knocking on doors

As an out-comedian and businesswoman, Poppy Champlin knows the weight of being honest and proud in the entertainment industry – specifically, comedy.  It’s no wonder Showtime came knocking at her door for their newest feature "Pride - Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam"(airing June 2, 2010 with encore presentations throughout the month).

Oklahoma state representative Sally Kern and her challenger Brittany Novotny don't agree on much, but neither supports one of the more contentious issues in their state this Election Day: State Question 744. The mailer also points out that Novotny is unmarried, chair of the LGBT Caucus of Oklahoma, and supports marriage equality as defining traits. Kern, on the other hand "supports traditional marriage (between a man and women [sic])" and touts that she is the wife of a preacher.

An Austin, Texas man, reportedly distraught over his daughter’s lesbian relationship, was arrested Tuesday for killing his daughter’s girlfriend and the girlfriend’s mother. Jose Alfonso Aviles, 45, has been charged with capital murder and was arrested early Tuesday morning in Bexar County by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. Aviles lives in Austin, but was found in San Antonio, police said. Aviles’ daughter had been dating 24-year-old Norma Hurtado for several months, which was the source of feuding between the Aviles and Hurtado families, Curtis said.

A fun part of an already hilarious production often comes by way of imagination of what exists outside the setting. In 1956 suburbia, for example, it would be of great amusement to know that there was a real Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein, and that they really did worship the egg as a covert symbol of their proper-yet-jolly lesbianism.

'To everything turn, turn..." This is the season for endings and beginnings including the final seasons of Lesbo faves The L Word and Battlestar Gallactica. So say goodbye to Katee Sackhoff, Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner and the L Word gang. But not to Leisha Hailey, who's Alice lands in the slammer in a spin-off.

The Hollywood Reporter recently interviewed Glee cast members Lea Michele (Rachel), Naya Rivera (Santana), and Kevin McHale (Artie) and some of the die-hards are in for quite a different show when season 4 premieres in the fall.

Entertainment publicist Mona Elyafi has got a bone to pick with the phantom parker in her parking spot. It's a Jeep after all, so you'd think she'd hope for a gorgeous, sporty lesbian to slink right up and claim it.

In Lost Girl's latest episode the sexiness continues with Bo (Anna Silk) and Dyson trying to deal with their breakup with the help of their best buddies Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and Hale (K.C. Collins), Bo finds herself having her very first Succubus threesome with a Fury and her husband. Plus, there’s some flirting between Bo and the beautiful and adorable human doctor Lauren (Zoie Palmer) at the Dal. Finally, Ash reappears to warn Bo of her actions.

Lesbian favorite and "Twilight" megastar Kristen Stewart opens up about her very public life, dating in private, overly obsessive fans and run-ins with the relentless paparazzi. Gracing the cover of the June issue of Elle magazine, Stewart prepares for the release of her new film "Eclipse." "It's not that I'm miserable, it's just that somebody's yelling at me." Stewart is remaining tight lipped about her co-star Robert Pattinson, "I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them."

Immediately after the state House of Representatives approved the Marriage Equality Act, Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the measure into law.