November 20th
- Governor Pat Quinn signed Illinois' Marriage Equality Law on Abraham Lincoln's desk after it was passed by the State Legislature, making it the 16th state to achieve marriage equality. Gay weddings are slated to begin June 1st, 2014.
- New Mexico's Supreme Court ruled unanimously (5-0) that the state's Marriage Equality Ban was unconstitutional, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage.
- U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled Utah's Anti-Marriage Equality amendment, passed by voters in 2004, unconstitutional.
- Gay marriages commence in Salt Lake County.
- Utah County start to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
January 3rd
- LDS Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy organization, Evergreen, merges with North Star, another LDS Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy organization.
- CBS anchor, Itay Hod, effectively "outs" GOP, Illinois Congressman and male fitness model, Aaron Schock, in an Gawker op-ed. Rep. Schock has a typically right-wing homophobic voting record and has fended off gay rumors since his election.
- U.S. Supreme Court has ceased the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples until the appeals process is concluded.
January 8th
- Utah's governor, Gary Herbert, announced the State will not recognize the more than 1,300 marriage licenses it had issued since December 20th, 2013.
- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Federal Government will recognize Utah's gay marriages.
- Federal District Judge Terence Kern ruled Oklahoma's Anti-Marriage Equality amendment, passed by voters in 2004, unconstitutional. Same-sex marriages will not be performed until after the appeals process is concluded.
- Pavel Lebedev was tackled by Sochi Olympic Security officers for waving a rainbow flag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIwvdulPG-8
January 27th
- Anatoly Pakhomov, Sochi's mayor, in a BBC interview leading up to the Olympics, insists there are no homosexuals in his city.
- Virginia's Attorney General, refuses to defend Virginia's anti-gay marriage law.
- An Anti-Gay Marriage measure failed to pass Indiana's House of Representatives and will not be included in November's ballot.
- Disney Channel introduces its first gay couple on kid's show Good Luck Charlie.
- Nicole Maines, a trans high school student from Maine, was given a favorable verdict by the state's Supreme Court, which acknowledges her rights were violated when teachers forced her to use a staff restroom at the request of another student's parent instead of the student-girls' restroom.
- 43 LGBT activists were arrested for silently blocking Idaho's State Senate Chamber. Their shirts and posters read "Add the Words", calling for the terms 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' to be included in Idaho's Human Rights Act. Among the activists was former State Senator, Nicole LeFavour, Idaho's first openly gay legislator.
- Bill de Blasio, NYC's new progressive mayor, is boycotting historic St. Patrick's Day Parade because of its anti-gay policy.
- AT&T, one of the Sochi Olypics' official sponsors, publicly condemns Russia's anti-gay laws.
- Dmitry Kozak, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, warns LGBT community not to demonstrate their love in front of children. The implication of his remarks, and Putin's Gay-Propaganda Law itself, affirms that children are harmed by seeing loving gay relationships. This baseless opinion is taken even further by right-wing fascist groups who claim all gay men are pedophiles and torture them with impunity.
- Google shows solidarity with LGBT Olympians with rainbow graphic.
- Russian police arrest dozens of LGBT activists protesting their country's homophobic laws.
- Michael Sam, top NFL prospect, comes out as before May Draft.
- Scott Lively, international promoter of anti-gay laws, insists the videos of young gay men being beaten by Neo-Nazis in Russia is a homosexual hoax.
- Activists protest Russia's homophobic and transphobic laws in Greece despite police crackdown.
- Pascal Tessier becomes the 1st openly gay Eagle Scout.
- U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled that Kentucky must recognize Same-Sex Marriages from other states.
- U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled Virginia's Marriage Equality ban, passed by voters in 2006, unconstitutional.
- Ellen Page comes out.
- U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled that gay marriages should commence immediately in Chicago and the rest of Cook County, Illinois.
- Governor Jan Brewer considers signing into law a bill passed by both houses of Arizona's legislature that allows the State's businesses to discriminate against people (LGBTs and their allies) by refusing them service on the basis of religious objection.
- Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, signed an anti-gay law that will make homosexuality a crime so that promoting gay rights can result in incarceration and engaging in consensual gay relationships can be punished with life in prison.
- U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled Texas' Marriage Equality Ban was unconstitutional. Gay marriages are pending on the appeals process.
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