A gunman is accused of targeting ‘bears’ he met on gay dating apps for theft and rape.

The man from Kent, an outlying suburb of Seattle, is accused of having gone on a days-long violent crime spree and is now in jail on seven felony charges, reports Seattle Pi.

The most serious allegation against Laverne Lee Maxwell, aged 32, dates from 7 April.

It is 19 years to the day that Kurt Cobain, best known as the singer of Nirvana, committed suicide.

Since his death, he influenced several music artists not only by his music, but his passion for gay rights.

Cobain, who shot himself when he was 27 and would have been 46 today, told people to not buy his music if they were homophobic.

In one of his journals, he said: ‘I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.’

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told a shareholder this week to sell his shares if he didn't like the company's support of marriage equality.

The brief but powerful exchange occurred during the Seattle-based coffee giant's annual shareholders meeting.

Shareholder Tom Strobhar, whose website touts his efforts to stand up against corporate involvement in such issues as gay marriage and abortion, suggested that Starbucks' support of gay marriage is detrimental to its bottom line.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the Boy Scouts of America should 'absolutely' end its ban in gay members and leaders.

When pressed by a Politico reporter on why he feels the ban should end, Gates had a simple and direct answer: 'Because it's 2o13.'

Barronelle Stuzman, the owner of Arlene's Flower Shop in Richland, Washington refused to provide flowers for the wedding of Robert Ingersoll and his partner, Curt Freed.

The couple planned to use Arlene's Flowers as their florist for their planned wedding in September, being loyal customers, buying flowers from the shop during the entire nine-years they have been together.

They were shocked when Stutzman, turned them away because of their sexuality.

Family Research Council shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, pleaded guilty to three felonies on Wednesday, while federal court documents published by the Washington Post have revealed that he planned to attack further right wing organizations had he not been stopped by security guard Leonardo Johnson.

Headliner LeAnn Rimes was sidelined by the flu but Lily Tomlin, Pauley Perrette, Dot Jones, Dave Koz, Jai Rodriguez and Greg Louganis were among the stars on hand over the weekend for the Los Angeles kickoff of a nationwide tour of the musical It Gets Better.

The show, inspired by the It Gets Better anti-bullying campaign, features an ensemble cast of six actors - members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles - whose real-life stories of growing up gay are woven into the production.

Political pundit Tony Perkins has lashed out against the It Gets Better campaign on his radio show Washington Watch.

Perkins, who is president of anti-equality group Family Research Council, took a phone call on his US-based talk show and began discussing the 'higher rate of depression among those who engage in homosexual lifestyle'

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.

When three artists from Seattle made a video about same-sex marriage they managed to create a story that was quite different from a standard gay campaign film.

It shows the life of one gay man from birth to death, from discovering his sexuality to finding a partner and then spending a long, happy life with him.

It’s created by three artists from Seattle, Washington, USA; musician Macklemore, his producer Ryan Lewis and film director Mary Lambert. And it’s become such a big hit on YouTube it has been seen by over 10 million people.

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.

I first fell in love with the idea of San Francisco while reading Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series.

Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first of the Tales of the City novels was published in 1978 and, through the portrayal of characters such as Mary Ann Singleton, Anna Madrigal, and Michael Tolliver, captured a time, a world, and a sprit that was so far removed from my experience that it seemed almost magical.