It's a map and it is surprising! Interestingly enough, godless liberal Midwestern enclave Iowa is the only state where you can get a homo-dog marriage but not a convenient and family-reunion-airfare-cost-efficient cousin marriage.

Here is a terrible, tragic story about the separation of an elderly gay couple by Sonoma County, California, the subsequent death of one member of that couple, and the auctioning of their property. A suit has been filed.

Just in time to make folks panic that the Commie-Nazi Welfare Fag Era really has descended, a new magazine about same sex weddings has launched. Look for copies of Equally Wed to start falling from the sky, crushing straight children.

The tiny, mountainous country is trying to lure queer visitors by letting them marry on Mount Everest where the ceremonies will bring new meaning to "base camp." Oh, a honeymoon in Katmandu, just like we always imagined!

Next week is the special election to fill the former State Senate seat of Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled after slashing his girlfriend's face. Hiram's running. His platform: he's just like Barack Obama, and his opponent is "The Gay Caballero."

Hey, gay couples can apply for marriage licenses in DC tomorrow!

Ruben Diaz Sr, the worst New York State Senator who has not personally slashed his girlfriend's face with a broken glass (well, maybe besides Pedro Espada), has released a statement blaming Governor David Paterson's woes on gay people.

We got a hold of the BUTT Magazine's upcoming interview with Jacob's adorable husbear Lorenzo Martone and he says they were married in St. Barts over New Years even though they previously denied it. Also, Lorenzo says he's hung!

Once upon a time, gay activists hated Vaughn Walker for legally squashing the Gay Olympics. But this weekend The San Francisco Chronicle definitively revealed that the Prop. 8 judge is gay.

You know how the Supreme Court ruled the Prop 8 trial couldn't be filmed? A pair of Los Angeles filmmakers have pledged to create filmed reenactments of all 60 hours of the trial based on firsthand reports and transcripts. [marriagetrial.com]

See, they went around Massachusetts saying they wanted to get gay married (despite the fact that they were both supposedly straight, with girlfriends) (their girlfriends live in Canada) in order to take advantage of all the various benefits society bestows upon those who enter into that sacred institution, which is a very good argument against gay marriage. Because as we all know, no two people of opposite genders have ever entered into a legal marriage for any purpose other than undying love and an urgent need to procreate.

Ted Olson, the attorney who won Bush v. Gore, also won today's Supreme Court campaign finance decision. He is basically terrible! But here is the twist: he is arguing for gay marriage in the ongoing Proposition 8 suit!

Props to Cindy McCain for supporting gay marriage. Ditto Elizabeth Edwards, back in the day. But their husbands remain(ed) recalcitrant. Are political wives more liberal, or are they just saying what their husbands are too chicken to admit?

Just in time for A year after the Proposition 8 vote, woulda-been First Lady Cindy McCain has lent her support, and image, to the No H8 Campaign, a pro-marriage equality group. Timely as it may not be, good on her.

Anti-gay organization sues pro-gay organization for copyright infringement, argues that an image of a straight couple with kids is "substantially indistinguishable" from an image of a family of two women with kids. Pro-gay org lawyer uses word "sassy."

Our Supreme Court has just barred District Judge Vaughn Walker from putting the upcoming California Proposition 8 trial on YouTube. "The high court did not explain its reasoning."

Portugal's parliament OK'd gay marriage! So, go to hell, Jersey. (It still may be vetoed.)

This already-rotten day just got worse. The New Jersey state senate has rejected a gay marriage bill in a 20-14 vote. While the outcome isn't really a surprise, it's still disappointing. Civil unions remain, at least. [Star-Ledger]

You won't be seeing a wedding between The Situation and Pauly D—or Snooki and J-WOWW—on the next season of MTV's Jersey Shore, unfortunately. The New Jersey State Senate defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage late this afternoon. [AP, photo via WOW]

Today, a judge ruled video of next week's trial on the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban could be uploaded YouTube. Now a question looms larger even than Prop. 8's constitutionality: Will the trial go viral?