What happens when homosexuals and conservatives come together? Something different every time, apparently! Stories from Maryland’s gay marriage debate, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the National Prayer Breakfast and more.

The Pentagon has agreed to meet with a group of partners of gay servicemembers and discuss the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal in addition to listening to the opinions of straight soldiers’ partners. One small step for mankind, amirite? (amirite?) Furthermore, Ken Mehlman being gay is NBD ’cause apparently the GOP doesn’t care about same-sex marriage anymore anyhow? Also the (conservative) guys raising money for our rights have historically raised money for anti-gay candidates. Oh yeah and Roger Ebert loves gay people.

I absolutely remember this feeling. “Am I crazy? Am I just making this up to complicate my life?” The answer is, no, you’re not. You’re not making it up. It’s real, and it’s fine, and it’s gonna be amazing.

What’s it like to be a gay teacher these days? Also: vandals on both sides of the cause, a lesbian couple arrested after being denied marriage license, ira glass, amy poehler, a song about pizza, homophobic teachers and so much more!

Today a bunch of celebrities are doing things that may or may not affect your rights, lesbo. So why not indulge in the rainbow cake mix?

“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.”

How has the coming out of former Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman rocked your world? Or, uh, has it not? Also, a meta-discussion of Judge Walker’s sexual orientation, terrible/TERRIBLE videos on DADT, a new book on conservative vs. liberal families, and a titillatingly bizarre gay espionage murder.

A new book explains how “politics of disgust” have drowned out the “politics of humanity” necessary to achieve equal rights [sidenote: similar imagination and empathy-based strategies apply to challenging racism as well]. Also, gay Asians face racism within the community, International Women’s Day, watching “The Little Mermaid” while trans, Corey Haim’s death, Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert FTW last night and gay TV-makers will lose their tax breaks.

Not all conservatives think anti-gay policies are necessary in their platform. There’s mixed news on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell front. A Vermont judge has ordered the arrest of Lisa Miller. Plus, a Canadian group filed a complaint about anti-gay remarks made about Johnny Weir; out lesbian Ireen Wust won a gold medal; and you should maybe go to Sydney for vacation soon.

A new study on “health work” in relationships shows that women take care of their men, women take care of their women, and men take care of their men. In other words, gay people are the best.

There are 87% more of us in the desert, everyone wants us to get married, basically in general we’re multiplying rapidly and sooner or later will inevitably take over.

Where are all of these gay people voting for Republicans? And who exactly do they plan on putting into the Oval Office?

New Canadian citizenship guidelines were released Monday and the total length of the new gay/lesbian section is about as long as this sentence. Period.

If you thought there wasn’t room for one more controversy to sweep Toronto, well, you were wrong. This officially marks the first time ever we haven’t wanted to move to Canada. Also: Judith Butler turns down an award, bisexuality gets surveyed, gay marriage in NY and the lives of gay youths.

This Sunday is extra Funday! Camila Grey is Adam Lambert’s new keyboardist, Gay Mardi Gras rocks Sydney, Harry Potter is going to save gays from suicide, Chris Rock schools you about healthcare, Sad Magazine will make you feel good, and recovery from anorexia is possible. Also, Lilo’s looking hawt.

The Obama Administration is making small steps towards helping the LGBT community with the Shepard Act & new initiatives from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services. Also; Dan Choi gives great interview to the Metro Weekly – with tales of a childhood spent praying “Jesus, make me pop a boner for Michelle Pfeiffer, in Jesus’ name, amen!”

Donald Trump is eager to throw gays under the bus in pursuit of the terrifying prospect of his presidency, which early polling suggests could be an Actual Thing.

For Valentine’s Day we wanted to have Jimmy McMillan sing you something sexy along with Hanson but you just got this Sunday Funday instead.

Surprise! An extremist right-wing group is trying to strong-arm Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger into defending Prop 8! But nobody has stronger arms than Arnold, don’t they know that? Also: international gay news including gay adoption in Australia and your Gay Republicans update.

Everyone still has many feelings about Elena Kagan & Elena Kagan’s potential sexuality and we’re here to tell you about them. Also Conservatives have A LOT of feelings about radical ‘Amerophobes’ taking over SCOTUS. Also, DADT stories get shared, bigots get invited to dinner, we’re not sure how to feel about the GOP in Massachusetts, and elderly couples are cruelly separated by the courts.