Jennifer Lawrence, a favorite of ours, caused a little controversy when she quoted The First Wives Club ("I beat Meryl!") at the Golden Globes after besting Meryl Streep. (We guess everyone missed the reference, meaning unlike us they're not playing The First Wives Club on a neverending loop.)

J. Law hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and she wasted no time hilariously going after her Oscar competition in her opening monologue.

Watch after the jump!

We've got that awards season fever!  

The 80 film and television critics and journalists that make up The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Associaton have announced their nominees for the Dorian Awards!

See if you agree with their picks for the best film and television of 2012!

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!

Another gay judge has just been nominated to the federal bench!

Today, President Obama's list of judicial nominees included Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro. Alejandro has been nominated to fill one of the three vacant seats on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

If selected, Judge Alejandro will become the first openly gay Hispanic judge at the federal level.

More after the jump.

President Obama has nominated the first out gay, African-American man to the federal bench.

Judge William Thomas has been nominated to serve as a lifetime-tenured judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

More after the jump.

Mitt Romney continued his denigration of segments of the American population at the Univision/Facebook town hall on Wednesday night when he was asked what he'd do if his children or grandchildren happened to be homosexual. 

His answer after the jump. 

Of course the mouthwatering rainbow Oreo made the cut. 

Which other great gay ads from 2012 are included on the just-announced list of GLAAD Amplifier Award nominees?

Updated Sunday, 10:30 a.m. PST

Having trouble keeping track of where Mitt Romney and Paul Romney stand on LGBT issues?

Our friends at eQualityGiving.org have put together a few helpful tables and bullet points! (We love tables. And bullet points.)

Links after the jump!

The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards nominations are out and it's time to speak out on who got us screaming "Hallelu!," who got snubbed, and who got a "WTF?! How did they get nominated?"

Nominees after the jump!

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is less than pleased by the state Senate Judiciary committee's refusal to confirm his state Supreme Court nominee, openly gay, African-American Republican, Bruce Harris.

He had quite a few choice words for the Democrats in power.

See what he had to say after the jump.

Bruce Harris, the African-American openly-gay Republican mayor of Chatham in New Jersey, narrowly missed appointment to New Jersey's Supreme Court.

Democrats voted against his nomination citing his lack of courtroom experience and his willingness to recuse himself in court cases dealing with same-sex marriage.

More after the jump.

Tracy Thorne-Begland, the openly gay prosecutor whose judicial nomination was thwarted because of his sexual orientation, may actually still get the job—at least on an interim basis.

More after the jump.