California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.9

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.2

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.5

Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to stop discriminating against gays and lesbians. 22

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.4

Polis joins returning gay members of Congress Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.).4

Longtime gay foe and former Obama challenger Allan Keyes has filed a lawsuit claiming that Obama is not a natural-born citizen.20

President-elect Barack Obama has laid out his commitment to LGBT civil rights in an eight-point plan posted on his transition Web site.68