80th birthday

The activist and author has spent her life making the world a better place for women.

California's inaugural festivities in honor of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk took place over the weekend in San Francisco. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, State Sen. Mark Leno (who sponsored the bill) and State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano addressed guests at a fundraiser at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center on Market Street.

Writer Shannon Connolly, who's spending the year abroad in Paris, responds to Prop. 8's passage: To those who voted 'Yes on Prop 8', let me tell you something. I was a child once. No one told me what it meant to be gay. No one told me that the word 'family' can have many different meanings and manifestations.

Between her five restaurants, new cookbook, and Los Angeles lifestyle with her longtime partner, lesbian chef Susan Feniger doesn't have time to catch much shut-eye.