The White House has just released a video message from Ambassador Susan Rice—U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations—addressing today's International Day Against Homophobia (as they address it, minus transphobia mentions). See the video and read the transcript below.

This morning, marking International Day Against Homphobia and Transphobia, the largest EU survey of hate crime and discrimination targeting members of the LGBT community in the 27-nation bloc and Croatia showed many live in fear and conceal their sexual identity. Details below.

The DOMA Project has done a brilliant job of highlighting the injustices many LGBT binational couples face in light of DOMA rules. This week they brought us the story of David and Jason, a binational couple who have been separated 17 times under DOMA rules—despite being legally married in New York. 

See their heartbreaking “Missing Husband” video below.

Stay classy. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has gone on record (well,on Twitter) saying that he will drop support of his own immigration reform bill if it includes provisions benefiting same-sex couples.

More after the jump.

To promote International Day Against Homophobia in the parts of the world that really need to observe it, the United Nations has released a PSA that would make the United Colors of Benetton proud.

Check out the UN's extremely (and appropriately) diverse International Day Against Homophobia promo after the jump!

After Robbie Rogers came out, soccer has trumped hockeystick ball or whatever as our favorite athletic competition show sport thingymajig. So we were very happy to learn that fans of professional soccer who were attending a recent Portland Timbers match were met with an incredible display of LGBT support ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on Friday. Go local sports team!

Details follow.

It's a great year for gay cinema, if the iconic Seattle International Film Festival's LGBT lineup is any indication. Featuring some of our most looked-forward to movies of the year (GBF, Kink, Interior. Leather Bar., Pit Stop and more), the SIFF is again the go-to source for gay cinema found at a mainstream festival.

As Republicans convene this week to assess their party's arguably failing platform, social conservatives are threatening to jump ship if the party takes any steps in the direction towards equality.

Thirteen influential wingnuts (joined, of course, by hate group leader Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council) penned a letter to the Republican National Committee telling them to affirm the party's 2012 platform, which supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and supported the Defense of Marriage Act, or face abandonment by their socially conservative base.

More after the jump.

From the most expensive HIV treatment in the world to the most affordable, wonderful news has come out of South Africa, the country with the world's largest HIV positive population.

An 18-year old boy was allegedly stoned to death for being gay in a small Somalian village about an hour outside Mogadishu, according to reports from one of the country's LGBT organizations.

Rachel Maddow is skeptical that the Grand Ol' Party has what it takes to support let alone even appear to support LGBT rights, as advised in a landmark report released by the Republican National Committee on Monday.