Wyoming Gay Couple Files Suit Challenging Constitutional Validity Of State Law Limiting Marriage To That Between One Man And One Women, California Senate Approves Bill Revising Anti-Gay Mental Health Policy, Family Fears Man Killed Because He Was Gay, Pete Wentz And Ashlee Seen Shopping At Target, Chord Overstreet Confirmed As Kurt Hummel’s Boyfriend On Glee

David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree of Cheyenne, Wyoming, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutional validity of a state law defining marriage as that only existing between one man and one woman. The couple says that the Laramie Country Clerk’s Office refused to issue a request for marriage license and the two – who are acting as their own attorneys – have requested that Untied States District Judge Alan B. Johnson stop the state from enforcing any law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from access to civil marriage.

Monday, the California Senate approved a bill that revises a law passed in 1950, formally ending a requirement contained in the original that the Department of Mental Health research the causes and cures for homosexuality. The bill – AB2199 – carried by Republican Senator Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield, recently out, passed without debate 36-0. It now moves to the Assembly where it is expected to be fully approved.

The family of 31 year old Matias Mondragon stabbed and killed in the early hours of Sunday in a bar in Broomfield, Colorado, fear he was attacked because he was gay. Mondragon died after receiving a single knife wound to the chest during a fight at the Night Owl Lounge. He was found by police one block away, transported to an area hospital where he died. 30 year old Matt Joe Weber has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, and is being held without bail. Angel Mondragon, Matias’ niece, said that the family had heard he was being harassed at the bar because he was gay. She said that he had come to Colorado from Ranchos De Taos, New Mexico to live with a new partner, and that “he never judged anybody, he was always happy, always will to help to us. He lived in different places and tried out different things; he was just trying to find himself.”

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete, who have participated in the NOH8 gay marriage campaign, and are as gay a straight ally can be without actually being, well, gay, were spotted shopping at Target over the weekend in Los Angeles, a transgression of sorts since Target Corp and Best Buy remain under a boycott directive by the Human Rights Campaign after donating $150,000 to an anti-gay Minnesota-based political action committee MN Forward, who in turn donated to the campaign of anti-gay gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.

Jane Lynch confirms that iCarly cutie Chord Overstreet, seen below attending the FOX 2010 Television Critics Association reception August 2nd, has been cast to appear on Glee as Kurt Hummel’s boyfriend. Chord will play Sam Evans, a student transfer who becomes the star quarterback. Lynch, who could not remember the actor’s name, said “He’s tall, boyish with straight blond hair and big fat, pouty lips.”