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McCoughtry posted a picture of herself and her girlfriend to Instagram, along with a tale of discrimination.

Toni Atkins, the first out lesbian and only the third woman to hold the post, was inaugurated today.

Aspiring filmmakers are almost as common as starlets in Los Angeles. People come to LA with a dream and do just about anything to make it happen. Like any industry, there are gatekeepers that red light or green light these dreams. Jenn Kennedy chatted with lesbian filmmaker and author Roberta Munroe to get the scoop on Outfest, Sundance and her book How Not to Make a Short Film.

This is a perfect addition to the Dinah pool party!

Thank God and his legion of lesbian Angels! Penelope Cruz is in negotiations to join "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." Cruz will be working again with "Nine" director, Rob Marshall, who is helming the fourth Pirate adventure. As the rival to Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow, Cruz is rumored to start shooting in Hawaii.

With 'The Runaways,' the new film about her life with Joan Jett, pioneering rock star Cherie Currie is enjoying a renaissance ... with a little help from Dakota Fanning. The blond bombshell who made out with Joan Jett, front woman for the rock ’n’ roll band that changed the way women were perceived in music and now author of a book that brings us 'The Runaways.'

Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile had quite a weekend, and made the lesbians of the world Happy!  Touring to support her third studio album, Give Up the Ghost, Carlile sold out Los Angeles' Wiltern Theater on Saturday night and the same day, finally came out of the closet in a wonderful interview with the Los Angeles Times.

"Janis had always been part of my conscious and subconscious," says out writer-director Randy Johnson.

The battle of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon with Eminem continued Monday as Carey's new single "Obsessed" music video shoot had her dressed in costume as Eminem. Scenes were filmed at New York's Plaza Hotel with Carey playing a man in two costumes. With the exception of the beard she sports in both, she looks just like the rapper (and it's not very flattering).