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Pro-LGBT Dear Abby comes up with a lovely solution for the heartbroken granny.

An outspoken ally to the LGBTQ community, Gloria Jean Watkins, a.k.a. bell hooks, is arguably the most widely published and known black feminist scholar ever, and no Women’s Studies courses here or abroad should be without her. Born and raised in the rural Kentucky, bell hooks uses her great-grandmother's name as her pseudonym to celebrate the female legacy of her family. hooks spells her pseudonym in all lowercase to emphasize her writings rather than her name, because as she says "it is the substance of my books, not who is writing them, that is important."

Rev. Irene Monroe shares her experience as one of the a group of black lesbians and gays who were invited to the White House. 'Just as my enslaved ancestorscould have never imagined an African American family residing in the White House, nor could my African American lesbian, gay bisexual transgender and queer (LGBTQ) brothers and sisters who fought in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York's Greenwich Village imagine that one day a special invitation from the White House would openly welcome us in.'
 

It was around midnight when the guest Op-Ed by actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie went up on the New York Times website. Within minutes I had posted the link on Twitter and emailed friends on the West Coast about it.

Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby were found dead in Galveston after heading down there from Houston to enjoy Mardi Gras

Vigils across the state of Texas were held to memorialize Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson.

Lesbian author Candace Walsh opens up about politics, sexy chefs, and culinary birthrights.

In America, we crooned to the song that put Missy Higgins on the map in 2008 (the androgynous tune “Where I Stood” off her album "On a Clear Night"). The LGBT community took comfort in the haunting lovelorn lyrics written by the Australian-born singer/songwriter, but really had no idea who she was or where she came from…or where she was going.

James Kraig Kahler, the Meriden, Kan., man accused of murdering his wife, their two teenage daughters, and her grandmother in 2009, told a Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent that he was upset because his wife began a lesbian relationship that broke up their marriage, the agent testified in court last week.

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.

Whatever your Thanksgiving plans, whatever stresses you may feel as you head over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house–or not–remember that you are closer than you’ve ever been to who you want to be and give thanks for that.

The literary world mourns the loss of a unique icon.

Yes, yes, the 'zipless f***' lady.

Congratulations on your sobriety! Now that the hard part is over, it’s time for the other really hard part: dating while sober.