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Rev. Irene Monroe calls on friends, family and community leaders to end the bullying epidemic that takes the lives of too many LGBTQ youth.

If you’re looking for Madea (Tyler Perry in front of the camera in drag), or Black-faced versions of Sex in the City or He’s Just Not That Into You, then Mr. Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 womanist choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf will gravely disappoint you. Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, and Macy Gray star. 

When Sirdeaner L. Walker of Springfield spoke at a press conference in Massachusetts last year calling for effective and comprehensive anti-bullying legislation to be passed in response to the tragic loss of her 11-year-old-son, Carl, I had hoped I would neither read nor hear ever again about another child or young adult committing suicide as the result of bullying.
One of the suicides this past September was that of 18-year-old gay Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi.

From broadcast (90210, The Good Wife) to cable (Nurse Jackie, True Blood), GLAAD's 15th annual "Where We Are on TV" study leaves no stone unturned. Meet all of the LGBT characters on television this year including Archie Panjabi's Kalinda, Polly Walker's Clarice Willow, HawthoRNe's Kelly Epson, True Blood's Pam, Hellcats' The Wedge and of course Grey's Anatomy's Callie and Arizona.

Following the announcement that Judge Walker ruled Prop. 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, unconstitutional, supporters of equality came to West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles to rally and celebrate. Here are some photos from the event! Included are the lawyers in the case David Bois and Ted Olson, the plaintiffs in the original marriage case Diane Olson and Robin Tyler and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.