Vivendo o Brasil!

Thanks to Brazil's National Council of Justice, marriage equality has moved from being limited to a handful of states to being approved nationwide. 

Details on Brazil's big day after the jump!

Stop!! We can't even process the casting news Ryan Murphy dropped today via Twitter for the upcoming season of American Horror Story!

We previously mentioned that the showrunner had announced the bombshell addition of Kathy Bates, who'll apparently be squaring off with Jessica Lange. That was followed by news that Precious star Gabourey Sidibe will be joining the cast. 

We were already all in and then Murphy casually dropped the news of not one but TWO ridiculous additions to season three. 

WE'RE NOT READY. Find out who else is joining American Horror Story: Coven after the jump!

Ahead of next month's expected vote on allowing gay troops (but not gay leaders/adults) to serve in the Boy Scouts of America, the Mormon Church has released a statement in support of ending discrimination. 

We're absolutely convinced that the television moment of our time has passed us by now that we can assume that no camera was present then Mariah Carey ALLEGEDLY found out that American Idol producers were considering replacing her with Jennifer Lopez midway through the season.

We CAN'T. To say that J.Lo and Mariah had a tense relationship in the past--at least according to the media--is an understatement, so we can only imagine the hellstorm that this must have set off.

Deadline has the story after the jump!

Doctoring photos is a time-honored tradition of the anti-gay movement, and one that hate group the Family Research Council celebrated this week in a video encouraging the Boy Scouts to continue discriminating against gays. 

Details follow. 

Updated 1:15 p.m. est

Ahead of a much-awaited vote next month, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America has told Reuters that the organization is set to end its ban on gay troops. 

Details and GLAAD's response after the break.

The emotional moment when Uruguay's House passed marriage equality was caught on video. Grab the Kleenex and follow the jump to share in the momentous moment for Latin America!

Updated April 10 at 5 p.m. (PST):

Well it's now really official. Uruguay's House just voted and passed (as expected) the marriage equality bill with a vote of 71-21! 

President Jose Mujica has said he intends to sign the bill into law. 

Progress in Latin America!

It appears members of the Supreme Court aren't above stating outright lies.

Justice Antonin Scalia made the comment during Tuesday's Prop. 8 hearing that “there’s considerable disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single-sex family, whether that is harmful to the child or not.”

Only that's not true. And considering he had an amicus brief submitted by the American Sociological Association (ASA) on that specific subject, he should have known better.

More after the jump. 

We got an inspiring inside look at the American Foundation for Equal Rights in the lead up to this week's Prop. 8 Supreme Court case (and the immediate aftermath). 

Check out what went on after the jump!

In a historic first, the American Academy of Pediatrics has publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, citing it is in the best interest of their children.