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Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy Houston, sat down with Oprah Winfrey on Oprah's Next Chapter to discuss Cissy's new book, Remembering Whitney.

A little show called ‘The Grammy Awards’ aired Sunday night and everybody was Tweeting about it! And while there were some strong performances including Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch, Christina Aguilera and Yolanda Adams paying tribute to Aretha Franklin, Rihanna, Eminem busting it out and Gwyneth Paltrow proving her vocal chops with Cee Lo Green and a bunch of Muppets, nothing really quite caught our attention like P!nk’s aerial performance of "Glitter in the Air” at last year’s show. It got us thinking about some of our favorite performances from Grammy show’s gone by including Annie Lennox in drag, Melissa Etheridge and Joss Stone toasting Janis Joplin and Janet Jackson taking the world by storm in the late 80’s. Gaga, lesbian icon k.d. Lang, Sinead O'Connor and more...

Comic Rosie O’Donnell is as well known for her button pushing as for her talk show host prowess. Her latest head-to-head is with erstwhile actress Lindsay Lohan, over Lindsay being cast as Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime movie Liz & Dick, about the actress, icon and AIDS activist’s love affair with Richard Burton.

It’s battle of the Eponine hopefuls for The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper’s big-screen version of Les Miserables.

VH1 staged its first Divas Live concert since 2004 Thursday night. It was a benefit for the Save the Music Foundation, which in the past has hosted the likes of Arethra Franklin, Mariah Carey, Tina Turner, Cher, Diana Ross, and Whitney Houston. Cheryl Crow, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, India Arie, Adele, and Martina McBride, four of the girls in the lineup, Jordin Sparks, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson. While it was a great night all around famed lesbian rocker Etheridge and wish-she-were gay Clarkson blew the doors of the place. Plus, Paula Abdul as Ellen Degeneres!

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Kelly Rowland is a five time Grammy award winner, who has also made her mark as a songwriter, dancer, actress and most recently, television host. She has signed on to headline the 2010 Saturday night Girl Bar main event, “Circus a Go-Go,” during the big lesbian event, the Dinah Shore Week in Palm Springs.

Dallas star Victoria Principal pulls a gun on her maid over a constipated pooch, Kelly McGillis is way out as a lesbian now but will she confirm the Jodie Foster / Whitney Houston love triangle urban legend? Pink comes out as not so bisexual, Julia Roberts has a fabulous potty mouth. Plus a lil' farewell to discussing some Gossip Girl and her Gay faves, Susan Lucci, Valerie Bertinelli, Joyce DeWitt and Tamara Braun.

From homecoming queens to the head of the state department, women have said and done a lot this year, naturally. Here’s a look back at 2011’s headlines through what lesbians have said, or some things said about them...