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	Coming Out After a Career in the Closet: Courageous or Convenient? Article Date: 12/22/2009 The recent buzz about Meredith Baxter's coming out has gotten me thinking. Actors, comedians, musicians, and artists have more and more often been coming out publicly over the past decade or so since Ellen Degeneres' famous declaration "Yep, I'm Gay" on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1997. Rosie O'Donnell, W... [full article]
	SheWired's Fave Lesbian or Lesbian-ish Web Series Article Date: 07/09/2009 When you're sick of TV reruns, turn to the best web series! Here are this summer's best web series to watch. These series boast some of the hottest ladies the lesbians love including Nicole Pacent, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, Maeve Quinlan, Chelsea Handler, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Rosario Dawson, Lisa Kudrow, and more!... [full article]
	'Hell's Kitchen's' Heather West is on Fire! Article Date: 07/06/2009 Heather West of Hell’s Kitchen, the first lesbian to win a reality show, talks to SheWired.com about being on reality television, losing the first woman she ever fell in love with at first sight, Chef Gordon Ramsay's supposed anti-lesbian rant and what she thinks about L.A. lesbians now... [full article]
	Women Who Rule the (Gay) World: Randy Malmud Article Date: 06/10/2009 Suze Orman isn’t the only money-minded lesbian out there. You probably haven’t heard of her yet, but Randy Malmud is working every day to figure out ways to make the “gay dollar” strong. Malmud joined the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and within ... [full article]
	Hot for Docs: Scrubbing In Article Date: 05/26/2009 While scrubs are admittedly not the hottest fetish attire, a few actresses have worn theirs with sass and sexiness. SheWired salutes 'Hot Docs' including Kate Walsh, Sara Ramirez, Audra McDonald, Sarah Chalke, Olivia Wilde, Maura Tierney and more... ... [full article]
	School Days: Hot for Teacher in Film and Television Article Date: 05/08/2009 There’s nothing like a woman who knows how to command a room. Well, make that a classroom. Maybe it’s the sexy, smart-girl appeal. Maybe it’s the power that comes with wielding a red pen. Or maybe it’s the way they wear those just-to-the-knee skirts and then cross their legs at their desks. SheWired salutes teachers... [full article]
	SheWired Chats with 'Anyone But Me' Star Rachael Hip Flores Article Date: 04/29/2009 Hopefully you caught last week’s interview on SheWired with Anyone But Me actress Nicole Pacent. This week we caught up with her on-screen love, Rachael Hip Flores, who gave us the scoop on kissing girls on camera and why she would play an elf in a 'hot second.'... [full article]
	'Anyone But Me' Star Nicole Pacent Talks to SheWired! Article Date: 04/21/2009 Star of the break-out Web series 'Anyone But Me,' Nicole Pacent talks to SheWired about being a real-life 'lady-loving lady,' and being out and her on-screen kissing scenes with costar Rachael Hip-Flores. Plus, the celeb she'd like to kiss on screen next. Pink anyone?... [full article]
	'Loving Annabelle' Star Erin Kelly Interview With SheWired Article Date: 04/16/2009 Women everywhere fell in love with Erin Kelly when she starred in Katherine Brooks’ lesbian student-teacher scandal film Loving Annabelle in 2006. Shewired's Shannon Connolly got the chance to sit down with Erin this week and get to know the girl behind that role – a young ac... [full article]
	Sugar Rush Episode 5 Recap Article Date: 03/25/2009 And we’re back – it’s the fifth episode of British teen lesbian soap opera Sugar Rush and our young heroine Kim is finding herself in the middle of some very sticky situations.Olivia Hallinan and Lenora Crichlow star in the hot British import airing on here! ... [full article]
	Sugar Rush: Episode 4 Recap Article Date: 03/13/2009 Welcome back to SheWired's Sugar Rush recaps. The breakout BBC show, about burgeoning lesbian love, currently airs on here! This week, and starring Lenora Crichlow and Olivia Hallinan. ... [full article]
	SheWired's Top 10 Women of the 2009 Oscars Wrap-Up Article Date: 03/01/2009 Awards' season is officially over, culminating with last week's Academy Awards ceremony during which Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz nabbed top prizes. Here is the definitive list of our Top 10 Women of the 2009 Academy Awards based on your votes. Anne Hathaway, Freida P... [full article]
	'Sugar Rush' Recaps Episode 2 Article Date: 02/18/2009 The hit BBC show Sugar Rush airs on here! every other Friday and on here! on Demand, and we have the recaps. Meet Kim and Sugar, the hottest on-again / off-again lesbian teen couple across the pond and since those raspy voiced girls Ashley and Spencer. This week's episode is full of sex, lies and betray... [full article]
	'Sugar Rush' Recaps Episode 1 Article Date: 02/09/2009 The hit BBC show Sugar Rush airs on here! every other Sunday and we have the recaps. Meet Kim and Sugar, the hottest on-again / off-again lesbian teen couple across the pond and since those raspy voiced girls Ashley and Spencer. Here's episode one recapped and it's complete with girl-on-girl pillow fighting and school girl unifor... [full article]
	Top 10 Lesbian News and Television Stories for 2008 Article Date: 12/19/2008 It's been quite a year for lesbians in the media! Here's a countdown to the top lesbian stories in the news for 2008 including Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi, Wanda Sykes, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Maddow and more... ... [full article]
	Home for the Holidays: Coming Out Over Cranberry Sauce Article Date: 11/21/2008 Lights are on trees, long lines are in stores, and past L Word seasons are wrapped and ready to distribute among your friends. That’s right, the holidays are here. And so is your family. The most traditionally family-oriented holiday of them all, Thanksgiving, is just days away. ... [full article]
	French Lessons: A Trip Through Paris' Gay Scene Article Date: 11/18/2008 While all of Los Angeles and many other cities in California and across the country are singularly focused at the moment on the injustice of the passage of Proposition 8 I thought perhaps this would be a good opportunity to take a break from the protests, rest our weary minds and hearts, and take a look at what the gay and lesbian community is lik... [full article]
	The Institution of Marriage and What It Means to Protect our Children Article Date: 11/07/2008 Writer Shannon Connolly, who's spending the year abroad in Paris, responds to Prop. 8's passage: To those who voted 'Yes on Prop 8', let me tell you something. I was a child once. No one told me what it meant to be gay. No one told me that the word 'family' can have many different meanings and manifestations. ... [full article]