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This week's collection of outrage-inducing news spans the globe, from antigay psuedoscientists in Uganda, to proudly bigoted restaurateurs in Oklahoma.

This week's roundup proves, once again, that anti-LGBT bigotry knows no borders.

In the lead article of the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family, Dr. Biblarz and Dr. Stacey of New York University, extending their previous work on gender and family, analyzed parenting studies and research on single-parent households, and gay and lesbian parents. The researchers found no signs of parenting abilities based on gender.

Children raised by same-sex couples dominated the federal trial over Proposition 8 on Friday as the measure's proponents attacked studies that showed children of lesbians and gays are just as well-adjusted. On the fifth day of the trial in San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker heard testimony from Michael Lamb, a professor and author Helen Zia. 

Whether you believe in the existence of the elusive 14-foot walking primate known commonly as Bigfoot or not, the cult hit series Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet has something to offer you, due mainly to Ranae Holland (out lesbian and research biologist) returning as one of the show’s stars. And if you happen to be a Sasquatch skeptic, well, then Holland really plays for your team, as she is the show’s resident non-believer.

Entertainment Publicist Mona Elyafi continues to traverse the Los Angeles' lesbian dating scene and often with comical results. This week she contemplates strap-ons sex gone awry. And takes on advice from SheWired Editor Tracy E. Gilchrist's mother.

Last night during the live streamed broadcast The Gloves are Off, Episode 5, I attempted to include some information about homosexuality appearing in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it’s evolution of categories until it was finally removed.

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Diana Cage. Author, editor, blogger, and media personality Cage is the former host of The Diana Cage Show, a wildly popular, no-holds-barred nightly talk show on Sirius XM. Her books include Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide, Box Lunch: The Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus, Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex, and the groundbreaking On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex.

Elder care, science, education, energy, sports… these aren’t LGBT issues, they’re people issues. These are some of the most challenging and heated areas of culture, and at the foreground are four very heroic LGBT women.

Thomas Beatie became known as the world's first pregnant man and now he is pregnant with baby number three. Some argue that because he is a trans man, it's not the same. We are just like other American men -- nerds, cowboys, suits, metrosexuals, jocks, chauvinist pigs, etc. Maybe by admitting that, by being forced to see ourselves reflected in Beatie’s mirror, we’ll find a way to accept ourselves as we are, with all our flaws, even as we struggle to show the world our true diversity. Trans man Jacob Anderson-Minshall breaks down the Beatie debate.