Success in Colorado!

A bill legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples has passed in the state Senate.

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Updated on Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. PST

Today, openly gay interim judge, Tracy Thorne-Begland received a full time appointment to the Virginia Circuit Court following a vote by Virginia's General Assembly. This comes after last year's rejection of his nomination based on his sexual orientation.

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It looks like our side is calling it!

Washington United for Marriage has officially claimed victory on Referendum 74!

With the referendum's approval, Washington state voters have affirmed marriage equality, officially giving us a clean sweep in all of this election's same-sex marriage races! 

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The Ukrainians aren't going to let the Russians have all of the anti-gay fun!

Ukrainian lawmakers have tentatively approved a bill that will give jail time to individuals that disseminate positive information about gays.

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The controversial practice of using the popular HIV-medication Truvada as a preventative measure for at-risk individuals has been given final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. 

We'll be swabbing our mouths with even more things in the privacy of our own homes thanks to the FDA's just-announced approval of the OraQuick in-home HIV testing kit. 

Will Truvada become the gay male equivalent of a daily birth control pill?

Federal drug regulators announced today that taking the pill, Truvada, on a daily basis can help prevent contraction of HIV.

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Yesterday's historic approval of the Respect for Marriage Act (in effect a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act) by the Senate Judiciary Committee is intelligently examined by AFER's Matt Baume in a special episode of Marriage News Watch. Follow the jump to watch.

As expected, President Obama's numbers are up after announcing that the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden. But how high of a jump did they receive?

Tuesday, the Vatican issued a golden Papal seal of approval to The Simpsons, a show it cited in its newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Tuesday as possessing "a mirror of the indifference and the need that modern man feels toward faith."

From the Associated Press:

The paper credited "The Simpsons" — the longest-running American animated program — with opening up cartoons to an adult audience.

The show is based on "realistic and intelligent writing," it said, though it added there was some reason to criticize its "excessively crude language, the violence of certain episodes or some extreme choices by the scriptwriters."

Religion, from the snore-evoking sermons of the Rev. Lovejoy to Homer's face-to-face talks with God, appears so frequently...