-A Swedish football team fires its entire first squad for chanting homophobic slurs at an opposing team.
-A new poll finds strong support for marriage equality in Oregon, New Jersey and Illinois.
-The Beekman Boys win the Amazing Race.
-The Merck Foundation suspends its support of the Boy Scouts of America.
-The FBI reports that hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased in 2011.
-Singer Katy Perry accepts an award from the Trevor Project.
-Justice Antonin Scalia reiterates his opposition to gay rights.
-Scientists from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis propose a new theory on the origin of homosexuality.
-Uruguay’s House of Representatives passes a marriage equality bill.
-The Illinois legislature may vote on marriage equality as soon as January.
-A new study from Third Way examines which messages work best in winning votes for equality.
-A marriage bill is introduced in the Scottish parliament.