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.

On the high heels of the Log Cabin Republicans endorsement of Mitt Romney last week arrived a report from the Boston Globe revealing the presidential candidates animus toward gay parents from his time as governor of Massachusetts. Today we get a vitriolic video that backs up the Globe's shocking claims. 

Zac Efron is allergic to clothes. It's a horrific and rare allergy that affects a growing number of metrosexuals and circuit queens with no known cure. Zac appeared on Ellen to discuss his harrowing near-death experiences with his severe allergic reactions, including a debilitating scene in The Paperboy that left him in nothing but his chonies. 

Follow the jump for the heart wrenching segment. 

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. 

Grab your dollar bills, EBC, Metro Cards, drink tickets, ANYTHING and follow the jump to watch the long awaited debut trailer for Paperboy, about a drenched Zac Efron dancing in his underwear in the rain (at least that's what we took from it). 

Put the "hump" in Hump Day after the break! 

A day after the Maryland Board of Elections officially certified a petition to place repeal of marriage equality on the November ballot, the Baltimore Sun has come out in favor of same-sex marriage. Details follow. 

Mark Regnerus made a household name for himself after touting dangerously flawed anti-gay talking points that attempted to undo decades worth of progress benefiting same-sex parents and their children. Now, as the University of Texas—where Regnerus holds his title—investigates what GLAAD calls a "scientifically unsound paper," the professor remains defiant.

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.