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The Grey’s Anatomy season 9 finale is upon us and fans of TV’s most adorable lady doc couple, Callie (Sara Ramirez) & Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), are waiting with bated breath for word as to whether or not Arizona will come clean with her wife Callie about hooking up with hot-shot new craniofacial specialist Lauren (Hilarie Burton).

It's been a big year for out women in the news, from the election of the first out U.S. Senator — who just happens to be a lesbian from Wisconsin — to the House of Representatives' first bisexual member, or Oregon's first out lesbian Speaker of the House.

Swift is a successful young woman and a terrific philanthropist, so why so much unending hate?

Once everyone survived Y2K panic, the race for gay marriage heated up around the globe in the early 2000's. While LGBT activists stood in the trenches waging the war for equitable civil rights, lesbians in politics and pop culture came out of their closets en masse and crashed through many a glass ceiling.  Same-Sex marriage, the Hate Crimes Bill, lesbian mayors and Prime Ministers, Ellen Degeneres, Wanda Sykes, AfterEllen, Kelly McGillis, Meredith Baxter, Rosie O'Donnell, Melissa Etheridge,  South of Nowhere, Grey's Anatomy andThe L Word are just a few of the higlights.