Today, the lovely Cyndi Lauper showed her "true colors" (sorry!), when she visited Capitol Hill to speak on behalf of homeless LGBT youth and advocate for programs that provide needed housing and support services.

More after the jump!

New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg released the city’s new budget and it cuts a whopping $7 million from New York City’s Runaway and Homeless Youth Services. The budget calls for the elimination of 160 youth shelter beds.

We’re sorry, what?

Instinct Leading Man, Carl Siciliano¸ the executive director of the Ali Forney Center, the leading provider of shelter to homeless LGBT youth immediately released a statement contesting this move on the part of Bloomberg’s administration. More after the jump.

Updated Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. EST

Pastor Harris has non-apologized for his non-Jesus like sermon calling for parents to beat their LGBT kids. Read what Harris has to say in the wake of national criticism, after the jump!

Cyndi Lauper is certainly earning her special honor from the Department of Health and Human Services (which she'll be presented with on May 9); while in D.C., Lauper plans to lobby President Obama and members of Congress on behalf of homeless LGBT youth. 

We've long known that bullying can lead reek mental damage on victims. But researchers from Duke University have found that it can also affect a victim's genes, causing health problems later in life. 

In their campaign to have adults stop talking about the LGBT community, the coalition of Missouri lawmakers pushing for a "Don't Say Gay" bill are the only ones engaging in unbecoming language that has no place within earshot of children.

Readers of hundreds of newspapers around the country will be treated to a historic gay prom storyline courtesy of the popular long-running comic strip Funky Winkerbean.

Isn't there a rule against crying on Fridays?

Well we've clearly broken it because we're a mess right now.

Check out this video by a group of LGBT students from the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance titled, "Dear 40-Year-Old Me," after the jump.

Friday, April 20 marks the official “Day of Silence” sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

According to GLSEN, “The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.”

Find out more after the jump!

Parodies of the "It Gets Better" campaign directed at homophobes are certainly nothing new, but the FCKH8 campaign has put a colorful (both literally and in regard to NSFW language) spin on the fun.

Watch "It Doesn't Get Better" after the jump!

Heart wrenching news to report out of Iowa today. Kenneth Weishuhn, a 14-year-old Iowan who came out as gay just last month, died from bullying-related suicide on Saturday.

Like #ToMyUnbornChild before it, another Twitter trending topic has solicited disgusting and violent anti-gay sentiment from homophobic users. If Child Protective Services didn't start following these child-related Twitter hashtags before, perhaps it will start after a flood of shocking entries to the #ThingsIGottaTeachMySon thread saturated the social network. Some of the most vile responses to the trending topic, after the jump.