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Friday, November 30, 2012  A California law prohibiting mental health providers from counseling gay minors on how to become straight faces its first legal test Friday.

Monday, August 27, 2012  The fight for gay rights is playing out in city halls and town squares throughout the nation's heartland, from southwest Missouri to the Kansas plains to Nebraska college towns.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012  Rep. Zachary Wyatt held a Capitol news conference Wednesday at which he said he was disclosing his sexual orientation for the first time.

Thursday, December 15, 2011 

Tuesday, September 20, 2011  Military portrays repeal of gay ban as business-as-usual, after months of preparation

Monday, April 18, 2011  A proposal to include gay rights in sections on civil rights in California textbooks is rankling more than a few Republicans

Monday, April 19, 2010  Justices split sharply on whether campus Christian group can exclude non-Christians

Thursday, October 22, 2009  Congress sends to president a bill that would extend hate crime protections to gays

Thursday, October 08, 2009  Congress votes to extend hate crimes to cover attacks based on sexual orientation, gender

Thursday, July 16, 2009  Senate votes to expands federal hate crimes law to cover gender, sexual orientation