The AggreGAYtor: November 27

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

Lauper with Pelosi, courtesy True Colors Fund
Lauper with Pelosi, courtesy True Colors Fund (Image via politico.com)

Organ donors get a boost, Cyndi Lauper kills it, and Illinois does the right thing, as your AggreGAYtor prepares to brine.

The Good

Poz Americans can now be organ donors for poz patients. Thanks, Obama!

California is launching a campaign to snuff out the disproportionately high smoking rates among LGBTQ citizens.

Can Cyndi be any more amazing? Seriously, what’s Team Madge been thinking all these years?

Lots of kids are about to drop the queer bomb over the holidays, and families can be ready to offer loving responses.

Queer couples in California are getting married, like, a lot. Next report in seven years.

Pope Francis continues to lay the foundation for what may become a more sweeping reform.

A prominent Russian transgender lawyer strips down, risking arrest, to protest Russia’s anti-LGBTQ law.

The first couple in Illinois to be married under the new law is being allowed to tie the knot early because one of them is terminally ill.

The Bad

Atlanta is the only city in the South to match Austin’s perfect HRC score.

Fewer Indian pride marchers wore masks this year, but for some there were fatal consequences, and yes, that matters here.

The Fugly

No fugly until after the holiday.

It Came from the Tubes

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