From a new poll conducted by the Human Rights Campaign: The poll shows that Christians of all ages support LGBT equality. In fact, 68 percent of Christians favor protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations compared. This number is in line with the 70 percent of overall respondents who favor such protections. 74 percent of Christians …

Over the weekend comedian Lisa Lampanelli vowed to donate $1000 to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis for every Westboro protester that show up at her Topeka, Kansas show.

World Net Daily is upping the birther ante, now claiming that presidential candidates must have been born to U.S. citizens in order to be eligible. And that lets out two major GOP figures. Are U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal natural-born citizens of the United States, and thus eligible for the presidency? It’s a simple …

Following the launch of a protest campaign by AmericaBlog Gay, several major corporations have denounced Tennessee’s pending bill which would ban all local LGBT rights laws. The bill was backed by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, where the companies below sit on its board of directors. Via HRC: Alcoa:“Alcoa provides equal employment opportunity without discrimination and supports state and local …

As I reported yesterday, late Saturday night the Minnesota House voted 70-62 to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot. Here’s a recap of the story from a local CBS affiliate.

If you use the popular service Twitpic to post photos to Twitter, here’s some interesting news. World Entertainment News Network, a news and photo agency, announced this month that it had become the “exclusive photo agency partner” of Twitpic, a service with over 20 million registered users that allows people to upload images and link to them on Twitter. The …

Queerty writes: We criticized the NYC pro-equality ads featuring two milquetoast lesbians as failing to meet the emotional pitch and engagement of their “queers will turn all kids and churches gay” ad. Well, this week NOM delivered totally predictable mailers with more of the same blather, but we thought, “Why not take off the kid gloves and aggressively respond with …

Last night I met Ben Cohen at a Chelsea gay bar, where he was raising funds for his anti-homophobia campaign. Also in the house was champion wrestler Hudson Taylor. I’ll post a slideshow later today. PS: Ben is completely sweet.

“It’s almost all bad news this week.”

Watch every second of this. It will both break your heart and thrill you.

Harold Camping remains in hiding, but shortly after 6pm yesterday news crews in Times Square descended on his NYC rep, Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired MTA worker who spent his entire savings of $140,000 to post rapture billboards and placards all over NYC transit.

According to a new study due out from Ohio State University, most people can correctly guess a man’s sexual orientation by listening to recordings of the way he pronounces his vowels. They asked seven gay and seven heterosexual males to record single-syllable words (including “mass,” “food” and “sell”) and then played the recordings for listeners. The study participants were then …

SNL was actually funny last night, thanks to Lady Gaga and host Justin Timberlake. NBC’s embed code for the below clip wants to install a pop-up, so we’ll go with this probably short-lived rip from YouTube.

Yet another major GOP politician has seen the writing on the 2012 wall. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said early Sunday that he won’t run for president because of family considerations, narrowing the field in the race for the GOP nomination. “In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one,” the Republican said, disclosing his decision in …

On Friday the Family Research Council fired out the above press release “celebrating” the news that thanks to this Queerty post, the “truth” about the real goal of the LGBT movement has now been exposed. Last week NOM and the Concerned Women of America issued similar statements about Queerty’s article.