From initially defining marriage as "between a man and a woman" to citing Stonewall as a civil rights milestone in his second inaugural address on Monday, here are the defining moments in how Obama's public pronouncements on gay rights have evolved.
It's almost been one year since President Obama repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell and the first academic study of the policy change has found that the repeal hasn't affected retention, recruitment, or harassment in the military.
The latest wrinkle in Chick-fil-A's anti-gay marriage saga is taking place in Chicago, where an alderman has announced he will block the chain's efforts to build its second restaurant in the city because of the company's anti-gay stance.
Laura Ricketts, daughter of TD Ameritrade's Joe Ricketts, the man made briefly famous for his dashed "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln" anti-Obama ad, is launching a Super PAC of her own called LPAC, a lesbian Super PAC that already has supporters in Jane Lynch and Billie Jean King.
"I tell you what – I never saw that coming, would you?" wrote Brian Edwards. Well, we wouldn't have. But then again, no one--gay or straight--really expects their wedding pictures will end up in a political smear campaign arguing that your wedding is immoral.
Just in time to ruin Gay Pride month, a media relations director for the Salvation Army had no problem reminding us and the queer journalists he was talking to that gays should be put to death.
Here's a first: Thanks to some sleuthing and a five-o'clock shadow, London's National Portrait Gallery is now the proud owner of the first painted portrait of a crossdresser.
It's hard to tell what's more digusting: That Rev. Charles Worley of North Carolina is preaching about rounding up gays and lesbians and putting them behind an electrified fence to die out or the fact that he has a congregation cheering him on.
In his first interview with the press since being convicted of bias intimidation against Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi sounds more grown up, more sympathetic, and more like he's following a script from his defense strategy.
Players: Dan Savage, creator of the It Gets Better project, gay rights activist, Rick Santorum's Google Nemesis and gay glitter-bombing barbarian supporter; The Dan Savage Welcoming Committee, "a member-less organization" whose only point of unity is accusing Dan Savage of hypocrisy.
"The L-Word" actress was kicked off a flight for kissing her girlfriend, igniting a protest
"My first thought was, 'Wow, nine billboards! That's quite an investment,' " says a reverend in the rivalry
Fox News mentioned the law's repeal 16 times compared to 66 times at CNN
Move comes after a beating in a Baltimore McDonald's for the same thing
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