The Rachel Maddow Show first aired on television in 2008.  She was first seen as a guest political analyst on MSNBC and CNN, and first heard on her syndicated radio show, The Rachel Maddow Show, in 2005.

Rachel Maddow was born in California and came out as a lesbian when she was a teenager. When in college at Stanford University, she was one of only two openly gay freshmen, according to her university paper.

At Stanford, Maddow majored in public policy and she was an AIDS activist.

In 1995, she received a Rhodes Scholarship to travel to Oxford for graduate studies at Lincoln College. She earned her doctorate degree in political science with a concentration in prison reform and AIDS.

Oh, how I hope to see Auto-Tune, the Maine marriage edition.

Other videos in the top 25 include Joe Jonas wearing black spandex and heels doing Beyonce; Perez Hilton’s rant after getting a black eye; and a dual between a hot milkman and a hotter mailman.

Anything you saw this summer that you wish were included?

Here are some of moments that never made it into the piece but are totally worth watching. If you’re anything like me, you’ll fall in love with Creel.  That’s because Gavin is by all standards the Creel deal.

For a decade Love Makes A Family fought for adoption rights for gay and lesbian couples and for same-sex marriage rights in the state. 

Last year, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to wed in Connecticut. The state’s 2005 civil union law doesn’t give same-sex couples equal status of married heterosexual couples, the court said.

The lawsuit was brought by the Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, the same group that won marriage equality in Massachusetts.

But it was Love Makes a Family that was instrumental in swaying politicians and the public.

The legislature currently is in the processes of passing a bill updating dozens of state laws to conform with the court ruling.

“We accomplished our core purpose, and we want to end on a high note,” Anne Stanback, executive director of Love Makes a Family, told a news conference.

Stanback made the announcement surrounded by members of the group and beside a huge picture of a gay couple slicing a wedding cake.

Stanback said that even though Love Makes a Family will officially disband, it will maintain a political action committee to endorse LGBT-positive candidates.

The bill to harmonize state law with the high court marriage ruling was approved Monday by the Judiciary Committee on a 30-10 vote. It now heads to a vote by the Senate.

The omnibus bill would remove gender references in current state laws and transform same-sex civil unions into legally recognized marriages as of October 2010.

The measure also would strip language from a 1991 state anti-discrimination law that says Connecticut does not condone gay marriage and will not set quotas for hiring gay workers or encourage teaching in school about “same-sex lifestyles.”