Over on their DC Decoder page, the Christian Science Monitor published a helpful guide on where both President Obama and Mittsy stand on what they at their newspaper call “gay issues” but what I like to call “issues that concern U.S. citizens who are also humans.”

GOOD released a summary of changing attitudes about gay marriage that you can blow through in under five minutes. And it’s illustrated!

“Venker’s argument would make more sense if we lived in a world where men and women weren’t socialized differently — a place where little boys and little girls were treated the same.”

With the upcoming U.S. Presidential election getting All The Press And Attention, here’s a few reasons why you shouldn’t let your local election go unnoticed.

105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.

This week I like Democrats more than Nicki Minaj. But not more than Kanye West.

“The debate between Savage and Brown, at its core, was really just a fight over whether or not gay people can be deemed appropriate or special enough in the eyes of people like Brown to be permitted in the institution of marriage.”

“It’s important not just to have characters that challenge ideas about gender and sex, but to also have them in realistic settings.”

A mom turned to an internet message board to ask how she should handle the fact that her daughter is a lesbian and people actually responded and gave great advice. Then we wanted to give some advice, too.

“When asked whether their daughters thought their financial future was dependent on having a husband, only 31.9 per cent agreed. By contrast 37.7 per cent of those with sons thought having a wife would make them financially secure.”

Obama has just announced he personally supports gay marriage.

I think I’m in love with Hillary Clinton and Gabby Douglass at the same time.

Hillary Clinton is so over your bullshit.

Jenna Wolfe announced on the Today Show this morning that she’s super gay and also super pregnant. She also enjoys swimming with sharks.

“The further away I got, the clearer it became. She had been my first serious girlfriend after a succession of boyfriends, and I was more in love than I had ever been before. But the relationship stretched and accommodated behavior I likely would have never taken from a man.”

Carly and Robin meander through the Great American West! “Look, I know you think you live here, but we don’t. You probably think we live nowhere, and in a way, that’s true.”

In an op-ed from 1992, “Pointing the Finger at Gays,” Cory Booker admits to being homophobic. And then he talks about how all that changed.

If you didn’t make it into A-Camp, there’s still a bright beaming ray of sunshine on your horizon and it’s called B-Camp! BRING YOUR OWN PROPS AND HAIR CRIMPER.

The Allure “Anti-Aging” Survey found “LGBT Community is More Attracted to People 10 Years Older,” according to a press release we found in our boxes this morning.

The South is notoriously friendly. It is also notoriously bigoted. In 2006, the year I moved to Nashville, an anti-marriage equality proposition passed. It felt like a slap in the face and a sign to leave. Six years later, I couldn’t be more happy that I stayed.