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Country singer Chely Wright came out as a lesbian in 2010. Tonight she will appear on The Joy Behar Show to discuss various reactions to her coming out. She has received death threats, been shunned by the record industry and worst of all, been rejected by her mother.

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Wish Me Away, a documentary chronicling country music star Chely Wright’s publicly coming out as a lesbian will premiere at the Nashville Film Festival on April 15 with an encore presentation on April 17. filmmakers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf filmed Wright’s coming out process including using private video diaries. Told through interviews of Chely, her family, friends and people in the music business in Nashville, “the film goes deep into Chely’s back story as an established country music star and then forward in verite scenes as she prepares to step into the media glare to reveal that she is gay.” The film also examines the public’s reaction to Wright’s brave move from people in her hometown in Nashville to members of the LGBT community.

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Kansas born and bred Richell Rene "Chely" Wright put the 9mm gun into her mouth and was about to pull the trigger when something stopped her in her tracks. The next two-and-a-half years would take the newly openly-gay country music singer/songwriter on a journey from her small town Nashville home to the museum-lined streets of Manhattan; an excursion that would include penning her long-awaited biography and result in her coming out of the closet in the straight world of country music.

Kathleen Turner, the much-loved star of everything from Body Heat to Peggy Sue Got Married, is back with a juicy new role. In director Anne Renton's new film The Perfect Family (out on Friday in New York and Los Angeles), Turner plays Eileen, a bible-thumping church mom who is finding it increasingly difficult to balance her image as Christian do-gooder with her family’s un-Brady Bunch ways. Namely, Turner has a philandering son played by Jason Ritter and a partnered, pregnant, lesbian daughter, portrayed brilliantly by Bones’ Emily Deschanel. We sat down recently with Turner and Deschanel and they gave a warm, funny interview about religion, Serial Mom, and women in film.

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.

Barely-out country music sensation Chely Wright has just been confirmed for the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco on June 5, 2010. The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco will play party host to the hottest LGBTQ movers and shakers in the industry today including: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Vilanch, Sam Sparro, Lee Daniels, Clementine Ford and, of course, Chely Wright.