Though the gayest U.S. state happens to be whichever one we're in at the time, Gallup has a different idea thanks to a massive 200,000 person study. While the rainbow might shine brightest in D.C., Gallup notes that these kinds of studies always include the caveat of people possibly not answering truthfully. Anyway, Gallup's results are after the jump!

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Instincters!What better way to celebrate than by watching President Obama's second inauguration? Follow the jump for the White House's live web broadcast of the ceremony. 

It's clear just from the still capture pic above why team "Grapes of Wrath" won D.C. Flag Football's first ever video challenge. But even without Patrick M., the team's delivery of "Gangnam Style" makes the song of the season a bit more palatable than usual. c

Check out the flag football team's winning entry after the jump. 

Now this is what we call Congressional support! 

Minnesota Senator Al Franken's Washington D.C. and Minnesota staff members both showed solidarity with the LGBT community by dressing as a rainbow for Halloween!

Each staff also held up signs encouraging Minnesota voters to vote "no" on the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. 

Take a look after the jump.

Tear-soaked $20 bills were hopefully handed over to benefit Maryland marriage equality Tuesday night after Adam Lambert's gut-wrenching and appropriately intimate performance of "Outlaws of Love." Check it out after the jump.

Updated Wednesday, 11 a.m. EST

Madonna has had to explain her latest provocative on stage joke to the sudden rush of tea baggers flocking to her alter after she said "we have a black Muslim in the White House."

So, what does Her Madgesty have to say about the humor that has escaped some Americans?

In a rash of recent vandalism targeted towards LGBT-based publications in Washington D.C., newspaper boxes containing the gay magazine, Metro Weekly  have been filled with garbage and human feces.

Issues have also been removed and trashed in bulk. 

More after the jump.

As sympathies and heartfelt pleas for an avoidance of violence continues to pour in from both conservatives and liberals (excluding NOM, however), the FBI has released more telling details about alleged Family Research Council shooter Floyd Corkins. 

Despite having zero facts to go on, the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown continues to mold Wednesday's Family Research Council shooting into a political tool for the anti-gay movement. Brown appeared on CNN this morning to tie the tragic event to the hate group designation given to the FRC by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Video after the jump.

Updated 6:07 p.m. EST

The FRC shooter has been identified as Floyd Corkins, 28, of Herndon, Virginia. More after the jump.

The National Organization for Marriage is no stranger to misleading people with fraudulent photographs, so it comes as no shocker that an image the hate group posted to its blog to suggest "packed Chick-fil-A's across the country" is completely (and obviously) deceptive. 

In sobering contrast to Monday's opening optimism from Sec. Hillary Clinton, a panel of experts presented a bleak warning: the end of AIDS in America is nothing but a dream unless financial roadblocks are removed.