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For months it was rumored that country music singer-songwriter Chely Wright would announce that she’s a lesbian and appear on the cover of People magazine. And this is the week, the same time she launches her seventh album, "Lifted Off the Ground" and her memoir, "Like Me."

Congratulations are in order for the gorgeous and talented Emily Blunt, who announced Friday that she is engaged to The Office'sJohn Krasinski. Cue the sound of hopeful lesbian hearts breaking throughout the land. The Devil Wears Prada breakout star, who made her debut playing a charismatic rich girl with homosexual leanings in My Summer of Love, has been dating Krasinski since November of 2008.

The Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on wardrobe, hair and makeup for VP pick Sarah Palin, which brings us back to lipstick, pigs, hockey moms and, oh right, the recession.

If it were Fox News I wouldn’t have flinched. But it was National Public Radio. To my surprise, I didn’t realize -- especially in 2011 -- my sexual orientation was still up for debate. But on Aug. 1 on the "Morning Edition" of National Public Radio (NPR), it was. And the topic on the show that morning was "Can Therapy Help Change Sexual Orientation?"My head spins at the thought of how Christian counseling services, like Dr. Marcus Bachmann’s, still get so much air time, especially, in spite of the voluminous information disputing the pseudo-science of "ex-gay" conversion therapies.

Newly out actress Kelly McGillis heads a strong cast in the Pasadena Playhouse’s excellent production of the Lillian Hellman classic, Little Foxes directed by Dámaso Rodriguez.