EuroPride 2012 organizers may have hit the jackpot by selecting London as the host city for this year's major festivities: according to a new poll from YouGov and released by Stonewall, attendees will be embraced by a population that overwhelmingly supports marriage equality!

We'd get on our knees before Matthew Mitcham if ever given the opportunity, so its nice to see that he'd respond to our gesture with a million dollar smile and the words "I do." 

In a surprising revelation that stopped short of endorsing marriage equality, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush rightly says that loving same-sex parents should "be held up as examples for others."

Inspiring us to throw our hands over our heads instead of our ankles for once, a recent sermon by the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes of the Friendship-West Baptist Church takes his congregation, fellow pastors and larger Christian community to task for criticizing President Obama's marriage equality evolution. 

Watch the powerful video after the jump.

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin has gone all ladyfingers Carrie Prejean ever since Miss USA winner Olivia Culpo took the title tiara after coming out in support of transgender contestants.

While throwing a transphobic tantrum, Sheena announced she's had enough of the Miss USA organization (but later sidestepped that excuse to say she's resigning due to the event "being rigged"). 

A new poll from CNN/ORC provides great news (the highest majority of Americans yet are in favor of marriage equality) before reminding us we still have plenty of work ahead (a large majority still believes that gays can turn straight). The bittersweet details follow. 

In early May we reported that the Methodist Church had disappointingly voted to uphold its view that homosexuality "is incompatible with Christian teaching." A month later, hundreds of ministers and lay persons within the Church have decided to reject last month's vote and sign on to a pro-LGBT statement. Details follow. 

Expanding on her husband's evolution, Michelle Obama had nothing but love for the LGBT in an answer to a Twitter question about marriage equality. 

So, what does the First Lady have to say about the Obama family's evolution toward supporting same-sex marriage? 

A new poll out of Washington provides some breathing room for LGBT activists fighting to keep the state's newly minted marriage equality law the law of the land against a possible referendum this fall. 

There aren't many souls who would defend Pastor Charles Worley's call for the extermination of gays by way of electrified fence encampments, but the handful of lost sheeple who would should be studied by science. One head case who will be met by history with the same intense eye roll she defaults to in lieu of making a coherent argument was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night.  

Thanks to President Obama, homophobic forces hoping to repeal marriage equality in Maryland now face an increasingly uphill battle. Details after the jump. 

Target is really aiming (hardy har) to get on our good side these days!

Though higher ups at the bulls-eye insist the new line of Pride t-shirts has zilch to do with that massive 2010 donation to anti-gay politico Tom Emmer, with 100 percent of sales going to the Family Equality Council, would criticizing the retailer nowadays just be splitting hairs? (Details follow.)