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Students from a high school in CelinOhio weren’t allowed to wear pro-gay rights t-shirts. Officials said they were too political. The students claim that classmates have worn Tees with pro-life and Mitt Romney messages.

A New York City fifth grader in a public school will be allowed to read his pro-gay marriage speech in a school competition after a principal initially prohibited him from doing so.

St. Petersburg is now the second city in Russia to pass a law that would ban "gay propaganda." The legislation will ban literature that promotes "sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism, and transgenderism, and pedophilia to minors."

A New Jersey high school teacher reportedly posted anti-gay remarks to her Facebook page that included claims that being gay is a "sin" and a comment that compared gays to cancer.

A paramedic with the Nashville Fire Department posted anti-gay messages online at Facebook as well as on the fire department’s own web page, prompting a two-month suspension.

Kevin Rogers, the publisher of bear-centric magazine Fuzz, was just doing what he does when he wrote a Facebook account of Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rant in Tennessee. But Rogers set off a media sensation. EDGE interviews the man who sparked a firestorm.

An outspoken advocate for an Army private accused of funneling classified documents to Wikileaks plans to file suit Friday, claiming federal agents illegally seized confidential information from him at a Chicago airport.

Museum experts are weighing in on a censorship controversy at the Smithsonian Institution and what it means for publicly funded museums at a time when arts funding has been targeted for deep budget cuts.

A Washington art gallery pledged a round-the-clock protest Thursday against what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution for removing a video that shows ants crawling on a crucifix after the Catholic League and members of Congress complained it was sacrilegious.

A Michigan teacher has been accused of bullying students in an incident sparked by the teacher himself wearing a purple shirt in a gesture of support toward gay students who suffer at the hands of bullies.