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There's nothing like teams of lesbians and gay men hurling balls at each other at warp speed. Writer Jenn Kennedy takes us inside the West Hollywood Dodge Ball League. Break out your tube socks and duck!

The word "equality" was cut out of a sign affirming the Hollywood United Methodist Church's stance that it supports marriage equality over the weekend. The sign, adorned on one of the most gay-friendly churches in Los Angeles, previously said, "All are precious in God's sight. This church supports marriage equality."

Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Transsexual & Transgender People (MAGNET) is hosting a panel discussion tonight entitled ‘Women Demanding Change Now: The Dehumanization of Transsexual Women through the Gay Male Hollywood Lens’

In a week where Newsweek pissed off half of Hollywood and all of gay Hollywood and their supporters, Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Biel, Katherine Heigl, Lucy Lawless, Elizabeth Mitchell, Christine Woods and Stephanie Hunt lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

In West Hollywood, the gay center of greater Los Angeles, a decoration meant to celebrate Pride month will now become a permanent fixture, West Hollywood Patch reports. The West Hollywood City Council initially approved rainbow-colored crosswalks in the LGBT-friendly area for Pride month in June.

Veteran Hollywood gay girl Jenn Kennedy tests out West Hollywood's glamorous new girls' night at Booby Trap.  And while the space is ultra-cool and the girls are hot, there's no getting around the inevitable passing of the baton from older to younger.

Halloween is America’s gay holiday. And this weekend of lavish costumed theatricality will attract everyone, but especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) revelers. By the 1980s, gay enclaves like Key West, West Hollywood, and Greenwich Village were holding their annual Halloween street parties. And the parades the night of Halloween did and still do draw straights and gay spectators out to watch.

An answer on whether gay marriage can commence in California is expected any day now, and some municipalities have already started to prepare. West Hollywood, with its numerous gay residents and politicians, will be ready to officiate same-sex marriage licenses should Judge Vaughn Walker not issue a stay on his decision that overturned Prop. 8. West Hollywood city clerk Tom West tells The Advocate that on Tuesday, members of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's office will travel to West Hollywood to deputize the city's councilmembers so that they can officiate same-sex marriages.

A renaissance woman who's worked in Hollywood for more than 30 years Nia Peeples has proved she has more to share than her hair, that gorgeous tousled coif that endeared her to many a girl and gay man in the 80’s when she was churning out chart toppers like “Trouble” and starring in the Fame TV series. SheWired chatted with Peeples about her Elements of Life her gay following and big-hair heydays of the 80’s and playing a homophobic mom to a gay teen on Pretty Little Liars.  

What's black and white and gorgeous all over? Some of the designs from last night's episode of Project Runway, that's what. Gay, West Hollywood native, Johnny creates a steamy situation with his explaination of why he started a second look late in the challenge.

Erin Foley's enthusiasm for performing prompted her to create a stand-up show for like-minded individuals: The gays. The openly lesbian comedian began producing Gays R Us, a monthly show at the Hollywood Improv. Foley also opened for iconic stand-up performer Suzanne Westenhoefer, the first comedian to come out on-stage at a straight comedy club.

The Real L Word’s Jill Goldstein and Nikki Weiss-Goldstein and their 10-month-old son Adler are featured in The Hollywood Reporter in an article called My Big Gay Wedding: How Industry Power Couples Take the Plunge. Nikki and Jill married in Malibu in October of 2010, after famously planning their wedding during The Real L Word’s first season.