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As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Tenea D. Johnson. The following is an excerpt from her book R/evolution.

The CW’s medical drama Emily Owens MD, about a navel-gazing, awkward but promising intern played by Mamie Gummer, only lasted a season, much to the chagrin of a devoted, if not smallish, group of fans. But there’s good news for Mamie’s fans. Not only has she landed the lead in another pilot, she’s playing a lesbian cop in CBS’s Backstromopposite Rainn Wilson, Deadline reports.

LGBT activists and allies are upset about the iPhone app just released by “ex-gay” group Exodus International. The app, according to Exodus’s website, is “designed to be a useful resource for men, women, parents, students, and ministry leaders,” and has received a 4+ rating from iPhone maker Apple, meaning it carries “no objectionable content.” However, Truth Wins Out, which has started a petition against the app at Change.org, points out that Exodus endorses “reparative therapy” to change a person’s sexual orientation — something that has been discredited by all major medical organizations and is “very damaging to the self-esteem and mental health of its victims.”

While the medical world knows that lesbian and bisexual women tend to have high levels of breast cancer occurrences, doctors want to know more about this growing problem. Susan Love, MD, one of the leading experts on breast health in the U.S., and an openly lesbian doctor, said that while studying breast cancer on the general population is important, identifying the unifying risk factors and exposures among lesbian and bisexual women will help refine our greater knowledge of cancer.

Miley Cyrus, Laura Jane Grace, and Joan Jett perform 'Androgynous' to support LGBT youth.