The Centers for Disease Control has illuminated the LGBT community today by releasing the first set of national prevalence data on reported violence within same-sex relationships. With our first real grasp at the rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) LGBT members face in their relationships compare to the heterosexual community?

Pope Benedict has decided that the best way to honor International World Day of Peace 2013 (which arrives on January 1) is by once again demonizing gays and same-sex relationships as the evil that will end humanity.

So peaceful, right? 

Meryl Schenker's photo of Larry Duncan and Randy Shepard, taken as they received their marriage license in Washington yesterday, has had more 12,000 shares on Facebook. It's easy to see why: the unconventional gay couple shatters stereotypes perpetuated by homophobes and anti-gay groups such as the Family Research Council not only in appearance, but in their 11 committed years together. 

When told that his "wedding photo" went viral online, Randy laughed and said, “That’s just who we are."

Congratulations, Larry and Randy!

Leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus meeting today on Capitol Hill to discuss immigration reform emphasized the need for recognition of same-sex relationships in a comprehensive bill dealing with the matter. Details follow. 

Updated Monday, 1:30 p.m. EST

Unfortunately for Anderson Cooper, gays finally have their own real life celebrity love triangle/relationship drama unfolding in front of paparazzi cameras to obsess over.

Equality!

Fortunately for those of us either rooting for love or rooting for the mainstream attention paid to the LGBT tradition of "open relationshipos," a new video taken in Croatia shows Anderson and Ben together on vacation.  

The always outspoken Roseanne Barr appeared on Piers Morgan last night to promote her upcoming (can't wait!) Comedy Central Roast when the interview turned up into a ringing endorsement for the legitimacy of gay relationships.

Check out what Roseanne has to say about gay relationships after the jump!

Sometimes it seems like men on cruising sites and apps have more abs than meaningful words in their vocabulary. Mister, a Grindr competitor that launched in December, shows you the exact kind of monosyllabic "Brolish" cruisy lingo you won't find on its dating-focused GPS app. Find out what's "sup" after the jump!

Hmmm. We might have to ask our biological clocks to tick for another ten years.

Another day, another study proving that straights and gays both exhibit the same parenting lifestyles. 

Details follow. 

As harbingers of trends that are often adopted by the mainstream, gays might really be onto something with the community-accepted but society-taboo practice of open relationships. At least according to a small scienc-y study by the University of Michigan. Details follow. 

We're practically scratching the freshly applied highlights right off our new Grecian boy soldier-inspired haircut over this one, kids: Exodus International, perhaps the world's most notorious "ex gay" group often at odds with the LGBT community, has issued a very gay-positive statement. 

Just because its “higher ups” (read: the one man behind the hate group) took a half-hour Photoshop course at the local Learning Annex, the Florida Family Association thinks it can go and make a case of ANYTHING with hilarious graphics! Did the hate group (also responsible for the protest of TLC’s All-American Muslim) intend to invoke such an awesome sense of camp by calling out a popular online Star Wars video game for "LGBT demands"?

The Italian Supreme Court today ruled that its LGBT community is entitled to a "family life"—a precedent-setting ruling that many believe lays the foundation for marriage equality down the road. Details follow.