-Gay athlete Michael Sam leaves professional football, citing mental health concerns.
-A minor league baseball player comes out of the closet.
-A historic Baptist church embraces LGBT equality.
-Two Texas men are charged with torturing a gay African-American man.
-The White House hires an openly transgender staffer.
-Anti-gay icon Josh Duggar is outed as a client of hook-up website Ashley Madison.
-An openly gay Muslim man films his pilgrimage to Mecca.
-Illinois becomes the fourth state to ban conversion therapy for minors.
-The Oregon bakers fined for refusing service to a gay couple send cakes and Christian videos to ten LGBT organizations.