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Anna Paquin, the Oscar winner and star of the HBO hit True Blood will come out as bisexual in a new public service announcement for the True Colors Fund. Other celebrities taking part in the campaign include Margaret Cho, Mya, Jason Mraz, Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg, Cynthia Nixon, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne, Judith Light, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, and Wanda Sykes -all proclaiming they "Give A Damn" about equality as they too publicly declare their sexuality, be it straight, gay or bisexual.

Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Give a Damn’ campaign has released its latest video, this one to help educate people about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents, and features moms Sharon Osbourne, Cynthia Nixon and Karolina Kurkova.  They are joined by a father and a grandmother to call attention to the discrimination that families headed by gay parents face each and every day in this country. The call-to-action campaign kicked off in April with the release of its first series of videos featuring Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Cynthia Nixon, Anna Paquin, Sharon & Kelly Osbourne, Judith Light, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, Wanda Sykes, Eric Roberts, and Kevin Alejandro.

Gay-friendly platinum recording artist Colbie Caillat has dipped her feet into a pool of gold with her break-out debut album "CoCo" and follow-up album "Breakthrough." The self-professed “happy girl” from California channeled her inner Bob Marley to create the hip sounds permeating throughout “Bubbly”, “Realize” and “Little Things”.  Her “Lucky” duet with Jason Mraz was exactly that for her burgeoning career and her feelings about Prop 8 and gay marriage.

In the past couple of weeks, numerous celebrities have posted videos online or joined campaigns such as Give A Damn and It Gets Better, which aim to spread awareness about LGBT issues in an effort to prevent suicide among LGBT youth and put an end to the anti-gay bullying epidemic. Thanks to Kathy Griffin, Anne Hathaway, Joe Jonas, Margaret Cho, Lance Bass, Tim Gunn, Wanda Sykes, Ellen Degeneres, Judith Light, Lily Tomlin, Mae Whitman, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cyndi Lauper, Colin Farrell, Elton John, Ricky Martin, Rachael Harris, Idina Menzel, Chris Colfer, Sarah Silverman, Anna Paquin, Jason Mraz, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Osbourne, Clay Aiken, Ashley Tisdale and the cast of Hellcats, Candice Accola, Ian Somerhalder, Jenny McCarthy, Greg Grunberg, Erika Jayne, Shay Mitchell, Kristin Cavallari, Julie Benz, Michael Chiklis, Katerina Graham, Rex Lee, Ashley Roberts and all the other celebrities who put their time in to spread these important messages.

They said they would wait until same-sex marriage was legal, so it's time for some knots to get tied!

"American Idol" voted off the first four contestants of season nine, eliminating Janell Wheeler, Joe Munoz, Ashley Rodriguez and Tyler Grady. 20 contestants remain: Katelyn Epperly, Lilly Scott, Lacey Brown, Haeley Vaughn, Didi Benami, Michelle Delamor, Katie Stevens, Crystal Bowersox, Paige Miles and Soibhan Magnus, Andrew Garcia, Todrick Hall, Lee Dewyze, Michael Lynche, Aaron Kelly, Jermaine Sellers, Tim Urban, John Park and Alex Lambert.

As part of National Runaway Prevention Month, the Give a Damn Campaign, a project of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, released their latest video focused on raising awareness for homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. In the video, Susan Sarandon, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, Pete Wentz, Eden Riegel and Cyndi Lauper speak up about the need to bring an end to this epidemic. 

Ingrid Michaelson is not gay, but she will defend any one of her brothers and sisters if an ignorant comment or suggestion is made.  Case in point: one of Ingrid's fans used the word "gay" to describe her single "Everybody" immediately prompting her to issue a response to deflect the incident.  She also chats about Sara Bareilles, Snickers, her fave Sarah McLachlan song and Grey's Anatomy.