A 25-year-old lesbian hairstylist will be competing in the Miss Long Island pageant in a purple tuxedo and hand-sewn boyshorts. Kinda awesome, right?

Showtime has greenlit nine episodes of The Real L Word: Los Angeles,” from L Word creator “Ilene Chaiken” and reality producers Magical Elves (“Top Chef”). reality show. Perez Hilton gets a free pass on misogyny … why? How Do You Like Us Now? Not so much, apparently, as the National Review has a new trend piece about … wait for it … being against gay marriage!

Will the coming election year usher in more female incumbents than ever before, or watch them all disappear?

I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”

Brittani and Liz have a lot of television to discuss with you today.

Adam Lambert strikes several poses, Cat Cora says family keeps her perfect couple together, SFTU Gays — good or evil, lutheran clergy likes you a lot, Tinkerbell rocks the house and NSFW Sundays!

“There’s so much hate for gays, and lesbians, and transgender people, the thing is, Doc, you seem to be adding to the hate.”

“…a disciplined minority of totalitarians can use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy itself.”

The HRC announced on Saturday that Joe Solmonese will not renew his contract after March 31, 2012.

Two same-sex binational couples can breathe a sigh of relief about deportation, but it’s not necessarily because new immigration guidelines are working.

Roses are red, violets are blue, we’ve got a “like” button because we like you.

Marriages and civil unions in Vermont and Hawaii are being opposed by douchebags, and runaway LGBT teens in New York City may be left in the cold without funding. But the good news is that Rachel Maddow made us a drink.

“When I hear this song, I picture the shiny Lady Gaga motorcycle mutant rolling through the night, wind in its hair, and it makes me feel pretty awesome.”

Take a look, it’s in a book, of reading rainbow (because “rainbows” are a gay symbol and maybe you’re gay too, and have lesbian sex, etc)

Secret lesbian lovers, drugs, sex, childbirth in taxi cabs, lesbian chic and MORE!

Paul Clement was quickly hired by a law firm started by the architect of the Patriot Act, where he can safely pursue his desire to defend discrimination against gay people.

Maryland is turning out to be a bad place to try to get married or to be at risk for homelessness – which, surprise, many trans people are!

A common practice in South Africa, corrective rape is an act of violence where lesbians are raped in order to “fix” them… as charming as that sounds, it is time to wave goodbye to that policy, for real this time.

Lilith Fair is officially dunzo. Plus, Glee releasing an album of The Warblers, Jonathan Murray talks 25 years of The Real World, Jodi Picoult’s new novel, Michelle Rodriguez doth protest too much.

So many awards, so little time.