Well at least GLAAD won't have to pay for travel!

The San Francisco Giants will be honored at the GLAAD Media Awards on May 11 in San Francisco. 

The Giants will be receiving the Corporate Leader Award, which is presented to companies or organizations that have demonstrated a stalwart commitment to building support for equality.

More after the jump.

While the Catholic Church has selected yet another anti-gay Pope to lead them into the future (past??), the Jewish Reconstructionist movement here in the U.S. has tapped its first openly gay leader!

Details after the jump!

The Laurel Leader-Call of Jones County, Mississippi has defended itself in an editorial after facing a fallout from readers over a story on the wedding of a local lesbian couple. 

Alaska's House Majority Caucus was asked whether they'd consider same-sex civil unions or domestic partnerships and they just found that HILARIOUS.

Seriously, they could barely respond to Juneau Empire reporter Mark Miller's question through their laughter. 

Check out Republican House Leader Lance Pruitt's oh-so-classy response to Miller after the jump.

Ahead of the Boy Scouts of America board meeting that will decide the fate of its archaic gay ban, President Obama has come out in support of ending the homophobic policy and opening the ranks to LGBT troops and leaders. Check out what the president had to say during an interview on CBS News over the weekend.

Big news from the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (LAGLC)!

The LGBT organization has done something unprecedented. Right now, about 80% of the LGBT leadership in China is at the Center for an advanced training program.  They're currently learning from more than 25 of the most seasoned LGBT leaders in the United States. 

This could have an huge impact on the Chinese LGBT movement.

More after the jump.

In an interesting move—as Neil Patrick Harris correctly identifies—the Boy Scouts of America have opened up their phone lines to hear what the public has to say about allowing gay troops and leaders into its ranks. 

If an analog phone call is too old school for you, the BSA will also take your opinion on the matter at the email address  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Give 'em a ring or an email. You know the bigoted forces against dismantling Boy Scout discrimination are doing the same. 

Hate group leader Bryan Fischer has a dire warning for the Boy Scouts of America: allow gays and lesbians to become troops and den leaders will be an "open invitation for pedophiles." 

Updated 3:30 p.m. EST

The Boy Scouts of America is thisclose to ending its unpopular and discriminatory ban on gay scouts and troop leaders and has released an official statement on the big news of the day. Follow the jump for the BSA's own take on its consideration of a major long-awaited policy change.

High profile businesses are throwing their support behind marriage equality in Illinois.

It certainly doesn't hurt for legislators to know that their decision to provide or deny equal rights to their citizens could directly impact their fiscal bottom line!

Check out the open letter published in The Chicago Tribune and signed by business leaders including Google, Barclays  Capital, Groupon, Orbitz and more after the jump!

A coalition of LGBT leaders has sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner demanding that he immediately stop using millions of taxpayer funds to keep the Defense of Marriage Act alive in courts. 

Hate group leaders and former Dbag of the Day crown holders Peter LaBarbera (of the Americans for Truth About Homosexuality) and vehement anti-gay activist "Pastor" John Kirkwood have decided that Dan Savage won the Bible/same-sex marriage debate against their homophobic colleague, Brian Brown. 

But why?