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Lady Gaga gets in touch with her andro side on the cover of the upcoming Vogue Hommes Japan. The 24 year-old pop sensation posed as an erstwhile Sicilian beau named "Jo Calderone" for the upcoming issue of Vogue Hommes Japan. Gender bending has become a choice theme for the artist, who recently dominated high-heel-clad storm troopers in her latest music video, "Alejandro."

Donald Trump reportedly intends to alter the legal clauses in Carrie Prejean's  contract forbidding her to make any public appearances and/or publishing a tell-all book while still wearing her Miss California crown. Which means the anti-gay marriage spokesgirl will be able to support her cause at liberty.

Sacha Baron Cohen and his alter-ego Gay Bruno are off the hook for allegedly causing "life-altering injuries" to a woman at a charity bingo tournament two years ago. Plaintiff Richelle Olson, who is seeking $25,000 in damages, claimed that Bruno -- Cohen's over-the-top Austrian gay character -- pulled a stunt that landed her in a wheel chair and a walker. Universal Pictures calls the claims 'baseless.'

Lady Gaga took home this year's award for best female performer — after putting on a raucous show Dressed as a cigarette smoking, beer drinking man. Her tweak on gender identity opened the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with a monologue in character as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, who declared nothing real, and everything theater. Then Calderone tore off a black blazer and danced with a crew of men in white t-shirts and black pants during a rendition of "Yoü and I."

Lady Gaga took home this year's award for best female performer — after putting on a raucous show Dressed as a cigarette smoking, beer drinking man. Her tweak on gender identity opened the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with a monologue in character as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, who declared nothing real, and everything theater. Then Calderone tore off a black blazer and danced with a crew of men in white t-shirts and black pants during a rendition of "Yoü and I."

Looking for a life-altering experience? Board a ship by Olivia.

Of course I ride for all, but coming out living near NYC in the '80s altered me forever.

The lawyer for one of the clerks issuing marriage licenses in Rowan County, Ky., says forms altered by Kim Davis are not valid and in violation of a federal judge's order.

The Hub Network's newest superhero cartoon has the right wing group in a tizzy. But just how radical is the animated show about a boy who has a female superhero alter ego?

Elena Kagan appears assured to win Senate confirmation as a Supreme Court justice Thursday, but her appointment is not expected to alter the ideological balance of the high court, which could consider same-sex marriage in the near future.

If you’re in LA for Bastille Day (July 14th), head over to Hotel Café where indie rockers See Green will be performing a “rowdy blast of synthy, poppy fun.” See Green is described as the full-band alter-ego of singer-songwriter, arranger, producer and musical masthead Courtenay Green.

Kate Winslet has joined forces with Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz to form a “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League,” a group of women who say no to altering their bodies with plastic surgery, according to the Telegraph. Winslet, 35, said she is passionate about influencing other women to allow themselves to age gracefully and join her in staying away from plastic surgery operating tables.

We could not be more excited for one of our favorite lesbian funny women, Fortune Feimster, who has landed her own show on ABC! The out comic behind hilarious alter-egos like Darlene Witherspoon the Hooters waitress and, more recently, her spot-on portrayal of both Honey Boo Boo and Mama June, will write, produce and star in the half-hour comedy Discounted

Emmy and Tony winning actress and an out and proud member of team LGBT Cynthia Nixon has been on the stump for President Obama in Florida this week and she said neither she nor her Sex and the City alter ego Miranda Hobbes would ever consider voting for Mitt Romney. In fact, she suggested none of the Sex and the City gals would vote for him.

Our shot for today is the luminous Christina Hendricks as the new face of London Fog! It really makes a girl wonder what’s under the trench coat. Legendary raincoat manufacturer London Fog picked the consummate spokesperson in Christina, whose Mad Men alter ego Joan Holloway gets right at the intersection of all things classic, sensual and a little naughty – just like a good trench coat should.

In a new memo a senior Pentagon personnel official warns service members against coming out despite a federal judge's order barring further enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell." Under Secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness Clifford Stanley, who on Thursday filed a declaration to U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips in support of a stay of her injunction against DADT, wrote that service members "altering their personal conduct in this legally uncertain environment may [face] adverse consequences."

One of the few times Oscar nominee and Emmy nominee Laura Dern appeared on television was when she famously played the apple of Ellen DeGeneres’ alter-ego Ellen Morgan’s eye in Ellen’s coming out, or, “Puppy Episode.” And while Dern, a David Lynch protégé if ever there were one, acted as the voice of reason as Ellen’s love interest Susan way back in 98, she’s never better than when she’s either unraveling or fully unraveled as in Alexander Payne’s deliciously black comedy Citizen Ruth.