Ryan Andresen, the Boy Scout who was denied his Eagle Scout award and dismissed from the Boy Scouts of America after coming out as gay, is getting some high profile support. 

Senator Barbara Boxer, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, and 32 California state legislators are all imploring the BSA to give Andresen the award that he's earned and end their discriminatory stance against gays. 

See what they have to say after the jump!

Freedom to Marry's campaign to add marriage equality to the 2012 national Democratic platform is gaining steam—and supporters! According to Freedom to Marry, 21 Senators (and counting!) including John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein and Al Franken have signed on to support marriage equality. Details follow.

Ann Coulter rushed to the side of Carl "Brainwashed by Homosexuality" Paladino in very public anti-gay support, but GOProud still has nothing but love for its "Judy Garland of the Conservative Movement."

Yesterday the conservative group released a new chin-scratching ad attacking Democrats (including the openly-gay Barney Frank) -- which The New Pride notes is the first ever anti-Democrat ad from a "gay" organization -- to run on Bravo. Today, Ann Coulter praised the ad spot, immediately sending GOProud into a titillated flurry of fairy fawning.

With its staunch support of homophobic bigots who want to keep GLBT Americans second-class and its now official fight to unseat openly-gay political leaders, I'm starting to worry ...

In a televised debate Wednesday night, California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina re-affirmed her opposition to equality, saying she believed marriage rights should be limited to one man and one woman. Her incumbent opponent Barbara Boxer, believes in full marriage equality for all Californians. Fiorina, the former HP CEO, did manage to insert support civil unio for civil unions into the debate, however.

“Actually, the position I've consistently espoused is consistent with that of our president and a vast majority of senators in the U.S. Senate,” Fiorina said.

The republican went on to deem it “inappropriate” for Judge Vaughn Walker to overrule California voters in his Prop 8 decision.

Thankfully, Sen. Barbara Boxer used the opportunity...

Primary elections will decide who runs against CA Senator Barbara Boxer in June, and the National Organization against for Marriage has launched a campaign to ensure that the most moderate – and only marriage equality supporting – GOP candidate does not earn the Republican nomination.

Former congressman Tom Campbell is the subject of the hate group’s ire, a candidate who NOM is spending upwards of $300,000k in TV ads to paint as a parrot of Sen. Boxer, in part because of his support of the GLBT community.

He’s running against former Hewlet-Packard CEO Carly Fiorino for the GOP nomination, a race Campbell had previously been the frontrunner until NOM’s homophobic tactics entered the game.

If there are any gay Republicans left ...