It might be purely symbolic, but the act of love introduced into the Texas legislature by state Rep. Lon Burnam. Details follow. 

Love isn't in the air in Beverly Hills, where Unite Here (a labor union that has often fought for the LGBT community) has launched a boycott of the famed Beverly Hills Hotel. 

Kobe Bryant got lots of love this week when he called out a Tweeter for using anti-gay language. 

Now a Florida columnist is asking the Miami Heat's LeBron James to jump on the pro-LGBT train. 

Kobe and the Lakers can't get all the love from the gays, right??

More after the jump.

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ABC News has posted an interview with former assistant principal Mike Moroski who was fired from an Ohio Catholic high school for writing a blog post in support of same-sex marriage.

Does Moroski have a middle finger ready to unleash on the church? Does he want his job back? All answers will be revealed after the jump!

Westboro Baptist Church will be elated to know that it has helped funnel money to LGBT youth organization the Trevor Project! Thanks, Westboro!

The U.S. Department of State has updated its travel advisory website to include a notice for LGBT Americans considering travel to foreign countries. So, what does the advisory say?

The Senate has voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and has extended protections for LGBT victims of domestic violence. This follows the rejection of a non-inclusive, Republican sponsored alternative piece of legislation last week. 

More after the jump.

Support for Sullivan, Indiana's LGBT students continues to reverberate across social networks where teacher Nate Walden has a special message for Diana Medley, the homophobic special ed teacher we told you about on Monday. 

It looks like the gays may have the best seat in the house at President Obama's State Of The Union address.

Tracey Hepner, co-founder of the Military Partners and Families Coalition, which works as a support group for LGBT military famlies has scored a plum seat with First Lady Michelle Obama!

More after the jump.

In a vote of 21 to 14, the Colorado Senate has approved civil unions legislation on its final reading. 

SB 11 now heads to the state House, where—as ThinkProgress notes—openly gay Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D), is now the chamber’s Speaker.

Stay tuned to Instinct for the latest updates out of Colorado. 

Angelenos! If you're looking for plans post-brunch and pre-the night's festivities, we've got just the ticket for you. 

USC is hosting The 6th Annual Don Thompson LGBT Film Festival on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The festival showcases the short films of USC students and alumni that are about, of interest to, or made by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex people.

Who knows, you could be seeing the next Ira Sachs or Patrik-Ian Polk before they get all famous!

Details after the jump. 

There's nothing quite as good for a defense, as a good offense. "Ex-gay" Christian Post blogger was interviewed by an unbiased third-party news outlet The Christian Post to delve deep in order to get to the bottom of his gay sex curiosities and proclivities that we reported on earlier in the week. (We wrote "deep" and "bottom" in the same sentence. Ooops!)

So what did La Moore do? He sold his computer and locked down his phone (whaaattt?!?!), so he's not tempted into sin.

Oh, we're serious. More after the jump.