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If you're looking for films featuring women, it's a good year at Outfest!

Kate McKinnon won an American Comedy Award Thursday night.

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz says the IOC should have made a better choice than Russia for the games, while LGBT athlete ally Hudson Taylor gives a glimpse into what it's like to be gay in Sochi.

It was especially exciting to see Maddow on Thursday's episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

The fact that women have been serving in combat positions for the past decade in both Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't hold much sway when trying to convince old sexist white guys to "evolve," as The Daily Show's Samantha Bee discovered in a special report featured on Monday's episode.

Today, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Agains Defamation announced nominees for its 2013 Media Awards, which recognize fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBT community in news and entertainment.

The least lesbian Oscar nominations ever were announced this morning (caveat-‘least lesbian’ may be an exaggeration, but not by much). There was a dearth of lesbian and bisexual characters on the big screen in 2012, the likes of which have not been seen since Wings won the first Academy Award ever in 1927. Just last year Glenn Close and Janet McTeer were nominated for gender bending roles while Rooney Mara landed a nod for her incarnation of bisexual super hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 2011 saw a nomination for Annette Bening for her annoying lesbian character in The Kids are All Right (but at least it was something). And in 2009 Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a fiery bisexual artist in Vicki Cristina Barcelona.

Jon Stewart has a theory that long hair makes women more conservative — and therefore “Rachel Maddow is 10 scissorless weeks from a Fox News contract!” On Thursday’s edition of The Daily Show, Stewart skewered Fox host Megyn Kelly for having flip-flopped on mandated employee benefits — whereas she once denounced such “entitlements,” she’s now defending the three-month maternity leave she just completed.

As part of The Daily Show’s coverage of the NY battle for marriage equality, the hilarious Jon Stewart calls out Lez Get Real and “Gay Girl in Damascus” – bloggers who were revealed last week to be men posing as lesbians on the web.