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The evangelical actress and Full House alum will be joining The View as a co-host. Look for many more dust-ups with Raven Symone.

Out olympic gold medalist Megan Rapinoe's new team is making waves as the first U.S. professional women's team to join the You Can Play Project, dedicated to fighting homophobia in sports.

If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that public opinion on marriage equality and gay rights is shifting dramatically, a subject Martina Navratilova addressed in an op-ed for Sports Illustrated since Washington Wizard Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in major league sports earlier this week.

The Global LGBT Summit is underway in Philadelphia. On Thursday April 29^th a National Sports Panel discussed the toxic effect of homophobia in college and professional sports. One of the panelists was Dr. Pat Griffin.

In the past year she’s battled breast cancer and a pulmonary edema scare on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. But on and off the court, lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova is still a fighter. Navratilova continues to speak about injustices inflicted on gay people, adding thoughts on lawmakers who use homophobia for political advantage and how democrats can't keep backing down. Watch the behind the scenes video interview!

Lesbian-on-lesbian cage matches, a $7 million payout in pro poker, and Abby Wambach's legs made 2013 a kickass year to be a female athlete.

Ann Northrop has come along way from her roots in conservative Hartford, Conn. Over the years, the Vassar art history grad has been a force for change… from the Vietnam War to feminism to the AIDS crisis and especially to the fight for universal equality. From Ms. mag to ACT UP to Gay USA, Northrop's been a tireless activist in the trenches of the battle for gay rights.