Will Republicans mute the culture war in 2016?

Virginia marriage equality case to be argued at 4th Circuit on May 13.

Detective Courtney Love cracks another case.

John Travolta apologized to Adele Dazeem: "He sent her a big, gorgeous bouquet of flowers to her dressing room. It was HUGE. It was his apology to her."

Here's Jennifer Lawrence's entire lip-sync scene in American Hustle, a four-minute one-take performance of Santana's "Evil Ways".

Vocativ interviews a trans soldier: "Jacob Eleazer, a 28-year-old TAC (Teach, Assess, Train) officer, learned he was up for promotion this December. For seven years, he’d been an exemplary soldier, rising to the rank of first lieutenant, and now on his way to captain. But there was a problem. Within the confines of his military training center, in western Kentucky, Eleazer still went by his birth name, which was female. Outside his Army base, Eleazer lived as a man, one of 15,450 military personnel who consider themselves transgender, according to a recently released study, but don’t dare come out to their fellow soldiers and risk jeopardizing their careers."

Minnesota's LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying bill moves to the Senate floor.

This season's Mad Men theme: tripping?

Gay White House pastry chef Bill Yosses resigns: "Mr. Yosses, 60, said he was also moving to New York to be with his husband, Charlie Jandusay Fabella Jr., a teacher. The two married in Washington in 2011, but 'for the 11 years my husband and I have known each other, we have lived in different cities,' Mr. Yosses said."

Steve Grand's album Kickstarter has reached a mind-boggling $233,595 (as of this posting).

Alec Baldwin's done with public life but not with social media.

Homophobic comedian Gallagher is peddling a new play: "It's about two guys in love, and they both are dance teachers, and one of them is from the Midwest, and he always dressed in drag because the men who wanna learn tango don't feel right dancing with a guy, and so they never knew it was a man dressed as a woman. So he goes to the East Village, and he meets another dancer, and they become a couple, and they wanna audition for a movie. But the one who's a girl most of the time doesn't want to be a girl the whole time. So this brings up my idea for switchable clothing. I wanna sell the clothes after the show!"

Robert Pattinson cleans up well.

Spanish MP Toni Cantó strips for role as gay sex tourist in new film.

Teen sneaks past guard to reach top of World Trade Center. "Scrawny 16-year-old Justin Casquejo crawled through a hole in a Ground Zero fence at about 4 a.m. Sunday and got a lift up the tower from a clueless union elevator operator, even though he had no ID."

Australia's largest 'ex-gay' therapy program shuts down. “There is nobody who has been identified, trained, or who is willing to take up leadership… It seems that the Lord is preparing to do something new in bringing healing to the broken."

Google continues to block the word 'bisexual' from its auto-complete feature: “If you type in gay, lesbian or transgender into a Google search box, Google Instant Search begins to auto-complete the search while making relevant suggestions. However when you begin to type in bisexual, there are no suggestions provided which lead many to believe there are no search results. Since 2010, Google has blocked the word bisexual from its auto-complete and Instant Search features so users have to go an extra step to see the millions of results related to bi people, bisexuality, bi community, bisexual resources and bi organizations.”