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Rachel Maddow doesn't believe she is "mounting a crusade" for activism, but rather a newswoman who happens to be a lesbian as rival Fox News lashes out against the MSNBC host. Maddow tells the Washington Post that being a lesbian is not what drives her coverage of issues like "don't ask, don't tell." Maddow is aware of how her sexual orientation impacts her treatment of guests like Lt. Dan Choi, who came out on 'The Rachel Maddow Show.'

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Always a friend to the gays, cartoonist Gary Trudeau has written in America's favorite lesbian TV anchor into his latest strip. In it, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews (both off-screen) take down the "GOP's alternative universe."

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow will receive an award from the Interfaith Alliance named for the late broadcaster Walter Cronkite. The award honors her coverage of religion and politics. Maddow will be presented with the 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award at a gala dinner in New York. Also receiving the award with Maddow on October 24 will be the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of religion at the Chautauqua Institution.

Talk show host and smart cookie lesbian Rachel Maddow strikes back against Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown for falsely claiming she has been tapped as the state's Democratic candidate for the 2012 senate race. In a full-page ad in the Boston Globe Friday, Maddow issued a letter, "I'm not running against Scott Brown." She said the rumor had no merit and that Brown "never even tried to find out if it was true" and that he wanted to "scare donors into giving him more money."

The ladies of The View took turn gushing over lesbian liberal Rachel Maddow while they had her at the table. Even Elisabeth Hasselbeck showered the self proclaimed "big lesbian" with praise, telling Maddow she had "a tremendous amount of respect from people" and does "an exceptional job." Video Included....

The out MSNBC anchor got emotional while explaining that human error isn't the only cause of the Amtrak crash.

As San Diego winds down from its annual geek-fest (said lovingly) known as Comic-Con 2013, we're snatching up all the queer tidbits trickling out of the international event.

Check out SheWired's favorite posts from the Tumblr page"Hey Girl It's Rachel Maddow." Because Ryan Gosling isn't for everyone.

Candace Gingrich-Jones, the lesbian half-sister to Newt Gingrich, said she wouldn't be surprised if he used LGBT issues to get ahead politically.

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy which banned LGBT people from serving openly in the US military ended on Tuesday morning. Rachel Maddow, who has been a strong advocate for the policy’s end, used her show on MSNBC to celebrate.

Rachel Maddow discussed the major developments of  "don't ask, don't tell" on her show Thursday. From the arrest of 29-year-old Lt. Dan Choi and others for chaining themselves to the White House fence in protest. As if breaking the DADT code, Maddow's news rested on the inclusion of gays in the Dutch military that led to the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995. Watch the "Rachel Maddow Show" clip here. 

Rachel Maddow injects a dose of common sense on the Supreme Court's ruling on contraception.

Fred Phelps and company set out to make the world hate LGBT people but achieved the opposite.

Regular SheWired readers will be unsurprised to know that I'm a die-hard fan of out MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow. It just so happens that today is Maddow's 40th birthday

In a week marked by two cases on marriage equality being heard in the Supreme Court, Rachel Maddow ended it appropriated by toasting a “historic week” in LGBT history.

Have you ever wanted to go to school where Rachel Maddow was the professor? While it’s not quite like sitting in class with Maddow at the podium and you writing “I heart you” on your eyelids so you can bat them at her (oh wait, that was a dream I had), Wednesday’s The Rachel Maddow Show was like a DOMA primer with Rachel as the teacher.

In her first episode since the November 6 elections, out news anchor Rachel Maddow eviscerated the myths Republicans have been unsuccessfully trying to convince Americans to believe for the past two years.