Via Raw Story: A woman who hopes to be Alaska’s next U.S. senator recently uploaded video of herself speaking in tongues while fully clothed in a steam room. “I’m at the Alaska Club West and I’m spending a little time in the steam room with Suzie,” Republican candidate Kathleen Tonn said in the video, which was uploaded to YouTube on …

Right here. (Tipped by JMG readers Shane & Christopher)

At tonight’s Grammy Awards, Queen Latifah will officiate the on-stage mass weddings of 34 couples, including gay couples. At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, pop’s megastars will compete for the music industry’s most prestigious trophy, and put on flashy performances that are sure to ricochet through social media. But the producers behind the program, which is to be broadcast …

Via press release from Lambda Legal: Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto late yesterday issued a statement declaring that her office was reconsidering the State’s arguments in Lambda Legal’s lawsuit challenging Nevada’s discriminatory marriage ban, Sevcik v. Sandoval, in light of the recent U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in GlaxoSmithKline v. Abbott Laboratories. Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Tara …

In the growing campaign to shame Olympic advertisers, activists are using the website of Coca-Cola South Africa, where you can personalize a Coke can and click to share it on social media. I used the above message and added the McDonald’s hashtag #CheersToSochi.  (Tipped by JMG reader Mark) NOTE: If you try to type the word “gay” you get this …

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is running for the Senate seat to be vacated by the retiring Saxby Chambliss. South Carolina state Rep. Lee Bright is challenging Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) in the GOP primary. And both are giving away AR-15 assault rifles to draw attention to their campaigns. From Paul Broun: “How would you like to start off 2014 with …

Yesterday The Case Against 8 won the Best Documentary Direction prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The Case Against 8 / U.S.A. (Directors: Ben Cotner, Ryan White) — A behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to …

“A homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.” It just gets weirder and weirder. (Tipped by JMG reader Molly)

From the South Dakota Democratic Party: “SB 67 was introduced in the South Dakota state legislature on January 21. It allows discriminatory businesses to refuse service to the LGBT community. We must stop SB 67 from becoming law. Please sign the petition if you believe discrimination against any South Dakotans for who they are has no place in our laws. …

Multiple news outlets in Seattle are reporting that the suspect in the New Year’s Eve arson attempt at the popular gay nightclub Neighbours might have been identified. Reports conflict on whether the police have named the man as a “person of interest” or if they are just “interested in talking to him.” The man being discussed is well-known to local …

JMG reader MarkOH directs your attention to the upper left hand corner at the 1:00 mark. I didn’t know that Sweden was IN Afghanistan. (Via Towleroad)

Let’s stop the gays by banning ALL marriages! State lawmakers are considering throwing out marriage in Oklahoma. The idea stems from a bill filed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Edmond). Turner says it’s an attempt to keep same-sex marriage illegal in Oklahoma while satisfying the U.S. Constitution. Critics are calling it a political stunt while supporters say it’s what Oklahomans want. …

Two days ago Democratic Nevada Attorney General Catherine Masto earned widespread criticism when she filed a defense brief that compared same-sex marriage to incest and bigamy. Last night Masto declared that she is reconsidering that brief in light of the Ninth Circuit Court’s application of heightened scrutiny in an unrelated ruling that gays cannot be peremptorily booted off of juries. …

The State Department today warned American athletes not to wear US-branded apparel outside of the official Olympic venues while in Russia. “The U.S. Department of State has advised that wearing conspicuous Team USA clothing in non-accredited areas may put your personal safety at greater risk,” says the memo, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The memo details other …

Remember last year when NOM held a DC hate march and hardly anybody showed up? Remember all their press releases saying, ‘Huh uh! We did too have eleventy jillion marchers!” And then they kept downgrading their own attendance numbers? Well, they going to try again. Here’s our favorite photo from last year and its reboot. All my coverage from the …

“The Australian Olympic Committee has been really supportive and they want me to be safe. They don’t recommend me waving a [rainbow] flag around which I won’t do. The most I’ll do is hold up six fingers to represent Principle Six. Possibly I’ll do it on camera here or there, and maybe after the heats of my event. After I …

Via press release from AFER: The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of Bostic v. Rainey, the federal constitutional challenge to Virginia’s discriminatory Marriage Amendment, issued the following statement regarding U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen’s order seeking Status Reports from all parties in the case regarding whether oral argument on the issues presented is …