The AggreGAYtor: December 18

The new Pope helped us negotiate relations with Cuba? Mad props, brah. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Texas affects mixed results, Boston gets inclusive, and Scotsmen marry Scotsmen (and nary a sheep is harmed), as your AggreGAYtor comes into the tent.

The Good

Texas politicians put job qualifications above cheap culture war point-scoring, at least this time.

Queer vets will march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The Scots are marrying high and low.

Banana, Cucumber, Tofu.

As final, definitive proof of his pinko-commie-Muslim cred, President Obama has ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba.

The Bad

Texas discriminates against children of same-sex parents.

Texas is still refusing to enforce the Prison Rape Elimination Act, but now there’s a petition.

South Korea has its own brand of internal, unspoken homophobia.

The South Carolina church beating story continues to unfold.

The Fugly

Marriage will be legal in Florida on January 5, unless Pam Bondi gets her way.

It Came from the Tubes