-NBA player Jason Collins comes out of the closet.
-Northern Ireland’s Assembly turns down a marriage equality bill.
-A “conversion therapy” ban is introduced in the New York legislature.
-The religious right pillories gay NBA player Jason Collins.
-Mariela Castro of Cuba is granted a visa to attend an LGBT conference in Philadelphia.
-A gay imam performs same-sex weddings in Washington, DC.
-Civil unions begin in Colorado.
-Rep. Paul Ryan drops his opposition to adoption by gay parents.
-Two more Brazilian states recognize marriage equality.
-A private school in South Africa tells a lesbian couple their son will be expelled if they don’t divorce.
-A new poll finds strong early support for a marriage referendum in Oregon.
-Rhode Island officially becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage.