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If you’re looking for Madea (Tyler Perry in front of the camera in drag), or Black-faced versions of Sex in the City or He’s Just Not That Into You, then Mr. Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 womanist choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf will gravely disappoint you. Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, and Macy Gray star. 

CBS’s The Good Wife already boasts one of the greatest casts of women--well, casts period—on network television, but we are totally excited about the latest casting news of Rescue Me and ER’s Maura Tierney as a recurring character. Tierney joins a long line of amazing actresses who've played strong women on The Good Wife including Martha Plimpton, Mamie Gummer, Parker Posey, Rita Wilson, Lisa Edelstein, Carrie Preston, Anika Noni Rose, Mary Beth Piel, Elizabeth Reaser and Sara Silverman.

Funny woman with the foul mouth Sarah Silverman has been tapped to guest star on an upcoming episode of CBS’s Julianna Margulies starrer The Good Wife. Silverman joins a long list of Good Wife guest stars including America Ferrara, Michael J. Fox, Anika Noni Rose, Mamie Gummer, Ana Gasteyer, Carrie Preston and more… With no details regarding Silverman’s character that leaves the creative viewer to cross her fingers and hope she’ll play a lesbian stand-up comic with a secret, and the hottest investigator on television Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi) goes undercover to discover it.

The Good Wife just continues to pack in the top-notch talent, especially when it comes to casting actresses in recurring roles. Yesterday it was announced that ER and Rescue Me star Maura Tierney would join CBS’s critically acclaimed drama for a recurring role as the “doyenne of Chicago politics” and today it was announced that the inimitable Kristin Chenoweth will be joining the show as a political reporter.

The Good Wife is currently cherry picking some of the greatest female guest stars in Hollywood. Just within the past few weeks it was announced that Maura Tierney was joining CBS’s critical darling of a legal/political/family drama as the “doyenne of Chicago politics” and then the news came out that Kristin Chenoweth would be playing a political reporter.

The trailer has dropped for the Tyler Perry helmed For Colored Girls and it’s ruled by strong actresses, all acclaimed in their own right including Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washinton, Kimberly Elise and Loretta DeVine.

Many of your favorite Broadway stars teamed up to produce a video for the "It Gets Better" project to help protect against teen suicide in the LGBT community. Stars in this video include Cherry Jones, Sarah Paulson, Judy Gold, Robyn Goodman, Audra McDonald and dozens more. With the release of this video, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has donated $25,000 to The Trevor Project in the name of the Broadway community.

Arguably the best show on network television, The Good Wife continues to scintillate and tease, not merely with riveting storylines but with the promise of an encounter between pop culture’s hottest boot-clad bisexual investigator ever, Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) and the sexy new ASA at the state’s attorney’s office Dana (Monica Raymund).

It's the holiday film season, which means Oscar bait! Here's a round up of films that feature strong female roles, just plain amazing actresses, groundbreaking female directors and at least two films with lesbian under and overtones. Highlights include Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame, Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman in a lesbian ballet tryst, the heavy but important For Colored Girls, Dreya Weber as a lesbian discharged under DADT, Sally Hawkins and Miranda Richardson in the proto feminist Made in Dagenham and, of course, Cher and Christina Aguilera in what promises to become this generation's Showgirls. Angelina Jolie in the Tourist and more...

The Good Wife features some of the strongest female characters on all of TV.

SheWired Editor Tracy E. Gilchrist and Advocate.com Editor Ross von Metzke are back by unpopular demand terrorizing readers with a little column we like to call Gossip Girl and Her Gay. First up, Glee's Lea Michele is one not theater geek in a tight sweater, Kat McPhee admits her proclivity for filthy hot girls --like Megan Fox, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver are the most interesting aspects of Avatar for one lesbian,Sandra Bullock's nominated for an NAACP award, Meryl Streep and Jane Lynch at the Golden Globes...and more.