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Wanda Sykes takes on Super Bowl network CBS for allowing a pro-life commercial to air during the big game, but refusing approval for gay dating site Man Crunch's adverstisement.

Ellen has a solution to Hallmark's de'gay'ing of 'Deck the Halls.'

Pro-LGBT Dear Abby comes up with a lovely solution for the heartbroken granny.

Are Starbucks' new cups anti-Christmas? Ellen breaks the debacle down and even offers a magical solution. 

But we promise not to use the phrase "lesbian bed death" at any point in this article, and we're not talking about "pink Viagra" as a solution.

The Catholic Church is running damage control. Pope Benedict XVI won't resign and he can't be defrocked. And Catholics worldwide are enraged. The Church now needs a quick out, an easy solution and a fall guy to tamp down our rage and to explain away its decades-long pedophilic problem. Just recently the Vatican's second-highest authority, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, belted out the solution. It's us gays! Of course, linking homosexuality to pedophilia.

Lesbian Bed Death might just be three most dreaded words in a gay girl's life but writers Tracey Stevens and Kathy Wunder offer up some solutions to help fan the flames.

This week on The Violet Underground Jill Bennett and her friend in the film business Debra Miller contemplate the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. In Part 3 of the discussion Jill and Debra ponder 'what is the solution?' And the offer a pretty creative one at the end.  

Not all schools have the resources to put towards the inclusion of LGBT books in their libraries. Amelia Roskin-Frazeel, a 14-year-old from California is providing a solution with The Make It Safe Project, which gives free packages of LGBT books to schools without any, and makes sure students have access to them.

Writer Katie Boyden read an article in the Sunday New York Times called "The New Math On Campus: when women outnumber men at a college, dating culture is skewed." Here she weighs in on the phenomenon, offering up possible solutions, including the old Gay Until Graduation theory or (Lesbian Until Graduation if you went to Women's College).

Meghan Stabler is a business executive, national LGBT activist, transsexual woman, and transgender advocate.  She has served on the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Directors since 2008 and is currently Senior Director and Executive Advisor at CA Technologies, a New York-based multi-billion-dollar IT management software and solutions company. Stabler shares with dot429 her journey of transition, its impact on her career, and the work she has done towards establishing equality in the corporate workplace.

Brooke Hogan goes gay for her show. Is that just capitalizing on the whole 'I Kissed a Girl' phenomenon? Brooke's best friend, Glenn, seems to be having some relationship issues. He goes from guy to guy, and can’t seem to find the “right one.” Brooke, knowing best I’m assuming, decides that perhaps the solution to his problem is that he needs to go back to women – or as she so eloquently puts it: “maybe there’s still a little straight left in you.”

Villiage Voice newspaper maven Jill Johnston has died from a stroke at the age of 81.  During her lifetime, Johnston was a pioneer for the lesbian and feminist communities. Authoring what many considered the lesbian bible Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution in 1974, Johnston was a lead figure in the movement towards equality and social justice in the LGBT community. The accomplished writer regularly wrote artistic columns for the Village Voice as well as other poignant feminist pieces that shaped the world we currently see before us today as lesbians in America and around the world.