Via press release from VH1: Yesterday on VH1’s “Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagan,” The Home Depot proposal couple, Dustin & Spencer stopped by to tell the story behind their viral video that’s already received over 10 million views on YouTube! Betty Who, whose song “Somebody Loves You” was the music used in the flash mob proposal, was also …

Stand by for that garage door to be ripped down and sold for a jillion dollars in one of the nearby fancy galleries. (Via Gothamist)

“I know a lot about the Southern Poverty Law Center, and I’m sure it’s not comforting for them to know that I can share that information with the law enforcement community. This is a very dangerous group. We are not advocating that homosexuality be illegal. What we have advocated is that marriage should be preserved in our laws as the …

Today Queer Nation launched Tell Coke, a website that directs visitors to email Coca-Cola executives to express objections to their “multi-billion dollar investment in Russia” and their sponsorship of the Sochi Olympics. Hit the link to send the prepared messages.

Homocon billionaire Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and who hosted Ann Coulter in his Manhattan apartment for a GOProud fundraiser, is one of the largest financial backers of Sen. Ted Cruz.  Tech site Valleywag goes off: It’s an odd marriage of interests, the sort Cruz otherwise opposes as a matter of principle: Peter Thiel is a pot-smoking gay man, which …

Performed at yesterday’s “First Annual Ex-Gay Awareness Dinner” in Washington DC, this (presumably) is the winning entry in their theme song contest. Sample lyric: “Live your life for all to see, walk in great integrity, laying down your life and serving those you lead, this is your destiny.” UPDATE: A reader points out that Jernigan is a former vice president …

Surprisingly, I don’t hate this. I denounce myself!

The Iowa Court of Appeals today upheld the conviction of Nick Rhoades, a gay man who did not disclose his HIV+ status to a sex partner he met online in 2008. His partner, who did not become infected, called police after learning of the man’s HIV status even though condoms were used during their encounter. At his trial, Rhoades pleaded …

In what activists hope may lead to a repeal of Russia’s national “homosexual propaganda” ban, a local court has agreed with a 2012 ruling by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and dismissed the charges against activist Irina Fet, who was arrested in 2009 after holding the above “Homosexuality Is Normal” sign.  Gay Star News reports: Ryazan regional court today …

Posted to the Facebook page of the Democratic Party.

The Christian Post reports that “about 60 Christian leaders and ex-gay individuals” attended yesterday’s “First Annual Ex-Gay Awareness Dinner,” which was held in a super-secret bunker deep under Washington DC. “When gays come out of the closet they are celebrated in the movies and on TV, when an ex-gay tells his story, he’s mocked, ridiculed, defamed – and ask Trace …

Last year Washington DC’s Gallaudet University suspended its chief diversity officer Angela McCaskill after it was learned that she had signed a Maryland petition against same-sex marriage. McCaskill instantly became the martyr-du-jour of anti-gay groups even though many on the left also denounced her suspension. The school reinstated her three months later, but yesterday she filed a lawsuit. Her lawsuit …

Brooklyn City Councilwoman Letitia James won yesterday’s runoff to succeed Bill De Blasio as New York City Public Advocate. She is the first black woman to win citywide office. Ms. James, 54, defeated Daniel L. Squadron, 33, a state senator from Brooklyn and Manhattan, by nearly 60 percent of the vote to about 40 percent. Because there is no Republican …

Not as zingful as yesterday’s House Of Turds cover, but we’ll take it.

“I regard this development as one of the more insidious and anti-constitutional acts of racist vandalism against the American republic in my adult lifetime. Those who keep talking as if there are two sides to this, when there are not, are as much a part of the vandalism as Ted Cruz. Obama has played punctiliously by the constitutional rules – …

The Family Research Council today added four more names to next week’s cavalcade of crackpots in Washington, DC, where attendees can attend “breakout sessions that will answer the tough questions on marriage, religious liberty, Obamacare, and standing up for Israel.”

Via email: The only question is which is worse, the slogan “Fun Between the Buns” or the graphic that is included with it? Parents do not want their children repeating the slogan, and the graphic is equally disturbing because it is symbolizing nudity. Everything between the top and bottom hamburger buns is pixelated, including condiments, meat, cheese and other toppings. …