If Illinois won't do it for love, at least do it for the $$$$$$$$$!!!!

The Williams Institute at UCLA Law just released findings showing that legalizing marriage equality in the state will bring in up to $103 million to the state's economy. 

That's not chump change. 

More after the jump.

Suze Orman visited CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and she made a very compelling financial argument in support of marriage equality. 

Leave it to Suze to break down the facts!

Check out what she has to say after the jump.

Twenty-four wealthy gays and lesbians are challenging Congress to keep Americans from going over the fiscal cliff! 

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, LGBT one percenter's (including our girl, Suze Orman) lay out just how important it is to the LGBT community that Congress get it together and work with the President to prevent economic catastrophe.  

Check out what they have to say after the jump.

GOProud head Jimmy LaSalvia explained away yesterday's RNC PR disaster by saying that gays are shallow and care more about dating rich men than their own civil rights. Or something.  

Homo-conservative group GOProud has surprised no one with today's announcement that it has endorsed anti-LGBT Mitt Romney for president. 

In contrast to big businesses like Starbucks and Microsoft in Washington state, most corporate entities in North Carolina have been largely silent on the issue of Amendment One.

A few individuals on both sides of the issue are speaking out on whether or not the constitutional amendment is bad for business in North Carolina. 

More after the jump.

Oh GOP, you're much too kind. At least the gay folks in Iowa can enjoy their right to marry a bit longer than the Californians did. After the jump is a rare bit of logic coming from social conservatives.

Think the job market is already tough? Try being a proud gay man looking for a white collar job in America. Details follow.

Kathy Griffin flexed her political tongue last night during a visit to Piers Morgan, where, instead of usual topics like Lindsay Lohan, Bristol Palin and Cher, the fiery redhead discussed debt ceiling, President Obama's approval rating...and Marcus Bachmann's "ex gay" problem. Follow the jump to watch.

The Harvard Business Review has studied "The Michelle Obama Effect" with some eye-opening stats (even eye-opening for the Juviderm'd fashion industry): 

Following 189 public appearances between November 2008 and December 2009, Michelle Obama created $2.7 billion in cumulative abnormal returns—value over and above normal market variations—for fashion and retail companies associated with the clothes she wore.

Maybe we can get Michelle to start wearing newspapers and magazines?

Upated Tuesday, July 13, 2:30 EST:

AIDS groups were quick to criticize the White House's just-announced strategy of combatting new HIV infections, revealed by President Obama earlier today. The plan aims to reduce HIV infections in the country by 25% within five years--an unrealistic goal, according to organizations that have pointed out that outline includes a bleak $30m extra from the government.

"This strategy is a day late and a dollar short," said Michael Weinstein, President of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "Fifteen months in the making, and the White House learned what people in the field have known for years. There is no funding, no 'how to,' no real leadership."

Aside from announcing that the government's new national HIV...

Update:

After the lunch break, the plaintiffs’ team called their next witness, Columbia University’s  Ilan Meyer to speak to the mental health impacts on gays facing discrimination, or “minority stress.” The team is specifically trying to show how Prop. 8 caused harm to gays and lesbians.

“Are there stigmas attached to gays and lesbians and what are they?” was asked by the plaintiffs’ lawyer. “My work deals with the roles assigned by stigma,” Meyer responded. “For example, that gay people are incapable of intimate relationships, don’t desire those relationships and may be incapable of such relationships. This is what society says. Intimate relations means marriage, husband, wife, family and community. In all of...