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Kara Laricks, the out and proud designer who won NBC’s Fashion Star, appeared on The Today Show this week to talk about some of her favorite designs and her inspiration with Natalie Morales, who happened to be wearing one of Kara’s winning dresses from Saks.

Civil rights activist Dorothy Irene Height died on April 20, 2010 at the age of 98. Of prominent African American civil rights allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community – Corretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lewis, to name a few - Height wasn’t profiled and honored enough.

Civil Rights activist Dorothy Irene Height died on April 20th at the age of 98. A prominent African American with civil rights allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community including Corretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lewis, to name a few, Height wasn't profiled and honored enough.

Writer Lisa B. Valentino weighs in on the California supreme court's appalling decision to uphold the anti-gay marriage measure Prop 8. 'I realize that we are in the throes of an epic legal battle for civil rights -- again and still; and that I may seem idealistic and naïve. I assure you I am neither. Nor am I gay, straight, black, white, woman, man or otherwise described by human-born limitations and labels.'

Mitchell Gold, openly gay owner of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams is selling more than sofas. He's a model for LGBT activism using his money and influence to speak out about bigotry.

Nurse Jackie has hit rock bottom, again, but she won’t go down.  The finale of Showtime’s second season of "Nurse Jackie" played out Monday night with pill-popping nurse Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) confronted in an intervention by her bisexual BFF, Dr. Eleanor O’Hara (Eve Best), and Jackie’s devoted puppy-dog-eyed husband, Kevin (Dominic Fumusa).  Her response?  She locks herself in the bathroom looks in the mirror, laughs defiantly and scoffs, “Blow me!”

While last week Grey's Anatomy offered little in the way of a gay storyline via network television’s most eat-em-with-a-spoon-their-so-cute lesbian couple of docs, Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), who are in a three-way baby raising relationship with  narcissist and lothario Mark (Eric Dane), last night’ episode had the trio careening toward the side of a cliff as far as managing three opinionated people and a fetus. Earlier in the episode, Mark’s supposed true love Lexie (Chyler Leigh) -- although who can really tell since he banged Callie when he was supposed to be in love with her – finally hooked up with handsome Avery (Jesse Williams), who is smitten with her. If the relationship between Lexie and Avery pans out then Mark has no shot at getting back with Lexie.

We may never know the real story behind Abramson's sudden and unceremonious dismissal from the New York Times.

GLAAD's annual report tracked the seven largest motion picture studios during the 2013 calendar year to map the quantity, quality, and diversity of images of LGBT people in films. Find out how each stacked up here.

The New Normal, featuring a gay couple and their journey to have a baby, premieres this week on NBC. The show has become a target for antigay activist group One Million Moms, which claims the depiction of same-sex parents was something unprecedented on television, and symbolized "the decay of morals and values," the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation reports.

Residing a stone's throw from Salem, Massachusetts, as I celebrate Women's History Month, I am reminded of one of this nation's earliest examples of home-grown domestic terrorism - the Salem Witch Trails of 1692. This haunting history of the Puritan's execution of innocent women, and certain men too, is a window into how their religious fanaticism, misogyny, and homophobia destroyed not only the moral fiber of their town, but how it also decimated its own Christian zeal all to become a "city on the hill."

Earlier this year Advocate asked LGBT people to send in a random photo from their day on August 12, to become a part of the second annual A Day In Gay America photo project, and it quickly became clear that many of the participants were in their teen years or early twenties, perhaps living it differently than those who came before them. Here are some of the young women who participated in this year’s Day In Gay America photo project.

SheWired’s friend Diana Cage chats with iconic lesbian / feminist performance artist Holly Hughes about her views on  same-sex marriage, feminism, her button pushing work including The Well of Horniness and her new show Let Them Eat Cake!  Hughes became part of the national dialogue in the early nineties when she was one of four artists to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that was later rescinded under fire from the moral majority and ultra-conservatism of the time.

On one of TV’s most highly anticipated new spring series, NBC’s Awake, Jason Isaacs plays detective Mark Britten, a talented cop who is in an auto accident that appears to have killed his wife Hannah (Laura Allen, who played the bisexual drug addict on Dirt) and teenage son Rex (Dylan Minnette, Medium). B.D. Wong, the gay actor who played the moral compass at the heart of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a decade, is the confrontational therapist Dr. Lee. Cherry Jones, the lesbian actress best known as the president on 24 — and for being the first gay person to thank their partner when accepting a Tony Award, in 1995 — is warm and comforting Dr. Evans.