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Actress Olivia Thirlby, who’s costarred in Juno and HBO’s Bored to Death, graces the cover of Brooklyn Magazine and in an interview discusses being bisexual and participating in photographer iO Tillett Wright’s Self Evident Truths project

The FDA's ban on gay male donors evidently extends to transwomen, even those who identify as lesbian.

Acclaimed singer Fiona Apple is known to have a way with words, and that was evident in a recently released letter that she wrote to a gay fan who sought her help in 2000.

Dharun Ravi (right), who is accused of actions that may have driven gay Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi (left) to suicide, pleaded not guilty to charges of bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, and evidence tampering in a New Jersey court Monday.

Katina Parker's passion is evident. Her passion is using a vast social network to rebuild the City of New Orleans, a feast of culture, music, food and freedom of expression that lost much of its richness in 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. 

A lesbian United Methodist minister in Wisconsin pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that she violated church law by being a “self-avowed practicing homosexual” and performing a same-sex union. The Reverend Amy DeLong (pictured) does not dispute the facts of the case, but her counsel, the Reverend Scott Campbell, says the evidence does not support the charges.

Mitrice Richardson is a 4.0 student, a former beauty pageant contestant, and a lesbian. She’s also been missing since September, and her family and girlfriend want answers. The 24-year-old’s charm was evident the evening of September 16 when she showed up at a glamorous Malibu, Calif., restaurant to eat dinner by herself.

Just ask Sam Adams, Portland, Oregon’s openly gay mayor. His election was heralded by progressives everywhere after winning a 12-way primary last May with 58 percent of the vote. But in the last few weeks, new evidence has surfaced and Adams was forced to admit to a relationship with a much younger intern. 

Whew! The American Psychiatric Association says it's OK for children to watch Chaz Bono compete on ABC's Dancing With the Stars. John M. Oldham, M.D., who is the APA President, acknowledges that Gender Identity Disorder is a psychiatric disorder, but tells TMZ, "There is no evidence that viewing a television game show with a transgender contestant would induce Gender Identity Disorder in young people."

Fifteen years after Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, the U.S. Senate finally has an official record of why the legislation was indeed a mistake — even if some witnesses asserted in Wednesday’s hearing (with questionable supporting evidence) that the federal government has a vested interest in discriminating against married same-sex couples. Here’s a sampling of the powerful testimony in support of DOMA repeal submitted for the hearing.

Get your weekly Tegan fix and a whole lot of equality. What more could a gay girl want? She may be Canadian, but as proud member of the LGBTQ community and woman of the world, Tegan Quin took to Tegan and Sara’s official blog to talk to fans about gay marriage passing in New York, her time at San Francisco Pride with Revel and Riot, and record a personal video for the Self Evident Project.

It's TV sweeps! And nowhere was that more evident Tuesday than on the breakout drama The Good Wife – although Glee had a few surprises of its own. For Good Wife fans who got hooked at the pilot and never looked back, the badass, investigator in the mildly dom outfits Kalinda Sharma -- Emmy winner Archie Panjabi -- has exhibited a fluid sexuality. Lili Taylor guest stars as Kalinda's secret lesbian affair.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved new rules Thursday that will make it harder to discharge gays and lesbians from the military, calling the changes a matter of "common sense and common decency." Gates announced new guidelines for how the Pentagon carries out the "don't ask, don't tell" policy rules, which impose tougher requirements for evidence used against gays and lesbians in the military. The new guidelines are effective immediately. 

Police closed the Jamey Rodemeyer case today without prosecuting any of his bullies, saying they lacked proof he'd been harassed. Rodemeyer killed himselfin September after facing bullying that he "could never escape,” he said in posts on the Internet. But Amherst, N.Y., police chief John Askey said that despite the 14-year-old's complaints online about bullying, there wasn't enough evidence of what happened, and the bullying couldn't be pinned to any single student.