Today's top LGBT news headlines. For more news updated throughout the day, visit www.glaad.org.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
LGBT groups officially received by Spanish King and Queen for the first time - PinkNews
Putin: "We will improve gay laws in Russia" - Gay Star News
Advocates to host international day of action against "stone-the-gays" Sultan - PinkNews
Gambia: New bill will "ban homosexuality" and LGBT equality groups - PinkNews
Voyage, first ever digital magazine for LGBT weddings and travel, set to launch - LGBT Weekly
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor defends anti-gay adoption agencies - PinkNews
United employees show that "Diversity Flies with Us" at LGBT Pride month festivities - LGBT Weekly
Susan Rice: Protecting LGBT community is the most difficult human rights issue - The Huffington Post
Will this magazine become the GQ of trans men? - The Advocate
LOCAL/REGIONAL
Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition hosts march and rally for transgender equality - The Huffington Post
Republican Representative claims pedophilia is a sexual orientation - PinkNews
Methodist Church panel reinstates pastor who performed wedding ceremony for his gay son - BuzzFeed
Oklahoma lawyers launch coalition group in support of marriage equality - Towleroad
Federal Court to hear challenge to Louisiana's marriage equality ban on Wednesday - Towleroad
Town votes to give fired lesbian police chief her job back, strips mayor of power - The Huffington Post
COMMENTARY
What Pride looks like all around the globe - BuzzFeed
Open letter to Tona Brown - TransGriot
The color of desire: Interethnic border crossing part 3 of 3 - Center for Culture Sexuality and Spirituality
Op-ed: My first Grand Marshal experience and the meaning of LGBT Pride - The Advocate
Reasons for Pride: 16 picks from Lamda Legal honorees - The Advocate
The fall of homophobia in the modeling industry: a sign of our times - The Huffington Post
Am I losing my queer cred? - The Huffington Post
Remembering Brenda: An ode to the "mother of Pride" - The Advocate
Read this year's best bisexual fiction - The Advocate
ENTERTAINMENT
Rapper Warren G: Judge performers by their music, not their sexuality - The Huffington Post
Lance Bass releases film on Christian school where gay kids are held against their will - Gay Star News
Demi Lovato reveals her grandfather was gay - Gay Star News
Kathy Bates on her lesbian role in "Tammy," dream co-stars, marriage equality, and more - The Huffington Post
Gary Oldman defends Alec Baldwin following anti-gay controversy - PinkNews
WATCH: R. Kelly talks for first time about his trans son - The Advocate
SPORTS
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