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the non-profit film organization that gave us Itty Bitty Titty Committee and numerous award-winning lesbian and gay short films, held its 10th annual gala Sunday at Voyeur in West Hollywood to honor its 10 Amazing Gay Women and 10 Amazing Gay Men in Showbiz for 2010! Honorees were Clementine Ford, Howard Bragman, Steve Tyler, Ali Adler, Tabatha Coffey, Savannah Dooley, Tracy Gilchrist, Christine Moore, Martha Sanchez, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Kirsten Vangsness, Kathy Wolfe, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Wilson Cruz, James Duff, Keya Khayatian, Mark Noble, Peter Paige, Howard Rosenman and Michael Sluchan.In addition to the honorees, a few allies and heros to the LGBT community showed up to show their support, including Meredith Baxter, Betty DeGeneres, Angela Robinson Cherry Bomb's Dalila Ali Rajah and Gloria Bigelow and Gabrielle Christian, Kate French and Malaya Drew.

Before a jubilant crowd of 400 guests on New Year’s Day, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, former pastor at Christ Church in Plymouth, and now a ranking official of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts married the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. And Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, the state’s highest ranking Episcopal official, presided.

The Episcopal Church is decisively closer to fully accepting gays and lesbians by working toward recognizing same-sex marriage in addition to ordaining openly gay bishops.

The Advocate's Sunnivie Brydum and Michelle Garcia were announced as among the winners of this year's Excellence in Journalism Awards.

Out lesbian author and comedian Carol Leifer and gay favorite musician Cindy Lauper will be among the all-star celebrity cast for the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice premiering March 14. The ladies include Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Selita Ebanks, Maria Kanellis, and Summer Sanders.

It's been a big year for out women in the news, from the election of the first out U.S. Senator — who just happens to be a lesbian from Wisconsin — to the House of Representatives' first bisexual member, or Oregon's first out lesbian Speaker of the House.

The Talk co-host delivered a rousing speech for LGBT rights at the Lambda Legal West Coast Liberty Awards.

College hoops superstar Brittney Griner came out officially yesterday. She's always been our #1 draft pick, but her public coming out is just icing on the cake. Here are five reasons Brittney is our #1!

The least lesbian Oscar nominations ever were announced this morning (caveat-‘least lesbian’ may be an exaggeration, but not by much). There was a dearth of lesbian and bisexual characters on the big screen in 2012, the likes of which have not been seen since Wings won the first Academy Award ever in 1927. Just last year Glenn Close and Janet McTeer were nominated for gender bending roles while Rooney Mara landed a nod for her incarnation of bisexual super hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 2011 saw a nomination for Annette Bening for her annoying lesbian character in The Kids are All Right (but at least it was something). And in 2009 Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a fiery bisexual artist in Vicki Cristina Barcelona.

If you're looking for films featuring women, it's a good year at Outfest!

This week's Litmus Test brings the ensemble cast together as they craft a nefarious plan to test Dylan's (Alex Hedison) devotion to Rachel Shelley's Helena. Meanwhile Jenny Schecter is as crazy and secure as ever, although Mia Kirshner joins in the fun for a tad. Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman's Bette and Tina go medieval on some Hollywood movie mogul ass and finally, some old-fashioned lesbian sex we can relate to. And where the hell is Pam Grier?