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The fact that women have been serving in combat positions for the past decade in both Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't hold much sway when trying to convince old sexist white guys to "evolve," as The Daily Show's Samantha Bee discovered in a special report featured on Monday's episode.

A woman in colonial Massachusetts donned men's clothing in order to escape the restrictions of her gender. Centuries later, her transgender descendant has told her story.

Truth Wins Out, a group dedicated to exposing what it calls the myth of the "Ex-gay movement," launched a Change.org petition asking NBC to take out anchor Rachel Maddow to Russia in 2014.

Last month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans and our allies celebrated New York State becoming the sixth and largest state to allow same-sex marriage. But what does it signal to us LGBTQ citizens when the first African American president wants to employ states’ rights, which once upon a time in this country federally mandated racial segregation and sanctioned American slavery, to address the issue of same-sex marriage?

The Daily Beast's power-packed Women in the World summit March 12 - 14 in NYC will showcase outstanding women leaders fighting sex trafficking, child marriage, rape as a weapon of war, and other challenges holding back women and girls. Featuring Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Hillary Clinton, Marcia Gay Harden and more!

Nurse Jackie has hit rock bottom, again, but she won’t go down.  The finale of Showtime’s second season of "Nurse Jackie" played out Monday night with pill-popping nurse Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) confronted in an intervention by her bisexual BFF, Dr. Eleanor O’Hara (Eve Best), and Jackie’s devoted puppy-dog-eyed husband, Kevin (Dominic Fumusa).  Her response?  She locks herself in the bathroom looks in the mirror, laughs defiantly and scoffs, “Blow me!”

While they didn't work out of the Oval Office, the lives and accomplishments of some U.S. First Ladies have been felt the world over. Some first ladies were great hostesses, and others were loving mothers, but for President's Day, we highlight eight presidential spouses who truly kicked ass in their time.

For the past eight years, the Bush administration provided iconic lesbian comedian Kate Clinton with more than ample material, but she is far from being in short supply. Clinton has been sharing her own brand of political and life experience humor since 1981. She has reflected the gay movement in her comedic mirror, using events and people to make her points.

2012, being the year of a national election and the Olympics, has been a big year for LGBTs in pop culture, politics and sports. Now SheWired would like to pay homage to the unabashedly out women who’ve moved visibility for queer women forward.

This week's Litmus Test brings the ensemble cast together as they craft a nefarious plan to test Dylan's (Alex Hedison) devotion to Rachel Shelley's Helena. Meanwhile Jenny Schecter is as crazy and secure as ever, although Mia Kirshner joins in the fun for a tad. Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman's Bette and Tina go medieval on some Hollywood movie mogul ass and finally, some old-fashioned lesbian sex we can relate to. And where the hell is Pam Grier?

After having spent nearly her entire adult life dating women (and liking it), Elena Azzoni felt pretty secure in her sexual orientation: she’d even just been crowned Miss Lez. Then, one day in yoga class, a male teacher moved in close to adjust her pose…and she suddenly found herself intensely—bafflingly—attracted to him. Eventually she initiated a flirtation with him; after that, there was no going back.