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Out MSNBC anchor just couldn't wrap her Rhodes Scholar, doctorate-brain around Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's apparent misunderstanding of basic women's biology, as demonstrated yesterday at the SCOTUS hearing challenging California's Proposition 8.

A judge Monday ordered the immediate issuance of a marriage license to Vernita Gray, who has cancer, and partner Patricia Ewert.

Velvetpark has named its “Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2010,” and the editors dug deep to deliver a thoughtful list of queer women who aren’t always on the tips of the collective lesbian tongues. Among the women Velvetpark has recognized are DADT activist Katie Miller, performance artists Heather Cassils and Holly Hughes, experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, drag king and queer legend Storme DeLarverie, artist Catherine Opie and community activist Dawn the Self Esteem Queen, among many others.

Courtney Wagner thought she was just watching the Ellen Show until she was surprised to find that she would actually be on it as Ellen's special guest.

4 Non Blondes rock out like no other!

President Obama had a lot to say in his State of the Union address, but there was also plenty left unsaid.

Reality series personality Tila Tequila was rushed to the hospital on Feb. 29, for a brain aneurysm that was discovered after her roommate called 911 claiming she'd attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. The bisexual star of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila was released from the hospital on Monday and is recovering at home.

Helen Gurley Brown, a pioneering feminist journalist who changed the nature of women’s magazines and was the voice of women’s sexual liberation as early as 1962, died today at age 90 at McKeen Pavilion at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Diana Cage. Author, editor, blogger, and media personality Cage is the former host of The Diana Cage Show, a wildly popular, no-holds-barred nightly talk show on Sirius XM. Her books include Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide, Box Lunch: The Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus, Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex, and the groundbreaking On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex.

We’ve all been asked the awkward question: So how do lesbians have sex, anyway? Our lovemaking might just be the most misunderstood type of sex in the world.  But as a lesbian with many lesbian friends, I realized something interesting: straight people aside, even we cannot seem to come up with a standard definition for sex. In my porn odyssey, I started with a series of films called, Women Seeking Women, made by Girlfriends Films, which is representative of mainstream lesbian porn. 

The military was out of line with its new restrictions on hair, and this history of oppression goes way back.

SheWired's sports' enthusiast Helen Wortham, a Pennsylvania native, has been putting her liver through ringer with the Phillies in the world series. Here's a lowdown of sports from the point of view of that beleaugured organ.

Why do people have such a problem with an Indian-American Miss America?

Gabrielle Christina Victoria "Gabby" Douglas is one of this year's Olympic darlings. As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team, Gabby is the first African American gymnast and woman of color, in Olympic history, to win gold medals in the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics.

What stage of your relationship are you in? Some lesbian couples will go through all stages, while other couples will only experience a few of them. For part one of their examination of relationship stages Tracey Stevens and Kathy Wunder take a look at Romantic Love and the Power Struggle.