A union-management squabble that temporarily prevented SEPTA’s union workers from accessing workplace benefits for their same-sex spouses has been resolved.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s largest insurer reversed course Wednesday and said it will offer family coverage to same-sex married couples and domestic partners.

County has no plans on scrapping benefits

Universities, charities and hospitals affiliated with churches that oppose same-sex marriage are facing the thorny question of whether they have an obligation - morally or legally - to extend health care benefits to spouses of gay and lesbian employees in states where they now are allowed to marry.

In November 2007, a young presidential candidate named Barack Obama released an op-ed to LGBT media in which he made this promise:

Labor Day is the traditional end of summer. For me it’s been a special summer with my wife Dee.

Creighton University will soon begin offering health benefits to legally married same-sex spouses of its employees despite the objections of the local Catholic archbishop.

The Dallas City Council amended the definition of “spouse” at its Feb. 18 meeting for the purpose of bringing the Employee Retirement Fund into compliance with IRS regulations that went into effect on Jan. 1.

DALLAS - Gay employees in Dallas County could take unpaid leave to care for a same-sex partner under a proposal that would sidestep the Texas ban on same-sex marriage.

ATLANTA (AP) - Married same-sex couples will get tax benefits equal to heterosexual couples through a retirement plan offered by the University System of Georgia.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - An advocacy group says the widow of a woman who pushed to legalize gay marriage in Rhode Island before she died of cancer will now be entitled to her Social Security benefits.

DALLAS (AP) — Two Dallas city pension funds have delayed enacting measures passed by the city council aimed at ensuring equal rights for municipal employees.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Cleo Pablo married her longtime partner when gay weddings became legal in Arizona and looked forward to the day when her wife and their children could move into her home in the small Native American community outside Phoenix where she grew up.

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Tracy Dice Johnson goes to bed each night dreaming about her wife Donna Johnson.

CHICAGO (AP) _ Illinois' health insurance marketplace is now allowing gay and lesbian couples to enroll for private coverage.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois regulators issued a reminder to health insurers that it is illegal to deny coverage to someone because they are transgender, drawing praise from the gay rights community.

(CNN) -- The lesbian widow of an Afghanistan war soldier has announced that her wait to see if she would receive the same benefits as heterosexual spouses has finally ended.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- A city committee in Marietta has approved a plan aimed at extending retirement benefits to same-sex couples.

Ocala, Fla. - “There is no legal right not to follow state law” was the official opinion of Guy Minter, Marion County attorney, in response to being asked if there are any legal repercussions in denying health benefits to same-sex married couples in which one, or both, are employed by the county.

Transgender people receiving Medicare may no longer be automatically denied coverage for sex reassignment surgeries, a U.S. Department of Health and Services review board ruled Friday in a groundbreaking decision that recognizes the procedures as a medically necessary and effective treatment for individuals who do not identify with their biological sex.

DETROIT (AP) _ A month after Michigan's same-sex marriage ban was overturned, the state is vigorously defending another law that's being challenged by gays and lesbians: a prohibition on domestic partner benefits for employees in public schools and local governments.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Spectrum Health will begin extending insurance benefits to same-sex partners in 2015.

The state of Michigan won't appeal a decision that struck down a law barring local governments from offering benefits to same-sex partners.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The University of Notre Dame has informed employees it will extend benefits to same-sex spouses after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage in Indiana and 10 other states.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will work to ensure that gay and lesbian Americans are eligible to take leave from their jobs to care for a same-sex spouse, regardless of whether they live in a state that recognizes gay marriage, the White House said Friday.

Oral arguments were held last month in the case of a Pittsburgh man who’s seeking to extend his workplace benefits to his same-sex partner.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County's government is ending domestic-partner benefits for unmarried same sex couples now that gay marriage is legal.

The City of Pembroke Pines has scheduled the first public reading for an ordinance that would extend domestic partner benefits to city employees.

World Wrestling Entertainment cut ties with now-disgraced wrestling legend Hulk Hogan after a sex tape from 2006 surfaced, showing the athlete using racist langue. Now, RadarOnline reports the personality also used gay slurs in the same video.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new Connecticut Supreme Court ruling is adding to the debate on whether gay marriage rights should be applied retroactively and qualify same-sex couples for rights and benefits for which they weren't entitled before state laws allowed them to marry.