On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to the Supreme Court to make changes to Russian adoption laws in order to prevent same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.

It’s an exciting day for people across the Greater Boston region and Massachusetts – except for its LGBT citizens, apparently. Because even in the first state to gain marriage equality, there’s still discrimination, and one is in the city’s annual parade.

Sometimes I feel like Callie & Arizona will never make out again. Instead, we have Drew Barrymore’s soft butch, Modern Family’s truly modern family, Hillary Duff’s hotness (maybe), and adorable episodes of The Office & How I Met Your Mother.

Would you adopt a baby you found in the subway? Would you like a donut?

This week we’ve got shiny happy people in France, Ontario, and even Idaho embracing homosexuality, trans* beauties, and probably witchcraft.

Should Chuck Hagel be Defense Secretary? Who cares! Go stick your nose back in that book if you ever want to be happy, little miss.

How far right could anyone possibly be in their political or religious ideology that Westboro Baptist Church is to their left?

On Thursday, geeks and introverts met each other, girls in white got wet, everyone got wild and we all had mature discussions about intense topics like gender and being a queer woman of color!

In which new characters are introduced, Santana has to be photoshopped in and Kate Hudson wears nothing but lingerie for 44 minutes.

This week on “The Real L Word,” various lesbians sat at tables and talked to each other!

Maggie Keenan-Bolger is interviewing queers, taking down histories and making plays, and she wants YOU to participate.

This week on The Real L Word, everyone fought about stupid shit and something terrible happened and there was a lot of crying.

This week, we have the law on our side and another “Call Me Maybe” video to watch – not to mention an adorable twist at the end. It’s all right here.

In high school Mitt Romney and his friends jumped some kid and forcibly cut off all his hair while he screamed and cried. Romney thinks this is mostly NBD.

Can we pause and enjoy our reunion right now?

Things get really intense in Episode Two of Lip Service Season Two. Didn’t this show used to be fizzy and fun?

Brittani attended the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. Peeta was there so maybe that’s why she ate a lot of bread.

Donald Trump does something not-awful for once, Bully gets a PG-13, Alaska votes against being nice to gay people, and other stories we missed this week.

The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.

Brittany and Satana are gonna make out on Valentine’s Day, which gives me permission to like this episode.