Still grieving the loss of her mother, Carla Hale was fired from her job as a high school physical education teacher - after 19 years - because the name of her lesbian partner had appeared in her mother's obituary.

But she is fighting her dismissal from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio, and has tremendous public support from students, former students, parents and even the mayor of Columbus.

Tomorrow (23 April) Delaware's House of Representatives will vote on a gay marriage bill.

The advocacy group Equality Delaware made the announcement on 19 April. Bill HB75 was approved by the House Administration Committee, by a 4-1 vote. The next day, 18 April, the legislation was sent to the full House for debate. 

Fired lesbian high school physical education teacher Carla Hale has gotten some high-profile support in her quest to get her job back.

Michael Coleman, the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, has tweeted his support of Hale who was fired from Bishop Watterson High School by the Columbus Diocese over her sexuality.

'I stand with Carla Hale,' Coleman wrote. 'No one in Columbus or in the United States should be denied employment because of their choice of who to love.'

The former gold mining town of Bisbee, Arizona has become the first jurisdiction in the state to recognize same-sex relationships.

The city council voted on Tuesday to legalize same-sex civil unions despite the threat of legal action against it by the Arizona Attorney General.

Attorney General Tom Horne had written to the council prior to the vote to warn that it had ‘no authority to pass the ordinance’ and that if it was approved he would seek to have it blocked in court before it could come into effect.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder of a gay mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week.

The Associated Press reported that Coahoma County Sheriff’s department stated in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian, a 34 year-old gay candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

McMillian’s bid received press attention as he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.

Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle will meet with the Russian ambassador to Australia to discuss a controversial law passed by the city of St Petersburg that bans public discussion of homosexuality.

In March of 2012 a new law was adopted in St Petersburg, banning so-called ‘propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderness [sic] among minors’

The law punishes ‘homosexual propaganda’ in public with fines of up to $15,600 or up to 15 days in prison.

The mayor of the small Ohio town of Pomeroy has resigned after the town’s Chief of Police went public over her alleged harassment of one of his officers.

International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) is the organization that brings the world’s LGBT aquatics clubs together, sharing information and knowledge as well as staging an annual championships for LGBT competitors in swimming, diving, open water, synchronized swimming, and water polo.

We caught up with Jason Stone, head of the organizing committee for IGLA2013 to take a look at plans for this year’s event which will be held in the US city of Seattle.

Sure, Minnesota was a part of a sweep of historic victories for marraige equality during last month's US elections.

But gay marriage is still not legal in the state.

Voters there defeated a measure that would have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman while in the same night, voters in Washington, Maine and Maryland approved marriages between same-sex couples.

Major League Soccer has suspended Seattle Sounders defender Marc Burch for three games after television cameras caught him mouthing a homophobic slur during a recent game.

Burch, 28, has also been fined an undisclosed amount and been ordered to attend sensitivity training by the league which has been trying to stop racism, sexism and homophobia through a television campaign.

The suspension comes during the team's conference final against the LA Galaxy which means Burch will miss the rest of the season even if his team makes it to the championship.

California's Mark Takano who not only won a seat in the US House of Representatives this week, he also made history.

Takano, a Democrat, is the first openly gay person of color to be elected to the congress. He beat Republican candidate John Tavaglione in the race to represent California’s newly created 41st congressional district which covers Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris and Jurupa Valley.

A public school teacher for 23 years, the Japanese-American had twice before run unsuccessfully for congress in 1992 and 1994.

AIDS Walk Los Angeles founder and producer Craig Miller had a captive audience of about 30,000 people on Sunday and he wasn’t about to let the opportunity pass him by.

Miller, who founded the walk 28 years ago to raise money for AIDS Project Los Angeles and other area AIDS services organizations, finds himself at war with the city of Santa Monica.

Miller is furious that Santa Monica enacted a policy last month that banned advertisements by non-profit organizations like APLA on the Big Blue Bus, the city’s municipal bus line.