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Paris celebrates Pride this weekend as France prepares to usher in marriage equality. Our Paris contributor offers us five left-of-center things to see in the City of Light.

PHOTOS: Meet These Beautiful Lesbian Couples Who've Been Together More Than 20 Years

After a private art show and concert for close friends and supporters Thursday night, Amanda Palmer (who rose to fame with The Dresden Dolls) passed around plates of paint and brushes, stripped down to the buff and let fans rush the barely 10-foot-wide stage to paint her naked body. Amanda “Fucking” Palmer is back, and she’s busy. Her fans have been, too.

Here is the last installment of our 100 Greatest Lesbian Albums of all time. Look for albums by Shawn Colvin, Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin, Brandi Carlile's The Story (who is featured on Grey's Anatomy The Musical Event episode), Heart, Wendy and Lisa, Lady Gaga, Liz Phair, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Alanis Morissette, Sinead O'Connor, Joan Armatrading, k.d. Lang, Ferron, Me'Shell, Dusty Springfield, Chris Williamson, Eurythmics, Ani DiFranco, Janis Ian, Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Sophie B Hawkins, Tracy Chapman and Sarah McLachlan. 

The 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show is the place where the hottest new cars, SUVs, vans, trucks and concept vehicles are center stage. It also marked the historic arrival of the modern electric car era. Those car makers showing what hot new cars they have hitting the market (and making my lesbian heart skip some beats) were: Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Lexus, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, MINI, Saab, Scion, Toyota, Volkswagen, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Jeep, Nissan, Subaru, Volvo, Aston Martin, Lotus, Morgan, Perana, Rolls-Royce, SMS Supercars, Porsche and more!

The village of Eressos located on Lesbos Island, Greece just hosted the 10^th International Women’s Festival. Despite taking place in a country with strong Greek Orthodox church influence, and where about half the population opposes same-sex marriage, the lesbian-run festival has continually grown each year. There are women-only walks and sunset cruises, drumming workshops, breathing workshops, Greek dance classes and lesbian film screenings.

Most renowned for her iconic lesbian roles on "The L Word" and in "The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love," actress Laurel Holloman has been busy trying her hand at another form of artistic expression – large format abstract painting. SheWired chatted with Laurel about her passion and inspiration for painting, her influences, juggling parenting – she’s a mom to two young daughters – with creating art and acting, the art in Bette’s and Tina’s house and just what that whole painting on enormous canvases thing is about.

Once everyone survived Y2K panic, the race for gay marriage heated up around the globe in the early 2000's. While LGBT activists stood in the trenches waging the war for equitable civil rights, lesbians in politics and pop culture came out of their closets en masse and crashed through many a glass ceiling.  Same-Sex marriage, the Hate Crimes Bill, lesbian mayors and Prime Ministers, Ellen Degeneres, Wanda Sykes, AfterEllen, Kelly McGillis, Meredith Baxter, Rosie O'Donnell, Melissa Etheridge,  South of Nowhere, Grey's Anatomy andThe L Word are just a few of the higlights.