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The musician, actress, and writer on career, identity, and her new memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. 

NASCAR’s annual media day on Thursday was all about Danica Patrick, who will make her much-anticipated Sprint Cup Series debut at the Daytona 500 on February 26th. Patrick will be driving the green and black, No. 10 Go Daddy Chevy for Stewart-Haas Racing.

The Democratic National Convention concluded on Thursday, as President Barack Obama officially accepted the DNC’s nomination. This year’s DNC was historic for the LGBT community, marking the first time marriage equality has been adopted into the Democratic platform. There were over 500 LGBT delegates present at the convention.

In just a few days, Liz Carmouche will become the first openly gay fighter to participate in a UFC fight. The bout marks a series of firsts, as it will also be the first female Ultimate Fighting Championship title fight, with Carmouche and opponent Ronda Rousey being the first female headliners in UFC history.

In the Life, a time-honored television series advocating visibility and equality for LGBT people, will air its last episode ever in December.

Healey, who was part of the team that brought marriage equality to Massachusetts, will be the state's top attorney.

Writer Lisa B. Valentino weighs in on the California supreme court's appalling decision to uphold the anti-gay marriage measure Prop 8. 'I realize that we are in the throes of an epic legal battle for civil rights -- again and still; and that I may seem idealistic and naïve. I assure you I am neither. Nor am I gay, straight, black, white, woman, man or otherwise described by human-born limitations and labels.'

Pretty Little Liars is back for its winter season “bitches,” as the show’s blackmailer and chief trouble – and plot – maker “A” might say. And tonight's winter premiere has the Little Liars pretty much pitted against one another, with Rosewood High’s lesbian lady killer Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) furthest on the margins of the group. When last we saw the quorum that is Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Aria (Lucy Hale), Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Emily, they’d been hauled into the police station and interrogated --courtesy of "A's" games-- about all of the murder and what not that had been going down in Rosewood.