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For years medical professionals have advised women over the age of 40 to get annual breast exams as a way to detect cancerous tumors. However, the new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force, which shun breast self-exams and suggest only women between the ages of 50 and 74 get mammograms every other year, are startling to some, while others welcome the recommendations. However, the new guidelines fail to mention lesbians.

The Stratton VA Medical Center's decision to hang a gay pride flag in honor of Pride month and to honor the 40th anniversary of the founding of the region's Gay and Lesbian Community Center has led to complaints.

This Friday, CRUSH presents Vicious, an 18+ LGBT dance party in Las Vegas. They're calling it the "Anything But Clothes" party—which inspires images of cute skater girls dancing next to flamboyant gay boys wearing next to nothing. So if that’s your scene it sounds pretty fun, and either way it all goes to a good cause. Kaci Battaglia will be there performing her hits "Body Shots" and "Crazy Possessive," The Flirt Show serve up a sweet dance performance, and sexy superstar DJ Lisa Pittman is spinning.

Three years as president of my college LGBT support group—which was made up of mostly women—taught me what a queer community should look like. 

Two lesbian and gay greats, Harvey Milk and Billie Jean King, will be honored Wednesday with a Medal of Freedom at the White House. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will host the ceremony in the East Room of the White House around 3 p.m.

Google's doodle pays homage to the first female NASA astronaut, who was revealed to be lesbian following her death.

Like coming out lesbian or gay, coming out disabled isn’t a one-time event. We have to do it over and over again. And despite the repetitive nature of coming out, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easier.

Hannibal just might be the most filling show on network!

If you aren't already watching this gem, we have five good reasons why you should.

Gillian Anderson and Rachael Taylor are reason enough to tune in to Crisis, but we've got even more!

Twitter is a Wild West, and while it does so much good for so many, there is a downside.

Does the Affordable Care Act, so badly needed by so many, disproportionately affect women?

The first woman (and possibly the first LGBT person) in space will receive a posthumous honor from the President today.

I remember the pandemic as if it were yesterday because I lived and breathed it as both journalist and activist for a decade.

Women are suffering from pill addiction at alarming rates.

Marriage is now on the table for Pennsylvania's same-sex couples, and it has made all the difference.

There's still so much more work to be done -- especially when you live in Pennsylvania.