Despite being in a civil union for five years, a gay man was asked to leave his partner's hospital room in Kansas City, Missouri, when one of the patient's family members objected to his presence.

Roger Gorley refused to leave so the security staff at Research Medical Center ordered him off of hospital grounds and the police were called.

Shortly after the Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 ended Tuesday (26 March), Montana Senator Jon Tester (pictured) became the fifth Democratic senator in two days to suddenly embrace marriage equality.

He joined recent marriage converts Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Warner of Virgina, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.

This leaves only 10 Democrats in the US Senate who have not publicly endorsed gay marriage.

Barack Obama’s team has chosen the Lesbian and Gay Band Association of St Louis to honor the president at his Inaugural Parade on 21 January.

The 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced they ‘are thrilled that the Lesbian and Gay Band has accepted their invitation to participate!’

Anti-gay and anti-abortion congressman Todd Akin has lost his bid to become Senator of Missouri.

Democrat incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill defeated Akin’s attempt to be elected in the mid-western state.

When asked if women who are raped should be allowed to have abortions during a radio interview in August, Akin said victims of what he called ‘legitimate rape’ rarely get pregnant. He apologized for the comments afterwards saying that he ‘misspoke’.

A video of an American preacher’s seemingly anti-gay speech has gone viral.

Tweeted by British broadcaster Stephen Fry today (20 October), the Reverend Phil Snider has spoken out about gay rights in his home town of Springfield, Missouri.

Speaking at a city council meeting about bringing in gay equality laws in August, Snider said: ‘I worry about the future of our city. Any accurate reading of the Bible should make it clear that gay rights goes against the plain truth of the word of God.’

Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt is reportedly searching for a gay role to spite his homophobic mother.

According to American tabloid National Enquirer, which is famous for being a dubious source of news, the actor is desperate to teach his mother the error of her ways.

Jane Pitt shocked the gay rights advocate’s fans when she decided to write a letter to a Missouri-based newspaper slamming marriage equality.

Ten years with America’s scouting movement came to an abrupt end for a 19 year old Missourian on Sunday when he was stripped of his rank of Eagle Scout and fired from his summer camp job.

Eric Jones of Kearney, Missouri, told the director of Camp Geiger that he is gay on Sunday – something which is in contravention of the organization’s membership rules for both scouts and scout leaders.

Jones had joined the Boy Scouts in second grade and had taken a decade to rise to the rank of Eagle Scout and earn a job at the Scout’s Camp Geiger.

Rep. Zach Wyatt went one step further than speaking out against Missouri's proposed 'Don't Say Gay' bill in a speech before his colleagues this week - he came out as gay himself.

'I'm not the first or the last Republican to come out,' Wyatt said. 'I've just gotten tired of the bigotry being shown from both sides of the aisle on gay issues. Being gay has never been a Republican or Democratic issue and it should never be.'

Three-quarters of religious people quoted by the US media about gay and trans issues are anti-LGBT.

That’s according to a new report by GLAAD, the LGBT media and anti-defamation organization, in partnership with the University of Missouri Center on Religion and the Professions.

GLAAD says three out of four religious messages came from people whose religions have formal policies opposing gay and trans equality, despite the fact that acceptance of LGBT people is growing across different faiths.