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Lawyers for the Waynesville School District agreed on Wednesday to allow Maverick Couch to wear his "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe" T-shirt on April 20 to recognize the Day of Silence, the annual national event meant to show solidarity with gay students. A final decision in Couch's lawsuit against the school district is still pending.

Christopher Clark, a Lambda Legal lawyer, officially states: “We're glad that Maverick is able to wear his shirt on April 20th. However, a student's First Amendment rights are not restricted to one day of the year. We will continue to fight …”

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Lambda Legal today announced that it has filed a lawsuit ...

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Whip Steny Hoyer have asked Speaker John Boehner to really think about what he's doing in his war against disabled American veteran Tracey Cooper-Harris. Is that asking too much? 

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Spring has sprung.

You know what that means: it's that time of year again when headlines are consumed with unfortunate stories of high schools and their anti-gay prom issues. The first big gay prom story of the year involves a straight student who just wanted to make his school's event more inclusive. Details and a new video interview with the ex-student body president follow. 

Updated Tuesday, March 20, 2:45 p.m. (PST)

Jeanne White Ginder, mother of the late Ryan White, will speak out today against the discrimination in Hershey Trust’s Milton Hershey School’s denial of a student based on his HIV positive status.  Why is this incident hitting too close to home for Ginder? More after the jump.

Scott Lively, the American face of Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill, is being sued by an LGBT organization based in the African nation. Details follow. 

Jose Orozco has filed a lawsuit against his ex-boyfriend Sheriff Paul Babeu to the tune of $1 million.

Tracey Harris, an Iraq war veteran battling PTSD and multiple sclerosis, receives $1,448 less compensation annually from the Veterans Affairs administration than her heterosexual counterparts. Because of this shameful discrepency—and the fact that should she die her wife Maggie will receive nothing—Tracey has filed a lawsuit against the VA. The couple appeared on CNN today to discuss inequality and their fight against the "Defense of Marriage Act." Video, after the break. 

A Cleveland gay couple has filed a lawsuit against police officers who harassed and beat them before forcing them to spend a day in jail without their pants, because, you know, "faggots don't deserve to wear pants in jail." 

Michigan's adoption ban for unmarried couples is being challenged by lesbian partners April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse who filed the paperwork in Detroit today.

We were one of the first outlets to bring you the story of a Detroit-area man making some alarming claims of HIV-related discrimination at the hands of Great Expressions Dental Centers. The story has picked up steam across mainstream media, and, likely feeling the heat, Great Expressions has just sent Instinct its first statement in reaction to the story. 

In response to claims that he had a sex fling with his 80s wrestling colleague Brutus Beefcake, Hulk Hogan has filed a defamation suit against his ex-wife Linda—and come out as heterosexual (though if he was gay, he would totally embrace it). 

Following the esteemed Pennsylvania school that denied a student admission because of his HIV status and a new report detailing the gay community's persistent stigmatization of HIV positive men comes more troubling news that makes us question what year it is. The latest chin-scratcher comes courtesy of the Great Expressions Dental Center of Detroit, where an HIV positive employee says he was banned from touching doorknobs and subjected to Lysol spray-downs. Details follow.