Today's top LGBT news headlines. For more news updated throughout the day, visit www.glaad.org.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Obama administration orders some insurers to cover gay spouses - The Huffington Post
The next London Pride will be crowdfunded - Gay Star News
Homophobia costs India an estimated $31 billion annually - should development institutions care? - BuzzFeed
Israel: Minister quashes proposed gay surrogacy law - PinkNews
Elton John AIDS Foundation is largest funder of LGBT programs for black Americans - LGBT Weekly
Gay man sues China's largest search engine for promoting conversion therapy - Gay Star News
Taiwan to air first gay family comedy - Gay Star News
Australian PM challenged on marriage equality stance by student - Gay Star News
Report: First arrests in Uganda under anti-gay law - Towleroad
Billy Graham's son: Obama could learn from Putin's homophobia - The Advocate
First Asian Pink Awards honor 15 amazing heroes - Gay Star News
"Anti-homosexuals apartheid" in Cameroon says pro-gay lawyer - Gay Star News
Hong Kong Anglican Church opposes Christian school's ban on gay teachers - Gay Star News
LOCAL/REGIONAL
More questions answered in tragic lesbian couple murder - Elixher
Despite luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams drop sponsorship of anti-LGBT St. Patrick's Parades - Autostraddle
Boston mayor to sit out St. Patrick's Day Parade over ban on LGBT participation - BuzzFeed
Stonewall Inn dropping Guinness for its sponsorship of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade - Gay Star News
Citing religious beliefs, Indiana bakery refuses to bake cake for gay couple's ceremony - Gay Star News
Boy reportedly told not to wear My Little Pony backpack to class - The Huffington Post
Tennessee ordered to recognize marriages of three gay couples during legal challenge - Gay Star News
California may get foster care alternative for homeless teens - The Huffington Post
Oregon Attorney General rules against backers of anti-gay "Religious Freedom" ballot measure - Towleroad
Trans contestant is Miss Congeniality at California beauty pageant - The Advocate
New York City church announcement board calls for the stoning of gay people - Gay Star News
Arkansas high school refuses to run openly gay student's yearbook profile - Towleroad
COMMENTARY
Transgender advocate Cecilia Gentili on identity and putting the "T" back in "LGBT" - The Huffington Post
Did the story of Iowa teen hero Zach Wahls accidentally create the popular site Upworthy? - Queerty
Comment: Gay lawyers and the quiet revolution you haven't even heard of - PinkNews
The incredibly true adventures of a lesbian bartender: That time I met a homophobic anti-Semite - The Huffington Post
8 myths about transgender men's genital reconstructions - The Huffington Post
PHOTOS: Kristy Boyce photographs LGBT Russians to protest Putin's antigay policy - Queerty
PHOTOS: Inside the intimate world of trans and queer men - Queerty
A brief history of gays and the St. Patrick's Day Parade - The Advocate
Op-ed: The policies keeping trans people from military service - The Advocate
ENTERTAINMENT
Fox News' defense of anti-gay discrimination at NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade - Equality Matters
Game developers conference tackles LGBT representation in video games - The Advocate
Romi Klinger "The Real L Word" star talks coming out as bisexual - The Huffington Post
Wendy Williams Show debate about transgender athlete turns transphobic - Gay Star News
Laverne Cox is the woman we've been waiting for - BuzzFeed
SPORTS
VIDEO: US PGA golfer Brandt Snedeker says he'd welcome openly gay player - Towleroad
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