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Tennessee’s infamous "Don’t Say Gay" bill has finally died.

Rick Santorum recently visited Belmont University in Nashville, soon after the school suffered a scandal that forced it to change its nondiscrimination policies. Meanwhile, Tennessee’s anti-gay "Don’t Say Gay Bill" has been posponed for three weeks.

Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday voted to advance the so-called "Don’t Say Gay" bill that would prevent public school teachers from mentioning homosexuality and LGBT issues to their students until they enter the ninth grade.

Tenn. Sen. Stacey Campfield was kicked out of a local restaurant because of homophobic comments he made last weekend, when he said AIDS began because a gay airline pilot had sex with monkeys.

Tenn. Rep. Richard Floyd (R) recently defended a proposed bill that would fine transgender people for using bathrooms and dressing rooms.

A proposed change in a Tennessee law could impact high school’s around the state as it would allow students to bully their peers based on sexual orientation -- if they do it for religious reasons.

A Tennessee hospital denied a lesbian woman the right to visit her partner, breaking anti-discrimination laws. The hospital’s chief executive officer plans to apologize to the woman.

Mayor Greg Davis (R) of Mississippi’s third largest city has been undergoing an investigation for spending taxpayers’ money on unapproved expenses, including a $67 purchase at a gay sex store.

LGBT activists in the Volunteer State are plotting their next steps, which includes a lawsuit, after Gov. Bill Haslam signed a controversial bill that bars local governments from passing their own anti-discrimination policies that include LGBT people.

The governor of Tennessee put an end to speculation as to how he would handle a bill that proposed stripping the right of local governments to provide GLBT anti-discrimination protections when, on the night of May 23, he signed the bill into law.