Though the gayest U.S. state happens to be whichever one we're in at the time, Gallup has a different idea thanks to a massive 200,000 person study. While the rainbow might shine brightest in D.C., Gallup notes that these kinds of studies always include the caveat of people possibly not answering truthfully. Anyway, Gallup's results are after the jump!

The Uniting American Families Act—legislation that seeks to allow gay and lesbian Americans to sponsor their international partners for U.S. residency—was reintroduced into Congress on Tuesday. For the first time in the bill's history, the reintroduction included support from GOP lawmakers in the form of co-sponsors Reps. Richard Hanna (NY) and Charlie Dent (PA). 

The New York Times is giving its editorial position on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take on two marriage equalilty cases this session.

Check out their thoughts after the jump. 

This past August the U.S. Department of the Navy quietly updated its policy, which now allows HIV-positive Sailors and Marines to take overseas assignments and serve on select large ship platforms.

The move was so quiet, in fact, that it's just become known to the public. 

Prior to the policy change, HIV-positive servicemembers were forbidden from stepping foot on foreign soil, including during peace time and in non-combat zones. 

More after the jump. 

Americans age 15 to 64 should be receive regular HIV tests as they do for cholesterol, according to new guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. 

The Vatican, bruised from the historic outpouring of love that brought victory to the big four marriage equality battles earlier this month, won't go down without a fight. Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has made it clear that Catholic Church heirarchy are pissed off at the majorities of Americans who voted for love. To save humanity from the slippery slope that marriage equality has caused all around the world (ahem), the Big Man wearing the lace dress and chiffon robe will amp up the fight for the "privileged recognition" of opposite-sex marriage. 

We pinched ourselves when we woke this morning just to make sure the leaps and bounds of progress the LGBT community made on Election Night were real and not the stuff of our daiquiri dreams/blackout. 

While we still wait for a final call from Washington state, we can cheer on one of last night's biggest wins, the election of the first openly gay U.S. Senator in Wisconsin's Sen. Tammy Baldwin, as her victory speech is finally available online. 

Check out major LGBT history after the jump folks!

What's looking to be a historic night for the American LGBT community gets jumpstarted with Tammy Baldwin, whom multiple outlets have projected the winner of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat. With the win Baldwin becomes the very first openly gay U.S. Senator!

The Victory Fund has set up a "Congratulations" message you can e-mail to Senator Baldwin here. 

(Source: Reuters)

The library is open!

The family of Josh Mandel, a GOP candidate vying for one of Ohio's seats in the U.S. Senate, took out a full page ad in the Cleveland Jewish News to put their kin's homophobic campaign on full blast. 

So, what brilliance does Mandel's own family have to share with Ohio's voters about his opposition to the LGBT community? 

We're everywhere!

According to a new Gallup Poll out today, with its first sampling of 120,000 respondents, 3.4 percent of adults in the U.S. identify as an L, G, B or T.

See the poll results after the jump.

Midshipman Andrew Koch has been kicked out of the U.S. Navy ROTC program after officials learned that he moonlit as a gay porn model for FabScout under the name Patrick Hunter.

(Yes, his government name is much more suited for adult film!)

Details follow. 

The United States military has not erupted into a non-stop gay Bacchanalian orgy since repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," despite some early concerns from anti-gay officials. A new report from the Palm Center, the first scholarly effort to study the post-DAD military, paints quite the different picture, in fact.