-The ACLU files a lawsuit on behalf of a Mississippi corrections officer who was fired for being gay.
-Pop singer Justin Bieber joins the fight against anti-gay bullying.
-The Pentagon instructs military recruiters to begin accepting gay applicants.
-Maggie Gallagher tries to absolve opponents of marriage equality of influencing the suicide rate among gay teens.
-The Kentucky Masons vote down a proposal to bar gay men from membership.
-Another gay teenager commits suicide.
-The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issues a temporary stay allowing the military to continue enforcing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
-Amanda Udis-Kessler challenges Southern Baptist Convention president Albert Mohler to place compassion ahead of dogma.
-The European Court on Human Rights rules that gays and lesbians in Russia have a right to hold pride parades.
-The religious right steps up its campaign to unseat the judges who brought marriage equality to Iowa.
-Florida attorney general Bill McCollum declines to appeal the court ruling that struck down the state’s ban on adoption by gay parents.
-Misty Irons teaches her children to treat their gay neighbors with respect.