This weekend Kylie Minogue closed out the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, where openly gay divers Tom Daley and Matthew Mitcham both won gold medals. (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

Posted to the Facebook page of pop singer Joss Stone, who is touring Europe.

Via the Sydney Morning Herald: Parliament is heading for a historic vote on same-sex marriage in which all MPs will be free to vote according to their conscience. The Coalition party rooms are likely to decide on a conscience vote during the coming spring session of Parliament, with one Liberal MP saying it is now ”almost certain” the party will …

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The third-ever gay pride event was held in Hanoi this weekend. Around 300 activists led a colourful parade through Hanoi on Sunday in the nation’s largest ever gay pride event, as communist Vietnam shows signs of increasing tolerance of sexual difference. The city streets were awash with rainbow flags, as a mainly young crowd cycled and danced through the capital …

Clip recap: I’m back on the East Coast this week, reporting on AFER’s huge victory in Virginia. The fourth circuit has upheld a ruling that the state’s marriage ban is unconstitutional. There’s been immediate fallout from that ruling in several nearby states. We also have new southern polling, and victory in Alaska, but only for dead people.

Featuring a very buff Nick Jonas.

This week Erasure frontman Andy Bell released his fourth solo album, which carries the provocative title Torsten, The Bareback Saint. Reviewers are raving about the album’s unusual premise. This album, to be performed live at the Edinburgh Festival from 5-16 August, is possibly Bell’s finest vocal outing. Strong and well-tuned, his voice is nothing short of superb and the songs, …

Via the Huffington Post: Mary’s Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is offering a 15 percent “praying in public” discount. Owner Mary Haglund confirmed the discount to The Blaze on Friday saying that she has actually been offering the rebate for four years now. The discount, which she said is not aligned with any singular religious affiliation, hasn’t been advertised …

Tea Party supporters are already furious at Chipotle for asking “open carry” nuts not to bring their weapons into their outlets. This weekend ten of thousands of teabaggers shared a Tea Party News Network post which declares that Chipotle is run by communists. After Chipotle declared that they were prohibiting patrons from exercising their Second Amendment rights in their restaurants, …

Oxford University’s Out Of The Blue a capella group has earned 3.3M views on their Shakira cover, sales of which benefit a British children’s hospice. The top comment on YouTube (with 600+ likes) rips some of the reactions to their performance: I love the ‘omg so gay’ comments. These guys are going to be drowning in pussy! You know why? …

Back in January a federal court overturned Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage.  Acting on behalf of Tulsa County Clerk Sally Howe Smith, the Alliance Defending Freedom appealed that ruling to the Tenth Circuit Court, who upheld the lower court’s ruling last month. Late Friday evening the Alliance Defending Freedom announced that it was appealing the Tenth Circuit ruling to SCOTUS. …

American Atheists have launched Atheist TV, which for now is available only through Roku and online. Via the New York Times: At a party on Tuesday night celebrating the premiere, David Silverman, president of American Atheists, described a channel that won’t be any of the sordid things that certain religious types might envision, but that will be a challenge to …

From the Houston Chronicle: City of Houston officials plan to announce Monday whether a petition submitted by opponents of the city’s new nondiscrimination ordinance contains enough valid signatures to force a vote on repealing the measure this November. Opponents claimed to have gathered and verified 31,000 names, but City Attorney David Feldman said Friday many of the more than 5,000 …

They are very upset about this over at Twitchy.

“Gay activists are getting desperate. They can’t seem to convince legislators that states should promote ‘marriage equality’ for gay-identified individuals, while at the same time deny #TherapyEquality for those who do not believe they are born gay and seek to resolve the issues that lead to their unwanted homosexual feelings. That’s because it doesn’t make sense. You can’t demand equality …

There’s also a better non-embeddable video stream with live commentary in Dutch. (Tipped by JMG reader Dieter)

Yes, some people actually called 911.