Asher Brown's worn-out tennis shoes still sit in the living room of his Cypress-area home while his student progress report — filled with straight A's — rests on the coffee table.

The eighth-grader killed himself last week. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.

KEY WEST, Fla. – This island city, closer to Cuba than Miami, has long been a haven for the LGBT community. But an ugly incident last month in which a gay couple were beaten amid sexual orientation slurs has shaken this laidback community.

A new Anti-Hate Crimes Task Force has been formed by Key West’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center. And because the suspects in the crime appeared to be teenagers – and have not been caught – the task force is developing a program to encourage diversity training at local schools.

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis bakery has refused an order for gay cupcakes.

Students from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) claim the co-owner of Just Cookies inside the Indianapolis City Market refused to sell them cupcakes for National Coming Out Day, which is celebrated on October 11, Fox affiliate WIXN reported.

The students were first told they could not order cupcakes because the bakery only sold cookies, but when the students asked for rainbow-frosted cookies, they were told to go elsewhere.

WASHINGTON - Servicemembers United today hailed a decision in the lawsuit brought by Air Force Major Margaret Witt and the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State challenging Witt's discharge from the Air Force under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy.

"Yet another judge has taken yet another righteous, historic, and courageous stand against a discriminatory and unconstitutional law," said Alexander Nicholson, founder and executive director of Servicemembers United.