Just in time to kickoff the new NFL season, Baltimore Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo has turned last week's highly publicized drama into an highly publicized effort to spread LGBT tolerance throughout his sport. A day after Maryland lawmaker Emmet Burns retracted his letter demanding sanctions against Brendon, the sports star appeared on CNN to increase the volume on his mission to achieve marriage equality for his LGBT friends. 

When a Virginia-based reporter played a word association game with Paul Ryan and Chick-Fil-A came up, the GOP vice presidential candidate revealed how he feels about the chicken chain's anti-gay PR problem.

Wisconsin's Shawano School District has apologized for an opinion piece quoting a Bible verse that calls for the death of gays. Details follow. 

Yesterday the Instinct blog ignited into quite the comment firestorm after news that T.I. believes gays who fight against anti-gay forces are antagonistic to America's values hit the Internet. Following the blogosphere fury, T.I. spoke with TMZ to clarify stand-by his comments. So, how many ways can T.I. dance around a fight for the right to be homophobic?

We had several viable candidates for this title today, but late in the day news of Viki Knox broke through and her magnificent ignorance of LGBT people and grammar landed her the dishonor. Details after the jump.

We know that conservatives just want to think of gay sex when they think of gay people, but our community is actually much more than that. After the jump, read how ACLU intends on getting the far right's minds out of the gay gutter.

Longtime friend of the gays and queen of comedy Joan Rivers may be known as an equal-opportunity basher herself, but is she really defending Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant? Check out what she had to say to the Daily Beast...

Comedian and Chelsea Lately regular Jo Koy is apparently the most recent comic to take the low road and drop a little gay bashing in his act in hopes of a cheap laugh. Get the deets on his f-bomb and weigh in on if and how comedians can have free—but respectful—speech, after the jump.

The new contract between the U.S. House and its new legal defense team starring Paul Clement in the case supporting the Defense of Marriage Act has surfaced... with one big chin-scratcher. 

Billo, along with but for different reasons than Sarah Palin, is upset with the Supreme Court's decision to protect Westboro's emotionally-dangerous hate speech under the First Amendment. Fox's Megyn Kelly, on the other French-tipped hand, says she despises Westboro but supports the decision. So the sentence my keyboard never thought it'd have to type has manifested itself into existense: a thoughtful debate has taken place on the set of The O'Reilly Factor?

In another free-speech ruling issued this week in favor of anti-gay sentiment, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal has OK'd "Be Happy, Not Gay" t-shirts in the Indian Prairie School District. The school district brought the case to the court in the hopes of outlawing the homophobic slogans so that students' "feelings aren't hurt," but the appellate court has rejected their plea.

“The school argued (and still argues) that banning ‘Be Happy, Not Gay’ was just a matter of protecting the ‘rights’ of the students against whom derogatory comments are directed. But people in our society...

It published roundabout support (using Bible verses) for giving gays the death penalty and bluntly called our relationships "not normal," but Wichita East High School's editorial team has issued a rigorous defense of the horrifically homophobic story we told you about earlier this month in its paper, The Messenger.

Posted today on the newspaper's website:

First and foremost, we as a staff and a newspaper do not condemn LGBT students and relationships in any way. The assumption that the “Messenger” as a paper supports intolerance is simply untrue. The editorial was written from the perspective of one individual only, not written as a staff editorial. As stated in the “Messenger’s” editorial policy:

“The opinions expressed...