A new poll released by Public Policy Polling reveals that New Jersey and Illinois could follow Maine, Maryland and Washington's lead in approving marriage equality by way of the ballot box. Details (and other noteworthy stats) from the new poll after the jump!

With Election Day looming, one of our 2012 Instinct Leading Men, Ryan James Yezak, has an important message for you if you're "Gay and Voting For Mitt Romney."

Check out what the filmmaker behind the "The Gay Rights Movement" and the upcoming feature documentary Second Class Citizens has to say after the jump!

When Lady Gaga's not crying over the lack of Adele fat jokes she's being a fierce advocate for marriage equality!

Check out her message to her Little Monsters in Maine, Washington, Maryland, and Minnesota after the jump!

A new eleventh hour ad from Marylanders for Marriage Equality tones down the gay to help remaining undecided voters understand that the issue affects the entire state community. Check out the smart spot after the jump. 

A Gallup report reveals that the LGBT voting population in the United States could potentially be the deciding factor in who wins the Presidential election.

See their findings after the jump.

A group of African-American pastors have announced a $1 million anti-Obama ad campaign in response to the president’s support of marriage equality. And color us shocked, they’re of course trying to play racial politics while “preaching the word of God” at the same time. More after the jump.

And Tony Perkins wonders why his Family Research Council gets labeled as a hate group?

It couldn't possibly be because he and the group try to inflame anti-gay sentiment by drawing baseless correlations between the gays and well...everything.

Perkins tries to tie the lowered number of military absentee voters to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" after the jump.

Same-sex marriage support is consistently on the rise--we've highlighted the major upswing amongst the African-American community--and now NBC Latino is reporting increased support amongst the Latino Community as well.

More after the jump.

The frequent marriage equality polling conducted by the New York Times and CBS has finally caught up with what similar surveys have been reporting for a few years now to reveal that a majority of Americans support marriage equality. 

As new polls show support for Minnnesota's proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex either in the lead or in a dead-heat tie with the opposition, the Venturas have come out publicly to urge voters to vote no. Video after the jump. 

Jesse Jackson stopped by SiriusXM's OutQ station to urge Maryland voters to support marriage equality at the ballot box in November. 

So, what message does Jesse have for voters in the Old Line State?

Former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chairman Julian Bond penned an op-ed aiming to increase the discussion of same-sex marriage within the African-American community. 

The opinion piece was published in Afro-American newspaper, which is notable because the paper circulates in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Maryland will be the site of a voter referendum on same-sex marriage in November and 25 percent of the state's voters are African-American. 

Check out Bond's piece, "Why Marriage In Maryland Matters" after the jump!