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Music

So Long Saffire, Hello Gaye

After a few decades in the jazz business, Gaye Adegbalola of Saffire sheds her group for a solo gig. She tells Advocate.com: "I've known I was a lesbian longer than I knew that I was black."

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World

As Ellen Goes, So Goes the Nation

When Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi got married in California in August, there were no protests, no career fallout, and no media backlash, just congratulations from all.

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World

Are You Out There, Audience? It's Me, Paula

After much controversy and a long absence from the stage, Paula Poundstone stages a successful return to stand-up Saturday night at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles

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World

Patricia Cornwell

The famed crime novelist has kept us spellbound with her fiction. Now she's telling her truth--as a happily married lesbian who's speaking out for equal rights.

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television

Kat Feller on High School Reunion

As one of the subjects of TV Land's new show High School Reunion, Kat Feller is reality TV's newest token lesbian. She talks to us about everything from coming out to bi-curiosity and hooking up on the show.

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World

Golden Moment

Laurel Hester spent her last days fighting for her pension to be passed on to her partner before cancer overcame her body. Her struggle was chronicled in Cynthia Wade's documentary Freeheld, which was just nominated for an Oscar. Michele Kort spoke to the filmmaker about the movie and the honor.

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World

Sarah Shahi

Sarah Shahi won our hearts playing the ooh-la-la lesbian Carmen, Shane's left-at-the-altar DJ girlfriend on The L Word. Now she's winning our admiration for her post-L Word acting range: She made us laugh in her cameo as a vapid morning-show host in For Your Consideration, made Tony Soprano nearly see God in The Sopranos, and now makes criminals (and viewers) sweat as no-nonsense cop Dani Reese in the new NBC TV drama Life. The 27-year-old Iranian-Spanish-Texan -- a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader! -- checked in with The Advocate during a recent shooting break.

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Opinion

The girls of summer

Logo brings skin and surf to your summer in the all-lesbian reality series Curl Girls.