Charleston, S.C. (AP) – Gay rights activists hope the buzz surrounding a “Big, Gay `I Do”’ wedding celebration in Charleston will show how much money South Carolina’s businesses are losing to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's chief prosecutor says the state shouldn't have to pay legal fees for a couple who challenged the state's gay marriage ban.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Requests for tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees from attorneys who argued to overturn the South Carolina's gay marriage ban are on hold even as same-sex weddings continue in the state.

COLUMBIA (AP) — The top Democrat in the South Carolina House said same-sex couples who are legally married in other states should be able to jointly file their state income taxes.

Gay rights activists hope a "Big, Gay 'I Do'" wedding celebration in Charleston shows the dollars South Carolina's businesses are losing to the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A federal court has cleared the way for gay couples to be married in South Carolina.

South Carolina passed a law that makes it harder to sue doctors who refuse to perform non-emergency care, and a trans teenager was forced into foster care in Tennessee.

This week read about a bill that would jail doctors who treat trans youths in Arizona, and a gay man filing a lawsuit challenging his sex offender status under the anti-sodomy law in South Carolina.

LATTA, S.C. (AP) _ The Latta City Council has voted to reinstate former police chief Crystal Moore, who had claimed she was fired because she is gay.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Six same-sex couples are going to ask the Greenville County Probate Court for marriage licenses.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -A South Carolina couple is asking a federal judge for an order that could clear the way for same-sex marriage in the state.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Attorneys have until next week to file motions in a lawsuit playing a key role in South Carolina's debate over the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge ordered South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson on Monday to pay more than $135,000 in legal fees for a couple who challenged the state ban on same-sex marriage.

A series of LBT women’s films are scheduled to screen at the Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Cinema Paradiso theaters for the holiday season. The programming kicks off with “Sand Dollars,” opening at the Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Cinema Paradisos on Thanksgiving Weekend on Nov. 27 and running until Dec. 3. “Janis: Little Girl Blue,” will then open on Dec. 4 until Dec. 9 at the Fort Lauderdale Cinema Paradiso. A third film, “The Summer of Sangaile,” is scheduled to screen at Cinema Paradiso in January 2016.

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

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Although no hearings have yet been set, the legal maneuvering continues in federal cases brought by gay couples seeking to be married in South Carolina or have the state recognize their marriages performed out-of-state.

Charleston, SC (AP)- A same-sex couple who wants to marry in South Carolina has until Monday to respond to a state request to put on hold a judge's order allowing gay marriages.

Another lawsuit has been filed by people who say South Carolina officials refused to let them use a same-sex spouse's family name on a driver's license.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is formally appealing a judge's ruling that tossed out the state's ban on same-sex marriages.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled same-sex marriage is the law of the land, the way is clear for same-sex couples who challenged South Carolina's gay marriage ban to seek tens of thousands of dollars in court costs.

CHARLESTON, S.C. A South Carolina court approved same-sex marriage applications Wednesday, but the state's attorney general was asking the Supreme Court to refuse to grant the licenses before the day was over.

LATTA, S.C. (AP) _ The police chief of the Dillon County town of Latta has been fired and she says it is because she is gay.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's attorney general is asking a federal judge to toss out a challenge to the state's gay marriage ban.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ A federal judge no longer needs to consider a same-sex couple's challenge of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles' policy on driver's license name changes because of court decisions allowing gay marriages in the state and subsequent policy changes by the state's agencies, state attorneys say in a court filing.

COLUMBIA, SC — Senate budget writers voted Wednesday to restore about $70,000 in state money to two S.C. colleges, money the S.C. House voted to cut for assigning gay-themed books.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina’s attorney general said the state’s ban on gay marriage is still in place and he will continue to fight a lawsuit trying to overturn it despite a ruling by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over South Carolina.

(AP) South Carolina's first openly gay legislator hails from the unlikeliest of places: an ultra-conservative part of the state that is home to the Christian fundamentalist school Bob Jones University.

Charleston, S.C. - A federal judge on Wednesday struck down South Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional, opening the door to such marriages but also giving the state a week to appeal.

The man accused of opening fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs lived a troubled, isolated life in the mountains of South Carolina and Colorado, but acquaintances said he never hinted that he would target the organization.

A Canadian gay man my age wrote to ask if I felt we had lost something special because of the progress we’ve made in our movement.