Separating the LGBT acronym in its analysis of FBI crime statistics for the first time has given the Williams Institute and the gay community a stark look at how gay men are disproportionately victimized by physically violent hate crimes.

Even as a president is outpaced along the evolutionary timeline by a vice president and as North Carolinians have to vote on enshrining redundant homophobia further into the state's law, the trend of Americans supporting civil equality continues federally, according to a new poll released today from Gallup. 

Delegates representing the eight million members of the Methodist Church voted this week to uphold its condemnation of homosexuality, calling it "incompatible with Christian teachings"

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. 

St. Philomena Catholic School in South London is on its way to an investigation after urging its schoolchildren—some as young as 11-years old—to sign a petition opposing civil marriage in the U.K. Details follow. 

A new poll from Public Religion Polling echoes results from previous surveys finding that a majority of American Millennials (young adults age 18 - 24) support marriage equality. 

We've reported on the handful of Washington parishes that have rejected calls from Catholic leaders in the state to promote and collect petitions in a campaign against the newly minted marriage equality law. Rev. Tim Clark, a priest at Seattle's Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, has added his parish to the roster of renegades—a move that parishioners met with a salvo of applause and a standing ovation. Details follow. 

As LGBT around the world prepare to either ignore or confront the requisite homophobes that show up at Pride season events every year, a clip making the rounds today shows Rosie O'Donnell schooling us all on how to take down haters with bullhorns. 

Though Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain has launched a Catholic petition drive in an effort to repeal Washington's newly minted marriage equality law, not all parishes are obliging. In fact, a growing coalition of Washington parishes are refusing to support the anti-gay measure. Details follow. 

In what could easily be mistaken for a hilarious guerrilla marketing ploy for Titanic 3-D, certified (and certifiable) hate group Truth In Action Ministries has released a video comparing the "homosexual agenda" to the iceberg that brought down the Titanic. Grab some popcorn and follow the jump for your daily dose of laugh out loud entertainment!

A study conducted by GLAAD in partnership with the University of Missouri Center on Religion and the Professions has found that pro-LGBT religious representatives are nearly invisible in the national media. Details follow. 

When brave LGBT students from Brigham Young University came out in an articulate and insta-viral "It Gets Better" video late last week, many wondered about the fate of their lives as students at the openly Mormon school. Well, today, BYU officials have released a statement letting us know how they plan to handle the "It Gets Better" students.