military appreciation

SheWired's sibling publication The Advocate held its annual 'A Day in Gay America' on Nov. 9., and received hundreds of submissions from regular folks --and a few celebrities--who just happen to be LGBT Americans. And we have a round-up of many of the out women who participated. View all photos in various categories from A Day in Gay America here.

The Department of the Navy is being asked to intervene in a case where the wife of a Ship’s Serviceman First Class was told that she could not be honored at her spouse's retirement ceremony because of the Defense of Marriage Act.

We're finally putting a rest to DADT behind us, but a new book details the shameful story of five women discharged from the Navy as suspected lesbians in 1965.

The military was out of line with its new restrictions on hair, and this history of oppression goes way back.

Saturday, October 10, 2009: On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington D.C., President Obama addressed a crowd gathered at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner on the topic of gay and lesbian rights. The community has heard much of what Obama had to say on the campaign trail but has yet to come to fruition. Will Obama turn the tide for LGBT rights or was his speech more hopeful rhetoric?

The following films are screening at LA's Outfest this week and will likely make the rounds to LGBT film fests near you! Be sure to check them out and support lesbian filmmaking at all levels. Check out Bloomington, a Loving Annabelle-esque look at a student / teacher lesbian affair, A Marine Story with Dreya Weber and Paris Pickard, the documentary about singing New Zealand twins The Topp Twins and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister.

Lesbian mom K. Pearson Brown gets on her soap box about pregnancy as a protected job status, among a host of other discriminatory practices and viewpoints reserved for pregnant women.

Three years as president of my college LGBT support group—which was made up of mostly women—taught me what a queer community should look like. 

Today, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Agains Defamation announced nominees for its 2013 Media Awards, which recognize fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBT community in news and entertainment.

She's gone gay on film twice, stumped for Obama, and held her own with Bill Maher. Now Kerry Washington tackles her toughest role to date: as a transsexual, heroin-addicted prostitute in Life Is Hot in Cracktown.

As the number of TV's lesbian characters has seriously dwindled over the past year,Stargate Universe, a show that falls into a genre notorious for pushing social and political boundaries, is poised to make history with it's  premiere Oct. 2. SheWired caught up with Ming-Na to chat about making history, Camile Wray, kissing girls, Twitter and her affinity for science fiction and especially for Sigourney Weaver!

To celebrate Valentine's Day we at SheWired wanted to depict real stories of women in love, so we put a call out to our readers on Facebook and Twitter. Below are the wonderfully inspirational, moving and beautiful stories we received. The first story is from Meg and Katie, a couple who recently made headlines when their alma mater refused to print their love story (the university has since reconsidered its position).