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On Earth Day 2010, Ellen DeGeneres proves that she knows exactly how to recycle our most importance undergarments. On her show, our favorite lesbian shared a bra made out of recycled beer cans. And forty years after the first Earth Day, the world needs our help more than ever. Earth Day organizers say nearly 1 billion people worldwide are taking part in this international day. Find out what you can do to help stop global warming and save our planet! It's easy!

Women still face many of the same barriers they did over 100 years ago, when the observance was established.

Neither actor was particularly familiar with lesbian sex, and both agreed they'd never work with the director again.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates International Women's Day with a video celebrating women around the globe — including two openly trans women.

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.

A recent wave of violence in Iraq has resulted in the kidnapping, torture, and killing of about 40 people perceived to be gay or lesbian, with the murder weapon sometimes being a concrete block to the head.

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively gets naughty as she embarks on a heavy role laced with drugs, bondage and lesbians in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. The 22-year-old actress plays a young Pippa, a much-troubled teen that gets caught up in the unforgiving world of drugs and bondage after being introduced to the scene by her lesbian aunt, played by Julianne Moore. The film stars Robin Wright Penn, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci and Winona Ryder. Watch the trailer.

Those who voted against same-sex marriage rights and passed Prop. 8 in November could get a real sense of just how integral LGBT people are in life if “Day Without a Gay” goes off without a hitch on Wednesday. Organizers Sean Hetherington and Aaron Hartzler are urging people to call in gay.

The police in their conservative state interrogated them for four days.

On Wednesday, Christian rock star Vicky Beeching came out as a lesbian. On Thursday, she went toe-to-toe with internationally infamous homophobe Scott Lively.

We’ve long lauded the country’s Top Hot Butches here at SheWired, but in honor of International Femme Appreciation Day this week (officially it was July 3, but true femmes move at our own pace) I decided to give our lovely femme fillies a bit of attention. Don’t know what a femme is?