INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Supporters and opponents of expanded LGBT civil rights protections plan to hold rallies at the Statehouse.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) - Religious conservatives and supporters of gay rights are preparing for a potentially bitter debate over enshrining LGBT rights into state law.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Their voices emerged decades ago.

Volleyball players from around the world are going to be hitting the sand for the Swatch FIVB World Tour Finals in Fort Lauderdale.

Kevin Jackson planned an afternoon date with a 15-year-old boy Thursday that got him booked into jail instead, police say.

(SS) Dramatic video taken outside a popular Wilton Manors bar shows two men arguing before one pulls out a gun, threatening the other.

SEATTLE (AP) — A 38-year-old Bremerton man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after admitting he attacked three gay men in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with a knife.

(WB) The Montgomery County Council unanimously voted to enact legislation Tuesday that strengthens legal protections for the LGBT community.

A national gay rights organization gives Massachusetts high marks on a report card grading states on legislation affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

(WB) The Maryland House of Delegates Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would ban the so-called LGBT panic defense in the state.

(WB) The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban the use of the so-called LGBT panic defense in the state.

A city in western Michigan is adding sexual orientation and gender identity to an existing non-discrimination ordinance on housing and employment.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder, in a rare visit Monday, urged the state's Civil Rights Commission to consider a range of issues including drones, police body cameras and race relations while saying Native American culture should be celebrated more.

LANSING (AP) -- Governor Rick Snyder is urging the Republican-led Legislature to keep alive a bill that would amend Michigan's civil rights law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

(WB) Former Maryland Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., who enabled the passage of marriage equality and other LGBT rights bills in the state, died on Friday at age 78.

(WM) The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 28 that a suburban school district violated the rights of a transgender student who identified as male when it kept him from using the boys’ locker room.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon church leaders are making a national appeal for a "balanced approach" in the clash between gay rights and religious freedom.

Panelists at this year’s National LGBTQ Leadership Forum made some bold claims like “American democracy is effectively over,” and we’re in the middle of a “rainbow tsunami.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Some Charlotte businesses are proposing protections for employees who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers introduced three bills Wednesday that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents, but even supporters noted they face a tough fight in gaining approval for the proposals.

Nepal has formally adopted a much anticipated and long-delayed constitution that took more than seven years to complete following a decade of political infighting.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites paraded through Nepal’s capital Sunday to demand that rights for sexual minorities be included in the country’s new constitution that is being finalized.

(WM) Las Vegas has been known for decades as the place for exuberant nuptials blessed by the swirl of Elvis’ white capes. But for years, legal marriages were barred for same-sex couples.

(WM) Nevada will vote this November on whether to repeal a same-sex marriage ban from the state’s constitution, the first statewide vote on such a ban in the five years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the marriages nationwide.

(WB) With LGBT advocacy organizations eager for a change in the new Biden administration, the Human Rights Campaign has laid out proposals lighting the way forward with a detailed guide on administrative actions to reverse President Trump’s anti-LGBT policies.

A bill has been introduced in the Idaho Senate that seeks to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The United Nations Postal Administration on Thursday released six new postage stamps promoting equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

(WB) The government of Nicaragua has sought to shut down the country’s oldest LGBT rights group.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A northwest Arkansas city is getting a second shot at banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, as voters weigh whether to challenge a new state law aimed at banning such local protections.

PARIS (AP) - The head of Europe's leading human rights body is praising Conchita Wurst's Eurovision victory as a positive sign that freedom of expression is thriving, and that Europeans are "allowed to shock."