Now this is what we call Congressional support! 

Minnesota Senator Al Franken's Washington D.C. and Minnesota staff members both showed solidarity with the LGBT community by dressing as a rainbow for Halloween!

Each staff also held up signs encouraging Minnesota voters to vote "no" on the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. 

Take a look after the jump.

Tear-soaked $20 bills were hopefully handed over to benefit Maryland marriage equality Tuesday night after Adam Lambert's gut-wrenching and appropriately intimate performance of "Outlaws of Love." Check it out after the jump.

Updated Wednesday, 11 a.m. EST

Madonna has had to explain her latest provocative on stage joke to the sudden rush of tea baggers flocking to her alter after she said "we have a black Muslim in the White House."

So, what does Her Madgesty have to say about the humor that has escaped some Americans?

In a rash of recent vandalism targeted towards LGBT-based publications in Washington D.C., newspaper boxes containing the gay magazine, Metro Weekly  have been filled with garbage and human feces.

Issues have also been removed and trashed in bulk. 

More after the jump.

As sympathies and heartfelt pleas for an avoidance of violence continues to pour in from both conservatives and liberals (excluding NOM, however), the FBI has released more telling details about alleged Family Research Council shooter Floyd Corkins. 

Updated 6:07 p.m. EST

The FRC shooter has been identified as Floyd Corkins, 28, of Herndon, Virginia. More after the jump.

In sobering contrast to Monday's opening optimism from Sec. Hillary Clinton, a panel of experts presented a bleak warning: the end of AIDS in America is nothing but a dream unless financial roadblocks are removed. 

The D.C. police are investigating an attack on a young gay couple as they were walking home as a possible anti-gay hate crime. Details follow. 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time out of her busy texting schedule to deliver yet another speech that will go down in the LGBT history books. Follow the jump to check out Hillz's full keynote given today at the opening of the annual International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C.

Guess it wasn't exactly a blissful union when Jitters & Bliss decided to exploit the National Organization for Marriage's "Dump Starbucks" campaign by offering their customers a "Preferred Homophobic" discount of sorts. Details follow. 

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.

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.