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?

The Academy Awards are itself are a gay man's dream of pomp & circumstance, dresses with trains and costume jewelry. But as far as the awards and nominations in the history of the Oscars go, the nods to LGBT roles or gay-specific films might seem few and far between. Thankfully, a helpful infograph from Farsite Forecast using Nate Silver's renowned equations puts it all into pansy perspective. 

In sobering news (though it's Monday so practically everything is sobering news), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has announced that sexual orientation based crime is the second most frequent hate crime committed, second only to crimes based on race. 

This is according to the 2011 Hate Crimes statistics.

More after the jump.

The world might be cautiously optimistic after the United Nations recently said an end to the AIDS epidemic might be in sight, but one of the most at-risk populations—young American men—aren't doing enough to make that dream a reality, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. 

Does it matter that Nate Silver--this Presidential election's real superstar--is gay? 

David Badash at The New Civil Rights Movement makes a strong argument for why it may. 

Check it out his piece on the statitician who accurately predicted how ALL FIFTY states would vote in this year's Presidential election (and who's making life sexier for nerds everywhere). 

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It's the time of year when we start to take stock of the past 12 months, and the news isn't always good. Take for instance the TransRespect Versus Transphobia Project, which released its 2012 statistics on Wednesday to display an unfortunate rise in transphobic murders. 

With all four states that put same-sex marriage on the ballot now officially called, we can finally take a closer look at the numbers behind last night's incredible victories for the LGBT community. A few just released exit polls are letting us know who we can send thank flowers to for the historic 2012 elections...and which group that most needs our help evolving over the next few years.

The 2012 Out & Equal Workplace Study's most headline worthy headline focuses on heterosexuals for a change to reveal an increasingly welcoming environment for the LGBT working force. Details follow. 

China understands the significance of approving its first ever AIDS Walk and has bestowed upon it a worthy setting: the Great Wall. Details follow.

On the heels of last week's bleak report from the Black AIDS Institute arrives some much-needed enthusiastic news.

In a study conducted by San Francisco University and presented over the weekend at the 19th Annual AIDS Conference in D.C., researchers unveiled statistics showing that black gay couples use condoms more than white gay couples. 

Anti-gay violence declined in 2011, according to the annual report on hate crime statistics by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, but anti-LGBT murders increased. What gives?

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.