Communications Major

A square box with thick pink horizontal lines (the mathematical equal symbol) was offered for sharing this week by the Human Rights Campaign as the U.S. Supreme Court took up arguments in key marriage rights cases.

The image, replacing profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and elsewhere, is a makeover of the advocacy group's logo, usually a blue background with bright yellow lines. The HRC made it available in red — for the color of love — on Monday and estimated tens of millions of shares by Wednesday.

Randy Roberts Potts, the gay grandson of preacher Oral Roberts, draws an interesting parallel between the death yesterday of children's book author Maurice Sendak (a gay man, who lived with his partner for 50 years) and the passing of the anti-gay marriage ban, Amendment One, in North Carolina.