5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 22

1. ThinkProgress on how a gay, married actor ended up playing the lead role in an anti-gay TV show called “Recently Straight.” 2. Meet Congressman Paul Ryan's number one hater, and read The Daily Beast's biz...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 21

1. “We need a uniform federal standard that protects all LGBT Americans from discrimination.” From our Next Steps Department, Democrats in Congress plan to introduce broad legislation this week to protect LGBT ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, April 17

1. “ don’t focus their energy on anything but the attempt to gather more power here in this country by using this issue of same-sex marriage as a tool.” Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked 2016 presidenti...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 12

1. “The change in people’s attitudes on that issue has been enormous. In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor -- we’re ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Dec. 9

1. Ouch. The Daily Beast on “The rise and fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America's worst gay power couple.” Hughes, a Facebook co-founder, is under fire for how he has handled ownership of liberal maga...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 14

1. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are apparently not happy that the court decided not to take up a same-sex marriage case last month. 2. The federal judge who threw out Kentuc...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 7

1. Buzzfeed on whether the Supreme Court is the next stop after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee yesterday. 2. Pollsters don't typica...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Oct. 21

1. "Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.” President Obama says there's a constitutional right to marriage equality in this New Yorker interview. ...