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Sara Rue will stars as Lucy, who poses as gay and in a domestic partnership with her best gal pal to keep her fancy Manhattan apartment.

Here's a smattering of pop culture from around the web! Today's tidbits include: Sara Rue on Rules of Engagement, Jane Lynch, the end of production for the Sony Walkman, Natalie Portman in Black Swan and her family possible drama, Olivia Wilde in a personalized video just for you, and Glee doing Rocky Horror!

The third film in the Twilight series is turning out to be a cast of female heavy-hitters as Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno has just been added to the Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson starrer. Sadly, despite the cast, no lesbian love stories have arisen in the series.

At the launch of the 2011-2012 television season, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Where We Are on TV report estimates that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) scripted characters represent 2.9% of all scripted series regular characters on the five broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC). Mainstream cable networks’ scripted LGBT series regulars have also dropped in the upcoming season.

To herald that transitional time of year that is the end of summer and the beginning of the school year, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite school-themed TV shows, many of which feature lesbians, or at least strong female characters – whether they are the outcasts or the popular and/or mean girls. Update your Netflix queue to include a few of these queer-friendly favorite series that compliment the back to school spirit just right.

This week we bade farewell to the gals who’ll go out into the world and live their lives without the eyes of adoring / disapproving fans following their every move – sort of like pushing about a dozen tattooed, pierced baby birds out of a nest.