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Sally Field, beloved for her roles in films like Places in the Heart, Steel Magnolias, and Norma Rae, talked about being the proud mom to a gay son as she accepted the Human Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

The award-winning actress penned a heartfelt letter about her experience as a mother of a gay son and is urging people to stand up against antigay legislation throughout the country.

Sally Field, Matthew Rhys, Luke MacFarlane, Ron Rifkin and the gay and lesbian members of the production staff of Brothers & Sisters sit down to discuss bullying, suicide and the light at the end of the tunnel.

Television has become the go-to spot for terrific actresses. Now Sigourney Weaver joins the increasing number of Oscar bait thespians like Glenn Close, Sally Field and Jessica Lange who’ve made the leap to the small screen with Weaver’s Political Animals debuting on USA this July 15, and running for five episodes

George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, Martin Sheen, Matt Bomer and Cleve Jones reenacted the courtroom and personal drama of the battle to overturn Prop. 8 in a reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8. Attendees included Barbara Streisand and James Brolin, Sally Field, Vanessa Williams, Leonard Nimov, Toni Collette, Sofia Vergara, and California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

This week it's Golden Globes mania. Ross and Tracy ponder Drew Barrymore's hot mess ensemble, Kate Winslet's new set of Globes, Salma Hayek's metaphorical blow of a kiss to her gf Penelope Cruz... plus cougars Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and hot ass Glenn Close mysteriously rocking Doris Roberts' togs.

SheWired's picked it's top reasons to watch this Sunday's Emmy Awards' broadcast. Among them is a battle for Best Actress comedy between Mary Louise Parker, Tina Fey, Christina Applegate, Sarah Silverman and Toni Collette. Sally Field, Glenn Close, Kyra Sedgwick, Mad Men'sElisabeth Moss and perennial lesbian fave Mariska Hargitay. Also watch for out lesbian Cherry Jones, Drew Barrymore, Sigourney Weaver, Chandra Wilson, Rose Byrne and more!

It’s been out in the ether for some time that Lifetime was working on a reboot of the classic dramedy Steel Magnolias featuring and all African-American cast, and now word is out that Queen Latifah will executive produce and star in the film that features a heavy -hitting cast including Adepero Oduye, star of last year's acclaimed lesbian-themed indie Pariah. The remake stars Latifah as M’Lynn, Alfre Woodard as Ouiser, Phylicia Rashad as Clairee, Jill Scott as Truvee, Oduye as Anelle and Condola Rashad as Shelby.

It's Emmy Awards week and we took a little time to scour the internet for our favorite Emmy speeches delivered by our favorite actresses, including a few who are actually gay. From political rabble rousers to just plain funny, a little lewd or joyfully tearful, here's a look at some Emmy speeches that made history, including Candice Bergen's thanking family values man Dan Quayle, Meryl Streep singing along with the exit music, Tina Fey winning everything for the past five years, Ellen Degeneres kissing Portia and Elaine Stritch doing what she does best --cracking people up.

The least lesbian Oscar nominations ever were announced this morning (caveat-‘least lesbian’ may be an exaggeration, but not by much). There was a dearth of lesbian and bisexual characters on the big screen in 2012, the likes of which have not been seen since Wings won the first Academy Award ever in 1927. Just last year Glenn Close and Janet McTeer were nominated for gender bending roles while Rooney Mara landed a nod for her incarnation of bisexual super hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 2011 saw a nomination for Annette Bening for her annoying lesbian character in The Kids are All Right (but at least it was something). And in 2009 Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a fiery bisexual artist in Vicki Cristina Barcelona.

Award winning actress Candice Bergen was recently inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. The former model has been a gay girl favorite since her big screen debut as an aloof university student in The Group (1966), which touched on the then-forbidden subject of lesbianism. A few years later Bergen again titillated her Sapphic fans when she played a frustrated socialite who has a lesbian affair in The Adventurers.

It's our friend and colleague, Advocate.com Editor Ross von Metzke's birthday. And as he is a gay man who loves camp and the ladies, he volunteered to cut loose a little on his (ahem) 29th birthday, and write a fantasy column about television shows that would have been much better with lesbian action and or subtext, and we can't really argue with any of these.