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Two British gay men have been awarded £1,800 each in their lawsuit against a local bed and breakfast that refused their request to share a bed. The couple, who booked by email and paid a deposit, were turned away by Christian owner Susanne Wilkinson when they arrived at the Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Cookham, Berkshire in March 2010. Despite …

Russian anti-gay activists yesterday served a summons at Madonna’s New York City home, demanding that she appear in St. Petersburg for trial on charges that she violated that city’s ban on public utterances of support for LGBT people. Russia Today reports: The pro-Kremlin group Trade Union of Russian Citizens wants the Material Girl in court for blasphemy and for damaging …

A coalition of soft drink manufacturers has filed suit to block New York City’s ban on “large sugared drinks.” The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, contends that the Board of Health did not have the authority to ratify the new rules unilaterally. The rules — approved last month and scheduled to take effect in March — limit …

A San Francisco employee of a gay porn company is suing his bosses because he was asked to inject the performers with an erection drug. According to the lawsuit, which was filed Friday, Ronald Baker of San Francisco claims he suffered emotional distress and anxiety-induced health problems when he accidentally pierced his finger in January after injecting a performer in …

Predictably, the Liberty Counsel says they will file suit to thwart California’s just-approved ban on the “ex-gay” torture and brainwashing of children. Their suit will be filed on behalf of NARTH, whose board member George Rekers was recently exposed for hiring a lithe young male prostitute for a two-week European vacation. “The California governor and legislature are putting their own …

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Last week I reported that the above police officer had gotten off with no criminal charges. But at least today we learn the amount of the settlement to be paid to students by UC Davis. The details of the settlement, approved in secret earlier this month by the regents, are contained in documents filed in federal court in Sacramento this …

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Just in via press release: TOMORROW, September 26, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will hold a telephonic press conference to brief journalists about a federal lawsuit against Public Advocate of the United States, whose president is Eugene Delgaudio, on behalf of Brian Edwards, Tom Privitere and photographer Kristina Hill, for the misappropriation of the gay couple’s engagement photo. Public …

Courthouse News Service reports: The Texas Secretary of State is purging people from the voting rolls after informing them that they are “potentially deceased,” after secretly, and illegally, giving herself the power to do so, four undead men claim in court. Lead plaintiff Michael E. Moore sued Secretary of State Hope Andrade, in Travis County Court. Moore and Andrew Young …

Interesting development: A lawsuit seeking to overturn Minnesota’s current law against same-sex marriage is back before a Hennepin County judge who dismissed it months ago. In January, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned Judge Mary Steenson Dufresne’s dismissal. On Friday, she’s hearing motions in the case as it moves ahead, even as a statewide vote on same-sex marriage approaches in …

Liberty Counsel head Mat Staver says lesbian mother Janet Jenkins’ lawsuit against his organization is defamatory and they will seek “every possible recourse” against her for filing it. Two weeks ago Jenkins filed a civil RICO suit against Staver and numerous other anti-gay defendants after a preacher was found guilty of assisting in the kidnapping of her daughter to Central …

World Net Daily today continued its support of hate group leader Scott Lively with a top-of-site post in which he again claims that the Nazi Party was founded by and was comprised nearly entirely of gay men. Lively’s column fails to mention that he’s being sued for crimes against humanity for his role in the creation of Uganda’s gay death …

Vermont’s Wildflower Inn has been fined $30,000 for turning away a lesbian couple that wanted to hold their wedding reception there. The couple was represented by the ACLU, who convinced the Vermont Human Rights Commission that the inn had violated state law on public accommodations. The losing Alliance Defense Fund denounces the decision: “Every American should be free to live …

Scamvangelist Bill Keller, who asks people to send him their gold jewelry so that he can convert it into “souls,” says he will sue the Southern Poverty Law Center for listing his ministry as an anti-gay and anti-Muslim hate group. Keller has written a press release which he calls an “exclusive interview.” (With himself, obviously.) “The sad shooting the other …

On the same day that a preacher was found guilty of abetting the kidnapping of her daughter to Nicaragua, Janet Jenkins filed a RICO lawsuit against many of the parties suspected of conspiring in the crime, including Liberty University, the parent of the vile anti-gay hate group Liberty Counsel, whose president Mat Staver is specifically named in the suit. Hoo-motherfucking-RAY! …

Just another righteous lie for the Baby Jeebus. And already picked up by the usual freak shows. (Via Right Wing Watch)

Rep. Michele Bachmann has joined the board of directors of the virulently anti-gay Thomas More Law Center, which has litigated against numerous LGBT rights ordinances. Here’s their crowing press release: “We are honored to have the counsel of a tough, tested, true American patriot; a person who puts her country above politics, party and political correctness. She understands and shares …

As one of several southern states that traditionally repressed minority voters, Alabama is specifically required by the 1965 Voting Rights Act to request federal approval any time it changes its congressional districts. Yesterday Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (GOP) filed a federal lawsuit demanding exemption from that law. The Alabama attorney general’s office has for years taken the position in …

The cast of the Sister Wives reality show has filed a federal lawsuit against Utah, claiming that the state’s ban on polygamy is unconstitutional. The case could potentially decriminalize a way of life for tens of thousands of self-described Mormon fundamentalists, most of whom live in Utah where bigamy is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in …