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Lesbian author Sarah Waters has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Waters joins six other authors in contention for the prize with her novel The Little Stranger. She has famously penned Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and Affinity.

The news that a film’s being made of Patricia Highsmith’s pseudonymously penned lesbian classic The Price of Salt, starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowski, got us thinking about some other lesbian literature that would transfer well to the big screen. The following novels have lesbian or bisexual authors, lesbian content, or both, and we think they’d make fine films.

American Horror Story (AHS) opened the 29th annual Paley Fest on Friday night with series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk confirming that Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange and Zachary Quinto are returning for a second season.

In honor of the gay community's high holy night, Halloween, SheWired has compiled a list of the Top 10 Scary Movies to Make the Gay Girls Scream  to add to your queue of female-fronted thrillers-and whether they're supernatural beings or the product of a nasty virus, we've got everything covered from werewolves and vampires to zombies, demons and ghosts. Among those who make us scream are flicks featuring lesbian faves Rose McGowan, Michelle Rodriguez, Kate Beckinsale, Megan Fox, Catherine Zeta Jones and Susan Sarandon.  

There's plenty to enjoy in films you may have overlooked because of their age or genre, or because they vanished so quickly from cinemas. Some offer top actresses as out-and-proud lesbians, some have same-sex desire simmering under the radar, and some simply depict solid female bonding that makes you want the characters to take it up a notch.

It's a bird! It's a plane! Even better, it's a hot girl in a skimpy outfit! Whether these ladies are fighting crime or playing the oh-so sinister villain, these supernatural, super strong, super sexy sheroes look so good doing it. Lesbians love a good superhero, so here's SheWired's list of hottest She-Roes including Halle Berry as Catwoman, Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba and more.