Updated Thursday, 3:30 p.m. with comment from the Utah Department of Transportation

What does God hate more than construction detours? Gays, according to a road construction sign on University Avenue in Provo, Utah. 

Paul Thomasson just wants to marry his partner of 17 years in his home state. 

To do that, though, he might need to change a few hearts. Lucky for him, the email addresses of the folks who "need to hear his story most" have been made available. After a long and controversial fight, a roster of signatures attached to Washington's 2009 attempt to roll back LGBT rights, R71, has been made public. As the state braces for another anti-gay referendum that seeks to repeal its just adopted marriage equality laws, Thomasson has decided to appeal directly to the citizen homophobes in a controversial email campaign.

Updated Thursday, 11:30 a.m. EST

Noted gay activist Sean Chapin has created a video urging the community to contact California Governor Brown and ask him to sign the state's landmark LGBT Fair Education Act. Watch (and more details), after the jump.

The notoriously gay-friendly junior New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand revealed what she's doing to help marriage equality move forward in Albany during a MSNBC segment on Tuesday afternoon. Watch the video, after the jump.

Via a Tweet posted by Guy Oseary, the one and only Madonna is finally getting into New York's marriage equality movement with a special plea issued to fans. Read what Madonna has to say, after the jump.

A federal law requires that any school receiving federal funds must allow equal extracurricular opportunities for all students, so a sneaky Corpus Christi, Texas school district has devised a way to continue receiving government money while exhibiting blatant homophobia. Instead of approving Four Bluff High School student Bianca "Nikki" Peet's (pictured) Gay Straight Alliance, the district has decided to circumvent the federal law by canceling all extracurricular student clubs. Rather than just bully the gay kids and their friends, the school has managed to find a way to bully all of its students equally.

Paul Rodriguez, President of the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Gay Straight Alliance, released a statement yesterday:

"What a sad, sad...

Sam Hall, a coal miner suing Massey Energy after enduring years of discrimination (including the taping of a sign that read "I like little boys" to his car), today called on the West Virginia legislature to pass legislation protecting the LGBT community from work place discrimination. 

"If the labor laws would have been amended earlier to contain sexual orientation discrimination, myself as well as other gay West Virginians would have not to endure such demeaning and inexcusable behavior," Sam said during a press conference on Monday. "Why, as West Virginians, do you allow this type of behavior and harassment to occur and then go unpunished?"

Joining Sam to introduce anti-discrimination legislation outside the steps of the West...

New York Governor David Paterson has called the state's Legislature into a special meeting tomorrow to pass S. 4401, otherwise known as marriage equality legislation. If you're a New Yorker, why not give your representative a call to make sure they support passing S. 4401? It's easy! Thanks to the HRC, we have the email links to find your state senator, or a link to call them.

Let's all pitch in to brighten the mood in the Northeast!

As Congress prepares to vote on hate crime legislation, new developments in the disheartening attack on 49-year-old Jack Price in New York City highlight the importance of the Matthew Shepard Act.

Police are now reporting that they have a second suspect in custody, which is the total ammount of attackers as evident in the recently released surveillance video of the homophobic assault.

Mr. Price's family also have announced that he is out of his coma, though still in critical condition. If you haven't yet, please urge your state senator to vote to pass the Matthew Shepard hate crimes legislation. You can locate your senator's contact information by visiting www.senate.gov.

Follow the jump to watch the disturbing video.