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The lawmaker behind the bill says some public officials are uncomfortable with issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, so he wants to take them out of the process.

Indiana senator Evan Bayh appeared Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe and made it clear he respected Sandra Bullock but was uncomfortable with the kiss she shared with Scarlett Johansson on Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards.

So here’s the deal: I get that Jersey Shore is the reality show you love to hate. But in this episode, Deena and Snookie have a marathon makeout session that’s so lengthy, explicit, and intimate that the other cast mates were uncomfortable. Viewers who read subtext will see that at least one Jersey girl is coming out. If this week’s episode is any indication, Deena is more than just curious about other women.

We would like to take a moment to thank the very brave lesbian police officers of the city of Palm Springs for their honest disclosure regarding workplace insecurities. Striving to feel equal while on duty is the last thing a police officer wants to think about while running after a perpetrator or pulling over an armed suspect. Unfortunately, the uncomfortable questions, stares and feelings involved do not always know the appropriate time to pop up.

A staggering number of LGBT youth face homelessness in an era of limited spending and fewer resources to combat the problem, National Public Radio reported in a Sunday Weekend Edition segment. Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It's largely because gay youths are more often kicked out of their homes than straight youths. And even if they are not kicked out, they may feel so uncomfortable that they leave.

This week on Cherry Bomb, the ladies tackle speaking up about uncomfortable topics in your relationship.  From obesity, to drinking, to sex and how to fix it.  Should you tell your friend the truth when she doesn't feel the need to be cute anymore?  What if your girlfriend feels like her appearance isn't important anymore?  And in this week's question, how would you react when your friend gives you a strange gift of an... 'intimate nature'?

Advocacy groups have always inhabited a distinct place in society for being a resource when something needed to change for the betterment of a community or communities. It has just been announced that long-standing pro-rights group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to build a supportive bridge for LGBT students to report harassment, bullying, discrimination, and any other uncomfortable experience having to do with their status as LGBT students to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Education Department.

I am addicted to "Pretty Little Liars," ABC Family’s newest teen dramathon, based on Sara Shepard’s books of the same name. It’s difficult pin down what exactly is so deliciously irresistible about Pretty Little Liars. At first I was deeply uncomfortable with the fact that it seemed the show was putting Shay Mitchell's character, Emily’s bisexuality on the same level of negativity as the other girls’ morally wrong and seriously illegal behavior. The show stars Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Trolan Avery Bellasario and Shay Mitchell.

A lesbian couple from Long Beach, Calif. filed a lawsuit in Hawaii state court Monday against the Aloha Bed & Breakfast, charging the business denied them lodging because of their sexual orientation. the lawsuit Lambda Legal filed on behalf of Diane Cervelli and Taeko Bufford in First Circuit Court in Honolulu. When Cervelli called the business in the east Honolulu neighborhood of Hawaii Kai in 2007 to book a room and requested one bed, the owner Phyllis Young asked whether they are lesbians. The owner said she was uncomfortable having lesbians stay because of her religious views.

Gay-loving gal and lesbian favorite Kathy Griffin got a very public poolside Pap smear over the weekend. Griffin had a Pap smear poolside at the Palomar Hotel in Los Angeles Friday. Griffin candidly outdid Katie Couric's celebrity colonoscopy when she got an on-air Pap smear for her cable series "My Life on the D-List" to raise awareness about cervical cancer. Those of you who missed the uncomfortable moment can see it when her series returns to Bravo. Griffin's poolside procedure was conducted by an actual medical physician.

Reeling 29: The Chicago International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival offered plenty of great screenings of features and shorts. Here are a couple of reviews from the festival.  "Our Gender Identities" had six shorts: Fancois Tessier's The Crossing, Chase Ryan Joynt's Everyday to Stay, Hector Ceballos' Remember Me in Red, I’m Just Anneke, Daniel Trevino’s Amateur and Ewan Duarte’s Spiral Transition. Tonette Stanford and Katherine Wilkinson’s documentary "Holding Hands" is shocking, graphic, uncomfortable, and uplifting, one of the best movies I saw at Reeling. "Across Lesbian Borders" had four shorts: Carlos Prado Pamin's Vellas, Rodrigo Diaz Daiaz's After Lunch, Na'ama Landua's Hyacinthus Lullaby and Petra Clever's Lady Pochoir.