MILWAUKEE (AP) _ Nearly 150 gay couples have married in Milwaukee after a federal judge overturned Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A federal judge in Madison has dismissed three defendants from the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Attorneys who filed a lawsuit seeking legal recognition of hundreds of same-sex marriages performed in June in Wisconsin have dismissed their lawsuit after the state said the marriages would be recognized.

MADISON (AP) – Gay couples challenging Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriages are objecting to the state’s request that the full 7th Circuit Court of Appeals hear arguments in the case.

MADISON, Wis. — The plaintiffs in a lawsuit agreed Tuesday not to ask for a temporary halt to enforcement of Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage and asked a federal judge instead to expedite a decision on the overall case.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's gay marriage ban denies same-sex couples legal protections and serves no legitimate government purpose, the American Civil Liberties Union argued Monday in a brief asking a federal appeals court to preserve a ruling that struck down the prohibition.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's gay marriage ban.

MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court in Chicago will hear arguments in challenges of gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana's on Aug. 13.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Supporters blew bubbles and held up signs in support of gay marriage Monday as same-sex couples boarded a bus for Chicago to listen to oral arguments before a federal appeals court.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional a 2009 law creating a domestic partner registry that provides limited benefits to same-sex couples.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Transgender people can be especially vulnerable to harassment and attacks and shouldn't be equated with gays and lesbians by U.S. immigration officials determining whether to grant asylum, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Democrats are asking Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to drop their defense of the state’s gay marriage ban, arguing it’s a waste of money.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gay couples are continuing to marry in Wisconsin after a federal judge delayed acting on the state attorney general's request for her to halt the ceremonies.

Milwaukee, WI (WDJT) -- A federal judge has ruled Wisconsin's gay marriage ban unconstitutional today. U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb says the law prohibiting gay marriage are in violation of the due process clause and discriminate against same sex couples.

MADISON - A federal judge has denied a motion by the state to stay the case involving the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s marriage amendment.

A Wisconsin city is close to scoring a perfect score regarding LGBT rights, and Davante Lewis of Louisiana became the first Black LGBT person to be elected to state government.

Convicted sex offender David Todeschini claims top Democrats and Hollywood a-listers are "pedophiles," and James Bond becomes Wisconsin's first LGBT cabinet secretary.

Erin Maye Quade experienced labor contractions during endorsement proceedings in Minnesota but continued on anyway, and Wisconsin's governor struck down an anti-LGBT bill.

This week read about Sen. Tammy Balwin urging the FDA to end the blood donation restrictions for gay men in Wisconsin, and Andrea Jenkins elected as council president in Minnesota.

This week read about Colorado giving transgender people better health care, and a high school forced to remove Pride and Black Lives Matter posters in Wisconsin.

An LGBT senior housing project was vandalized in Massachusetts, and a school in Wisconsin will celebrate June as Pride Month from now on.

This week read about the school board paying $1.3 million in the Gavin Grimm case, and a gay bar in Wisconsin receiving a new mural.

This week read about attendees booing Senator Ron Johnson at a Juneteenth celebration in Wisconsin, and Oregon lawmakers passing a bill to expand access to HIV treatments.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that hundreds of same-sex marriages performed in June will be recognized by the state, ending uncertainty for those couples and likely putting a stop to a federal lawsuit filed over the issue.

Out singer Lance Bass is making headlines this week after saying a "pedophile" "inappropriately" touched him and the members of the '90s boy band 'N Sync.

MADISON, Wisconsin — Gov. Scott Walker has a history of forcefully opposing same-sex marriage in Wisconsin, but in the wake of the state's ban on gay marriages being found unconstitutional the Republican leader said Thursday that his own views about the issue do not matter.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage, arguing the prohibition is unconstitutional and denies them civil rights married couples enjoy.

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- The Janesville School District superintendent has issued a public apology for the showing of a video she describes as pro-gay marriage.

Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin issued a statement regarding the Federal Court Decision on Marriage Equality in Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds says it is "awaiting further clarification" to determine the effect on health and pension benefits programs it manages in the wake of last week's ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.