WASHINGTON – The Senate is scheduled to vote on the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, but Sen. John McCain has threatened a filibuster.

Meanwhile, Lady Gaga and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) are stepping up the pressure on the two moderate Republican senators from Maine, urging Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to help defeat the filibuster and to vote to repeal the DADT policy.

GREENSBURG, Ind. - Friends of 15-year-old Billy Lucas gathered at the Greensburg Courthouse square last night for a candle light vigil in Lucas' honor.

Many friends believed his suicide was the cause of school bullying, stating he endured many gay-related taunts, and school officials did nothing.

CHEYENNE — Less than a month after filing the first-ever legal challenge to Wyoming’s gay marriage law, a Cheyenne couple have dropped their lawsuit.

Plaintiffs David Shupe-Roderick, 25, and Ryan W. Dupree, 21, withdrew the lawsuit in federal court on Friday.
The lawsuit, filed Aug. 13, alleged that Wyoming’s law defining marriage as being a contract solely “between a male and a female person” was unconstitutional.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Tuesday’s primaries brought mostly good news to openly gay candidates supported by the Victory Fund, as 29 of 33 pols either advanced in primaries or won their elections outright.

Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund, was in Providence, R.I., Tuesday night as Providence Mayor David Cicilline was declared the winner of the Democratic primary to represent Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District. Rhode Island is a very blue state, and so is the district, thus Cicilline immediately becomes the favorite to win in November.