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February 1, 2013
Wyoming rejects gay rights bill in favor of religion

US state has rejected a bill banning discrimination against gay people because of fears it would impinge on 'religious freedom'

Wyoming Senate has rejected a bill that would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The standing vote was 13 for the bill and 17 opposed, with opponents claiming Senate File 131 would create a ‘protected class’ of employees and would result in lawsuits, as well as impinging on ‘religious freedom’.

January 28, 2013
Gay marrigage bill defeated by committee in Wyoming legislature

But domestic partnership bill manages to advance

Wyoming will not be in the running to become the 10th state in the US to legalize gay marriage.

A marriage equality bill was rejected Monday (28 January) by the Wyoming House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee in a 5-4 vote.

Think Progress reports that testimony against the bill included threats that gays are pedophiles and that same-sex activity damages colons.

January 28, 2013
Gay marrigage bill defeated by committee in Wyoming legislature

But domestic partnership bill manages to advance

Wyoming will not be in the running to become the 10th state in the US to legalize gay marriage.

A marriage equality bill was rejected Monday (28 January) by the Wyoming House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee in a 5-4 vote.

Think Progress reports that testimony against the bill included threats that gays are pedophiles and that same-sex activity damages colons.

October 11, 2012
George Takei writes Coming Out Day tribute to the late Matthew Shepard

'Matthew, I promise you, we will remember'

Star Trek icon George Takei pays tribute to the late Matthew Shepard in a column he wrote for National Coming Out Day in the US which falls each year on 11 October.

'It is also one day before a very sad anniversary - the death of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten, tortured and killed outside of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998,' Takei writes. 'Matthew was brutally murdered because he was gay.'

August 5, 2012
Israel marks third anniversary of LGBT youth center shooting

Israel has marked the third anniversary of the Bar Noar LGBT youth center shooting, in which a masked assailant killed two people and wounded another fifteen, with a rally in Tel Aviv

A crowd of five hundred people gathered outside the Tel Aviv LGBT Task Force building in Meir Park on Saturday night to commemorate the third anniversary of the attack on a LGBT youth center in the city by a masked man.

The rally was attended by Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai and Nitzan Horovitz - the only openly gay member of the Knesset.

Speakers included Tzipi Livni, the former leader of the Kadima party and Judy Shepard, the mother of hate crime victim Matthew Shepard who was murdered in Wyoming in 2005.

July 30, 2012
Why Dick Cheney did not attend daughter Mary's gay wedding

'She wanted to avoid having it be a media circus or having it become part of the political debate'

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has revealed that he was not at the wedding of their lesbian daughter on June 22.

Mary Cheney married longtime partner Heather Poe in Washington DC on the 20th anniversary of their first date then shared the news on Facebook.