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5 LGBT things you need to know today, Sept. 15

1. Vanita Gupta, president of and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, writes for SCOTUSblog about the Masterpiece Cakeshop case involving a same-sex couple. 2. A gay couple in Utah pl...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 10

1. Finally, after nearly 70 years, the US Department of State issued a formal apology for the "Lavender Scare." 2. Cuba won't allow one of its LGBT rights activists out of the country, the Washington Bla...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 17

1)A gay Duke University student threatened with death decides to speak out. At about 3 a.m. on Nov. 5, someone scrawled graffiti in a Duke University freshman dorm. It read, “Death to all fags @Jack.” “Jack” is...

Utah ruling striking down ban on same-sex headed to U.S. Supreme Court

Saying that it “emphatically agrees” with numerous court decisions in the past year that have struck down bans on same-sex couples marrying, a three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals voted ...

Federal court of appeals strikes down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban

In another victory today for marriage equality, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled Utah’s same-sex marriage ban violated the Constitution. “We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment protects th...