Any hopes of fine-tuning our Gaydar to make for less awkward moments at the gym have been dashed by a new study out of the University of Washington. 

Well now they've done it. “fun.,” the artists behind our theme song “We Are Young” that we play every night before we go out (because we're still young, dammit!), have not only forced their music into our heads, but now the band’s managed to make their way into our hearts.

Check out what the group has to say about marriage equality and their plans to support the movement after the jump!

Oooh! Luke MacFarlane, on-stage within touching distance? Sign us up!

Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) announced today that fresh off their Broadway run, Luke MacFarlane, Patrick Breen, and Christopher J. Hanke will be leading the national tour of the play, The Normal Heart.

Details after the jump.

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. 

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. 

There’s something seriously wrong when you can be fired for being gay in our nation’s capital.

Peter TerVeer was employed by the Library of Congress, but now claims that discrimination based on his sexual orientation and religious beliefs led to his firing.

More after the jump.

Ooh! This is pretty special.

The NAMES Project Foundation/AIDS Memorial Quilt has announced that in honor of its 25th anniversary this year, The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be returning to Washington, D.C., in its entirety this June and July.

More after the jump.

Last night over a hundred people from Cashmere, Washington, came together to explore the issues surrounding the death of Rafael Morelos, an openly gay 14-year-old boy who committed suicide two months ago. Did anyone foresee this tragedy? And what is the community doing to prevent such instances in the future?

With pressure continuing to build regarding President Obama’s “evolving” stance on marriage equality—many members of the LGBT community just want him to take a solid, public stance on the issue—it comes as no surprise, that the President’s advisers “have held serious discussions with leading Democrats about the upsides and downsides of coming out for gay marriage before the fall election,” according to a Democratic strategist connected to Obama’s inner circle.

These discussions have invited some interesting debate.

More after the jump.

Three people have been hospitalized this past week after being attacked in Washington, D.C. Two of the incidents are being considered hate crimes with the third being investigated as a possible hate crime. More after the jump.

Father Marcel Guarnizo has plenty of times on his rosary-laced hands now that he's been suspended by the Archdiocese of Washington. In fact, he's utilized a healthy portion of his new-found freedom to write a lengthy statement to the Catholic News Agency, explaining his side of the allegations that he turned a woman's funeral into a homophobia freak show. Details follow. 

We're getting our first look at how Washington voters will be presented with an effort to repeal marriage equality in the state at the ballot in November. A judge has denied the homophobes' effort to wedge "redefining marriage" into the repeal's language and has instead approved a summary that will be less charged when voters head into the booth. Read the final language for referendum, after the jump.