This morning, marking International Day Against Homphobia and Transphobia, the largest EU survey of hate crime and discrimination targeting members of the LGBT community in the 27-nation bloc and Croatia showed many live in fear and conceal their sexual identity. Details below.

New findings out of Michigan show an impressive swing in support of marriage equality, today standing at 57 percent. That number is great, but the jump in support is even more telling. Check out where voters stood on the issue just last year, after the jump.

Doing his best impression of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin told a press conference in Amsterdam that gays in Russia are treated equally.

The Conservative Political Action Conference is about to get a little gayer. 

Notably absent from the conference's schedule was any mention of LGBT equality (and gay groups like GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans weren't even invited to attend). 

That's now changed. One of CPAC's sponsors, the Competitive Enterprise Institute will now be hosting a pro-gay rights panel. 

Details after the jump.

Britain's leading gay rights advocacy group has called on Cardinal Keith O'Brien to apologize to the gay community in the wake of yesterday's admssion that he'd participated in "sexual misconduct" with other priests.

More after the jump.

Gallup has released results from a Nov. 26-29, 2012 poll charting American attitudes towards gays and lesbians. 

Some of them may surprise you.

See after the jump!

Professional football is nearing the end of the regular season, and with the Minnesota Vikings' record at 7 - 6, Assistant Coach Mike Priefer wants Chris Kluwe to lay off the LGBT activism and get back to punting. 

That's three for four, Instincters! Can we make it four for four?

The results are are in for Minnesota and Huffington Post is reporting that voters have come out in favor of equality for all!

This historic election day and night (oh, what a night!) just seems to be getting sweeter and sweeter for the LGBT community.

Come on, Washington. You're next!

Weep on, Brian Brown.

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Our husband, Zachary Quinto, visited Chelsea Lately this week and spoke so eloquently on the "fundamentally clear" choice that we face in this Presidential election that we just had to post it.

You can look, but don't touch, y'all.

Video after the jump!

Updated 12:30 p.m. EST

The Stonewall Democrats condemned the Log Cabin Republicans' endorsement of Mitt Romney in a just-issued harsh critique. 

So, what does the Stonewall Dems have to say?

The news coming out of France that hits us early this Friday morning may be slightly disheartening, but we're not going to let it a little delay dampen our almost-weekend moods, are we?

More after the jump.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chris Kluwe at The Strip Club! Sign us up! But, while the ebay auction seems legit, that aforementioned "strip club" is serving up something decidely different than egg and legs and scantily clad go-go boys.

Read all about the auction and bid for yourself after the jump.