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A teen comedy starring Piper Perabo? We're in!

MTV announced their first-ever top 10 list of best films for 2011 with the US adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo taking the top spot. Throughout the week, MTV has been counting down their top ten movies on air, with Rooney Mara appearing on the final show to accept the award for best movie.

The Sundance sensation "The Kids are All Right" starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple was welcomed with applause at the Berlin film festival Wednesday. Moore: "For me the portrait is very much the portrait of a marriage and a family...I don't think it matters what your sexuality is." Director Lisa Cholodenko believes it is good timing with the same-sex marriage debate.

SPOILER ALERT!!! Last night’s Valentine’s Day episode of Glee entitled “I Do” was supposed to be the long awaited wedding day of teachers Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma (Jayma Mays), but as the episode progresses it becomes less about their nuptials and more about drunken random hookups and the long awaited reunions of some of the Gleeks’ favorite couples from McKinley High.

This week's Litmus Test brings the ensemble cast together as they craft a nefarious plan to test Dylan's (Alex Hedison) devotion to Rachel Shelley's Helena. Meanwhile Jenny Schecter is as crazy and secure as ever, although Mia Kirshner joins in the fun for a tad. Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman's Bette and Tina go medieval on some Hollywood movie mogul ass and finally, some old-fashioned lesbian sex we can relate to. And where the hell is Pam Grier?

There is a moment in just about every workday when we come across something sexy, gratuitous and completely pointless that we wish we could post but don't under the auspices of there being nothing lesbian about it and often there being no redeeming value. Well, we at SheWired have made an executive decision to just throw any of our pseudo-feminist caution to the wind and to just post our favorite shot of the day, whether it be sexy, salacious, or just because... The just released The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie poster features a stark, black and white photo of star Rooney Mara as rebel Lisbeth Salander, naked and gazing from behind Daniel Craig’s arm.

Director Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister, a big hit at Sundance that costars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt and features a lesbian character hits theaters this summer. Shelton recently chatted with out about how being a “shy bisexual” has informed her filmmaking to a degree. Shelton previously directed 2009’s Humpday, which Out describes as “homosexy” about two male friends trying to get it on.

Fairly Legal star Sarah Shahi had reason to direct a series of angry Twitter posts at Paris Hilton over the weekend. Shahi claimed the famous socialite nearly hit her while driving in Los Angeles on April 22. Hilton's reputation as a driver has never been exemplary, and now former The L Word star Shahi has called her out. Shahi directed five very angry Tweets at Hilton, calling her the "worst driver ever," a "horrible excuse for a human being," and "dumb bitch."

Writer / director Nicole Conn's trailer for her latest film Elena Undone just dropped, and 18 years after Conn's debut feature Claire of the Moon became a lesbian film fest hit, Conn is exploring new dimensions in relationships between women.
Check out the trailer for the film Elena Undone, by the woman who also directed the acclaimed documentary little man.

Film festival favorite Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel, a documentary about out Hole drummer Patty Schemel’s life and struggle with addiction, lands in theaters April 13th. The film, directed by gay director P. David Ebersole, transports viewers back 20 years to the hey-day of grunge with its use of archival video of Schemel, Hole front woman Courtney Love and the Love’s husband, the darling of grunge, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain.

Stay current with those cable or Direct TV bills because CBS has announced another full season of Julianna Margulies as the fetching, resourceful and cuckolded attorney Alicia Florek on the breakout hit The Good Wife. The network also renewed NCIS: Los Angeles, starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J, but that's not important right now. Let's focus on Archie Panjabi's possibly lesbian Kalinda.

Among the heavy hitting cast of the indie feature Angels Crest, Private Practice’s Kate Walsh and Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern portray a lesbian couple in the film about a small town in the Rocky’s that’s thrown into upheaval over the senseless death of a young boy.