A Washington state florist facing two discrimination lawsuits for refusing to service a gay wedding has filed a lawsuit of her own.

Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts located in the city of Richmond, is counter-suing the state of Washington.

The state is seeking fines against Stutzman’s business for discrimination under the Consumer Protection Act. She is also being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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.

A Washington state florist who refused to service a gay wedding is facing two discrimination lawsuits.

Barronelle Stutzman is already being sued by the state attorney general for telling Robert Ingersoll and his partner Curt Freed last month that she couldn’t do their wedding because of her ‘relationship with Jesus Christ’. 

A US high school is no longer forcing a student to do away with his anti-gay apparel.

Seth Groody of Wolcott High School in Connecticut was originally requested by his school  to remove an anti-gay t-shirt he wore on last year's 'Day of Silence', a new campaign to raise awareness of discrimination and bullying against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. The front of Groody's shirt had a slash across a rainbow and immediately caught the attention of the school's administrators.

Hawaii's hopes for gay marriage have suffered a setback after officials decided against a hearing for its gay marriage bill.

The decision by the state House Judciary Committee to table the issue for the current legislative session means the bill is not likely to advance this year.

State representative Karl Rhodes, chairman of the committee, said there was no political will for gay marriage in this current session.

Members of the US military like former Air Force Sergeant Richard Collins were not only kicked out of the military when they were discovered to be gay or lesbian, they also got approximately half of the amount of separation pay as those honorably discharged for another reason.

That inequality will be rectified after the settlement of a class action lawsuit Monday (7 January) that challenged a Defense Department policy which was not a part of the 2010 repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT).

A former student and counselor is suing Eastern Michigan University claiming she was wrongfully dismissed for turning down a gay student who wanted help.

The federal court lawsuit in Detroit is being watched across the US as a signifier of the battle between religious and gay freedoms.

A lesbian couple have won a lawsuit over a hotel in Vermont which refused to host their wedding reception.

The Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville told Kate Linsley (nee Baker) and Ming Linsley via email in 2010 that they could not host their event last year because of 'personal feelings'.

South Carolina’s Greenville Country Sheriff’s Office has been criticized for entrapping and then arresting gay men and others for behaviors which are not illegal.

The American Civil Liberties Union found multiple cases where undercover sheriffs had sought to entrap people into engaging in illegal sexual activity including sex in public and prostitution, but then arrested then anyway when this failed.

Saying the civil unions are not enough, two lawsuits were filed Wednesday (30 May) on behalf of a total of 25 Illinois couples who want the right to be married.

Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of 16 couples who have been together between 6 and 48 years. Ten of the couples are raising children.

The case, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, argues that barring same-sex couples and their children from marriage is a violation of the Illinois Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and due process.