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Robinson, the award winning out writer/director, and executive producer of both HBO’s True Blood and Hung, has released an official statement today withdrawing all official endorsement, affiliation, and support of Girltrash: All Night Long: As Presented by Power Up, the musical comedy based on her extremely successful web series.

The Chick-fil-A name has been removed from banner ads promoting a marriage event sponsored by the antigay Pennsylvania Family Institute. The company tweeted that it was “looking into the issue” on Tuesday but has yet to issue an official statement. Chick-fil-A had been listed as a sponsor for February’s “The Art of Marriage” event, sponsored by the conservative, antigay group.

The city of Barcelona, Spain, will put up a monument to gay and transgender people who have been persecuted “throughout history." City officials issued a statement last week saying the pink triangular stone monument, which will be unveiled in February, will bear the inscription “In memory of the gays, lesbians and transsexual people who have suffered persecution and repression throughout history. Barcelona 2011.”

The favorite tomboy of many a budding lesbian back in the 1970’s and 80’s Kristy McNichol, 49, came out last week in an official statement and with a photo of her with her partner Martie Allen in hopes that coming out might help bullied kids, she told the magazine. Now, the actress tells People that she’s overwhelmed by the positive response she’s received. McNichol rose to fame as the adorable Buddy in the television show Family, in which Meredith Baxter – who came out as a lesbian in 2009—played her older sister.

President Barack Obama will host a conference about bullying prevention at the White House next Thursday. Last fall, President Obama appeared in an “It Gets Better” video following a highly publicized series of LGBT teen suicides because of bullying.

We all knew that this might happen eventually, but it was the large elephant on the top of the table in the center of the room that no one dared speak of for fear of it actually coming true.  Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels have officially announced their split.

Air France jet liner traveling from Rio, Brazil to Paris, France with 228 passengers aboard vanished over the Atlantic Ocean earlier today.

'The Talk’s lesbian host Gilbert has split with her partner, Adler, after 10 years and two children together.

As a lesbian I'm usually a big fan of the ladies, but I can’t get behind Serena Williams' behavior during the US Open semi finals. She was fined $10,000 for telling a lines official that she would "stick a fucking ball down her fucking throat, so help me God!" That outburst came close behind her smashing her racket, resulting in a fine of $500.

Apple appears to have pulled the antigay Exodus International iPhone app from the App Store, although the company has not yet released a statement on the move. “Apple has been under fire for more than a week now for carrying a ‘gay cure’ app on its platform from Exodus International. But if you try to access the controversial app this evening, this is the message you'll get: ‘The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store.’”

Following a White House screening of the documentary Bully, President Obama endorsed both the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Non-Discrimination Act. The president made the announcement on Friday, the 17th annual Day of Silence, where LGBT students and allies sustain a vow of non-verbal communication to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.