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A recent episode of Watch What Happens Live featured Rosie O’Donnell waxing nostalgic about old days in Hollywood when the lesbian glitterati all attended secret lesbian parties. Yes, the usual suspects are involved and the clip ends before Rosie really gets to dishing but it sure makes one wonder about the old days before Melissa Etheridge, Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. Lang came out.

Summer popcorn flicks and thoughtful lesbian-themed cinema don't typically collide, When it comes to lesbians -- or women in general for that matter -- seeking representation on the big screen, the summer blockbuster season is fairly slim pickings next to the testosterone-laden superhero scenario on endless redux and the paean to the poor shlubby guy who always gets the hot girl comedies that apparently never get old in Hollywood.

Summer popcorn flicks and thoughtful lesbian-themed cinema don't typically collide, When it comes to lesbians -- or women in general for that matter -- seeking representation on the big screen, the summer blockbuster season is fairly slim pickings next to the testosterone-laden superhero scenario on endless redux and the paean to the poor shlubby guy who always gets the hot girl comedies that apparently never get old in Hollywood. Girl Most Likely, Passion, Hot Flashes, Red 2.

The 2012 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, featuring some of the young Hollywood elite, is set to hit newsstands on Monday. The cover shines the spotlight on some pretty talented actresses who are very comfortable portraying lesbian, gender bending or non-conformist characters. Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Mia Wasikowska (Albert Nobbs), Adepero Oduye (Pariah) and Paula Patton (Precious) are just a few of the featured actresses.

The Golden Globes are coming! The Golden Globes are coming! And we cannot wait for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunited to co-host Hollywood’s biggest self-congratulatory fest that honors achievement in television and film and where the Veuve Clicquot flows freely. Oh, and there are a few other people nominated too. While there are plenty of LGBT adjacencies there’s just one out actress nominated, and that’s Sarah Paulson for her supporting role in American Horror Story, in which she also plays lesbian. Notably, HBO’s mini-series Game Change, the Julianne Moore starrer about Sarah Palin’s ascendance to the Vice Presidential nomination, is up for best mini-series, and Paulson was just terrific in that as Nicole Wallace.

There is moment in just about every workday when we come across something sexy, gratuitous, completely pointless and often not even lesbian that we wish we could post but don't under the auspices of there being no redeeming value. oday, we offer up a first look at Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Still, we'd rather look at Michelle as a wanderin in Wendy and Lucy or as a lesbian feminist who hooks up with a butch Chloe Sevigny in If These Walls Could Talk 2.

While her Two and a Half Men costars live out their personal dramas in the tabloids, Holland Taylor keeps some secrets to herself. Now she brings you Ann, her one-woman show about a ballsy Texas governor.