The U.K.'s Stonewall organization polled 1,007 folks to find out which song from the past decade was the most empowering for the LGBT community. Find out which pop hit took the top spot, after the jump!

The GOP's very first openly-gay presidential candidate Fred Karger is an underdog in the race for a 2012 nomination, but news that he's just won a straw poll in New Hampshire should help give the LGBT activist a boost of legitimacy. Details follow...

A new survey by the UK Film Council asked respondents about the representation of minorities in movies. So what did the study reveal about the public's perception of gay characters?

Displaying yet again the great divide between homophobic Republican lawmakers and the constituents they're supposedly working in the interest of, a new poll finds the majority of Indiana voters oppose Wednesday's progress on anti-gay amendments.

We wear our not-hearts on the sleeves of our Prada periwinkle caftan/blouse hybrid, so it's no secret that we do not heart Huckabee. The latest reason we're shaking our head at the Huckster? He wants to reinstate "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it's "what the military wants."

Full story after the jump. 

Are activists and organizations for marriage equality completely missing the point when reaching out to the moveable middle? The Baltimore Sun has a new piece on how same-sex marriage is interrpreted by the general public, and how our LGBT leaders may be missing the mark.

Numbers released today by The Washington Post and ABC marks the first time a majority of Americans support marriage equality in its regular polling. Follow the jump for the details.

...but don't expect House Republicans to pay any attention. Follow the jump for more eye-opening numbers from a just-released HRC poll on DOMA.

If you heard mysterious dramatic weeping around lunch time it likely originated from the Instinct office today where some of us wept into the creatine-spiked margaritas we drank for lunch after receiving word that Britney Spears is not -- as the Washington Post and Toronto Sun erroneously reported -- the greatest gay icon.

Seems the Post and the Sun relied on an article stemming from a fake poll, which itself stemmed from a fake organization called the Orange County Equality Project. The South Florida Gay News, obviously not fans of Britney Spears, sniffed out the true story. 

After SFGN reported Saturday that the Washington Post and Toronto Sun may have relied on a fake news story about Britney Spears being...

On the day of the highly-controversial National Prayer Breakfast (which President Obama decided to speak at, despite organizers The Fellowship's well-known ties to the homophobic genocide movement in Uganda), a new Gallup poll shows that the number of Americans who want organized religion to play a part in politics is on the rise. Conversely, the number of Americans who want less religion in their government is on the decline. Still, both numbers rest at 29%, while a majority of Americans (39%) simply want the level of religious interference in our politics to remain the same. Interesting. 

A new HRC report on the LGBT-issues surveyed in America over the past few years shows that President Obama could not be more at odds with the American majority. In 1996, when Obama voiced support for marriage equality, the majority of Americans were against it (75%). In 2010, when Obama vocally opposed marriage rights for gay couples, a majority of Americans (52%) supported equality.

Other fun facts gleaned from HRC's Polling Report (found at www.hrc.org/pollingreport) include:

In 2009, 89% of Americans believed LGBT should have equal rights when it comes to employment.

In 2010, 77% of people polled said they know someone who identifies as LGBT, compared with 42% in 1992. 

Britney Spears has tapped much in her life (hardy, har), but no tapping quite as ambitious as her just-announced plans to utilize her Facebook fanbase to release her new single, "Hold It Against Me." Instead of solidifying a release date for the song, Brit's record label will keep it under wraps until 2 million people ask for it on Facebook using a unique Britney widget that could be made available as early as Monday, January 10. My guess is that getting 2 million Facebook fans to spread the request around will only take a few hours at most, meaning we could be listening to new Britney in a matter of days! Stay tuned to Instinct online for more news and the Facebook widget as soon as it arrives. 

In other Britney news, MTV asked thousands...