Lady Gaga and her mom Cynthia will be joined by Oprah and Deepak Chopra at 4 p.m. to launch the mother-daughter team's anti-bullying project, the Born This Way Foundation. The live stream of the event, which will outline the details of the initiative, will begin a half-hour early.

As Harvard student interns hastily fulfill celebrity riders for Oprah and Deepak Chopra in preparation for the launch of the "Born This Way Foundation," Lady Gaga's mom Cynthia Germanotta dishes on the anti-bullying initiative she's partnered with her daughter to create.

We've come a long way when the Super Bowl has more gay attractions than Pride weekend! GLSEN is the latest gay name to be attached to the sporting event by securing a spot for its "Think Before You Speak" anti-bullying campaign PSA to play in the stadium for ticket holders. Details follow. 

Open this post to watch (or listen if the video feed is not working) a live stream of the White House's conference on bullying, with opening remarks from President Obama and the First Lady. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Highlights so far: President Obama says he is "heartbroken" by the bullying epidemic in America's schools. The president adds that combatting bullying is "a responsibility we all share."

More as the conference unfolds. 

In autumn of 2010, President Obama uploaded an eloquent video to the It Gets Better Project, receiving applause from the community. Next week, he will increase his anti-bullying efforts by holding a conference to instruct community leaders on bullying prevention methods.

“On Thursday, March 10, President Obama, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services will welcome students, parents, teachers and others to The White House for a Conference on Bullying Prevention,” a White House statement reads. “The conference will bring together communities from across the nation who have been affected by bullying as well as those who are taking action to address it. Participants will have the opportunity to talk ...

While it's honorable that Mayor Bloomberg has finally joined the 'It Gets Better' campaign, some are calling his message hypocritical after he slashed funding for LGBTQ youth shelters over the holiday weekend. 

Ali Forney Center Executive Director Carl Siciliano is outraged: 

"Two days after slashing support to homeless youth programs in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has the gall to release a video telling LGBT youth that 'It Gets Better.' Mayor Bloomberg, your cruel and reckless cuts to the meager support system for homeless LGBT youth in New York City just made things for them much worse! On January 1st,  Bloomberg cut support for outreach to homeless youth in half, cut most drop-in centers for homeless youth by a third,...