Jamie Wetherbe

Constance McMillen, the teen who sued her Mississippi high school after officials canceled the prom rather than let her bring her girlfriend and wear a tux, stopped by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center on Saturday, March 27. Accompanied by an ACLU representative, McMillen met with other teens and adults (a few from Mississippi) to check out the Center's charter school for LGBT youth, the only one of its kind in California.

Dot429, a new social network for LGBT professionals, on Saturday afternoon held its inaugural Los Angeles event poolside at the Avalon Hotel. The event — which follows dot429’s launch events in San Francisco, Chicago and New York — hosted some of L.A.’s most connected LGBT leaders, from financiers to filmmakers, for a Beverly Hills brunch.

Club Skirts — celebrating 20 years of Dinah this spring — is bringing an international act into the mix with the Paradiso Girls taking the stage Saturday, April 3 at the Hilton.

Susan Mikula is having a vagabond week - on the eve of her first show in San Francisco, she's picking up partner Rachel Maddow from the airport. Mikula's exhibition, American Device: Recent Photographs, which captures American industry at the edges of the country, will be on display at the George Lawson Gallery, Feb. 25 to March 27.

At a time when print is facing great challenges, a maverick editor Merryn Johns and her crew launched Bound, what could be the first international magazine for lesbians and could-be lesbians. Based in Australia, the Bound team has just published its third issue featuring fame in all forms with stories on Lady Gaga, Hilary Swank and porn legend Nina Hartley, as well as highlights from Johannesburg Pride and a report on the death of lesbian soldier Ciara Durkin, paired with lifestyle pieces on, travel, décor and fashion.

SheWired contributor Jamie Wetherbe chats with Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend's Mariah Hanson about the world's largest lesbian event's 20th anniversary upcoming blow out including Ke$ha, Paradiso Girls and newly out Meredith Baxter taking to the cat walk! Mariah says there's a big surprise coming. That cat's already out of the lesbian bag of tricks. It's Rosie O'Donnell in her return to stand-up!

Issues host and out lesbian TV anchor Jane Velez-Mitchell talks about the upcoming Northwest Coalition Against Trafficking (NWCAT) conference and the war on women. The conference aims to educate and protect women and girls from sex trafficking.

We round up the best lesbian movies of ’09 — from dramas and documentaries to comedies even a horror film. Films like Whip It with Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, Jennifer's Body with Megan Fox, Ameliawith Hilary Swank, And Then Came Lola with Cathy DeBuono and Jill Bennett, Precious, and Hannah Free with Sharon Gless, are among those on our list of the best lesbian movies this year.

Andrew Bujalski’s latest film Beeswax combines the real and reel worlds — and avoids the cliché lesbian drama.

OK. First things first: Turkey’s proximity to some more dangerous areas of the world has given it a bad rap. While a move toward a more conservative government has prompted more women to wear head scarves (and even the occasional burka), Istanbul is as modern — and safe — as any other European city. You’ll even find a couple of lesbian bars, but in this Muslim-centric city, gay couples might want to keep PDA to a minimum.

Mississippi Damned, a story of a large African-American family in a world of addiction, poverty and violence will be at Outfest’s centerpiece gala screening. From the lesbian filmmaking duo of writer/director Tina Mabry (Itty Bitty Titty Committee) and Morgan Stiff, the award-winning film follows three black kids from 1986 to 1998 struggling to escape what has plagued their family for generations or be forever damned in Mississippi.