On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to the Supreme Court to make changes to Russian adoption laws in order to prevent same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.

Bisbee, Arizona just realized that the law only says “marriage”, not “civil unions”…

This week in lit: creepy books to read while we’re all still obsessed with Halloween, 10 years of queer YA, Emily Dickinson, “City of Night” and more.

“We are encouraging the civil rights of all citizens of the state and are against being signaled out or targeted by a particular constitutional amendment or legislative action.”

What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.

Azealia Banks is controversial, but then again, what isn’t? Everyone’s freaking out right now about gay marriage, Amber Riley’s haircut, and Obama’s pen.

We’re checking out the over 40 set, making poetry out of 90s songs and giving comment awards to cats.

From Dartmouth to the concert hall, there’s a ton of queer shit going down. And a little bit of Nickelback.

“But much like masturbation and other “personal relaxation” methods, it’s pretty obvious that most women are smoking marijuana, but not talking about it. There is a cloud of shame permeating these issues for women, where there is absolutely none for men.”

Ali’s Team Pick: George Takei. Just… George Takei.

If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.

I Don’t Do Boxes, but if you wanna go to Corgi Nation that’s fine with me.

“Where We Are On TV” has some promising and not-so-promising numbers for queer women on the teevee, and also raises some questions about how we quantify “representation” in the first place for all groups.

Totally qualified, totally awesome Christine Quinn wants to be the next mayor of New York City! Also, she walked down the aisle to Ave Maria… the Beyoncé version. I mean come on.

Don’t bother funding research studies! Everyone’s favorite blowhard has your answers.

All the news that’s fit to print for happy people this week is about gay marriage.

The Supreme Court will review both Prop 8 and DOMA and consider the future of gay marriage in the US.

Let’s get married, but only if RBG is invited.

Maybe we’ve finally reached the point where there’s no turning back on the road towards marriage equality.

I mean, why not?