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The activist and author has spent her life making the world a better place for women.

As we become a nation led by President Obama, I contemplate the dignity that comes with recognition and the importance of role models.  If happy brown heads could move me toward non-premenstrual verklempting, imagine what could be next.

For Memorial Day, when we honor military veterans, our series on women you should know looks at a woman who has fought for the rights of gays and lesbians to serve: Miriam Ben-Shalom.

Denise and Donna of The Lesbian Lounge announced their Golden Kitty Awards for the New Year and SheWired is a lucky recipient along with Autostraddle.com. Other Golden Kitty recipients include Cathy DeBuono and Jill Bennett for We Have to Stop Now, Shannon Wentworth and Sweet Travel and Cherry Bomb.

It's been 10 years since The L Word premiered on Showtime on Jan. 18, 2004, and so much has changed since then. 

The Good Wife features some of the strongest female characters on all of TV.

The long, dry summer that was sans Santana and Brittany is long last over with Tuesday’s premiere of Glee season 3, and while there was nothing too overtly lesbian in the premiere, it’s still worthwhile to play catch up with gay girls’ favorite would-be couple Brittana. To quickly re-cap an entire storyline from last season, McKinley High’s proudly self-proclaimed slutty Cheerio Santana (Naya Rivera) finally let down her guard and confessed her love to BFF and fellow Cheerio Brittany (Heather Morris).