Copenhagen Pride is a time for celebration, but this year participants starting things off with a very serious demonstration against Russia's anti-gay laws. On Wednesday, upwards of 10,000 people joined the ‘To Russia with Love’ campaign outside the House of Parliament, before marching to the Russian embassy to deliver a petition condemning the gay-propaganda ban.

People magazine is profiling an amazing gay couple that has taken a troubled child into their lives and helped him find his "forever home." Jed was found at age 3, emaciated and chained to a bed, eating from a dog bowl on the floor. For more than a decade child-protective services tried to find a home for him, but the trauma he suffered made him a hard sell—there were attempts to run away, violent outbursts. By 13, Jed had cycled through 29 families in ten years and was going to be sent to a mental institution. But volunteers Billy Maddalon and Brooks Shelley stepped in: "It just felt like somebody had to save him," says Maddalon. "I said, 'We're the right people.' Even if 29 families thought the same thing, we're naive and optimistic. We believe in happy endings." With time, patience and resources, the men have provided the love and support Jed has always needed. "No matter how much I acted up, they said I wasn’t going anywhere," says Jed, 19. "They gave me my first birthday party. It’s pretty straightforward. They care about me. I’m not going anywhere. This is my forever home."

An Australian man brutally shot three times outside a gay sex club in Australia says he still lives in fear of his life.

The episode, which took place in Rydalmere, New South Wales on May 1, was captured on closed-circuit cameras and is being profiled on the Australian true-crime show Wanted, similar to America's Most Wanted.

"The vision is probably some of the most extraordinary I have ever seen," says Wanted host Neil Mercer. "He gets shot first in the ankle, then he goes to the ground. You then see them actually catching up with him and you see them kicking and beating him. He then somehow drags himself up again and they continue to shoot. He is a very lucky bloke indeed."

The attackers are described as being Middle Eastern, and footage obtained from a van they stole shows them praying in Arabic that they might get away with the heinous crime: "The fellow who is driving the car, is actually praying that he gets away with the offense—that witnesses eyes are shielded from the crime he's about to commit," reported Detective Inspector Steve Patton, from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad, who called the assault "callous."

Police are hoping the segment will help locate the assailants, who are still at large.

If you're putting bets on which state will pass marriage equality next, you might want to look to the Aloha State:  Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie says it's likely there will be a special session of the Legislature in the fall to address same-sex marriage. “I think we can put together something that can achieve a solid majority, that will give us the opportunity to establish marriage equality in the state of Hawaii commensurate with the recent Supreme Court decisions, and will satisfy and resolve the issues that are presently before the appeals court on the mainland,” Abercrombie, a Democrat, told supporters.

Hawaii was the first state to consider marriage equality back in 1991. Voters eventually passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in 1998, but recent polls show a majority of Hawaiians now support the cause.

The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed an appeals court decision to overturn the conviction of Daniel James Rick, an HIV-positive man convicted under the state's HIV-transmission law when a partner claimed he didn't disclose his status (Rick maintained he did). State prosecutors had been trying to reinstate the conviction.

A jury acquitted Rick in 2011 under the first part of a Minnesota statute that applies to cases involving sex without first informing the other person that the defendant has a communicable disease. But it convicted him under another section that the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday applies only "to the donation or exchange for value of blood, sperm, organs, or tissue and therefore does not apply to acts of sexual conduct."

The prosecutor said he still considers Rick a sexual predator.

Gay-rights pioneer Jose Julio Sarria died of cancer on Monday at his home in New Mexico at age 90. More than 15 years before Harvey Milk was voted on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Sarria became the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in North America when he ran unsuccessfully for the same position in 1961. Four years later Sarria, then a popular San Francisco drag queen Empress Jose, became a leader in the struggle for gay rights and organized the International Imperial Court System, a fraternal LGBT charity that continues today.  "José's visionary and legendary leadership helped build the foundation for our successful modern-day LGBT civil-rights movement," said State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).  Nicole Murray-Ramirez, who has taken up leading the Imperial Courts since 2007," called Sarria "the Rosa Parks of the gay-rights movement." Rest in Peace.  (Photo: Nate Gowdy)