My fingers have actually started melting onto my keyboard.

Lady Gaga’s working with Cher, Lindsay Lohan’s getting groped, nobody’s wearing clothes, everybody is in love, and New York City just might be getting a lesbian mayor.

This week Obama’s administration informed the state Medicaid agencies that they had better start treating gay families equally as far as Medicaid benefits, DOMA or no DOMA. Also, Lady Gaga at Pride, Tina Fey, Chloe Sevigny, and very cute videos featuring marriage equality and/or dancing children.

Filing tax returns as a gay couple is awful, but surprisingly, this year the IRS actually seems sorry about it.

“People grew up in church, so a lot of us lived in shame. What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”

“All Mycoskie had to do was type “Focus on the Family” in to that long skinny box at the top of his browser. Oh, he’s using Firefox? So the top right box.”

For same-sex families who can’t be legally married, second-parent adoption is often their best option. Well, not anymore.

Another installment of stories you should read and things you should know about. Includes time travel.

There are so many girls on the television this season! Autostraddle has your guide to the best new fall shows and where to find the queers.

General Petraeus doesn’t care if you’re gay, hater gets hated on at CPAC 2010, Martha Coakley is done with DOMA, and marriage rights are getting people angry in Lisbon. Also, gays are gaining ground in Texas, and should gay news media stay objective on Prop 8? Also, see how Stephen Colbert prepares the Olympic Gay Pride House for their guest appearance!

You can run, but you can’t hide! (But you *can* walk off the stage like nothing happened because you have no soul.)

We won a thing in California again! However if we hadn’t won THIS thing, I’d probably be screaming from my eyeballs right now. Real loud.

What is the role of artists in the fight for queer equality — if they have one?

Why a group of six queer Asian American women are producing, acting in, and writing a groundbreaking queer web series, and why you should care.

Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.

“Acceptance of same-sex sexual attractions and sexual orientation may not mean the formation of an L.G.B. sexual-orientation identity. Alternate identities may develop instead.”

Our money’s on Kelly LeBrock, but I have a feeling you wish it was Scully.

In 2011 we redesigned the comment awards too. They’re shinier, just like your hair.

Is it really possible that basically half of all college-educated gays are still in the closet at work?

I wish we called Halloween “The 31st of October.”