As the Board of Directors for the Boy Scouts of America begin a three-day meeting that will determine where the group officially stands with regards to gay Scouts and Scout Leaders, they'll have 1.4 million voices to contend with.

According to GLAAD, "four Scout leaders whose petitions on Change.org sparked a national movement to end the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policy, delivered more than 1.4 million signatures from their combined petitions to the Boy Scouts headquarters today.

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The California State Assembly has followed the State Senate's lead and passed a historic ban on "conversion therapy" for minors. Details follow. 

Andrew Christian blurs the pixelated censorship line between underwear branding and softcore porn a little further with the apparel designer's latest cue from the amateur online adult industry: the personalization of undies for stalkers fans by the male models who are regularly ogled over WiFi. 

Want to see what the Andrew Christian model will do to your nether regions if you're a superfan? Then follow the jump for the NSFW vid!

The dastard attempt by homophobic activists in Washington state to put two confusing anti-gay proposals before voters has failed. Details follow.

As we reported last week, anti-equality forces in Maryland submitted more than the required amount of signatures to the state elections officials; authorities validated most of the signatures on Thursday night, pretty much making it official that the rights of a minority group will go up for a majority vote in Maryland come fall. 

As homophobic activists announce they have gathered enough signatures to put the marriage rights of a minority group up for a vote by the majority in Washington, the gay and gay-friendly blogosphere has launched a moneybomb to raise money for those fighting for love in the state. 

Zach Wahls, the dashing and undeniable superstar of the LGBT activist circuit at the moment, will deliver more than 275,000 signatures to the Boy Scouts at the organization's annual meeting in Orlando, all names of folks who support the recently ousted lesbian den leader Jen Tyrrell. 

My boyfriend's hometown, the great city of Lincoln, Nebraska, has given the initial thumbs up to a comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination ordinance. Details follow. 

MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Congressman Barney Frank got into it with Family Research Council head, Tony Perkins, regarding same-sex marriage, but what may have been even more interesting was Perkin's impliication that sexual orientation was a result of bad parenting and other "environmental factors."

Apparently it's not likely that his kids will be gay because he and his wife are teaching their kids how to "properly interact" in society.

Check out this brilliance after the jump.

Talk about changing the definition of something so traditional! Guess you can declare anything a "victory" when you're not so concerned with meanings and truthiness and all that. Maggie Gallagher, the unforgiving face of the National Organization for Marriage, has declared her group's embarrassing attempt to boycott Starbucks a victory. 

Paul Thomasson just wants to marry his partner of 17 years in his home state. 

To do that, though, he might need to change a few hearts. Lucky for him, the email addresses of the folks who "need to hear his story most" have been made available. After a long and controversial fight, a roster of signatures attached to Washington's 2009 attempt to roll back LGBT rights, R71, has been made public. As the state braces for another anti-gay referendum that seeks to repeal its just adopted marriage equality laws, Thomasson has decided to appeal directly to the citizen homophobes in a controversial email campaign.

Could Washington homophobes looking to overturn the state's freshly-minted marriage equality not find a "happy young family" so outraged by equality that it was willing to pose for the anti-gay campaign?