A nominee for "hottest gay gay advocate" is Rep. Brian Sims (D-Pennsylvania). More here if you're not already overly, suspiciously familiar with him.

They  had caras then.

Iconic Spanish actress Sara "Sarita" Montiel also died yesterday.

Marc Jacobs and boy-toy get frisky in public.

Sara Gilbert & Linda Perry engaged!

GREEK ACTIVE: Homophobic ad protested, pulled.

Amanda Bynes is morphing into Angelyne.

DEEN MOM: Farrah Abraham $exing pornstar.

"Accidental Racist" = worst song ever.

Madonna stepped on the president's toes in Malawi.

Amsterdam vs. Putin.

Parties break out over Thatcher's death.

Morrissey: Thatcher was "without an atom of humanity."

Hazing-death defendants plead not guilty.

Vatican advisor on who doesn't deserve communion.

2 House GOPers in Illinois down with marriage equality.

Glenn Beck: "Gay marriage advocates have won..."

Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pennsylvania) running for guv.

New Totally Tyler book = Boys, Booze & Bootycalls.

AY, PAPI: Your hunk of the day.

Anderson Cooper learns how to pronounce "Andy Cohen."

Immigration reform ices out LGBTs.

Bar Mitzvah Boy a pro speaker...there's nothin' to it!

Joe Biden was a hot piece of tail:

Viiiiice!

Tubular bells are ringing

Get ready for The '80s: The Decade That Made Us.

Guys get engaged at Garbage concert.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) is now pro-equality.

Eight Democratic senators who are still anti-equality.

Marriage equality opens the door for fraud?

Little kid screaming at church for being too loving.

John Schneider's bare-butted nude scene from 1983.

Get ready for Wallflowers.

Documentary on Cher's mom.

Coming out in the 1960s.

SUPERHOT tattooed guy.

Anti-Gosselin haters called out.

Courtney Stodden covers Girls & Corpses Magazine.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but ladies love brunettes:

Ellen enters the brown derby

Andrew Sullivan to charge $19.99/month for his Dish

WHAT A CONCEPT! Writers to be paid for work.

Brave LGBTI Ugandans pose for awareness-raising portraits.

I'm officially worried about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Log Cabin being "used by the neocons" in Hagel attacks.

KAKE: Katie (the new Liza) & Jake a new...cough...romantic item?

1st elected out PA legislator sworn in.

Neighbor Bob vs. the Pope—Bob wins.

Matt Schiermeier is the hunk of the day year.

Madonna's best mag covers of 2012.

Parents completely verklempt over Les Misérables:

Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) has come out as gay in a highly personal story first found in the Huntingdon Daily News. Fleck becomes the nation's only sitting out Republican state legislator.

In his coming-out story, he reaffirms his devout Christianity and his allegiance to a party that is explicitly anti-gay:

"The Republican party is all about the government needing to stay out of people's lives. I'm not a one-issue person and it's not a one-issue party."

Neither party is "one-issue" and most voters aren't either, but there's a big different between, say, what you think about drones or how you feel about the role of entitlements or if you think we need more money or less pumped into national defense and the issue of whether or not you, as a person, deserve equal rights.

Republicanism and Libertarianism also continues to baffle me with their obsession over the government being inherently bad. If it needs to "stay out of our lives" so much, why do they support marriage certificates at all, let alone support keeping them away from gay people? Do they really, truly think social programs are so bad that we'd be better off cutting everyone off and going with the "yer on yer own" approach? And also, get the fuck off of my roads and don't come crying to me when a hurricane wipes away everything you own or early-onset dementia destroys your family's means of support.

But anyway, it's always positive when gay people come out, regardless of their other beliefs—which are up for discussion as separate issues.

The lady with the flag in her hair was a scene-stealer. Aretha wants one NOW.

President Barack Obama's instant-classic 2 a.m. victory speech.

Why his win is, in fact, a mandate.

Mitt Romney's brief but conciliatory concession.

Tammy Baldwin's powerful victory speech.

Tommy Thompson's deflated concession speech.

Elizabeth Warren's exhilarated victory speech.

Scott Brown's defensive concession speech.

Claire McCaskill's against-all-odds victory speech.

Todd Akin's must-see revolting cunt-cession speech.

Heidi Heitkamp (D) narrowly defeats Rick Berg (R) in ND.

Jon Tester (D) looks set to beat Denny Rehberg (R) in MT.

Gabby Giffords' aide slightly behind in race to succeed her in AZ.

Openly gay Richard Tisei (R) loses to John Tierney (D) in MA.

Michele Bachmann (RX100) beats Jim Graves (D) in MN...barely.

Allen West (RX1,000) probably loses to Patrick Murphy (D) in FL...barely.

Jeff Flake (R) defeats Richard Carmona (D) in AZ.

Senate will have highest % of females ever...at 18%.

GA won by Romney, but by less than 8%. Swing state '16.

All four marriage-equality votes favored the good guys.

OH newswoman has zero integrity, sick of talking about it.

GOProud not only stupid, but also bitter.

Brian Williams on Trump: "Driven well past the last exit to relevance."

"Hey, guysh...if you wanna hear shum shtuff, I'll tell yas shum Nixshun shtuff...whee!"

Projection: Diane Sawyer is sleeping it off right now.

CO, WA & MA chillax on the pot issue.

L.A.: Porn performers must wear condoms.

Madonna thrills at news of Obama's victory. Strips.

Other stars react to President Obama's big win.

Karl Rove refuses to accept reality. Worked in '00. Not this time.

This turd has blossomed

"Chill out—he had this!"

Lesbian Tammy Baldwin (D) beats out Tommy Thompson (R) in WI.

Out former Clinton staffer Sean Patrick Maloney (D) beats Nan Hayworth (R) in NY.

Maine to marriage equality: We do! (MD: Us, too!)

Claire McCaskill (D) shuts down Todd Akin (Rape) in MO.

Elizabeth Warren (D) unseats Scott Brown (R) in MA.

Kirsten Gillibrand (D) easily wins a full term in NY.

Sherrod Brown (D) wins vs. unspeakable douchebag in OH.

Linda McMahon (R) pinned by Chris Murphy (D) in CT.

Joe Donnelly (D) aborts Richard Mourdock (R) in IN.

Tim Kaine (D) trounces George "Macaca" Allen in VA.

Bill Nelson (D) strikes out Connie Mack (R) in FL.

Bill Casey (D) wins—no clever verbiage—vs. Tom Smith (R) in PA.

In MA, Kennedy (D) scores Barney Frank's seat. (Stop it.)

Tammy Duckworth (D) vanquishes deadbeat dad Joe Walsh (R) in IL.

Mazie Hirono (D) defeats ex-guv Linda Lingle (R) in HI.

Redskins game that predicted Obama loss was botched by ref.

Bill O'Reilly thinks all O voters are freeloaders.

GOP to hold onto the House of Representatives.

Karl Rove literally thinks he owns FOX News.

Donald Trump should be arrested for treason. For real.

And finally, Sarah Palin looks HIDEOUS:

Via Perez.

This video that follows is fucking annoying—a voter in Pennsylvania attempts to vote for Barack Obama, but the machine records it as a vote for Mitt Romney. Some are saying it's "miscalibrated." Um, I think it's probably been calibrated just the way it was supposed to be—by someone who belongs in jail.

That is, unless it's faked. Which would be even more annoying...

An altogether reasonable and rational explanation of why Mitt Romney isn't losing by 20 points, and why we need to remain focused in order to re-elect Barack Obama. The voter-suppression campaign and the Koch ad blast are what I fear most.