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

emily m. danforth answers 36 of your questions about “Cameron Post” and then we’re all gonna talk about the book!

“I’m not sorry we can now enter the military, and I’m not sorry that we can now marry. But frankly I come from a moment in time, and a radical vision in time, that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”

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

It’s a small little bubble of liberalism in a sea of southern weirdness.

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.

Honey honey up in the trees/ Fields of flowers deep in his dreams/ Lead them out to sea by the east/ Honey honey food for the bees

I’m just here for the food, but apparently everyone else is here for the fight.

What are your plans today? I’m spending the day inside cleaning and might order myself a pizza as a gift and do affirmations while eating it.

Edwin Leslie, appointed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to the State of Arizona Tourism Advisory Council, resigned on Tuesday in protest of Brewer’s attempt to discontinue healthcare benefits for same-sex partners of state employees. He deserves our applause.

Judge James Ware was appointed to fill the spot that Judge Vaughn Walker (of Prop 8 Trial fame) left when he retired. Except who even is this guy?

GLAAD wants you to tell Growing Pains’ Kirk Cameron that he’s not your teen idol anymore after his super gross anti-gay comments on CNN.

Some voters in New Hampshire aren’t so into Rick Santorum’s “one man one woman” marriage idea.

That title may be awful, but these new shows aren’t!

Cleveland ROCKS!

“Madison has a great history of creative women… So when we saw all the great events they were putting on, we wanted to do that, too.”

Jennifer Carroll says “usually black woman that look like me don’t engage in relationships like that,” a straight Olympian couple pissed that gays can bunk together and they can’t, plus three stories about lesbians getting kicked out of things!

“…under the proposed legislation, even writing journalistic pieces such as this would be illegal.”

It’s the Breaking Bad Downton Abbey Game Of Thrones Mad Men Modern Family Awards!

If you’re lucky enough to have an August Pride, it’s time to take to the streets and trade in your vuvuzelas!