There’s still good news to be had at the dawning of a new year of love / feelings / friendship / Autostraddle reading in your underwear.

“Gay and lesbian couples have the same values as everyone else.”

“Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”

Fred Karger, the man who would be a gay Republican president, has been denied participation in the upcoming California Republican Convention.

The brief that John Boehner and his lawyer Paul Clement filed to try to have Edith Windsor’s case against DOMA dismissed is exactly as full of anti-gay gems as you thought it would be.

“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.”

Successful Mormons have to hide their true identity! They’ve been persecuted for their marriage practices! They’re marginalized and misunderstood! Now they’re winning! You know, just like they won Prop 8.

On Friday afternoon something special happened: Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he thinks gay people should be allowed to get married right now! Not everybody agrees with him, though.

This was gonna be a review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but instead it’s just an entire thing about how Susie Myerson is a butch lesbian who works at a club surrounded by lesbian bars frequented by other butches and yet somehow she is not, officially, a lesbian, and neither is anybody else on this usually delightful show!!!

Gays can get married in Maine, Jennifer Beals runs, & Marie Osmond is down with her gay daughter.

A KY legislator thinks he’s cracked the code on how to stop marriage equality; how and why anti-LGBT sentiment is ramping up in Indonesia, the big abortion case the SCOTUS just heard, and more.

Both rulings have been stayed, but marriage equality in the South seems kind of inevitable now.

After a landmark vote in the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly Thursday, the denomination’s constitutional definition of marriage allows for same-sex unions.

Marge Simpson’s cooking up Bertolli in the kitchen while Michelle Rodriguez goes your way and the bulldog falls asleep on the sofa. In other words: shit’s perfect today.

Someone left a voicemail threatening to shoot a former anti-gay leader in Maine. The House health care bill actually includes several benefits for the gay community. Plus, Ellen graces the cover of O magazine.

I’ve got some bad news and a great GIF.

Have we said all there is to say to people who passionately oppose full & equal rights for gays and lesbians?

Clive Davis is bi, the Millionaire Matchmaker is…. not, and Toni Braxton wishes she was a lesbian. “And not a lipstick lesbian, either.” Also, you got paid this week, right?

Eighth-grader McKenna Pope singlehandedly gender neutralized the Easy-Bake Oven.

Argentina, Chile and Cuba all made strides in LGBT rights last week! What a wonderful world we live in!