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This time pop-culture obsessed pair, SheWired Senior Editor Tracy E. Gilchrist and Advocate.com Editor Ross von Metzke kick-off with bad-assed cougars Sigourney Weaver and Angela Bassett, moved on to the fat, bloated, white male British Press that's bullying Kate Winslet for her double Globes and then move on to Kirstie Alley playing mentally challenged on Lifetime. Plus Kara DioGuardi, Jennifer Aniston and Kelly Clarkson.

A Long Island Rail Road locomotive engineer was awarded $480,000 Friday after a federal jury decided she was wrongfully accused of and arrested for fondling a coworker's breast. Engineer Melissa Stampf tapped Angela Trigg's shoulder as a greeting in July 2006, but Trigg accused her of touching one of her breasts. Stampf, 43, was then arrested, but the Manhattan district attorney declined to prosecute.

At the launch of the 2011-2012 television season, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Where We Are on TV report estimates that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) scripted characters represent 2.9% of all scripted series regular characters on the five broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC). Mainstream cable networks’ scripted LGBT series regulars have also dropped in the upcoming season.

Why is everyone so worried about Michelle Obama’s bare arms? It’s her arms. Arms are not tits. Arms are not your ass. Arms have nothing to do with reproduction or genitals or any of the other things we’re supposed to be embarrassed about in this country. So why is the media in such a tizzy about Michelle Obama’s thing for sleeveless shifts?

Style and depth. These women have it all.

The winter Olympics are almost here! February 12th, in Vancouver, B.C. althetes from around the world will compete for the ultimate in sports championship. The women of Team USA are definitely worth keeping an eye on as the games begin. And there is plenty for gay girls to watch out for.  Lindsey Vonn is on the cover of Sports Illustrated, being called "America's Best Woman Skier Ever," and the women's ice hockey team is bringing the first set of twins to ever compete - Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux.

Attendees of the 23rd annual GLAAD awards in Los Angeles included the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Tabatha Coffey, Sara Gilbert, Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, Betty White, Molly Shannon, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Kim Wayans, Miriam Shor and more!

Stand-up comic and Cherry Bomb-er Gloria Bigelow takes a moment from out from hilarity to celebrate reasons to have Pride this year including for William Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Audre Lourde, GLAAD, GLSEN and more.

I was among those who took to Twitter Saturday night to voice my feelings when the verdict came in on the trial of George Zimmerman. Shocked, stunned, angry, sad. Pick an adjective and it likely applied to the whirlwind of emotions swirling in me and all over Twitter among those who supported Trayvon Martin’s family.

There are many types of Baptists, as indicated by Parker, this week's woman you should know.

October 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of GLBT History Month sponsored by Equality Forum – an international civil rights organization. This year, Equality Forum has invited none other than First Lady Michelle Obama into its fold. No word yet on whether or not the First Lady plans to attend. The 2010 list of activists and advocates has just been released and include the following lesbian-familiar names:Sharon Farmer – White House Photographer, Leslie Feinberg – Author/Activist, Mara Keisling – Transgender Activist, Sharon Lubinski – U.S. Marshal, Jane Lynch – Actress, Patsy Lynch – Photographer, Cynthia Nixon – Actress, Catherine Opie – Photographer, Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady

Big Hollywood summer popcorn flicks and lesbian-themed cinema don't typically collide, although there's an argument to be made that Angela Robinson's sexy spy story D.E.B.S and Jamie Babbit's teen angst / mini camp masterpiece But I'm a Cheerleader came pretty darned close.

Residing a stone's throw from Salem, Massachusetts, as I celebrate Women's History Month, I am reminded of one of this nation's earliest examples of home-grown domestic terrorism - the Salem Witch Trails of 1692. This haunting history of the Puritan's execution of innocent women, and certain men too, is a window into how their religious fanaticism, misogyny, and homophobia destroyed not only the moral fiber of their town, but how it also decimated its own Christian zeal all to become a "city on the hill."

In the spirit of Halloween, Rev. Irene Monroe reflects on the what she calls 'the nation's earliest examples of homegrown domestic terrorism --the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.' Monroe disucsses, Tituba, the black witch of Salem, who sparked the witchhunts, as a jumping off point to look at race, gender, lesbianism, the patriarchy and more.