the substance

Olympian Hope Solo has been issued a public warning in the wake of a positive test result for the diuretic, Canrenone, a banned substance, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Solo accepted the warning, but claims that the test results, obtained during a June 15 urine sample, were purely accidental.

"Piranha 3D" featuring 90210's Jessica Szohr in a "Girls Gone Wild" moment with a porn star? From TV to movies to music, Hollywood has a strong track record of marketing girl-on-girl. From Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried in Jennifer's Body to Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions to Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston on the small screen, the lesbian kiss holds plenty of promise but not much substance.

Finally, a lesbian character portrayed on a show with a host of substance to back it up! Think CSI: Miami meets the humor of Sex and the City and you’ll run the course of identifying the brand-new Boston-based TNT masterpiece labeled Rizzoli & Isles. The 60-minute drama stars former Law & Order sexpot Angie Harmon as the captivating Detective Jane Rizzoli and former NCIS star Sasha Alexander as her enticing sidekick Dr. Maura Isles.

An outspoken ally to the LGBTQ community, Gloria Jean Watkins, a.k.a. bell hooks, is arguably the most widely published and known black feminist scholar ever, and no Women’s Studies courses here or abroad should be without her. Born and raised in the rural Kentucky, bell hooks uses her great-grandmother's name as her pseudonym to celebrate the female legacy of her family. hooks spells her pseudonym in all lowercase to emphasize her writings rather than her name, because as she says "it is the substance of my books, not who is writing them, that is important."

U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team and Olympic goalie Hope Solo’s fiancé’, former Seattle Seahawks/Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Jerramy Stevens, 33, was arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of fourth degree domestic assault, after an altercation with Solo, 31, at a party the day before their planned wedding day.

Lindsay Lohan was ordered to go back to jail on Friday morning by California Judge Elden S. Fox of Los Angeles County Superior Court. Lohan was ordered to be held without bail until her formal probation hearing on October 22nd.

It's confirmed that Anne Hathaway will defiantly don the costume of Batman’s feline femme fatale in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway will join a long list of ladies, including Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt, Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer, who’ve grabbed the attention of the lesbian community for their portrayal of the fierce Bat villain.

Democrats in Congress have renewed their efforts for legislative repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act following the decision by President Barack Obama to stop defending the discriminatory law against gay and lesbian couples. The Huffington Post reports on the plan from Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, to introduce the Respect for Marriage Act to repeal DOMA “very soon,” according to the congressman from New York, and with “quite a few cosponsors.”