(Editor's note: Dan Choi emailed his supporters today to confirm that charges have been dismissed against him for protesting outside the White House. This news was confirmed today by attorney Thomas Hughes, who has closely followed the case, who has contributed columns to SDGLN.)

CHARGES DISMISSED!

After one and a half years of criminal trial looming over my head, a totally unconstitutional "stay away" restraining order from the 1600 Pennsylvania Ave (The White House) and too many friends telling me not to fight back, the Judge dismissed the case. Forever.

WASHINGTON – In an interview with the Huffington Post, former Republican presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich made remarks indicating he and other GOP leaders should embrace civil marriage equality – the latest sign of powerful momentum for LGBT equality this year.

Gingrich served as Speaker of the House in 1996, when the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed into law.

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CINCINNATI, Ohio -- A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the University of Toledo's decision to fire a high-level human resources administrator, who wrote a newspaper opinion column challenging the idea that LGBT people deserve the same civil rights protections as members of racial minority groups.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court ruled that Crystal Dixon's column "contradicted the very policies she was charged with creating, promoting, and enforcing, and cannot be excused as merely a statement of her own views as a private citizen."