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People with LED lights take part in forming a giant pink dot to promote acceptance of the LGBT community in Singapore on June 30, 2012. Tim Chong / Reuters

"Whilst we understand the deeply-held personal feelings of the appellants, there is nothing that this court can do to assist them. Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere," the court rules.

A court awarded them $188,000 because of a poster of 19th-century Kazakh composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly kissing Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

 

Nigerian president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 24, 2014. Lucas Jackson / Reuters

A judge ruled that the person who brought the challenge couldn't sue because he is straight and not directly harmed by it, the plaintiff's attorney told BuzzFeed News.

J. Lester Feder

 

Lawyers and plaintiffs who sued the state over a gay marriage ban hold a press conference outside of the James A. McClure Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Oct. 7. Patrick Sweeney / Reuters

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter tells the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that its ruling in favor of marriage equality could cause significant harms, "especially [to] the children of heterosexuals."

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Claudia Koerner

Gay, bisexual, and transgender inmates of a California jail said they are housed in an "alternative lifestyle tank" and unfairly kept from opportunities and programs available to straight inmates, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.

 

Gay and trans youth living in a Kingston sewer in Dec. 2013. J. Lester Feder/BuzzFeed

 

Carolyn Kaster, AP

"Traditional marriage is exclusively [an] opposite-sex institution," a federal judge rules. U.S. District Court Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez dismissed a lawsuit challenging Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex couples' marriages.

Chris Geidner