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2012, being the year of a national election and the Olympics, has been a big year for LGBTs in pop culture, politics and sports. Now SheWired would like to pay homage to the unabashedly out women who’ve moved visibility for queer women forward.

From Barack Obama's historic election to his pick of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation, from the housing crisis to Prop. 8. From Britney Spears' comeback to Tina Fey's Palin and Grey's Anatomy's axed lesbian storyline to Brangelina's continuous philanthropy, 2008 was a year for plenty of ups and downs...Here's a look...