A transgender student, denied the chance to run for prom king, was allegedly placed on the queen ballot by his principal.

Isaak Wolfe, 18, a senior at Red Lion Area Senior High School in Pennsylvania, says his school principal Mark Shue put his birth name on the ballot for prom queen.

‘If I would have known they would’ve done that, I probably would have opted out,’ Wolfe told the York Daily Record. ‘What bothers me the most if they never told me.

Wolfe says he was ‘humiliated’ because he had handed out prom king fliers campaigning for the title.

Rick Santorum lashed out today at officials at Grosse Pointe High School in Michigan for initially canceling a scheduled speech of his because he did not provide them with an advance copy.

Santorum, a former US senator from Pennsylvania, seemed certain it is due to his well-known opposition to gay marriage.

Although public opinion is shifting on the issue, former US Senator Rick Santorum insists it would be 'suicidal' for the Republican party to embrace gay marriage.

Santorum, who finished second to Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination last year, remains steadfastly against marriage equality and thinks others in his party should remain so too.

Will & Grace ended its run in 2006, but the sitcom about a gay man and his straight female best friend is still be very much in the current conversation about gay marriage.

Gay marriage foe Rick Santorum, the former US senator who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, discussed the show's impact on gay marriage during the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month.

A US councilman has said he did not know the city’s transit alert system was alive when he sent a mass email.

WPXI.com reports Matt Stanizweski, from Pennsylvania, sent an email: ‘Alert: This is a test. Bryan is gay.’

City of Washington mayor Brenda Davis criticized the councilman, saying he acted in an ‘inappropriate and unprofessional’ manner from an elected official.

Rick Santorum, the former US senator who challenged Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, has stepped into the debate over whether gays should be allowed in the Boys Scouts of America.

'When I saw that the Boy Scouts of America executive board is convening on Wednesday to discuss abandoning the organization’s founding moral principles that nurture boys into men, I was saddened, but not surprised,' Santorum writes in a column for WND.com.

US President Barack Obama has nominated a lesbian Latina to serve as a federal judge.

Nitza Quiñones Alejandro was named by President Obama as part of a group of three nominees to sit on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, reported the Washington Blade.

President Obama said: ‘These men and women have had distinguished legal careers and I am honoured to ask them to continue their work as judges on the federal bench.

‘Some people are gay. Get over it!’ That was the message that I delivered at the recent One Young World Summit 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US – an event which brought together 1,300 young delegates from 180 countries to discuss the key issues affecting the world today.

A school in Pennsylvania has paid $700,000 (€) in damages after they refused admission to a 14-year-old boy because he is HIV-positive.

A federal lawsuit alleged Milton Hershey School, Hershey, had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it denied admission to the student in last year.

A lesbian activist dressed as a cow in Texas to protest homophobic fast food chain Chick-Fil-A.

Just Kusko stood outside a branch of the restaurant in Austin holding a sign which read: 'Don't Hate The Homooo!'

The chain is openly against gay marriage and its charitable arm has donated millions to anti-gay organizations in recent years.

'These pictures have really taken off,' Kusko told The Advocate.

Anti-gay former US presidential candidate Rick Santorum is currently the subject of a hoax which claimed he had Grindr on his iPhone.

Published Tuesday (3 July) on satirical news website Daily Currant, the article joked Santorum was caught by a young reporter who asked why he had downloaded the gay dating app.

Daily Current joked that Santorum thought Grindr, the gay dating site with the ‘world’s biggest network of guys’, was an app to find coffee shops.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, widely considered to be a possible vice presidential pick for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, spoke out on Thursday (17 May) against President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage.

'He did it for political reasons because he doesn't want to talk about the economy.' Rubio said in an interview with FOX Business Network. '... He doesn't want that to be what this election is about. And so it's not just on gay marriage, I think every week he'll roll out another issue to distract from it.'