The ACLU wants to be sure viewers have the opportunity next season! The group’s advocacy arm, ACLU Action, has launched a campaign—complete with a website—to urge Modern Family producers to make it legal for the hit show’s gay couple, Mitch and Cam. 

Of course the show does take place in California, where same-sex marriage is still illegal, but I guess we suspended reality enough to believe Mariah actually sang on Idol last night, so why not here, right?

Check out what Mitch himself, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, has to say about the plot push below.

Same-sex marriage isn't illegal, per se, in New Mexico, so does that mean same-sex couples can legally wed?

That's what two same-sex couples are arguing in a lawsuit they've filed today in a New Mexico court.

Details after the jump.

Real Housewife of Atlanta Kenya Moore throws Shangela in the shade (and the deep end of the pool) by being "Gone With The Wind Fabulous" in parody music video (Queerty)

Man born with no penis to have one surgically formed from arm tissue (Gawker)

More of today's headlines after the break!

Servicemembers discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" had quite the victory today.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won their class action suit filed on behalf of 181 discharged veterans. Those former servicemembers will now receive full separation pay.

More after the jump!

Updated 4:10 p.m. EST

Both LGBT and anti-gay groups were quick to sound off on the big news that the Supreme Court has granted review to the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8. Check out reactions from AFER, Freedom to Marry, Equality California, NOM and more after the jump!

The Illinois Family Institute, which the SPLC identifies as a hate group, lost a bid to defend against marriage equality cases that some expect to cement same-sex marriage as law in the Midwestern state. 

Thanks to a court agreement between the ACLU and the Illinois Department of Public Health, trans individuals will have a slightly easier time updating their birth certificate and obtaining correct identification documents. Details follow. 

Twenty-five couples throughout Illinois filed two lawsuits against the state for marriage equality rights (with a little help from LAMBDA and the ACLU) today in Chicago. Details follow. 

Wow. This is a new low, even for the usual gravity-defying standards of anti-gay religious zealots.

Dorothy Bond, the now-former principal at Tennessee's Haywood High School, has resigned from her position after drawing deserved ire for threatening to expel her gay students. Details follow. 

The ACLU wants Cupid to aim his amorous arrows at Obama today, as apparent in a Valentine's Day card anyone can sign and send to the president.  

Updated Thursday, 2:50 p.m. (PST)

The coalition reached out to inform us that the campaign is focused on seeing anti-discrimination legislation passed and that they aim to do this first through grassroots support in communities across Michigan. Visit Don'tChangeYourself for more information!

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Michigan LGBT advocates are warning citizens about coming out at work for lack of laws protecting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. After the jump find out about the new campaign to combat the absence of that protection.

We had several viable candidates for this title today, but late in the day news of Viki Knox broke through and her magnificent ignorance of LGBT people and grammar landed her the dishonor. Details after the jump.