In stark contrast to the Republican Party of Texas' medieval anti-gay 2012 platform, the D.C. Republican Committee has become the first Republican State Party in the country to adopt pro-LGBT rights as part of its agenda for the year. Details follow. 

Sad news.

The Bronx Community Pride Center will close its doors after 16 years of providing health care, job-readiness training, support groups, case management, and cultural activities to the Bronx LGBT community.

This comes two weeks after the arrest of Lisa Winters, the former executive director of the center, who has been charged with embezzling $338,000 from the nonprofit.

More after the jump.

Secretary of State, meme superstar and LGBT liason to the world Hillary Clinton has pulled down the Balenciaga shades and put the Blackberry on silent to deliver a Happy Pride message of hope to the community. Video and transcript follow. 

YouTube is The.Worst. thing to happen to gays in possession of grandiose romantic fantasies, such as ourselves. How can any of our mortal suitors possibly come up with something better than the major movie-quality proposals that go viral from time to time? The latest viral proposal to make Kleenex see a rise in its stock market price comes by way of Kyle Piers, who drops to one knee and pulls out a ring at his boyfriend's college a capella group's 20th anniversary.

Follow the jump only if you don't mind unabashedly debuting your crying face to coworkers.

The Senate Help Committee has just started a hearing concerning an employment non-discrimination act that includes protections for the LGBT community. Watch it live on CSPAN (and follow the jump for more details).

A lesbian couple, at least one member of which is a military servicemember, participated in a commitment ceremony last month at Fort Polk's military chapel in Louisana.

Apparently this is causing quite the uproar among politicians and some Louisiana citizens. Same-sex marriage is banned in the Louisiana state constitution, and some are accusing the military members that conducted the ceremony and allowed it to take place of breaking the law.

How a commitment ceremony is being confused with a legal marriage is beyond us, but we'll let people speak for themselves after the jump!

Fred Karger carries his string of successfully petitioning states to investigate the campaign finances of the National Organization for Marriage to California, where the state's Ethics Office has announced it will jump into the matter. 

Inspiring us to throw our hands over our heads instead of our ankles for once, a recent sermon by the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes of the Friendship-West Baptist Church takes his congregation, fellow pastors and larger Christian community to task for criticizing President Obama's marriage equality evolution. 

Watch the powerful video after the jump.

Could we love Janet anymore than we already do? We didn't think so but the answer is yasssss! 

The iconic gaydored diva announced today via press release that she is set to executive produce Truth, a documentary that examines "the lives of trans- and nongendered people around the world and their epic struggle for equality." 

Details follow. 

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.

A horrifying new ad promoting travel to the U.S. that features *shocker* a diverse selection of citizens has is set to give the international community the wrong (read: tolerant) picture of America. 

At least that's the sentiment seeping out of a pissed off Tony Perkins today, who has blasted a new tourism ad that features a diverse cross-section of Americans, including two-seconds of screen time for a gay couple.

Target is really aiming (hardy har) to get on our good side these days!

Though higher ups at the bulls-eye insist the new line of Pride t-shirts has zilch to do with that massive 2010 donation to anti-gay politico Tom Emmer, with 100 percent of sales going to the Family Equality Council, would criticizing the retailer nowadays just be splitting hairs? (Details follow.)