Will & Grace ended its run in 2006, but the sitcom about a gay man and his straight female best friend is still be very much in the current conversation about gay marriage.

Gay marriage foe Rick Santorum, the former US senator who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, discussed the show's impact on gay marriage during the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month.

Hillary Clinton has come out for marriage equality.

On Monday (18 March), the US Democrat made the announcement in an online video released by the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign.

In the five-minute video, she says gays and lesbians are ‘full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship.’

‘That includes marriage,’ Clinton says, adding she backs same-sex marriage both ‘personally and as a matter of policy and law.’

In a bi-partisan vote, the US Senate on Tuesday (12 February) renewed the Violence Against Women Act which had expired in 2011.

But the renewal of the two-decade-old act was more inclusive this time around: it comes with assurances that gays and lesbians, Native American women and immigrants will have equal access to the act's anti-domestic violence programs.

Senators voted 78-22 to renew the act which has been credited with helping reduce the rates of domestic violence against women in the US.

Jane Velez-Mitchell may not be as famous as Anderson Cooper, but she gets about as much airtime each night as the host of her own show on CNN's sister network, HLN.

Velez-Mitchell also beat Cooper out of the closet when in 2007 during a live radio show, she told listeners that she was in a relationship with a woman.

Since then, the 56-year-old television personality has felt more comfortable and fully authentic when covering LGBT topics.

US Vice President Joe Biden addressed transgender rights at an Obama for American office in Sarasota, Florida on Tuesday (30 October).

According to the Huffington Post, Vice President Joe Biden commented on transgender discrimination to a woman in the crowd names Linda Carragher Bourne.

Bourne told the vice president her daughter was Miss Trans New England, a teen pageant that according to their website is 'not affiliated with the Miss American Organization in any way'.

One of the lead attorneys fighting the federal challenge to the state of California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is helping to coach Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to prepare for debates during upcoming US elections.

Theodore Olson, a Republican lawyer and supporter of marriage equality will stand in for the incumbent US Vice President Joe Biden during a series of behind-closed-doors mock debates with Ryan to prepare him for the real thing.

It was US Vice President Joe Biden who jumped the gun with his support of marriage equality no doubt speeding up the timeline of President Barack Obama's own endorsement.

Biden, during a weekend campaign stop in Chillicothe, Ohio, encountered a lesbian couple and said of same-sex marriage: 'It's going to happen.'

The couple, Cathy Pool and Mendy Yates, have been together for 25 years and said Obama and Biden's personal support on this issue meant 'everything in the world.'

US Vice President Joe Biden, paying a visit to Provincetown, Massachusetts, over the weekend to headline a pair of fundraisers, had high praise for the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents.

'Many of you have advanced civil rights at great expense,' he said. 'If I had to use one adjective to describe this community it'd be courage. You have summoned the courage to speak out, to come out. We owe you.'

It's been six years since Will & Grace left the air but the NBC sitcom about a gay man and his straight female best friend became front page news again when US Vice President Joe Biden referenced it when going public with his support of gay marriage.

The show's stars, Eric McCormack and Debra Messing headlined the Trevor Live event Monday (25 June) and talked about their hopes for their children:

'I pray to God my son grows up gay,' McCormack said as the crowd at Chelsea Piers cheered.

Caiden Cowger will have to find another outlet for his views on President Barack Obama and the causes for sexuality. His recording service has pulled the plug.

The 14 year old DJ is enjoying a moment of Internet infamy due to his online commentary about Obama, Vice-President Joe, Biden, and teenage sexual experimentation.

Last weekend, gay activists and intellectuals in the US were wondering if President Barack Obama deserved the LGBT vote. Today? He's being called the first 'gay' president.

Blogger Andrew Sullivan's 21 May  cover story is getting early buzz before it's published. Politico.com was sent an early preview of the essay:

Republican activists are reportedly planning to use President Barack Obama’s support for gay marriage against him in the race for the White House.

GOP campaigners say they are looking to paint the US President as a ‘flip-flopper’, and say Obama’s likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney is more consistent.

Obama made history by becoming the first sitting president to express support for gay marriage on Wednesday (9 May), following support from Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.