-Tarleton State University cancels a student production of gay-themed play Corpus Christi.
-Chai Feldblum receives a recess appointment to become the first openly gay head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
-Two members of the Dixie Chicks record a song about a gay teenager being disowned by his parents.
-Oklahoma lawmakers accidentally exempt the state from the wrong section of the federal hate crimes law.
-A gay British soldier holds his wedding reception in his regiment’s barracks.
-Singer Ricky Martin comes out of the closet.
-British gay activist Peter Tatchell defends an anti-gay pastor’s right to freedom of speech.
-The New York Times Magazine examines homosexuality in the animal kingdom.
-The Trinity Broadcasting Network settles a harassment lawsuit brought by a gay former employee.
-The Maryland House Judiciary Committee kills an effort to impeach Attorney General Douglas Gansler for his recent ruling on same-sex marriages.
-A Texas District Judge rejects an effort by the state’s attorney general to intervene in a lesbian couple’s divorce proceedings.
-Houston mayor Annise Parker issues a comprehensive anti-discrimination order.