorado's heavily Democratic 2nd District.
(Sacramento, California) Longtime gay foe and former Obama challenger Allan Keyes has filed a lawsuit in California to block the state from giving its electoral votes to the President-elect until Obama provides documentary evidence that he is indeed a natural born citizen of the United States.
(Washington) President-elect Barack Obama has laid out his commitment to LGBT civil rights in an eight-point plan posted on his transition Web site.
(Chicago, Illinois) Backers of a proposed high school touted as a haven for gay and bullied youth have pulled their proposal, saying they wanted to spend another year to finalize their plans.
(Boston, Massachusetts) The Boston-based group that won equal marriage rights in Massachusetts and Connecticut said Tuesday it intends to fight for gay marriage rights in the other four New England states and predicted success by 2012.
(Syracuse, New York) The weekend victim of a brazen murder in Syracuse, N.Y., was transgendered, family and friends now tell area media outlets.
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