Gay ally and Minnesota Viking football player Chris Kluwe is concerned his activism will keep him off the team's 2013-2014 roster.

The National Football League punter sent a note to the NBC website PFT after his team drafted another punter in the most recent draft (held 25 April to 27 April).

US Senator Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said Thursday (14 March) that being against gay marriage doesn't make him a bigot.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, Rubio said: 'Just because I believe states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot.'

He also said he feels judged for some other positions including being anti-abortion and for not buying into the science behind climate change.

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) has endorsed a policy statement in favor of marriage equality at its global conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

The conference voted to support a motion put forward by the Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA).

AMSA president Ben Veness presented the ‘Marriage Equality and Health’ policy statement to the IFMSA General Assembly in Baltimore.

Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe tells Gay Star News that life hasn't changed too dramatically for him since he became a well-known LGBT activist last fall.

'Mainly just more interviews (laughs). That's about it,' he said on the red carpet of last weekend's Family Equality Council dinner in Los Angeles where he was an honoree. 'I'm still the same person. I guess more people are paying attention now.'

It was back in September that Maryland Assembly Delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. decided to write a letter to the owner of the Baltimore Ravens because he was displeased that linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has made public statements in support of same sex marriage.

Burns requested that owner Steve Bisciotti 'take necessary actions' and 'inhibit such expressions' by his player.

The letter backfired.

Boy Scouts of America pressured a Maryland troop to drop a gay-friendly policy this week.

In summer 2012 Pack 442 of Cloverly, Maryland updated their website by adding a non-discrimination declaration on their website that read: ''Pack 442 WILL NOT discriminate against any individual or family based on race, religion, national origin, ability, or sexual orientation.'

Chris Kluwe, a punter for the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings who has become an outspoken LGBT activist, announced Friday (18 January) that he is writing a book.

'I believe we're looking at a June 25th release date, and it's a collection of uncensored essays and stories about whatever I feel like,' Kluwe announced to his more than 150,000 Twitter followers.

The Washington National Cathedral, one of the world’s largest, historic and iconic places of worship will solemnise same-sex weddings, according to a statement published today (9 January).

As the one of the most prominent US churches and the US seat of the Episcopal Church, the decision has a tremendous symbolic value.

The 106-year-old cathedral inaugurates new presidents, conducts official services where Americans gather to mourn tragedies, will be among first Episcopal congregations to allow gay couples to wed.

A gay couple in Maryland who invited hundreds of strangers on the internet to their wedding are planning their ceremony after a same-sex marriage bill came into effect in the US state on New Year's Day.

Chris and Shawn Riley originally tied the knot in the state of Washington where gay marriage was already legal.

Gay marriage becomes legal in the state of Maryland on 1 January.

But same-sex couples should not plan on hiring Discover Annapolis Tours for their wedding day transportation - and neither should heterosexual couples.

Rather than do business with gay couples, the owner of the business, Matt Grubbs, has decided to stop doing wedding business entirely despite a loss in about $50,000 in annual revenue.

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.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley wanted to share the moment on Thursday (6 December) when he signed a proclamation that certifies voter approval of same-sex marriage in his state.

So, he took to Twitter and tweeted out a photo of himself, pen in hand, making the law official.

Along with the photo he wrote: 'Court houses can now issue licenses to same-sex couples for January weddings. #Dignity.'