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A Harvey Nichols ad campaign in the United Kingdom showing women kissing their own reflection prompted religious conservatives to get their knickers in a twist and complain to the national advertising authority.

While the Glee Gay-Caps usually recap Ms. Santana Lopez's flirting with coming out, she was only a supporting role is this episode. This week’s story revolved a great deal around a pretty gay storyline with Kurt’s coming to terms that he may just not be butch enough to play the leading man. However the episode did feature the apple of Santana’s eye Brittany (Heather Morris) emerging as a confident leading player and a proudly out bisexual unicorn, but we’ll get to that later.

Shepard Fairey, partnering with LGBT grassroots organization FAIR, debuted a selection of the 100 celebrity-customized Defend Equality Love Unites posters designed to raise awareness — and funds — for the fight for gay and lesbian marriage equality. Thursday night’s event featured the redesigned creations from the likes of Tegan Quin, Virginia Madsen, Dustin Lance Black (Milk), Matt Groening, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Renee Zellweger and many more on display at the Andaz in West Hollywood. The L Word's Daniela Sea and New Moon's Anna Kendrick. 

Zelda Rubinstein, the Poltergeist actress and HIV activist, died Wednesday at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 76.

Photos Herb Ritts took of Madonna and Rosanna Arquette during a publicity shoot for their hit film Desperately Seeking Susan were initially deemed too "lesbian," according to veteran publicist Reid Rosefelt. Rosefelt, who was working as a publicist on the 1985 mistaken identity comedy, recalls the day he first told Madonna that Ritts would be photographing her and costar Arquette for publicity photos and, possibly, the film's poster.

Taylor Swift and her infinite amount of famous friends are coming for us all on May 17th.

A recent wave of violence in Iraq has resulted in the kidnapping, torture, and killing of about 40 people perceived to be gay or lesbian, with the murder weapon sometimes being a concrete block to the head.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) will honor Jane Lynch and six students from Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District at its 2012 Anniversary Celebration—which marks its 35th year—on May 5, 2012 at San Francisco’s Metreon Cityview with the well-known political humorist Kate Clinton returning for a command performance as emcee.

Katherine Brooks (Loving Annabelle) has a new feature film project! Directed by Brooks, Off the Record will push the boundaries of filmmaking, exposing some controversial and taboo topics.

If you had asked me last week or even a month ago if the initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California would pass, I would have said no. Well, it seems I can’t say that anymore. Recent polling has shown that there is movement in California and it’s going the wrong way. This is definitely not good news.

When Lady Gaga wore an outfit made of Kermit the Frogs in 2009, PETA praised her for her supposed gesture decrying animal-based fashion, especially fur. “I really loved this one in particular because I thought it was commentary on not wearing fur, 'cause I hate fur and I don't wear fur,” Gaga said at the time.

If it were Fox News I wouldn’t have flinched. But it was National Public Radio. To my surprise, I didn’t realize -- especially in 2011 -- my sexual orientation was still up for debate. But on Aug. 1 on the "Morning Edition" of National Public Radio (NPR), it was. And the topic on the show that morning was "Can Therapy Help Change Sexual Orientation?"My head spins at the thought of how Christian counseling services, like Dr. Marcus Bachmann’s, still get so much air time, especially, in spite of the voluminous information disputing the pseudo-science of "ex-gay" conversion therapies.

Busi Kheswa is the director of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, advocating for the rights of abused LGBT women. The following is the speech she gave Wednesday night addressing violence and rape against women in South Africa at the Oslo Freedom Forum.