Someone published these words: “Like many, I’ve recently begun to get impatient with the endless trumpeting of gay ‘identity’, and the growing appetite for more and more rights and privileges.”

Everybody likes to be held, which is good since everybody wants to wear a good sweater, too. Plus, the only thing better than a sweater is the presidency, right?

A story about how your tax dollars were used to pay the salary of people taking fighting against the rights of gay families for religious reasons, and there seem to be no consequences for it.

Schoolkids in California are one step away from having gay role models included in their standard social science curriculum.

Old Navy is making gay t-shirts and Urban Outfitters is making gay people angry and pretty much we shouldn’t shop anywhere, ever, except maybe etsy.

Gay judges can’t judge and abortion rights activists are actually lesbian activists but also! A church in Ohio really loves gay people a lot and made us a sign!

Nepal is open for gay tourists and just announced it will add a transgender category to its Census. Nepal is deeply conservative. Other countries should feel embarrassed.

Illinois’s State Senate has approved civil unions for same-sex couples – is it a sign of change or more of the same?

“The CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world, a company responsible for changing the tech industry over and over again, is gay. And he feels good about saying that.”

Religious folks are coming around to queers and Janelle Monae just moved to Sesame Street after Betsey Johnson’s gay marriage fashion show.

The more we talk about things, the better they get. 2013 was proof.

The annual British Social Attitudes survey indicates increasing acceptance of homosexuality, though same-sex adoption and parenting remain controversial.

Sane people want the new immigration bill to help binational gay couples. People in power insist that will ruin everything for everyone else. What’s a politically savvy queer to do?

While the change in language may seem like a small thing, it’s indicative of something quite a bit larger brewing en France.

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.

Look, we all were hoping this wasn’t true but it is: the Republican candidates for president are completely and totally obsessed with us, and it’s super awkward. They just won’t let the gay thing go. Ever. Seriously.

It’s definitely been like Week of Amazingness for one lesbian in this big gay place called Earth.

This week people are happy with their gender identity in the Girl Scouts, lesbians are becoming Prom Kings, and everyone is married and with adoption papers. Plus, there’s a multitude of animals in costume.

This week’s good news will almost make you a patriot. Possibly. No promises.

And why’s that such a bad thing?