A new directive from the Obama Administration and the Department of Homeland Security will issue new guidelines to immigration field offices across the country, changing the way bi-national same-sex couples are treated by the federal government. 

The Vatican has taken a ruler to the hands of 55,000 Catholic nuns in the United States this week for not being homophobic enough. Details follow. 

While alternative press and online outlets like yours truly certainly devoted a heft of their Tuesday coverage to the Obama Administration's historic LGBT directive, you can't exactly say the same about the major television cable networks. CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS completely ignored the groundbreaking international news, while Fox News shared the story with their viewers during one segment. Fortunately, we have a friend in Rachel Maddow who helped MSNBC keep their viewers out of the dark by airing four segments retelling the day's huge development. Follow the jump to watch Rachel Maddow's report, in which the spunky primetime host rightfully paints Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's Geneva speech as "historic."

In yet another example of GOP presidential candidates throwing gays under the bigot bus just to steal a few evangelical dollars from Newt's piggy-bank, Rick Perry condemned today's historic international LGBT rights directive issued by the Obama Administration. Details follow.

In an unprecedented memorandum, the White House has for the first time called on U.S. agencies to promote LGBT rights abroad. Details follow.