This is the best Sunday of all time. And I’ve got the good news to prove it!

Edie Windsor isn’t the only victor in round two; things are looking up for everyone.

We got chills and teary eyes in the first session when leaders from the southern based LGBTQ advocacy organizations we invited told us simply that we didn’t have to leave the south. I can’t remember ever having heard anyone tell me that so plainly before.

There is so much LGBTQ Canadian awesomeness in this post that we can hardly believe it exists (there’s a PLAYLIST, even!), but that doesn’t mean we don’t need some more Canadian feelings from you.

The question of homophobia in historically Black churches is way more nuanced than conversations about Christianity and queerness often take into account. If the Black church and LGBTQ movements joined forces, they would be a force to reckon with.

A new LGBT radio station in India, the cast of OINTB on the red carpet, and an unlikely pair of homecoming queers made this week a zillion times gayer than any week ever before in the herstory of time! Also, boobs.

UMass basketball star comes out, Moroccan women take to the streets, The Monument Quilt takes the nation by force and more!

Three important media campaigns, two exciting films, one heartbreaking report on the status of female prisoners, and much more.

HRC has announced that it will begin working for equality abroad as well as in the US — but is that a good thing? Let’s ask Daniel Loeb and Paul Singer.

From the OUT 100 to the first lady of Zambia to Michelle Tea’s marriage, it turns out there was a lot of queer shit going down while I was working late nights in the office.

As if college couldn’t get any better, now it’s GAYER THAN EVER.

A Philadelphia judge rules that the same-sex widow of a lawyer, is entitled to her benefits plan after a legal battle with her spouse’s family.

Reporting live from the cutest puppy-filled pumpkin patch of all time, with help from Louisiana’s new gay lawyers and vigilantes from around the globe.

Here’s the stories we missed while I won big at the Elvis slot machines in Vegas.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, YOU LEAFY BASTARD!

Tessa Bitterman takes on Governor Christie for his record on queer issues and tells everyone to chip in and support her mom, Barbara Buono, in the upcoming New Jersey Gubernatorial Election.

Until complete marriage equality reigns, our feelings on tacky lingerie and weird patriarchal traditions are kind of a moot point so we’re allowed to be bitchy when we judge them, right? Mmmkay then.

“Emotional writing heals physical wounds.”

“There are a thousand ways to die from being trans. But they’re only included if they can be made as sensationalist as possible. Never mind that all these things kill you just the same.”

Ever since I went to a Halloween party at my friend’s church youth group in 6th grade, I’ve been almost inseparable from my Christian identity. But on November 4th, 2012, my heart was all the way down in my toes as I got ready to go to church for the first time as a transgender lesbian.