election season

Will Kate McKinnon be our favorite Hillary impression yet?

It’s tough out there for an LGBT journalist — at least in college.

Fresh off a rally to fight a proposes same-sex marriage ban in North Carolina, country star and now LGBT activist Chely Wright spoke with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts about her commitment to fight the initiative. Roberts, who’s gay and engaged to marry his partner, congratulated Wright, who marrie her wife Lauren Blitzer in Connecticut this summer.

Former first lady Laura Bush says she urged her husband to sidestep the issue of gay marriage in 2004. Her new memoir Spoken From The Heart, Bush writes: "I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue." Bush writes about the shock of Sen. John Kerry answering a presidential debate question about the subject by mentioning that Mary Cheney is a lesbian. Bush also suggests that she and her husband may have been poisoned.

It's been quite a year for lesbians in the media! Here's a countdown to the toplesbian stories in the news for 2008 including Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi, Wanda Sykes, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Maddow and more...

Writer Shannon Connolly, who's spending the year abroad in Paris, responds to Prop. 8's passage: To those who voted 'Yes on Prop 8', let me tell you something. I was a child once. No one told me what it meant to be gay. No one told me that the word 'family' can have many different meanings and manifestations.

In a refreshing turn of events, press and President become the punchline at yearly Correspondents' Dinner

Kate McKinnon joined the cast of 'Saturday Night Live' this season as the show's first-ever out lesbian castmember, and we've had our eye on her ever since.