America, we've got our guy!

NBA Center and current free agent Jason Collins has penned an extremely moving coming out editorial for Sports Illustrated that will be examined by future civilizations for millennia to come. In a moment that is nothing short of historic, Jason becomes America's first openly gay athlete who currently plays in one of the nation's five major pro sports.

Updated Thursday at 12:30 p.m. PST

HBO has ordered a pilot for Ryan Murphy's sexuality drama, Open. 

Details after the jump!

The final part of a two-episode arc on USA's Necessary Roughness sees a professional quarterback come out of the closet tonight to the love and support of his team. Is this how it will look when* (*when, not if!) the NFL gets its first openly gay player?

Minnesota Viking and equality advocate Chris Kluwe thinks so. 

There will be an extra sense of celebration in the air at Gay Days at Disney World this year now that the international destination has welcomed George Kalogridis on as its new president. 

Do straight men need to watch more porn? Sure, if you want them to support marriage equality, according to a new study published in the Communication Research Journal. 

Ahead of the Boy Scouts of America board meeting that will decide the fate of its archaic gay ban, President Obama has come out in support of ending the homophobic policy and opening the ranks to LGBT troops and leaders. Check out what the president had to say during an interview on CBS News over the weekend.

At GitHub, a community devoted to the altruism of sharing code with fellow developers, a severe lack of diversity is shining through in many lines of open-source code. Is it time for the development community to take stock and have a conversation about offensive language perpetuated behind the scenes of the Internet?

Leave it to Chris Kuwe to expertly put another pro-footballer in place when it comes to unacceptable homophobia. This time around its San Fran 49er Chris Culliver who's on the unfortunate receiving end of Kluwe's LGBT-allegiance. Check out what the Chris who'son the right side of history has to say to the Chris who's on the wrong side of history after the break.

Updated Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. PST

The 49ers took to Twitter to respond to player Chris Culliver's crass and homophobic statements. 

See what they had to say after the jump.

Results from a new study out of the University of Montreal find that openly-gay LGB folks are more relaxed than our closeted counterparts, but it's the comparison to the mental fitness of heterosexuals that might be the real shocker!

Hate group leader Bryan Fischer has a dire warning for the Boy Scouts of America: allow gays and lesbians to become troops and den leaders will be an "open invitation for pedophiles." 

Connecticut's General Assembly today confirmed Andrew J. McDonald as the state's first openly gay state Supreme Court justice.

More after the jump.