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With memorable roles as a butch lesbian dog handler in Christopher Guest's Best in Show and an out lawyer on the groundbreaking drama The L Word,Jane Lynch has made you laugh. One look at her massive résumé will make your head spin: She's had roles in films and television shows as diverse as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Weeds, Desperate Housewives, Friends, and Frasier. 

Definitely make Boy Meets Girl a movie night must.

A renaissance woman who's worked in Hollywood for more than 30 years Nia Peeples has proved she has more to share than her hair, that gorgeous tousled coif that endeared her to many a girl and gay man in the 80’s when she was churning out chart toppers like “Trouble” and starring in the Fame TV series. SheWired chatted with Peeples about her Elements of Life her gay following and big-hair heydays of the 80’s and playing a homophobic mom to a gay teen on Pretty Little Liars.  

New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie signed a bill to establish a statewide antibullying law Wednesday. The law is being touted as the strictest antibullying policy in the nation, according to Garden State Equality. Public school teachers, school staff members, and administrators will have required training on how to properly handle incidents of harassment. Faculty and staff will be required to report all incidents of bullying, inside and outside of school, and administrators who do not act on reports of bullying will be disciplined. Furthermore, students who harass other students will be punished for their actions.

The recent appointment of Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is angering conservatives as they fear that she might strip religious rights from schools and businesses and "revolutionize" social norms in the work place. Feldblum, a Georgetown University Law Professor, was appointed on Saturday and is under fire for promoting the "gay lifestyle." 

Both New York City high school teachers fired over allegations that they had a same-sex tryst in a classroom have now filed lawsuits to get their jobs back. Cindy Mauro, who last week was let go from her job teaching French at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, has sued the city’s education department in hopes of being reinstated. Spanish teacher Alini Brito, who was fired earlier this month, sued about two weeks ago.

A shop teacher who mocked Florida gay student Luke Herbert (pictured) will publicly apologize as part of a settlement between the Flagler County School District and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.

A second effort is on the table to take down California's FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, Respectful) Education Act, which will require that the state's public schools teach the contributions of LGBT and handicapped people.

Two of our favorite ladies are hitting the big and small screens in new roles.

A bill introduced this month would protect those who want to act in accordance with ignorant beliefs as long as they are religiously based.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that a Mississippi school district repeatedly ignored a student's pleas for help combating the bullying to which she was routinely subjected.

Like a lot of Americans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a law banning workplace discrimination against LGBT people would impact his family personally.

After 18 years as a religion and English teacher at Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, Minn., Kristen Ostendorf uttered eight words that ended her career.

A 16-year-old all girls school student was all dressed up with nowhere to go on prom night — Hannah Williams’s teacher at Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar in Melbourne had told the student weeks before that she couldn't attend the dance with her then 15-year-old girlfriend. The story is similar to that of Constance McMillen, the 18-year-old lesbian Mississippi high-schooler who was banned from attending prom with her girlfriend earlier this year.