Now this is the kind of activism we can get behind!

Gay activists in Cuba held a kiss-in demonstration and presented a petition demanding civil rights for the LGBT community from the Cuban government.

More after the jump!

This may be our favorite story of the day—or at the very least, the sweetest!

A gay penguin couple, who for the last 6 years have built a nest together every spring with the hope that they’ll be able to incubate eggs, have been given an egg of their own to care for.

More after the jump.

So we were all set to boycott Dancing With The Stars after they dismissed our beloved gay icon, Martina Navratilova, but recent nearly-nude photos of one her competitors, Cuban actor William Levy, have made that damn near impossible.

Sorry Martina.

Check out the muy caliente Mr. Levy after the jump!

On Bring Your Dad to Work Day during filming of Jerry McGuire, Cuba Gooding Jr. apparently won the show-n-tell. Details follow. 

Is Cuba ready to have Castro Street activism under what is still a Castro regime? It hasn’t been that long since homosexuality was decriminalized in Cuba. (Yes, that public make-out session with Alberto could’ve landed you in handcuffs and not in the fun way.) But the U.S. government under Obama has worried that members of Cuba’s gay community, while not being arrested, are still dealing with more discrimination and challenges than the rest of the population. So what are we doing about it? And is the Cuban government on board?

In an interview with TMZ, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he fully expects the NBA to have an openly-gay basketball player within the next "three to five years." More, after the jump. 

The slowly but surely growing LGBT rights in Cuba seem to have taken a major step in the right direction with the country's first legal gay wedding. Well, sorta-gay wedding. Get the details after the jump.

The Miami Herald is reporting that in an interview with a Mexican newspaper, Fidel Castro calls his country's persecution of the gay community "a great injustice." Joe.My.God posts that: 

Castro said that the revolutionary government's actions represented "a great injustice—a great injustice!—whoever committed it. If we committed it, we committed it. I am trying to limit my responsibility in all that because, of course, personally I don't have that type of prejudice."

The interviewer paraphrases him as saying that "everything came about as a spontaneous reaction in the revolutionary ranks that came from the nation's traditions. In the old Cuba, blacks were not the only ones discriminated against; there was discrimination against...