Springfield, IL (KMOV) -- Illinois has given approval to a request by a Florida man to place a Festivus pole inside the Illinois State Capitol.

After nearly a million onlookers and participants applauded the generations of Boy Scouts and military service members who marched down Fifth Avenue in the New York City LGBT Pride March on Sunday, Linda Harvey, radio host of "christian" organization Mission America decried the move to participate as an "insult," Right Wing Watch reports.

David and Jason Benham, the rightwing anti-gay anti-abortion twin brothers who made a career out of complaining how they lost their television career due to their extremist views, are using the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to sell books.

Members of the American Family Association do not find it "grrrreeat" that Kellogg's Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger is featured on a new pro-gay ad for the guidebook for Atlanta Pride, Pink News reports.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Married same sex couples in Arkansas will not be able to get the names of both spouses listed on birth certificates for their children after the state’s highest court on Thursday put a temporary hold on a lower court ruling allowing it.

An unlicensed medical practitioner who infected more than 100 villagers in northwestern Cambodia with HIV by reusing unclean needles went on trial Tuesday, facing three charges including murder, his lawyer said.

An anti-gay billboard may be coming to a highway near you.

Talk about cheating on your diet.

How Bernardo Albaz came to fall off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship early Friday morning? Did the out gay Brazilian jump or did he fall off in an altercation with the ship's crew prompted by homophobic comments?

Retired neurosurgeon and possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson apologized for comments he made Wednesday about homosexuality being a choice, citing prisoners "who go into prison go into prison straight" but leave gay, but is also blaming the media for the wave of backlash he received.

In the wake of the news of the arrest of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) co-founder Terry Bean on sex abuse charges involving a 15-year-old boy, ex-gay activist and reparative therapist Christopher Doyle is calling on the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization to fund conversion therapy to "cure" Bean.

There’s something to be said for taking it raw. Fresh seafood doesn’t need anything more than a little salt and a squeeze of lemon, not even heat. Oysters, clam, conch; just about any kind of mollusk is delicious on the half shell. Crustaceans such as lobster, shrimp and crab can also be enjoyed raw, but most preferred them cooked. The same goes for most salt water fish. Raw tuna, salmon and their underwater brethren are able to be enjoyed uncooked, marinated or heated. It’s all about the freshness, and you’ll usually (but not always) have to pay a premium for such treats.

Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order mandating that all federal contractors and subcontractors grant special treatment to the politically-charged categories of "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in the workplace.

NEW YORK (AP) — The end may be nigh for a Harlem church known for hateful public messages condemning gays and President Barack Obama to eternal damnation, and two groups that serve gay New Yorkers are hoping to get an ironic last word on the matter.

Paul Lynde (1926 –1982) was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in-the-closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie. He was also the regular "center square" guest on the game show Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981, and he voiced two Hanna-Barbera productions. On Hollywood Squares Lynde was best able to showcase his comedic talents with short, salty one-liners, delivered in his trademark sniggering delivery.

Subhi Nahas has a soft and tender voice. When he speaks the pain and struggle is self-evident.

Hackers claim to have exposed data on millions of spouses who signed up to the cheating website Ashley Madison.

According to Right Wing Watch, Tony Perkins, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center designated anti-gay hate group Family Research Council, warned followers Tuesday that compliance with anti-discrimination ordinances (for instance, baking a cake for a gay wedding) was tantamount to "involuntary servitude."

An official with the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council has proposed a series of the most uncreative portmanteaus to describe same-sex marriage.

A mere three days after the Supreme Court announced that they would decide this year whether same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, the anti-gay American Family Association (AFA) sent out an e-blast to their followers requesting that two of the Court's more liberal justices recuse themselves from the case.

WWRD - What Would Rosa do? According to one anti-gay hate group leader, she'd hold onto her God-given right to discriminate against gays.

How does 2,000 become 10,000?

What do teen suicide, the Holocaust, ISIS and pedophila all have in common? According to the American Family Association, they're all caused by gay people.

It took less than a week, but the first call to arms by a religious right wing nut group over LGBT inclusive advertising in 2015 has been launched against the makers of Tylenol. Leading the charge is Janet Porter, president and founder of the hard right-wing Christian organization Faith2Action, Right Wing Watch reports.

SEATTLE -- It was little comfort to the residents of a Seattle home along Lake Washington when the naked man who crashed through their front door began loudly reciting Scripture.

A North Carolina man with a history of mental illness and incarceration is running for mayor of the suburban Charlotte city of Kings Mountain with the campaign promise that he'll throw all homosexuals in jail, Kings Mountain Herald reports.

The leader of the National Organization for Marriage, a group hell bent on banning marriage equality in the U.S., said in an interview with the Guardian this week that his group will never go away -- even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage.

One Million Moms, the media watchdog arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center designated anti-gay hate group American Family Association, is urging its 70,072 followers to contact the Discovery Channel and sponsors of the cable network's reality show "Naked and Afraid" to demand that the popular reality program be cancelled for what they consider to be "soft porn."

A new advertising campaign for Campbell's is making one group of Christian bigots reconsider using Cream of Mushroom Soup as a staple in their casseroles this fall.

A singer whose "Rainbow Song" offered a crayon-colored version of theology, says that the song was not intended to disparage gays... just reclaim the rainbow from their embrace.