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Here are 10 must-follows on Twitter that will keep you up to date on the latest developments in our bid for equality as well as entertain you in 140-characters or less!

On Saturday May 1st PFLAG honored Liza Minnelli at the Straight for Equality Awards Gala. Liza! (don’t you think her name should always be followed by an exclamation point?) was presented with the 2010 Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award, recognizing her lifelong role as a gay icon—oh sorry, I meant Straight Ally of the LGBT community.

Entertainment publicist and self-confessed skeptic and anti activist Mona Elyafi learned a valuable lesson at the National Equality March for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights!

Entertainment publicist Mona Elyafi doesn't delight in the "Hal-WHORE-ween" the way some women do. And she's equally perplexed by the public restroom hook up phenomenon popular in L.A. But what happens after you get lucky in the lavatory?

This year Aqua Girl, as it is now called, will take over Miami, Florida, May 12-16, and offer LBT women 14 events from parties to dances to shows, dinners and live entertainment. And Aqua Girl has stayed true to its roots -- all of the proceeds will benefit the Aqua Foundation for Women, a not-for profit organization that promotes equality, health and visibility of LBT women.

Equal rights activist Charlene Strong has been named the new Co-Editor of The Seattle Lesbian, Seattle’s only lesbian-focused lifestyle and entertainment online news magazine.  Now Strong adds her work with the The Seattle Lesbian to her impressive list of endeavors. The Seattle Lesbian launched with Editor-in-Chief Sarah Toce at the helm in the fall of 2010 and was honored by Gay City Health Project in February 2011 for working to bridge the gap between the gay and lesbian communities. Toce and Strong will continue to work together to bring breaking news to the LGBT community both locally and nationally.

The Human Rights Campaign has weighed in on the trans-exclusionary 'womyn born womyn' intention of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and festival organizers may not like what the national group has to say.

In an upcoming comic, the famous superhero lassoes a lesbian couple into matrimony.

The Emmy-winning Glee star will join headliners Sting and Patti LuPone at Uprising of Love, a benefit featuring Laverne Cox, Billy Porter, and Chely Wright.

Bello has a LOT to say about labels!

The GLAAD Awards are now definitely the place to be on April 12th