What we missed

Check out these great photos of LGBT couples getting married yesterday in Seattle.

RIP Jenni Rivera, the 43-year-old Mexican-American singer and domestic violence activist who died in a plane crash Sunday.

Corporate foundations have suspended support For Boy Scouts over anti-gay discrimination.

In June, Jos blogged about the significance of Scout, who is transgender, proposing at the White House. As an update, Scout has married his fiancee Liz Margolies. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, and James Clementi, the gay older brother of Tyler Clementi, signed the marriage contract.

This awesome “1 Drop” campaign is interrogating our popular ideas about race and blackness.

Oh no! Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized, but apparently he’s doing well.

“I thank everyone who supported me all over the world.” Nafissatou Diallo settles with Dominique Strauss-Kahn for an undisclosed sum.