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Singer, songwriter and musician Melissa Etheridge knows about breast cancer. Now, the openly lesbian activist is fighting the disease on a series of fronts inlcuding Pinktober and with the new docu-drama 1 a Minute with Olivia Newton-John, Kelly McGillis, Jaclyn Smith and Diahann Carroll.

A video showing a group of New York Yankees fans singing a virulently homophobic song accusing gay men of spreading AIDS has prompted action from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Bisexual Erin Martin wowed judges Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton with her otherworldy rendition of Hey There Delilah during The Voice’s famed blind auditions last month. Martin had her mom and her girlfriend at her side for the audition. SheWired caught up with Martin to discuss the audition process, her being so much more than a model turned singer and her decision to be open about having her girlfriend from the start.

Our latest entry on women you may not know but should: Claire Waldoff, who entertained Berlin between the world wars and became a thorn in the side of the Nazis.

Singer songwriter Annie Lennox can add UN AIDS Ambassador to her resume as she was named International Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. Lennox said, “The daily brutality faced by millions of women and girls is unacceptable. If we are to end the cycle of human devastation triggered by the AIDS epidemic, we must address the rights of women and girls and challenge their second class citizen status, which puts them at greater risk of HIV.”

Kathleen Hanna is the indisputable godmother of the Riot Grrrl movement, and now there's a terrific new documentary, The Punk Singer, out in theaters that chronicles that brief, brilliant moment in history.

Entertainment publicist and all-around observer of all things lesbian Mona Elyafi, whips out the 80's pop tunes to explain her latest debacle. The lesbian break-up! 

The lovely little Kristin Chenoweth checks in with OUT magazine in the latest issue to talk about her new TV series, Good Christian Belles, her work encouraging kids to be proud of their smile with the “Your Mouth Has Something To Say” campaign, and her pageant history where she competed on an AIDS awareness platform.

I remember the pandemic as if it were yesterday because I lived and breathed it as both journalist and activist for a decade.