The Human Rights Campaign has just announced that American Foundation for Equal Rights' founding board member Chad Griffin will replace Joe Solmonese as the org's president. Details follow. 

We hear the Balitmore Aquarium is a great spot for a wedding, and we look forward to it being a gay wedding as we add one more state to the list in our battles won for nationwide marriage-equality. Today Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed the bill that will give gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in the state. The new law will take effect January 2013. So what happens now? 

Brad Pitt's beard (not Angie nor her leg!) will finally get some use other than becoming the punchline in late night jokes: the still-hot star has been revealed as a late addition to the cast of Dustin Lance Black's West Coast debut of 8. Details follow. 

As Prop 8 slowly winds its way around the court system, more and more Californians are being exposed to our stories of love, stories that we've known would change hearts and minds. The latest Field Poll shows that it's working, finding for the first time a whopping 59 percent of California voters supporting same-sex marriage. 

Destinie Mogg-Barkalow, a student journalist at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, was physically assaulted after writing a pro same-sex marriage editorial for the student newspaper, The Comment.

Following the major Proposition 8 ruling made earlier this month by the Ninth District Court of Appeals, supporters of the discriminatory ban on marriage equality had two choices: elevate the case to the Supreme Court or present the case to a larger set of Ninth Circuit judges for review. According to reports, it appears that Prop 8 backers have made their decision.

We couldn’t help but have a little moisture in our eyes when we watched The Wedding Dance, a short film by Instinct friend, Elliot London, which hit the virtual big screen yesterday. Even those of us who plan on spending our evening with Ryan Seacrest as our Valentine got a little faklempt when we saw the…. Now we don’t want to give away the ending, do we? Catch this heart-string-tugging vid after the jump.

Efforts to get a repeal of California’s Proposition 8 on the ballot in 2012 have ceased. 

If there remained any LGBT unaware of the leaps and bounds marriage equality achieved across the country this week, they wouldn't have learned about any of it from President Obama during a pricey Thursday night fundraiser! Why? The President refused to go anywhere near marriage equality's huge progress, deciding to instead champion himself for dismantling "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and loosely reference the American value of "fairness." See the extent to which Obama pats himself on his back in front of LGBT who paid $38,000 per person to hear him speak, after the jump!

Dallas-based radio host Kellie Raspberry is under fire today after coming out against marriage equality on the popular nationally-syndicated morning show, Kidd Kraddick. Details follow.

Thanks to the invention of Siri from gay-heathen-sympathizers Apple, the homosezzual agenda has never been closer to completion. With Prop 8 on its final legs because of that "rouge circuit"'s judicial activism, the spread of Obamacare socialism and the hippies in Washington state forcing innocent heterosexual children into gay marriages, what should the god-fearing santorum's of the world have to look forward to? Thankfully, BuzzFeed's Matt Stopera has curated heavily-researched images from the world of scientific FACT to give us a glimpse at a our future now that Jesus-approved traditional marriage is officially threatened by sodomites. Follow the jump for more!

A&E's Dog The Bounty Hunter might gain a new audience after Wednesday night's episode saw the notorious Chapman bounty hunting family duct-tape their mouths in support of marriage equality. Details and video follow.