A coalition of businesses and business leaders in Illinois have thrown their weight behind marriage equality, arguing in a letter issued on Sunday that anything less puts the state on an unequal entrepreneurial playing field. 

A veritable who's who of high profile celebs have come together to "Demand A Plan" from President Obama and Congress on how to stop gun violence in America.

Whoever lined up the participants for this PSA has quite the rolodex.

Watch after the jump!

A coalition of LGBT leaders has sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner demanding that he immediately stop using millions of taxpayer funds to keep the Defense of Marriage Act alive in courts. 

A coalition of more than 50 LGBT groups has sent a letter to President Obama, demanding that his administration hold off on splitting up binational same-sex couples until the Supreme Court releases its decision in Edie Windsor's case against the Defense of Marriage Act.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has just published a letter blasting Rabbi Noson Leiter for attempting to blame Hurricane Sandy on the state's marriage equality law. 

Fresh of the heels of success in his pursuit to have Intel stop donating to the Boy Scouts of America, Zach Wahls has moved on to the next case: UPS. 

Guess it's the egg, not the chicken, that came first, and it's unfortunately all over the faces of the equality fighters attempting to help Chick-fil-A evolve.

Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno is trying his best to remain diplomatic but has obviously lost patience with Chick-fil-A in the wake of the fast food chain seemingly breaking the pro-LGBT contract he says they signed off on last week. 

In response to the homophobic letter written by Maryland Rep. Emmet Burns demanding the NFL punish Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo for supporting marriage equality, the gorgeous and well-written Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has penned a response letter to the anti-gay lawmaker. 

The must read (including the line so good we had to put it in the headline) after the jump!

The homophobic and ironically titled American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has filed a brief demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal in the Ninth Circuit's ruling against Proposition 8. Details follow. 

The late Frank Mandelbaum has proven that a pesky thing like death can't keep you from being a curmudgeonly homophobe. The New York businessman, who died in 2007, refused to let any of his fortune go to hypothetical grandchildren born to his openly gay son—unless said openly gay son married a woman. 

Openly gay athletes hoping to take part in the 2014 Winter Games are getting mixed messages of support from their Russian hosts and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). After officials in Sochi, Russia defied the Olympic Charter to further the country's descent into anti-gay madness by banning Pride House, activists have started to demand intervention from the IOC. Details follow. 

Mark Regnerus's incredibly flawed study on same-sex parenting has been dismantled and discredited time and time again, but anti-gay forces refuse to bow to reason and continue to spread the dangerous ideas espoused in his attack on gay families.

That's why 200 Ph.D.s and M.D.s and a new petition are demanding that Social Science Research, the publication which published the flawed, NOM-linked study, apologize and retract Regnerus's work. 

Details follow.