Los Angeles Times: As the Supreme Court prepares a decision on the fate of Proposition 8, nearly six in 10 California voters now believe same-sex marriage should be legal, with support rising among older voters and in all regions of the state, a new poll has found. The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll reveals that [...]

Somewhere, Ryan Skipper is smiling. No, Ryan Skipper is laughing, high-fiving, and doing the chicken dance. Or maybe that’s just us, upon hearing the recent state of affairs in Lakeland, Fla. One person who might not have gotten the anti-homophobia message is Sheriff Grady Judd The same place where, in 2007, 25-year-old Ryan Skipper was [...]

The coming out manifesto from free agent NBA center Jason Collins, published by Sports Illustrated, shows how far the struggle for equality and dignity for people of all sexual orientations has come.* Collins waited for another major league team sports professional to be the first to tell the world he or she was gay. None [...]

Many people who change their minds from being against marriage equality to being for it chalk up their “evolving” to knowing someone personally who is gay. Such was the case for Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who recently revealed that a) his son is gay, and b) he thinks gay people should be able to marry [...]

I admit I made a mistake, Piers. If I had the chance to do it again, I don’t think I would have taken the audience up on their choice. I had presented an entire performance, and I framed it as “truth,” and then I came out back for an encore, and they requested “reality.” What has consequently taken place ever since then is my manifestation of how little I think of reality. I know that it’s a stock in trade for a lot of the media to present things like that’s how it really is. But I don’t think the audience was ready for the consequences of that, and I surely have not been happy with it.

Former folk-pop star Michelle Shocked explaining her “God hates fags” rant onstage in San Francisco last month, speaking with CNN’s Piers Morgan.

Interesting comments are sometimes left on our posts, although there can be a time delay between when the post is written and when comments appear. We assume this happens because someone was doing a search for a topic and up we popped. So here’s a recent comment on an old post (May of 2011), from [...]

“Oral arguments.” Heh. (Sorry, I had to get that out of my system, and I think we’re all worse off for it.)

– The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) on Twitter on the day the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding about marriage equality.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that American attitudes toward marriage equality have turned upside down in the past 10 years — and then some. Where a decade ago 55 percent of registered voters said gay adults should be excluded from marriage to the fellow adult they love, today 58 percent say they should [...]

If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.

– Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, at the company’s annual meeting. Schultz was responding to a shareholder who suggested that a boycott by people against marriage equality, which Starbucks supports, was hurting the bottom line.

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Americans who support marriage equality, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. The same survey showed that only 24% consider being gay a lifestyle choice instead of a simple biological fact.