Despite what lies or threats the National Organization for Marriage attempts to spread, it doesn't pay to be a hater. Just ask the four Republicans who voted out of step with their party to make marriage equality reality in New York—they've each seen a sharp increase in funding since showing their support for equality. Details follow.

Threats of having its foreign aid slashed won't scare Iran away from its virulent and violent institutionalized homophobia! During a visit with a German lawmaker, Iran's own secretary general of the country's High Council on Human Rights even went as far as calling homosexuality a "disease." Details follow. 

The wake from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's unprecedented gay rights speech late last year continues to ripple across the world. See how differently groups in Sierra Leone and the Philippines have responded to the historic United Nations address, after the break. 

If you thought Hillary Clinton was giving Lady Gaga a run for her "Queen of the Gays" tiara after that groundbreaking UN speech, then you haven't seen anything yet; The State Department has just released a music-video version of the speech, and, while it might not feature bathtub dye jobs or a Laurieanne Gibson-choreographed mass-murder diner scene alongside Beyonce, it still packs in heavy amounts of the gay. Watch, after the jump. 

A new report appearing in Identity Magazine, an LGBT publication in Kenya, details the proliferation of a horrifying sex-trafficking industry affecting gay Kenyans. 

Readers of Variety today opened the pages of the Hollywood publication to find a stern message from GLAAD and HRC asking folks to tell ABC that Work It (the alphabet network's upcoming sitcom which the groups find transphobic) doesn't work. Clever, but will the campaign work? More after the jump. 

Not everyone is applauding Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's historic LGBT rights speech from earlier this month; with help from GetEqual, Jesse and Max, a binational gay couple forced to live in London because of inequality in U.S. law, call out what they perceive as hypocrisy in the groundbreaking directive. The video, after the jump. 

Exxon Mobil has another PR mess to clean up this week as closer inspection of the 2011 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index reveals that the corporation has received the first ever negative rating. 

In response to the Monday release of the National Organization for Marriage's 2010 financial records, the Human Rights Campaign hits hopefully the final nail in NOM's coffin directly on the head: with only five big donors, how can NOM call itself a "grassroots organization"?

The real-world effect of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's impassioned speech on international LGBT rights might be felt sooner than we had anticipated. Following Clinton's call for human rights, Malawi is said to be considering a review of its anti-gay laws.

Arriving in the St. Nick of time to ensure that holiday shopping dollars from the gAyTM are spent at LGBT-supportive companies is the HRC's 2012 Corporate Equality Index. So, which corporations have earned our patronage?

Not everyone is ecstatic after Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's Tuesday speech promoting a new U.S. effort to spread equality across the globe. Pat Robertson, who must be so close to Jesus (as in minutes away from meeting him) that they speak over the phone (only AT&T—god's preferred network) twice weekly, relates a message from the heavens: God will punish the U.S. for supporting international human rights.