A straight Mormon dude trolls for gay rights, the UN and some members of Congress restore my faith in our current society, and a really f*cking adorable dog that helps you find lost shit at the airport. ALL THAT AND MORE INSIDE!

Let’s read some good gay news before breakfast!

It’s the second issue of the best little behind-the-scenes newsletter EVER.

We’re getting ready for a really gay mother’s day with a tiny-ass deer. Don’t miss it!

This week on “Faking It,” the lesbians got crowned homecoming queens and everybody had sexual dreams about each other!

And we got the radio blastin’ every gay anthem possible, y’all.

“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”

A federal judge just struck down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage, a day after New Mexico becomes the 17th state to allow same-sex marriage.

Pope declares commission on sex abuse scandal, ACLU sues American Bishops, Cardinal Dolan declares he was “outmarketed” on gay marriage, and more.

PinkNews, an LGBT news outlet in the UK, honoured Baroness Stowell, an anti-trans defender of the “spousal veto,” as Politician of the Year. They now face criticism for how the judging panel was put together.

Haviland Stillwell, who you may know from the world-famous Haviland & Riese Vlogs, or perhaps from Broadway’s Les Miserables and/or Fiddler on the Roof, will be performing her one-woman spectacular of audio-visual singtastic delights, “West Coast Debutante” in Los Angeles at the Upright Cabaret on April 23rd. Because Haviland is both an international rising superstar and my BFF, I was able to sit down with her cyber-coastally and have a little AIM Chat about her big show, lauded on the website as: “a sassy night ranging from Kurt Weill to Madonna, from upbeat to out of control and beyond. Come see this versatile, charming and adorable “tight little ball of spunk, bad ass, and class.” Who doesn’t like tight little things? That’s right, we all love tight little things. Here goes!

I’ve got fifteen new Drake songs stuck in my head, the best puppy vine of all time on my hands, and Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, and some random football couple waiting in the wings with a lot to say.

Good news for the gays from Manitoba to New Mexico (and all the letters of the alphabet before and after M and N)! With added surfing puppies for your viewing pleasure.

Neko Case, cuddly beavers, and a whole lotta love.

“The three main implications are ‘Women are too weak to harm someone,’ ‘Lesbian rape is hot and it’s harmless. It’s not real.’ and ‘All rapists are men.”

We haven’t yet been accepted as gospel, but we’re lightyears ahead of where we were 10 years ago.

How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.

Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.

On one of the last straggling days of summery skies and subsequent sunburns, Equality Across America lured queer freedom fighters, the out & proud, the ambitious allies and the hungover & downtrodden to Washington, D.C. for The National Equality March for GLBTQ rights.

A new government campaign asks simple questions to win all the points.