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Tomlin brings her iconic characters to the stage in An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin.

And Laverne Cox costars!

Amazing out actress, comedienne and out lesbian Lily Tomlin will join the third season of Glenn Close's high-stakes, dark lawyer drama Damages. Tomlin will go up against Close (hot!) as the matriarch of a powerful family. Perhaps Tomlin will take Close's current nemesis, Rose Byrne's Ellen, under her wing.

The president bestowed the Kennedy Center Honors on the funny lady with an appropriate dose of levity.

Lily Tomlin and her partner Jane Wagner have been together 42 years. Since the Supreme Court rulings this June, they may finally say, "I do."

Can they please Periscope this?

Tomlin will be honored for her lifetime contribution to the performing arts.

Reba McEntire’s returning to sitcoms with ABC’s Malibu Country, about a Nashville mom who picks up her family and moves to Malibu after her good ole boy hubby cheats on her. While Reba is always a treat to watch it’s Lily Tomlin, as her mom Shirley doling out no-nonsense Southern advice, who’s a total scene-stealer.

Hold on to your cowgirl hats because actress, comic and out lesbian for decades before so many others started to tiptoe out of the celluloid closet, Lily Tomlin, has been cast as country legend Reba McEntire’s mom in the new ABC sitcom pilot Malibu Country. Tomlin, a veteran film actress in Nashville and Nine to Five, also made a name for herself in her one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which her life partner Jane Wagner wrote and co-produced. Tomlin’s also been a presence on the small screen since the late sixties appearing in one of the original sketch TV shows Laugh In and moving on to series regular on Murphy Brown and recurring roles on West Wing, Will and Grace and Damages.

Lily Tomlin presents Point Honors Award to Cherry Jones. and extols importance of boobs. It was an evening of laughs and tears to raise funds for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender scholarships.

For its latest "Give a Damn" PSA, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund has enlisted the help of Judith Light, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Lily Tomlin, and Parenthood's Mae Whitman to educate people on suicide among LGBT youths.

Comedy icons and out lesbians Lily Tomlin and Kate Clinton have been entertaining audiences for decades with their own brands of smart, topical humor and commentary. April 17 the women will take a break from their busy standup tours to treat fans to a special show -- Back 2 Back -- at the St. Georges Theater in Staten Island, New York. The show will benefit the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.

Tomlin talks coming out, sexism in showbiz, and her new projects in a wide-ranging interview.

Out comic and feminist from way back, Lily Tomlin chatted with Vanity Fair recently about why she isn’t a huge fan of Lena Dunham’s HBO series, Girls.

American actress Lily Tomlin dressed as a rainbow-colored superhero to kick off this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, where superheroes marched alongside pairs of brides, pairs of grooms, cheerleaders, nuns, and vampires this past weekend. The Australian Marriage Equality Now float lampooned two marriage equality opponents, featuring giant figures of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, leader of the opposition Liberal Party in parliament, speaking to each other in thought bubbles. Gillard was portrayed wearing a wedding dress, Abbott a brief bathing suit.