While several Seattle Catholic parishes have oped out of the anti-same-sex marriage campaign, a Kirkland pastor said Sunday that marriage was “created and defined by God” and that Gay marriage “is simply not possible.”

Gay-rights freedom riders met for more than two hours Monday with a handful of LDS officials in Salt Lake City to raise continuing concerns about Mormon policies and language that the advocates see as harmful to their community.

In just a year and a half, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of Puerto Rico has been rocked by the deaths of 18 of its members, with three murdered in the last week alone. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States and is not a sovereign State like the other 50 which appear on the United States flag. Pedro Julio Serrano, communications manger for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said there has been a “spike in violence against the LGBT people since the ‘80s, when we had a serial killer who killed 27 gay men.”

The Douglass Boulevard Christian Church in Louisville (Disciples of Christ) unanimously voted to end the practice of signing marriage licenses because they give legal benefits to heterosexual couples that are not available to homosexual couples.

Kentucky Equality Federation’s partnership with StoryCorps made the front page of the Lexington Herald-Leader today complete with amazing pictures, and will shed much needed light on the actual people that are born gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered in rural Kentucky.

California’s lawmakers are fighting over legislation that would require public schools to include the historical contributions of LGBT people in their curriculum while the Kentucky Senate proposed teaching Bible lessons [the Kentucky Legislation was defeated].

Louisville Fairness Campaign and the Statewide Equality Coalition will begin working with Kentucky Equality Federation and vice versa according to a press release issued by Kentucky Equality Federation earlier today. This is the first time Kentucky Equality Federation has spoken about the Statewide Equality Coalition since its Board voted to withdraw.

Queer Questions Straight Talk: 108 frank & provocative questions it’s OK to ask your lesbian, gay or bi loved one, is based on the idea that there are no stupid questions or “wrong” answers.

Toby Ray Lasure was sentenced to life in prison Friday afternoon for the 2009 shooting death of Christopher Tolliver, who was said to have been Lasure’s former boyfriend.

The anti-gay marriage amendment in Georgia is unconstitutional per the Georgia Constitution, much the same way Prop 8 is unconstitutional and places the California constitution in direct contradiction with itself, this is proof that Kentucky’s Constitution does as well.