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Our LGBT Project is so busy, sometimes it's hard for even us to keep up with all the progress they're making. In fact, just today, we got a big win in Arkansas, when the state supreme court struck down Act 1, a law that prohibited unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children. You'll recall we celebrated a similar win in Florida a few months ago.

A few days ago, Dan Savage, who runs the Savage Love and and is the founder of the wildly successful , about the LGBT Project's most recent work on behalf of students and youth. Chris's segment starts at the 18-minute mark, and the interview lasts for about 9 minutes.

Chris talks about our successful advocacy on behalf of Monique Verdin, a high school student in Houma, Louisiana, whose principal threatened to turn her away at the door if she showed up at the school prom wearing a tux instead of a prom dress. The LGBT Project and the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Louisiana to the school board and principal informing them that his kind of discrimination is illegal, citing a previous ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û lawsuit on behalf of a Mississippi teen Constance McMillen. Hours after receiving the letter, Monique’s school .

Justice: done and done!

Chris also talks about our new Don't Filter Me campaign, which asks public high school students to check to see if there are web filters that are blocking LGBT websites while still allowing access to anti-gay websites. (That's called viewpoint discrimination, and it's illegal, boys and girls!)

. But use headphones. We love Chris and Dan, but this is a sex advice podcast, after all, and there’s some pretty salty language that's .

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