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Chely Wright has married girlfriend Lauren Blitzer just a little over a year after the country music star came out about being a lesbian and revealed just how painful that confession was in the world of country music. Wright, who has posted wedding photos on Twitter of herself and Blitzer in white gowns, announced to the world in May 2010 that she was a lesbian.

An Australian man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has been told by a court that his name must be removed from the child's birth certificate. A court in Sydney ruled that the birth mother's former partner had the right to have her name on the certificate, even though the couple split in 2006.

Spanish gays and lesbians say they will hold a protest "kiss-in" on Thursday in front of Pope Benedict XVI when he joins huge Catholic youth festivities in Madrid. The kiss-in is being organised on Facebook by gay groups including Asamblea Transmaricabollo de Sol, which was set up during popular "indignant" protests that erupted on May 15 over Spain's economies woes.

To the surprise of … well, let’s be honest here, pretty much no one, Queen Latifah pretty much stated in an interview that she is a lesbian and even went so far as to say what her type of woman is.

A woman says she was was asked to turn her T-shirt inside-out at a Tennessee theme park because its text, “Marriage Is So Gay,” was considered potentially offensive to other patrons. Olivier Odom, who visited the water park complex on July 9 with friends and their children, said she was denied entry by a front gate staffer, who said the message had to be obscured or covered because Dollywood was “a family park.”

Denise Richards recently told Howard Stern that she had a lesbian experience with another celebrity (and she wasn't talking about Neve Campbell in Wild Things). On The Howard Stern Show, Denise admitted that she once became curious about what it would be like to get intimate with another woman. Of course, Howard was dying to know who Charlie Sheen's ex chose to have a lesbian encounter with, but she teasingly told him: "You would know who she is. I just met her through friends and work and stuff... I was just curious. We were curious. She was a girly-girl. She's beautiful."

Being lesbian or gay is no longer considered incompatible with serving in the United States military, and neither is talking about it, changes that are both just and long overdue. In fact, there have always been lesbian and gay soldiers in the U.S. military and likely every military in the world. Changing policies of discrimination against gay soldiers acknowledges this, and ends a long-standing wrong.

It is known that there are well-established traits, which differ between girls and boys. For example, boys engage in rough and tumble' play than girls do. However, a new study by the Queen Mary University in London has found that children who later become gay or lesbian are more likely to steer away from expected gender traits.

Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann's family counseling clinic is coming under scrutiny for a novel form of flip-flopping: turning gay men straight through prayer. A former patient who sought help in 2004 from the Christian clinic, Bachmann & Associates, told ABC News Monday that a counselor advised that he could be "re-oriented" to become heterosexual.

California lawmakers have passed a bill that will require all public schools in the state to teach lessons on the historical and current contribution of gays and lesbians. The bill has now been sent to the Governor Jerry Brown, who will take a final call on its implementation across the state. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill in 2006.

After days of contentious negotiations and last-minute reversals by two Republican senators, New York became the sixth and largest state in the country to legalize gay marriage, breathing life into the national gay rights movement that had stalled over a nearly identical bill here two years ago.

Ilene Chaiken’s “The Real L Word” returns to Showtime this summer with a mostly new cast and significant creative changes. Where the original “L Word” series dazzled fans with an all star cast of beauties and a series of well-crafted scripts meant to provoke, entertain and educate, the “The Real L Word” left viewers bemused by the lowered production values, homogeneous casting and rampant stereotyping.