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This collection of stirring photos feature Hilary Swank, models like Alex Wek and 60s-icon Twiggy, and other familiar faces in bold images chronicling the conceits and confections that create the myth of beauty in our culture.

Ilene Chaiken, Carrie Underwood, Hilary Swank, Catherine Keener, Sharon Stone and Sonya Walger lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

Here's a smattering of pop culture from around the web! Today's tidbits include the cast of Glee with a taste of Rocky Horror, Helen Mirren, Erica Durance from Smallville, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, Neal Patrick Harris and David Burtka as dads, Kristen Chenoweth and Molly Shannon, Hilary Swank, Christina Aguilera and more!

While Oscar – or Hollywood as a whole – has rarely sought to represent queerness positively on film, there remain a few handfuls of performances that, for good or bad, helped to bring visibility to lesbian, bi, trans and queer characters throughout the years including turns by Cher, Hilary Swank, Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Winslet, Whoopi Goldberg, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman and Annette Beining.

At a time when print is facing great challenges, a maverick editor Merryn Johns and her crew launched Bound, what could be the first international magazine for lesbians and could-be lesbians. Based in Australia, the Bound team has just published its third issue featuring fame in all forms with stories on Lady Gaga, Hilary Swank and porn legend Nina Hartley, as well as highlights from Johannesburg Pride and a report on the death of lesbian soldier Ciara Durkin, paired with lifestyle pieces on, travel, décor and fashion.

We round up the best lesbian movies of ’09 — from dramas and documentaries to comedies even a horror film. Films like Whip It with Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, Jennifer's Body with Megan Fox, Ameliawith Hilary Swank, And Then Came Lola with Cathy DeBuono and Jill Bennett, Precious, and Hannah Free with Sharon Gless, are among those on our list of the best lesbian movies this year.

The series, titled Hit and Miss, will focus on a transgender hit man who suddenly finds out that in the previous life, she has fathered several children.

There is a moment in just about every workday when we come across something sexy, gratuitous and completely pointless that we wish we could post but don't under the auspices of there being nothing lesbian about it and often there being no redeeming value.Sevigny is the first woman to cover the trans fashion mag.

Outfest LA, Los Angeles’ eleven-day LGBT Film Festival, has announced its Opening Night film, C.O.G., starring Dale Dickey, Jonathan Groff, and Pretty Little Liars’ Troian Bellisario. C.O.G. is the first feature film based on the writings of David Sedaris, and it premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce is on board to direct a remake of the prom from hell story Carrie, based on Stephen King’s supernatural thriller.

The third film in the Twilight series is turning out to be a cast of female heavy-hitters as Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno has just been added to the Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson starrer. Sadly, despite the cast, no lesbian love stories have arisen in the series.

The Screen Actors Guild nominations are out and several of this year’s usual suspects have made the cut for the awards that are doled out to actors who are voted on by their peers in the SAG union. For their roles in Black Swan and The Kids Are All Right Natalie Portman and Annette Bening scored nods. Portman plays a psychologically cracked ballerina who engages in a hot lesbian fantasy while Bening plays a lesbian mom who engages in awful lesbian sex. Julianna Margulies, Kyra Sedgwick, Mariska Hargitay, Elisabeth Moss and Glenn Close scored nods for drama while the best actress for comedy category includes Tina Fey, Sofia Vergara, Edie Falco, Betty White and Jane Lynch.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week announced that the 2010 Oscars will have twice the number of nominees vying to win the coveted best picture trophy. With 10 slots for best picture perhaps a few female-centric films will make the cut. A few possibilities could be Amelia with Hillary Swank, Julie and Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams and The Tempest with Helen Mirren.

Kathryn Bigelow, Eliza Dushku, Olivia Wilde, Allison Janney, Amy Poehler, Queen Latifah, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg, Mo'Nique, Sarah Chalke, Lady Gaga, Ke$Ha and more lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties we lesbians here at SheWired love, who are making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

With the gay practically air-brushed off her trademark face, pucker subdued, and every strand of hair neatly in place, it took me a while to discern Sha- I mean Kate Moennig on a billboard for her new show, Three Rivers set to start up this fall on CBS. And how will her starved L Word fans react to a Moennig on TV that’s a lot less… lesbian?