It’s like everywhere you go around the globe this week, people just wanna hold you.

The “Bert and Ernie Get Married” movement has begun with a petition, a facebook group, and press buzz and I’m not gonna lie — hell no I am not signing that petition.

Distorting evidence in homophobic arguments happens more than you think. LOTS more.

This week in gay marriage, you can add one more state to your list of “possible reception locations” and a few hundred thousand more people – including celebrities! – to your list of “potential guests.”

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.

We’ve got Orphan Black: Echoes, a massive doc about queer comedy and another about the WNBA, Eva Longoria on the lam in Spain with her lesbian daughter, Hannah Einbinder’s stand-up special, the Dakota Johnson rom-com and more!

Jessica our Real-Live Lesbian Lawyer/Legal Eagle, is back with more facts about things we don’t understand! If marriage equality isn’t coming to our states any time soon, what can we do NOW to protect the rights of same-sex couples in the meantime? Project 515 has answers, and its a blueprint you could bring to your own community much sooner than you think.

On this Martin Luther King Day, Autostraddle remembers the activist legacy of Coretta Scott King and her fight for gay rights.

Those crazy kids are always up to something. Here’s this week’s roundup.

DRUNK SHAMROCK SHAKE!

With 75 Republicans signing on for gay marriage, how on earth will NOM stay relevant?

Is Archbishop Tim Dolan really ‘the archbishop of charm’? If being gay and having a short temper are similarly conquerable “character flaws,” how many Hail Marys do we have to do if our short temper and our homosexuality combine to make us want to throw this guy’s Jameson in his face? (Or just drink it)

Rick Santorum is an idiot but it’s probably a bad idea to pretend he doesn’t exist.

“It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it – is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.”

If you want to get married in NYC on the 24th, you’ll have to take a number. Best weekend ever? That and more on this historic moment.

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

The Catholic Bishop in Brooklyn is talking crazy about it, New Jerseyans are suing for it, Rhode Island will take civil unions instead of it (for now), Obama won’t “make news on it” and a city clerk upstate refuses to do her job and sign certificates of it.

You know how no one ever told you anything about gay people even existing? What if that was the law?

“Everything that Gov. Walker is doing is ideological,” Pines added. “I don’t see that his administration has any particular respect for the law per se.” Awesome!

This seems like an opportune moment to throw in the towel, but then how would NOM get the 2 million dollars they allegedly need to support this dying cause?