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Lesbian icon and Glee star Jane Lynch is famous for her comic delivery, and she spares no irony on Real Time with Bill Maher, playing the role of the Las Vegas Blackjack dealer Lisa, who corresponded with Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner in a series of filthy texts.

On Friday's episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed that she really loves shooting guns. At targets. Not people.

She's gone gay on film twice, stumped for Obama, and held her own with Bill Maher. Now Kerry Washington tackles her toughest role to date: as a transsexual, heroin-addicted prostitute in Life Is Hot in Cracktown.

Rachel Maddow has won the top spot in a poll to select “30 Media Heroes,” conducted by the progressive magazine The Nation. The list of heroes, from a poll The Nation conceived as a response to Salon’s “Hack Thirty” list of the worst columnists and commentators, reads like a who’s who of liberal pundits, including Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Bill Moyers, Arianna Huffington, Bill Maher, and Frank Rich.

It looks like coming out of the closet during November's Prop. 8 protests hasn't hurt Wanda Sykes' career. The wickedly funny - now out - lesbian landed her own Fox show.

Radio personality Don Imus said MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was a coward for not defending her colleague Keith Olberman when the news was announced that he was leaving the network.

Cher appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman on Thursday and discussed her son Chaz's gender transition. The gay icon struggled with pronouns at times as the host pressed her for an in-depth conversation about topics like the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation. "I still haven't got the pronouns right, but she says that's not so important," said Cher, who stars in the upcoming film Burlesque with Christina Aguilera.

It has been 20 years since openly gay comedienne Suzanne Westenhoefer first hit the comedy circuit and entered into our lovely lesbian hearts. To put it into perspective, before there was an openly-gay Ellen Degeneres on the entertainment radar, there was a brave and brash Westenhoefer being “Totally Inappropriate” (which is, ironically, also the name of her newest comedy tour currently traveling across the United States). How…appropriate.

Alaska Rep. Don Young apologized twice for using a slur when talking about Latino people. Would he have gotten the same treatment if he used the word "bitch" to describe a woman?

As an out-comedian and businesswoman, Poppy Champlin knows the weight of being honest and proud in the entertainment industry – specifically, comedy.  It’s no wonder Showtime came knocking at her door for their newest feature "Pride - Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam"(airing June 2, 2010 with encore presentations throughout the month).