Editor's note: SDGLN has experienced occasions where our news website has been blocked by schools and businesses, prompting us to contact them in protest. Censorship has a chilling effect in a country that proclaims freedom of the press and the right to free speech.

NEW YORK – Lightspeed Systems, which produces software used for website filtering in thousands of public schools across the U.S., confirmed today that it will update its software to remove a filter that blocked websites with content geared toward the LGBT communities.

SAN DIEGO -- The third annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast will bring together more than 1,000 of the city’s most influential policy-makers, businesspeople, philanthropists, volunteers and supporters of equality for all.

The annual breakfast is designed to honor an American hero, a gay American hero, and to reflect on the sacrifices he made for our nation, our state and for all of us as individuals. The event serves as a building block to new partnerships that bridge the gap to equality in the community.

It's hard to gauge who did more to advance the cause of legalizing gay marriage in the past week -- New York Rangers forward Sean Avery (the first pro athlete to publicly support New Yorkers for Marriage Equality), or the father-and-son sports agent team of Don and Todd Reynolds, whose swift attacks of Avery's stance caused a remarkable thing to happen.

Editor's note: The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle is a San Diego human rights activist and is president of St. Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation. He is an expert on Ugandan LGBT issues through his work with Bishop Christopher Senyonjo.

As a cradle Anglican and Episcopalian priest, I was shocked to learn that out of 80 countries that currently criminalize homosexuality, 45 are former British colonies and whose modern elites are largely Anglicans.