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Walters smashed the glass ceiling to smithereens making it just that much easier for all who followed.

The list of those boycotting the hotel is quickly growing.

Michelle Clunie, best known for playing Melanie Marcus on Showtime’s Queer as Folk, has quite the résumé that includes strong acting performances, but also her many contributions as fierce advocate for full LGBT equality and women’s equality. Now she can add playwright to her list of accomplishments, as her first play, Us, is about to open off-Broadway in New York City.

The Women’s Conference, now the nation’s premiere conference for women, is by all accounts one of the most powerful and exciting Conferences ever to be created in the United States. Maria Shriver had powerhouses such as Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Laura Bush, Dianne Sawyer, Sandra Day O’Connor, Judge Ginsburg, Meg Whitman, Eve Ensler, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Matt Lauer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Martha Beck (to name a few) present an array of workshops, panels, and speeches inspiring empowerment, passion for social justice, and development of self-esteem for all women.

Cultural and gay icon Dame Elizabeth Taylor has joined Twitter madness and become obsessed with the site. Taylor is already up to over 10,000 followers on Twitter and she's following 55, which are primarily AIDS-related tweeters and some celebrities including Joan Rivers, Demi Moore and Maria Shriver.

California’s First Lady Maria Shriver is bringing out the ladies with a sold-out 14,000 attendees at Women’s Conference 2008 in Long Beach, Calif., where she will honor Gloria Steinem, out lesbian and tennis great Billie Jean King, Betty Chinn, Louise Hay, and Ivelise Markovits with Minerva Awards.