As the Board of Directors for the Boy Scouts of America begin a three-day meeting that will determine where the group officially stands with regards to gay Scouts and Scout Leaders, they'll have 1.4 million voices to contend with.

According to GLAAD, "four Scout leaders whose petitions on Change.org sparked a national movement to end the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policy, delivered more than 1.4 million signatures from their combined petitions to the Boy Scouts headquarters today.

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The National Geographic Channel, which is set to air the new Are You Tougher Than A Boy Scout series this spring, has been asked to denounce the BSA's anti-gay policies ahead of the show. 

Citibank, one of the biggest businesses in Uganda, has today refused to take a stand against the African nation's "Kill the Gays" legislation. More info after the jump.

We’d hoped progress was being made in Anoka, Minnesota, the site of a rash of suicides among gay youth, but a move on the part of the Anoka Halloween Festival Committee definitely isn’t sending  a message of inclusion.

The festival committee has denied a request to allow Justin’s Gift, an anti-bullying youth group formed in memory of Justin Aaberg (a teen who took his own life), to march in the group’s popular parade on Oct. 27. The festival committee has also refused to answer community questions regarding its decision to deny Justin’s Gift members a spot in the parade.

Rebecca Krone, an Anoka mom, is leading a campaign on Change.org to allow Justin’s Gift to participate.

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Ellen DeGeneres made good on her promise to host Ryan Andresen, the teen that was dismissed from the Boy Scouts after completing Eagle Scout requirements once it was revealed that he was gay. 

While Ellen couldn't give Andresen the Eagle Scout award that he'd rightfully earned, she gave him something else that will positively impact his future. 

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Well that was fast!

Intel has no interest in being associated with hate and has announced that they will cease all future funding to the Boy Scouts of America until gay Scouts and leaders are welcome within the organization.

Boom. See what Intel had to say after the jump.

The Berenstain Bears don't want angry folks knocking on their tree house door after it was revealed last week that Berenstain merchandise would replace the Jim Henson Company's toys in Chick-fil-A kids' meals. 

The civil rights movement for marriage equality is often accused of wanting to change the definition of marriage. That's blatant hyperbole, but Mike Raven's new Change.org petition asking Dictionary.com to make its definition of marriage more gay friendly actually provides a legitimate instance of just that. 

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!

Jennifer Tyrrell, a Boy Scouts den leader who was removed from the notoriously homophobic organization for being gay, has launched a petition to get reinstated (and to call out the group's vehement anti-gay practices). Details follow. 

The Weinstein Company  (TWC) just gave the finger to the MPAA and we’re all about it! (Not that demure, classy gays like ourselves would ever dream of…yeah.)

By now you’ve all heard about the documentary Bully, which has garnered support from the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and both anti-bullying and LGBT advocates.

After months of haggling with the MPAA and an aggressive campaign that included a Change.org petition (helmed by former bullying victim Katy Butler) that was signed by nearly 500,000 people urging the MPAA to lower the documentary’s R-rating and allow the film to be shown in schools, the Weinstein Company has decided to release the film unrated.   

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The signatures from Capitol Hill are flocking en masse to petition the MPAA to change the rating for the anti-bullying documentary Bully. Details follow.