Tear-soaked $20 bills were hopefully handed over to benefit Maryland marriage equality Tuesday night after Adam Lambert's gut-wrenching and appropriately intimate performance of "Outlaws of Love." Check it out after the jump.

The New Jersey gay couple that had the image from their engagement photo manipulated and used without their permission as part of an anti-gay mailer by Republican political candidates are finally about to sue the no-doubt, ill-fitting pants off of those responsible!

More info after the jump.

Is being gay bad feng shui? 

Asian-fusion restaurant, Amber Village, allegedly thinks so according to a lawsuit filed by newlyweds Barrett Greene and Thomas Eng in New York City after their rehearsal dinner was cancelled because apparently gay parties are "especially bad for feng shui."

You know, the flow of energy in a space? Is this some sort of commentary on the snark and shade that the gays are known to throw, because we acknowledge it can change the energy of a room, but not enough to cancel a rehearsal dinner!

More after the jump!

Turning down a Grindr hookup has posed some real-life consequences to Alberto Leguina-Ruzzi, a Chilean grad student working toward a PhD at New York's Columbia University. Details follow. 

This is our nightmare EVERYTIME we check a bag at the airport. You think you're doing the responsible thing and checking your "freakum dress" or that larger than 3 ounce bottle of lube, and you just hope for the best.

Sadly, sometimes you don't get the best, but you probably haven't gotten the worst. That was reserved for Christopher Bridgeman and Martin Borger, a gay couple that got quite the surprise when they went to retrieve their checked baggage in Norfolk, Virginia.

Details after the jump.

If plenty of rest could prevent STDs, we'd take a slut siesta twice an afternoon! Unfortunately, this dangerous misinformation is actually being spread by California's Clovis School District, which is teaching its students that "plenty of rest," going out in groups and a host of other silly ideas prevent STD infections. Not taught by the district as a method of prevention? Condoms!

There will be a lot of surprised teens in Clovis in the coming years, which is why a coalition of group has filed a lawsuit against the school district based on its sex (mis)education program. Details follow. 

Apparently Madonna's "pro-gay propaganda" during her stop in St. Petersburg has caused anti-gay activists a lot of pain and suffering.

In fact, they're so butt hurt over her calls for tolerance that they're suing her for $10 million to ease their pain.

More after the jump.

Updated Thursday, 4:15 p.m. PST

This is why you should learn to say you're sorry.

The jury in Chris Armstrong's defamation case against Andrew Shirvell issued a ruling and it's a doozy. Find out what they decided after the jump.

If there was ever a time to sell your stock in tri-colored cardboard signs, now is the time!

Congress has passed a comprehensive veterans bill that includes a provision aimed at the Westboro Baptist Church to cripple protests at military funerals. Details follow. 

Sounds like things are getting nasty.

The adult cast members of Modern Family (Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Eric Stonestreet) have not only rejected a proposed pay raise from the show's producer 20th Century Fox, they're now suing the company to get their contracts voided.

The cast apparently wants way more money. What's it all mean for one our fave gay-friendly shows?

Details after the jump.

Updated Tuesday, 3:19 p.m. PST

Sounds like someone needs a nap....

Bradlee Dean is seeking D.C. Superior Court Judge Joan Zeldon’s recusal from his case against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and the Minnesota Independent, after she ruled that Dean must pay nearly $25,000 in legal fees.

“Judges are to enforce the law, not to defend lawbreakers and then award them money,” Dean said in a statement Tuesday.

More of Dean (and his lawyer's) extended whine after the jump.

Roanoke Athletic Club, which was recently sued by same-sex couple, Will Trinkle and Juan Granados, following their revocation of the couple's family membership after learning they were gay has reversed their policy.

The health club's membership policy will now be inclusive of same-sex couples and their families.

More after the jump.