Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!

Gay marriage is good for your health, Rihanna took her pants off, Sara Quin is in another photograph, and gay people are super impressive.

Lots of stuff happened to gay people this week! Mostly good, some bad! It’s only Tuesday, but so far, the future is bright.

I have more than one reference to Ellen in this post, and the person who finds them all wins a lot of time spent reading about stuff peripherally about Ellen Degeneres.

Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!

Spoiler alert: it takes more than “tolerance.”

After today’s ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, same-sex couples in California still can’t get married.

A new anti-homophobia ad has come out in Australia and it made me tear up a little bit. Luckily, I won’t have to see anything like them in America.

Innkeepers are using their title of Boss to freely discriminate against patrons and spew hate on religious grounds. Luckily brave individuals are calling them out and you can too.

“Alternet’s B. E. Wilson researched 990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children and 990s from its major donors and found deep financial ties to evangelicals and major funders of antigay organizations.”

Your options for being married and/or civilly united have increased significantly this week! Here’s the rundown on Maryland and Hawaii, and what it means for you.

“But Democrats… have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”

Rosie and Ellen are inside and so is a kitten taking a nap!

The thing is, it’s been a good week for the gays, especially the gays trying to officiate their love.

Also, this Opossum is snowboarding.

Really all that matters though is that you watch this video from the National Association of the Deaf affirming their support for marriage equality.

If all you know about Baltimore is from The Wire, here’s a lesson in why they call this place Charm City.

As is only reasonable given the fact that we’ve been denied access to it for all but the last decade of our nation’s history, “the institution of marriage” has come to mean something unique and unprecedented to the gay community.

Because we said so. Let’s just take a few minutes to talk about Rick Mercer, Canada’s smartlarious teevee sensation.

Remember that time the electricity went out and Laura couldn’t do the comment awards? Happy Friday!