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Annaleigh Ashford chats exclusively with Shewired about playing Betty DiMello on Masters of Sex, changing lives in Kinky Boots, and returning to Broadway this month.

In endeavoring to nail down The 100 Greatest Lesbian Albums (Of All Time) we enlisted the help of lesbian friends, colleagues, musicians and entertainers spanning 6 decades in age and asked them to name the albums that provided the soundtrack to their lives as women. Here are numbers 75-51 including The Cranberries, Meg Christian, The Breeders, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Missy Higgins, The Dixie Chicks, Uh Huh Her, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper and more...

Summer vacation is one of the best times during the year to read a book. On the beach, in a plane or car... We’ve come a long way since 1928 when the lesbian book Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall was banned for obscenity. This summer pick up books by Kate Clinton, Staceyann Chin, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall and the Seven Sisters' novel Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan, not to mention some lesbian erotica!

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