Republican Colorado Rep. Don Coram cast the deciding vote killing civil unions on Monday in committee, preventing the bill from receiving a full House vote.

It came as quite a shock to us when Coram mentioned that he has a gay son.

His son, Dee Coram, has spoken out regarding his father's vote.

Hear what he has to say after the jump.

President Obama has threatened to veto two bills currently making their way through the House of Representatives that include anti-gay provisions.

More after the jump.

"Gay Marriage House of Horrors," a website just launched by homophobic activists in Maine ahead of a possible marriage equality initiative in November, is ruffling some feathers (and not just the ones on the boas of the two revelers pictured here) across the blogosphere today. 

Updated Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. EST

Granville Ampong, the conservative Examiner reporter who outed rising fighter Manny Pacquiao as a vehement homophobe, has come clean to say that Pacquiao actually did not quote the Levitical edict calling for the death of gays.

Bristol Palin has now tasted what some of the countless LGBT she denigrated last week suffer through their whole lives after criticizing Obama's support of legal recognition for gay-couple-helmed families. Though it's always a head scratcher when a bully throw a tantrum after being criticized for their bullying ways, a few of the comments posted to Bristol's blog entry do take it way too far. 

My boyfriend's hometown, the great city of Lincoln, Nebraska, has given the initial thumbs up to a comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination ordinance. Details follow. 

Ousted lesbian Boy Scout leader and mom, Jennifer Tyrrell is receiving support from all over the Twitterverse in the midst of a Mother’s Day campaign launched by GLAAD and Change.org.

Details after the jump!

Kristen Wiig, you're needed!

This video is our new favorite thing, if only because we've never seen anyone presented in such unfiltered, batsh*t glory!

Meet Jane Skrovota.

She's too delicate to say the word "penis," but she's certainly willing to give a graphic (and inaccurate) depiction of anal sex. Also lesbians have all been raped via Rohypnol and Judas was a homo. Oh and Whitney Houston was murdered. Apparently.

Sit back and watch this genius after the jump!

Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee are doing their best to ensure that gay servicemembers continue to feel like second class citizens.

The Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would ban military bases from hosting marriages or "marriage-like ceremonies" between same-sex couples.

More after the jump.

President Obama is making it abundantly clear how much he and Mitt Romney differ on the issue of same-sex marriage (and even civil unions).

Obama brings out the big guns in a new ad titled, "Mitt Romney: Backwards On Equality."

Check it out after the jump.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln football coach, Ron Brown caused quite the uproar when he spoke out against legislation that would add gender identity and sexual orientation to Lincoln, Nebraska's list of protected classes.

Petitioners immediately called for his firing and many have questioned whether Brown is capable of following UNL's own anti-discrimination policy.

Brown seems to think that his anti-gay views have no impact on his ability to do his job and meet the university's standards. Check out his open letter after the jump.

Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family's attempt to give anti-gay bigots in the state a license to discriminate against gays in employment, housing and healthcare behind a shield of "religious convictions" has been withdrawn from the ballot in Colorado.