The Democratic Party is officially adding a “plank” to their party platform supporting gay marriage.

Equaldex is giving LGBT folks around the world the ability to define and explain their own movements for the rest of us. And it’s helping us all to learn from one another in our parallel movements for equality.

veer nyc gives us ladies and outfits to drool over while we dab our tears from a few long reads.

Welcome to the first ever Autostraddle Insider, one of many perks available to Autostraddle Plus members!

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

Mandi is the creator of Queerituality.com, a project we told you about a few months ago. She shared the inspiration behind that project, more about her own spiritual journey and how it intersects with her queer identity, and her favorite writers, books, and news sources.

This week, I learned that Kanye had written a proverb when he instructed folks to “shut the fuck up ‘fore I embarrass you.”

Abby was the winner of the A-Camp 4.0 Kreuzbach10 campership, and as you might expect from such a human, Abby is sweet, energetic, confident and dapper as all hell. We talked about Ghana, names, gender, telling stories, and A-Camp.

Thanks to a simple governmental regulation, my wife and I were able to exploit a legal loophole and obtain a federally recognized marriage.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chair, announced the creation of a Lesbian Leadership Council that would focus on cultivating lesbian participation in the Democratic party, which has had a broader LGBT leadership council since 2000.

The law also specifically mentions high school football captains as students automatically permitted to preach the gospel at school-wide events.

On the journey from there to here.

Erika Greco’s wonderful comic “Mixtape” is an emotional journey through one woman’s coming out and a playlist of songs to match the mood.

The Supreme Court has ruled DOMA unconstitutional and that the petitioners in Prop 8 did not have standing.

“By taking out the ‘moral’ question of marriage equality and instead communicating it in Republican lingo itself, this campaign may have found a way to get someone to listen.”

David Cameron says yay, the church says nay, Parliament has the final say.

“Blaze squinted in the mirror and pushed her hair left, then right, then left, then right, then left, then right, then righter, then really left, then up a little, then all the way down […]”

This week on Glee, Blaine ate a lot of cronuts and everybody got tested for STDs!

It is important to defend human rights and to speak out against human rights violations around the world. However, to talk about anti-gay legislation internationally, we need to talk about a history of white supremacy that brought homophobia and anti-LGBTQ legislation to various countries.

And it’s hard to know how to feel about it.