The American Civil Liberties Union, which usually advocates for the rights of real-life people, has started a campaign to tru and and get a fictional gay couple married.

That couple is Cameron and Mitchell on ABC's Emmy winning comedy series Modern Family.

A campaign, complete with a website for RSVPs, has been created by the advocacy arm of the civil liberties group called ACLU Action.

Actor Tuc Watkins appeared on Marie Osmond's Hallmark Channel talk show in an episode that aired Monday (29 April) and shared with the audience a photo of himself with his twins.

Watkins became dad to son Curtis (left) and daughter Catchen (right), who were born via surrogate, four months ago.

Jennifer Lopez has said her new show about lesbian moms is a homage to her late gay aunt.

In a tearful interview with Entertainment Tonight, she explored the personal reasons why she wanted to create the new ABC Family drama The Fosters.

Asked whether she thought the show would be controversial, Lopez said: ‘I think it might be. But I think that’s ok.

‘I had an aunt who was gay. I lived with her and I loved her. She just passed away from cancer. 

Robbie Rogers, a former midfielder for the US national team who most recently played in England, retired from soccer on the same day that he came out to the world as a gay man.

He is only 25.

But he told ABC's Nightline in an interview broadcast Tuesday (16 April) that he is considering a return to his sport - a move that would make him the first active openly gay pro soccer in history.

'Gay athletes are athletes,' Rogers said. 'If I go back to soccer, I want to go back as Robbie. I just want it to be as simple as that.'

It was in 1997 that Ellen DeGeneres caused a national wave of publicity and debate when she was featured on the cover of TIME magazine with this headline: 'Yep, I'm Gay.'

Twenty-two years earlier, that cover could have been Lily Tomlin's.

Now 73, one of the stars of new movie Admission a cast member of the ABC sitcom Malibu Country, Tomlin did not publicly discuss being a lesbian until 2001 although it had long been an open secret.

'TIME magazine offered me the cover in 1975 if I would come out,' Tomlin tells Entertainment Weekly.

Charlie Sheen's personal chef, Khristianne Uy, was crowned the inaugural champion this week of the new ABC cooking competition show The Taste.

But Uy, known simply as Chef K, tells Gay Star News she had to contend with more than just cooking challenges on her way to the first prize of $100,000 and a 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid.

How to Survive a Plague may not have won the Oscar for best documentary last Sunday (24 February) but it's story is about to be told to an even wider audience.

The ABC broadcast network has confirmed that it has optioned the rights to the film about a group of remarkable AIDS activists in the late 198os and 90s. The network has an eye on making the story a television miniseries.

A television news investigation suggests there were repeated examples of LGBT discrimination in the  Colorado State Patrol.

New Mexico would be one of the next US states to pass marriage equality as a law proposing it has just passed the first hurdle.

The bill will allow voters to decide the issue of gay marriage, but also states churches would not be required to recognize and perform same-sex ceremonies.

After hearing diverse opinions, lawmakers voted 3-2 to pass the bill, ABC reports. The Republicans voted against the measure.

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association on Wednesday (16 January) announced the winners of the group's annual Dorian Awards which honor the best in film and television of 2012.

Argo, which has gained Oscar momentum after Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award wins, was voted Film of the Year by GALECA. Oscar front-runners Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne Hathaway won the Performance of the Year prizes for Lincoln and Les Miserables, respectively.

At Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, Victor Garber took some ribbing from George Clooney and others when he arrived to the stage after Argo producer Grant Heslov had begun his acceptance speech.

The fllm, in which Garber portrays a Canadian ambassador in Iran who agrees to hide a group of Americans, won the Best Picture-Drama prize and was also nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.

As he rides that success, Garber is also one of the stars of the new NBC drama Deception which premiered last week and airs on Monday nights in the US.

As the Illinois state legislature ponders whether to pass a marriage equality bill next week, Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is in the state trying to drum up public support for Illinois to become the 10th state in the US to allow gay marriage.

On the ABC sitcom, Ferguson portrays Mitchell Pritchett who is raising a young daughter with his spouse Cameron Tucker who is played by Eric Stonestreet.