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The Rowan County, Ky., clerk will remain in jail until she agrees to sign, and allows her staff to issue, marriage licenses to all eligible couples, regardless of gender.

According to several websites for Cuban expatriates (including Cuba Encuentro), a transgender man arrested during a raid of "homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals in Old Havana" died while in police custody. On September 8, after repeated warnings to police that he had hypertension, Nelson Linares García, 34, succumbed to what doctors called "respiratory arrest." Penúltimos Días reports that no autopsy was conducted.

LGBT immigrants are undergoing severe abuse when held in custody by the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigrants’ rights group charges in a complaint filed this week. The complaint, filed Wednesday by the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance on behalf of 13 LGBT detainees, alleges mistreatment at jails and other detention centers in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The facilities are either operated by ICE or under contract with the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

A Texas judge has ruled that a same-sex couple has the same rights regarding divorce and custody as heterosexual couples.

A lesbian couple from Canada have just settled their unusual custody battle: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Loryl Russell just ruled that the couple must share the 13 tubes of sperm that were being stored in a sperm bank for them. According to theVancouver Sun, the couple, who have two children together — each mom gave birth once — used the same sperm donor and the excess sperm was left in cold storage at the Genesis Fertility Clinic.

Michigan's supreme court will not hear a case involving child custody for a lesbian who wanted to share parenting rights with her former partner for her daughter and twin sons.

Tammy Lynn Michaels has sued for full custody of the twins she shares with her former domestic partner Melissa Etheridge. Etheridge filed for a dissolution of their domestic partnership last week, seeking joint legal and physical custody. Michaels said she was “blindsided” by the news.

Call social services because reality TV star and erstwhile lesbian Tila Tequila says she intends to seek custody of her alleged fiancée, Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson's, adopted daughter Ava, since Johnson died suddenly earlier this month.

A lesbian couple who had a child together before separating are challenging Florida's sperm and egg donor laws in a custody fight over their 8-year-old daughter. One of the women had her egg fertilized and transplanted into her partner, who carried the child to term.

And, of course, Mariana also has a sub-plot about her dance team. Duh.

A family court judge in Vermont issued a warrant for the arrest of "former" lesbian Lisa Miller Tuesday who disappeared with her 7-year-old daughter she once shared with her former partner, Janet Jenkins. Judge William Cohen of Rutland County ruled that Miller was in contempt of the Vermont court for failing to turn over custody of daughter, Isabella, to Jenkins.

Bridgett Casteen, the live-in girlfriend of Glee star Dot-Marie Jones, is enmeshed in a custody battle over her two children.

A judge gave "former" lesbian, Lisa Miller, 30 days to appear in court with her 7-year-old daughter or face possible arrest. Miller is at the center of a long-running custody dispute after she refused to transfer custody of her daughter, Isabelle, to her former partner, Janet Jenkins. Jenkins held up pictures of her daughter outside the courthouse.

The Fosters is back and it's more intense than ever!

A judge in Collin County, Texas, cited a "morality clause" when he told a lesbian mother that she cannot cohabitate with her partner of three years and maintain custody of her children.

It's no secret that estranged ex-spouses of LGBT people often challenge parental custody rights in divorce proceedings, alleging that one parent's homosexuality (or gender identity) makes them unfit to raise the child they helped create. But how extreme is this bias? If the heterosexual parent was, say, a convicted murderer — would that be reason enough to believe a child would be better served by a lesbian mother?

Two Ohio women who were formerly partners must share custody of their 8-year-old daughter, a judge has ruled.