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Billed as a limited series event the heavy-hitting cast is anchored by Sigourney Weaver, the Oscar-nominated actress who has squared off with both aliens and gorillas on the big screen. While the woman who breathed life into Ripley in the Alien films is pretty much reason enough to tune in to Political Animals there is plenty more to love about the series, which is sure to become a guilty pleasure for politicos and soap lovers alike.

This week, in our series on women you should know, we feature the author of the groundbreaking lesbian romance The Price of Salt.

A survey of movie fans favoite fighting females put Julia Roberts' Erin Brokovich on top. Lesbian faves Angelina Jolie and Jodie Foster also made the list. Find out what other hot Hollywood heroine's made it.

With the latest Superman incarnation Man of Steel hitting theaters Friday, it got me thinking….where’s the Wonder Woman movie? Batman, Iron Man, Thor and even the Green Lantern have been on the big screen. Isn’t it time for a femal

Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith offers 'a play about Patricia Highsmith in the style of Patricia Highsmith,' with Laura Linney starring.

Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together, the latest feature film project from Hannah Free director and producer Wendy Jo Carlton, is screening around the country on the LGBT film festival circuit! The lesbian romantic comedy, with original musical numbers, is about two young women whose codependent relationship is fraught with erotic tension. The two friends need to figure out how to grow together or grow apart.

Screenwriter Phylis Nagy does Patricia Highsmith — an old friend — proud in her lush take on the novelist's classic lesbian book, The Price of Salt. 

Finally, Hollywood is adapting Patricia Highsmith’s pre-Lolita 1952 lesbian road trip novel The Price of Saltinto a film. And the amazing news is that it will star Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as Carol the older, wealthy married woman who falls in love with a young woman who aspires to be a theater set designer but who works in a department store. Mia Wasikowska, star of Albert Nobbs, The Kids are All Right’sandJane Eyre, will play Therese, the younger woman.

Ah October, it’s my favorite month of the year. It is the only time of year when you can walk into your local video store and check out the most blood soaked, gore filled titles without judgment. So, in honor of the darkest holiday of them all, we give you the top 10 scream queens and a few lesbian favorites including Margot Kidder, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Heather Langenkamp, Mia Farrow, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Neve Campbell, Linda Blair, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis and more!

This is meta nerd heaven.

Oscar-winning actress and blogger of all things fancy and refined on Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to play chef Gabrielle Hamilton in adaptation of her memoir Blood, Bones and Butter in which Hamilton blithely refers to her past relationships with girlfriends in the latest in what's becoming a sub-genre of foodie-themed biopics.

Ridley Scott directs Charlize Theron & Noomi Rapace in Prometheus. Details on Theron's nude scene & 'Alien' origins!