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Retiring WNBA star Becky Hammon makes an important first in sports.

Lesbian-on-lesbian cage matches, a $7 million payout in pro poker, and Abby Wambach's legs made 2013 a kickass year to be a female athlete.

The Grey’s Anatomy season 9 finale is upon us and fans of TV’s most adorable lady doc couple, Callie (Sara Ramirez) & Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), are waiting with bated breath for word as to whether or not Arizona will come clean with her wife Callie about hooking up with hot-shot new craniofacial specialist Lauren (Hilarie Burton).

Forty-two professional athletes and figures in pro sports have sent a friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court supporting marriage equality in a case next week challenging California's Proposition 8. The brief was spearheaded by Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings, who were both honored by GLAAD last weekend for their outward support of LGBT rights. Supporters of the brief include openly gay retired athletes, Robbie Rogers, Esera Tuaolo, Wade Davis, Jr., David Kopay, as well as out Minnesota Lynx player Seimone Augustus.

SheWired's sibling publication The Advocate held its annual 'A Day in Gay America' on Nov. 9., and received hundreds of submissions from regular folks --and a few celebrities--who just happen to be LGBT Americans. And we have a round-up of many of the out women who participated. View all photos in various categories from A Day in Gay America here.

While much of the western world has been embroiled in the royal nuptias of Prince William and Kate Middleton, we at SheWired have Calzona on the brain now that Callie is on the mend. The last time we encountered TV's most adorable lesbian doc couple Callie and Arizona, Callie (Sara Ramirez) was singing for her life in the Grey's Anatomy Musical Event episode. Callie's long road back opens with a shot of baby Sofia Robbin Sloane Torres - I'm not sure I like Mark's name sandwiched between Arizona's (Jessica Capshaw) and Callie's as he's sandwiched himself between everything else, but... -- in the NICU at one week old and at 1 pound and one ounce.

Women's basketball MVP and Olympian Sheryl Swoopes is returning to the game this year with the Tulsa Shock after sitting out for two seasons. Swoopes, who just turned 40, previously played for the Houston Comets, where she won four WNBA championships and was named league MVP in 2000, 2002, and 2005. In 2008 she signed with the Seattle Storm, where she played in 29 games before taking a break from the league to play overseas.

While last week Grey's Anatomy offered little in the way of a gay storyline via network television’s most eat-em-with-a-spoon-their-so-cute lesbian couple of docs, Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), who are in a three-way baby raising relationship with  narcissist and lothario Mark (Eric Dane), last night’ episode had the trio careening toward the side of a cliff as far as managing three opinionated people and a fetus. Earlier in the episode, Mark’s supposed true love Lexie (Chyler Leigh) -- although who can really tell since he banged Callie when he was supposed to be in love with her – finally hooked up with handsome Avery (Jesse Williams), who is smitten with her. If the relationship between Lexie and Avery pans out then Mark has no shot at getting back with Lexie.

She is not a victim. Don’t call her one and don’t even think about it to yourself as you’re sitting in a quiet room. She is a wife, partner, friend, co-worker, gay rights activist, wine-lover, and humble spirit. Charlene Strong, age 47, also happens to be a lesbian. Her very private and devastating story made national headline news in 2006 when a flash flood plummeted into Seattle, Washington’s Madison Valley. The effects of the storm killed her wife of nine years, Kate Fleming. In an instant, Strong was thrust into the media spotlight as an activist and film subject depicted in the monumental award-winning Trick Dog Films documentary For My Wife.

At this year’s Comic Con, one of the biggest, buzziest moments was definitely the cast announcement for the upcoming Avengers film. It boasts a helluva lot of big names and one awesome director/writer, Joss Whedon, who’s known for creating some of the past couple decades’ most prominent heroines (Buffy the Vampire Slayer,  Dollhouse’s Echo). We assembled a superchick team including Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft, Ellen Page's Kitty Pryde, Halle Berry's Catwoman, Anna Paquin's Sookie Stackhouse and more...