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. 

Even though our hearts pump vodka rather than blood, we do love to celebrate love. But something in the photo for a purported engagement (seen after the jump) between two young women seems more than a bit sketchy even to our black hearts. Check it out after the jump.

In a rash of recent vandalism targeted towards LGBT-based publications in Washington D.C., newspaper boxes containing the gay magazine, Metro Weekly  have been filled with garbage and human feces.

Issues have also been removed and trashed in bulk. 

More after the jump.

An anti-gay father and his bisexual daughter have taken their family feud over equality and Bible-based bigotry public in a series of letter to the editor published in the Massachusetts-based Daily Hampshire Gazette. Sarah McMenamin's must-read response to her father's rant against "sexual anarchy" after the jump!

If you're a Vanderbilt University student or alumnus and are wondering why you've never seen an LGBT newspaper on campus, one of the school's longtime employees might be single-handedly to blame. 

Big news that oughta give the weekly gay newspapers that are so invaluable to many gay communities across the country some staying power: a national LGBT newspaper alliance has formed, banding together some of the country's top regional publications. 

With all the focus on the big-names getting into the fight for love and against North Carolina's Amendment One, human-size liver spot Billy Graham felt the need to inject his name into the debate via a saintly anti-gay ad appearing in 14 papers across the state this week. Today, we finally get a look at Graham's ad. 

Readers of hundreds of newspapers around the country will be treated to a historic gay prom storyline courtesy of the popular long-running comic strip Funky Winkerbean.

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette isn't acting very democratically and has found itself the subject of a protest after denying a gay couple's request to print their commitment ceremony announcement. Details follow. 

Fox News, where you go to unlearn. A poll found that watching the most watched 24 hour news cable network in the U.S. is a waste if time, unless you are hosting SNL and preparing a spoof. Details after the jump.

When a small activist newspaper began in 1967, Aristide Laurent and the other co-founders probably did not anticipate the the reach that The Advocate would soon have. Last Wednesday, co-founder of the Los Angeles Advocate Aristide Laurent died in his L.A. home at 70 years old after a long battle with cancer. Details after the jump.

It's all happening so fast, this change and acceptance thing! Actually, we've been working for this change for years and years and years, and it seems like we are getting closer to final acceptance.  Because change is like a toilet paper roll. In the beginning it takes a while to get the paper off the roll, then as you get toward the end it spins faster and faster! Find out how one newspaper is supporting equality, photo and write-up after the jump.