The AggreGAYtor: August 1

Russia gets scarier, television gets gayer, and federal equality inches forward, as your AggreGAYtor considers the snail darter.

The Good

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is touting big progress on LGBTQ equality.

• ENDA is getting big gay dollars for a big gay push through the U.S. Senate.

• The National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame is due to induct its first class of athletes and honorees.

• Thousands Tens of thousands Fewer than ten ex-gays ‘came out of the closet’ in D.C. to push their back-in-the-closet agenda for pseudoscientific therapies that don’t work.

• Cedric the Entertainer’s show is about to tackle gay weddings.

• A trans California teen delivered over 5,700 signatures to the governor’s office in support of pending transgender protections.

• The teevee is serving up a gaggle of new lesbian characters, but of course roughly half of them are on Orange Is the New Black.

• Some Salt Lake City residents are adamant about starting up a queer-friendly Boy Scout troupe.

The Bad

• Sorry to Godwin the discussion, but even the Nazis declined to enforce their anti-homosexuality laws on foreigners during the Olympics, unlike, apparently, Russia.

The Fugly

• Louie Gohmert keeps saying things.

It Came from the Tubes

• Jesus is just alright with some of us, but it's not alright to discuss him while Muslim: