Updated 2:35 p.m. EST

Nicki Minaj has taken to Twitter to calm Mariah down and send her to that soothing place filled with butterflies and lambs that she drifts off to every now and again. 

So, what does Nicki have to say after hearing that Mariah has added extra security and is in fear of her life?

It was announced back in May that one of our faves, the amazing Ellen DeGeneres was going to be honored with the 15th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Now we know who's on board to do the honoring!!

Find out after the jump.

American Idol producers knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to mix a potent cocktail (our favorite kind!) by hiring certified DIVA Mariah Carey and outspoken Queens-born Nicki Minaj as judges. On the same panel. At the same time. It's like trying to mix olive oil and water. Or, if you'd like an example using items from Mariah Carey's celebrity rider, it's like mixing rose petal bath water at exactly 102 degrees and a case of Cristal champagne with a side box of bendy straws; it just doesn't work. 

The grade school experiment was shown off at a recent American Idol audition after the two judges disagreed about a contestant's abilities which lead Nicki Minaj to reportedly threaten to "knock out" Mariah. 

The incredible Married with Children icon Katey Sagal is the latest American to join the Human Rights Campaign and stand up for marriage equality. Check out what Kety has to say about same sex marriage after the jump. 

Has the LGBT community "commandeered" the black civil rights experience?

According to that beacon of grace, Ann Coulter, we and other groups (like, you know, pro-choice women, and all immigrants) have done just that. 

Watch what she had to say during a visit to George Stephanopoulos's This Week after the jump.

The elderly within the LGBT community are uniquely vulnerable as they age, as many do not have children, family, or legal spouses to care for them--not to mention all of the legal hoops those in relationships, or even those that are widowed, have to jump through in order for their basic financial and property rights and wishes to be met. 

That's why Democratic Senator Michael Bennet's (CO) introduction of the LGBT Elder Americans Act of 2012, is so important.

This legislation would increase federal supports to millions of LGBT older people through the Older Americans Act (OAA), the country’s largest vehicle for funding and delivering services to older people in the US. The OAA is currently up for reauthorization and includes no mention...

The New York Daily News published an interesting piece today that may cast a shadow over the Presidential election in November.

President Obama's decision to come out in favor of same-sex marriage in May, may have marked a notable shift in support of same-sex marriage within the African-American community, but within the black church many clergy members viewed the move as a betrayal.

Now with the option being to vote for a President that supports same-sex marriage and a candidate that is part of a controversial religious faith (Mormonism), some black pastors are encouraging their parishoners to stay home on election day. More after the jump.

The frequent marriage equality polling conducted by the New York Times and CBS has finally caught up with what similar surveys have been reporting for a few years now to reveal that a majority of Americans support marriage equality. 

Rumors were flying last month that controversial pop/hip-hop diva, Nicki Minaj would be joining the American Idol judging panel, and this morning Fox gave the world official confirmation. 

And that's not all! Country-crooner (and hubs to Nicole Kidman) Keith Urban has also signed on as a judge! 

More after the jump!

Former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chairman Julian Bond penned an op-ed aiming to increase the discussion of same-sex marriage within the African-American community. 

The opinion piece was published in Afro-American newspaper, which is notable because the paper circulates in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Maryland will be the site of a voter referendum on same-sex marriage in November and 25 percent of the state's voters are African-American. 

Check out Bond's piece, "Why Marriage In Maryland Matters" after the jump!

After parading her not-such-a-gigantic-hit album around the globe, Gaga is finally set to come home in early 2013, as evidenced by these initial "Born This Way Ball" tour dates for Canada and America. See if your city made the list, after the jump.

The homophobic and ironically titled American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has filed a brief demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal in the Ninth Circuit's ruling against Proposition 8. Details follow.