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Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former president John Kennedy, is urging Democrats to embrace marriage equality.

Grammy and Academy Award-winning musician and out lesbian Melissa Etheridge was part of the tribute to singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. The 32^nd annual event also recognized writer, composer, actor, director, and producer Mel Brooks; pianist and composer Dave Brubeck; opera singer Grace Bumbry; and actor, director, and producer Robert De Niro. Etheridge was joined by presenters including Aretha Franklin, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone and Jane Krakowski.

Caroline Kennedy will seek to fill Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate Seat when Clinton vacates it to become Secretary of State, the New York Times reported Monday.

Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy, the famed Massachusetts lawmaker and family of an American political dynasty, died Wednesday of brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass, CNN reported. The senator was 77. President Barack Obama recently awarded Kennedy the Medal of Freedom.

Tomlin will be honored for her lifetime contribution to the performing arts.

The out funny lady was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor during a celebration last night in New York.

Who wants to play six degrees of sex with Madge? Some girl on girl action made the list along with some suprising SheWired faves including: Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, and Dante's Cove star Jenny Shimizu.

Recently released documents revealed that in 1964, J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI team investigated the relationship between Jack Valenti, former aide to President Lyndon Johnson, and a male photographer.

Women's rights and civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, who was a central figure in gaining parity in voting rights, employment opportunities, and later, AIDS programs, died Tuesday. She was 98. Height also supported lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

Award winning actress Candice Bergen was recently inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. The former model has been a gay girl favorite since her big screen debut as an aloof university student in The Group (1966), which touched on the then-forbidden subject of lesbianism. A few years later Bergen again titillated her Sapphic fans when she played a frustrated socialite who has a lesbian affair in The Adventurers.

Whoopi Goldberg’s documentary on late comedian Moms Mabley, which premieres Monday on HBO, can now say what was kept silent when she was doing her pioneering work — that Moms was a lesbian.

Award-winning internationally published photographer Renée Jacobs has been booted off of Facebook. Why? Considering Facebook’s questionable reputation regarding pulling lesbian images – some of you may remember the And Then Came Lola poster debacle – it’s tough to view Jacobs’ removal from the site as anything other than flat-out homophobia.

Rumors that actress and activist Ashley Judd will make a bid for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s seat have been swirling for quite some time. But leave it to the conservative bloggers at the Daily Caller to whip it all up into some frothy, misogynist double standards based on information culled from Mr. Skin.com.

Nearly 15 years after her landmark book 'Serving in Silence,' Grethe Cammermeyer weighs in on DADT, Barack Obama and Prop. 8.