The family of a West Hollywood attorney who died over the weekend from bacterial meningitis is blasting a city councilman for making what they say were 'sensationalist and erroneous public statements' about the victim.

Councilman John Duran tells Gay Star News he meant no disrespect to the victim or his family. He says his priority was public safety in a city with a large population of gay men.

Brett Shaad, 33, was taken off of life support on Saturday (13 April) and died later that day at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills.

The extent to which US evangelical Christians are helping push the ‘Kill The Gays Bill’ in Uganda has been revealed in a series of tweets between them and anti-gay activists in the African country.

Matt Barber, attorney for Liberty Counsel, a US right wing Christian law firm, listed as an anti-gay group, has been praising anti-gay Ugandan evangelical pastor, Martin Ssempa on Twitter.

Their legal standing in even defending Proposition 8 was questioned by US Supreme Court justices today. But attorneys seeking to uphold California's ban on gay marriage say they had a good day in court.

'The court asked some penetrating, measured questions of both sides and it's in the hands of the court,' attorney Charles Cooper said on the court steps shortly after he argued the case inside.

A New Mexico mayor is urging county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, due to the law being ‘sufficiently vague’.

The US state does not explicitly permit or prohibit same-sex marriage, and does not offer civil unions or domestic partnerships.

But David Coss, the mayor of the capital Santa Fe, said the state law ‘supports’ it as the marriage statute does not specify gender.

The US senate confirmed openly gay Asian-American, Pamela Ki Mai Chen, to the federal bench for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Chen, who is a Brooklyn prosecutor, will be the first openly gay Asian American on the federal bench.

She is currently working as the chief of the civil rights section in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York.

President Barack Obama has nominated Todd Hughes, an attorney with the Justice Department, to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

If approved by the Senate, Hughes would be the first openly gay justice to sit on the federal appeals court bench.

But Obama, quickly becoming the most pro-gay president in US history, has been down this road before.

An anti-gay lawyer who videotaped her own daughter having sex with two men was found guilty of filming and possessing child porn yesterday (11 January).

Lisa Biron, 43, from New Hampshire, US, faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.

The attorney, associated with reactionary Christian anti-gay firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in November last year.

A Nebraska woman who claimed she was brutally attacked by three men was found guilty of false reporting yesterday (10 December).

Charlie Rogers, 34, pleaded no contest in Lancaster County Court, allowing her to not admit guilt but not offer a defence.

Her attorney says Rogers maintains the attack happened but did not want a court fight, while police say she staged the attack for attention.

John Travolta, already hit with several gay-related lawsuits this year, is now being sued by a pilot who wants to be able to speak publicly about what he says was a six-year affair with the actor.

Doug Gotterba claims in a lawsuit filed this week that he was threatened with legal action by Travolta's attorney Marty Singer after he reportedly spoke to the National Enquirer about his alleged relationship with the actor.

Claudio Cofré, the defense attorney in Chile’s Zamudio case, has withdrawn from court proceedings.

A judge has reassigned a public defender to represent the four men charged with brutally attacking Daniel Zamudio for being gay. Zamudio was found mutilated and unconscious in a park with swastikas carved into his body on 2 March 2012. He died in a hospital from injuries 25 days later.

A gay man jumped 20 feet off the side of a mountain to escape his homophobic attackers, a court heard during a landmark trial in the US.

Kevin Pennington, 29, told federal jurors in London, Kentucky, that cousins David Jason Jenkins and Anthony Ray Jenkins took him to an isolated road in the mountainous Kingdom Come State Park on a night in April 2011.

The pair then hurled gay slurs at him, before punching and beating him, reported Kentucky.com

Two men in Cameroon were sentenced to five years jail-time under suspicion of being gay.

Franky Djome and Jonas Singa Kumie had an appeal hearing yesterday (Friday 21 September) after receiving a five year prison sentence for being 'perceived' as gay by their manner of dressing and speaking.