The Rhode Island House has just voted to approve marriage equality! 

Details after the jump!

...and why he'll feel great about it. 

In a piece penned for the New York Times, Gov. Chafee shares his joy of being able to sign marriage equality into law. 

The Rhode Island Senate has officially passed marriage equality legislation following the state House's passing of the bill in January!

More after the jump!

The Nebraska women who worried the nation after reporting that men had broken into her house and tortured her, has been found guilty and sentenced in what was ultimately a hoaxed hate crime. 

More information on Charlie Rogers' sentence after the break.

Is Presidents' Day really the time to start talking about killing Lincoln again? Poor Abe. But it's a slooooww holiday Monday (for many) and a back-to-the-grind-as-usual day for us, so we ponder the important stuff.

And since we do, we thought we'd look at the debate over the penny because it looks like the penny may actually be on its way out of circulation once and for all because President Obama thinks it's a good idea.

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee made it clear today that when it comes to marriage equality being decided by the the state's voters...well ain't nobody got time for that!

The governor has made it very clear that he expects the state's elected lawmakers to vote on marriage equality and that he wants it to pass. 

He also says he'll likely veto any attempt to send the measure to voters in the form of a referendum. 

More after the jump!

Anne Hathaway can finally take a deep breath and eat a slice of pizza or something because the moment she starved herself for is finally here: the Academy Award nominations! 

Which films made the list and who got snubbed? 

Our eyes were wide open (though not in the fun Stanley Kubrick/Tom Cruise kind of way) throughout 2012 thanks to a year that was absolutely teeming with queer cinema. Whether it was on screens at film festivals, in indie theaters or in IMAX across the country, movies playing in every niche this year seemed to serve up some LGBT realness. Once again, Instinct's here to help distill an overwhelming amount of pop culture into a handy guide to the 2012 zeitgeist. 

The Oscars may have bitches starving themselves to get their hands around a trophy and the Golden Globes might command love letter campaigns addressed to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, but there isn't a movie prize quite as coveted as landing on our annual Top 10...

This year's round of Golden Globe nominees have been announced, with gay-friendly Smash, Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables and Sally Field among those receiving nods. Who got good news this morning and who was overlooked? Follow the jump for the full list!

The peerless Sally Field recently sat down with Oprah to discuss the joys of being the parent of an LGBT person for Sunday's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. Check out a preview clip of the interview that will likely be required watching at PFLAG meetings around the world after the jump. 

Tony Kushner (of Angels in America) fame is being roundly praised today for his historically accurate portrayal of the President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. But what does Kushner have to say about speculation about Lincoln's sexuality as it applies to the new film?

For the first time a poll has found that most people in Nebraska back legal rights for same-sex couples. Details follow.