President Barack Obama said at the end of a White House press conference today that he 'couldn't be prouder' of NBA player Jason Collins for coming out publicly this week as a gay man.

'I had a chance to talk to him yesterday, he seems like a terrific young man,' Obama told reporters. 'I told him I couldn't be prouder.'

Collins, 34, became the first openly gay male athlete in one of the four major US team sports - basketball, football, baseball and hockey - to come out during his playing career.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is often called an adult prom for nerds. Political journalists wear tuxedoes and evening gowns while drinking with high powered politicians, including the president of the United States.

This Thursday, 28 March, at 9am in the US District Court, Washington DC, gay Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, stands trial for past protests against the since repealed anti-gay military policy ‘Don't Ask Don't Tell’ (DADT).

If convicted he faces six month imprisonment.

In 2010 Choi was dismissed from the US Army National Guard after coming out as gay on the Rachel Maddow TV show.

He was then billed by the US Defense Department for $2,500 for failing to fulfill his military contract, which he is refusing to pay.

President Obama is considering urging the US supreme court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage.

Proposition 8 was voted by Californians in 2008 and overturned a state supreme court decision allowing gay marriage.

Twenty-nine other states have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, while nine states and Washington, D.C., recognize same-sex marriage.

Obama told San Francisco’s KGO-TV that the government is considering filing an administration brief against proposition 8 in the supreme court.

An LGBT rights group is protesting President Obama's failure to enact LGBT workplace protections.

Civil rights organization GetEQUAL is staging a demonstration on the south side of the White House tonight at 6 PM Eastern Time, just two days before Obama's annual State of the Union Address during which he may address laws he wants passed in his second term in a speech given directly to both houses of the US legislature. 

Use Your Mandate, an anonymous LGBT organization, has produced an ad against Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense.

The 30 second ad charges Hagel  'does not share our values' and is anti-woman, gay, and Israel. The spot ends asking viewers to urge senators to block the nominee.

President Obama has replaced conservative, anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio with pro-LGBT rights Reverend Luis León to deliver his inaugural benediction next week.

Giglio withdrew from the ceremony last week after reportes have surfaced on his anti-gay positions.

León is an Episcopal priest who ministers at St. John’s Church, also known as ‘Church of the Presidents’ just across the park from the White House.

Campaigners are calling on the US government to strip the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of its tax-exempt status.

The Westboro Baptists threatened to picket memorial services for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, which they claim was God’s punishment for the state of Connecticut legalizing same-sex marriage.

Jane Velez-Mitchell may not be as famous as Anderson Cooper, but she gets about as much airtime each night as the host of her own show on CNN's sister network, HLN.

Velez-Mitchell also beat Cooper out of the closet when in 2007 during a live radio show, she told listeners that she was in a relationship with a woman.

Since then, the 56-year-old television personality has felt more comfortable and fully authentic when covering LGBT topics.

Gay actor Neil Patrick Harris was full of festive cheer as he joined US President Barack Obama and his family for the national Christmas tree lighting.

The How I Met Your Mother star hosted last night's (6 December) 90th annual light switch-on outside the White House in Washington DC.

After the American leader, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha and Malia did the honors, Harris and other celebrity guests closed the ceremony by rocking around the Christmas tree singing 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town'.

President Barack Obama, the most supportive gay rights politician to reside in the White House, has won a second term.

Whoever wins the US Presidential election, one thing is for sure, it's going to be a close race.

That's why Loretta Lee Jackson - Christian homemaker, Republican and card-carrying member of the NRA - is calling on God-fearing Americans to vote for a candidate who doesn't want the nation's children raised by 'filthy queers'.

Jackson is, of course, the creation of the one and only Charlie Hides, whose impersonations of celebrities from Cher to Adele have become viral hits on YouTube.