Three gay couples have filed a lawsuit for the right to marry or have their marriage in another state recognized in Utah.

Derek Kitchen, Moudi Sbiety, Laurie Wood and Kody Partridge are fighting against the state law that states marriage is a legal union between a man and a woman.

According to the complaint, ‘Both couples desire to express their love for, and commitment to, one another by getting married and obtaining official sanction for their family from the state of Utah.’

Former Utah governor and contender to be the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has announced his support for marriage equality just months after another contender declared same-sex marriage to be inevitable

Huntsman made the announcement via a February 21 op-ed in the American Conservative magazine.

‘While serving as governor of Utah, I pushed for civil unions and expanded reciprocal benefits for gay citizens,’ Huntsman wrote.

When the Oscars are being handed out in Hollywood on Sunday (24 February), Ira Sachs will be on a plane flying back to his home in New York City.

He came to Los Angeles this week for another awards ceremony - Saturday's Independent Spirits Awards - where his film, Keep the Lights On, is up for four awards.

For the past week Use Your Mandate has been using Twitter, mailings in seven states and TV ads to knock Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense. The group insists it's made up of Democratic party LGBT operatives, but its members have chosen to be anonymous.

Yesterday (14 December), Utah's public radio station, KUER, profiled One Voice Choir. The 15 member group is open to gays, lesbians, and Mormons.

Bryan Horn, the group's musical director, explained why the ensemble was developed.

NBC's Utah affiliate KSL-TV in Salt Lake City may have refused to air the comedy The New Normal but rival station KUCW-TV has no problem with the comedy about a gay couple starting a family with the help of a surrogate.

KUCW will air the show on Saturdays at 10 pm ahead of Saturday Night Live, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

NBC's Utah affiliate KSL-TV in Salt Lake City is not backing off its decision not to air the new comedy The New Normal about a gay couple starting a family with the help of a surrogate mother.

So Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center announced Friday (31 August) that they have teamed with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to host a free public screening of the show followed by a panel discussion sometime next month.

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, who said this week that the issue of marriage equality should be left up to individual states, is getting some flak for breaking from Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on the issue.

Romney has pledged support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but Hatch told SiriusXM's Michelangelo Signorile at the Republican National Convention this week that he's 'a believer that the states should be able to make their own determination.'

Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney may have pledged support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but he has at least one prominent GOP senator who is breaking ranks with him on the issue.

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, up for reelection in November, said this week that the issue of marriage equality should be left up to individual states.

Revellers at a gay nightclub in Salt Lake City were attacked with firebombs in the early hours of yesterday morning (16 August).

A crowd of around 40 people were pelted with burning flares while partying outside in the patio area of the Utah state capital's popular nightspot JAM.

One punter, Fernando Noriega, described how he saw three young men flee from the scene after he others jumped the fence to see who was responsible.

‘God Hates Gays’, read an allegedly hacked road sign on University Avenue in Provo, Utah on Tuesday night (7 August).

It is believed that someone hacked into the unsecured message board and reprogrammed it to show the homophobic message.

‘I don’t know what the motivation was, but [the person] would have had to physically walk up to the sign in order to change the message’, Leigh Dethman, spokeswoman for the I-15 corridor expansion project, told the Huffington Post.

Over 300 Mormon allies dropped their bibles and marched in Utah’s Gay Pride parade on Sunday (3 June).

The group Mormons Building Bridges said they wanted to send a message of love to the LGBT community, saying it was compatible with their faith.

It is the first time such a large group has participated in the Salt Lake City event, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.