Blog Profile / SheWired.com
| URL : | http://www.shewired.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | LGBT / Lesbian | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3267 | |
| Posts / Week: | 33.6 | |
| Archived Since: | July 8, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
WATCH: Tegan and Sara Are About to Get 'Awkward' for MTV
Out chart-topping musicians Tegan and Sara Quin are about to parlay their mainstream success into a musical directing gig on MTV's snarky coming-of-age comedy Awkward.
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Martina Navratilova Calls Jason Collins' Coming Out a 'Game Changer'
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that public opinion on marriage equality and gay rights is shifting dramatically, a subject Martina Navratilova addressed in an op-ed for Sports Illustrated since Washington Wizard Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in major league sports earlier this week.
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Shot of the Day: Colorado's First Civil Union Recipients Are Lesbian Moms
Civil unions in Colorado took effect May 1, and the first couple to be licensed was a pair of lesbian moms, both dressed in white wedding gowns, with their son Jeremy, 5, at their side.
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WATCH: 'The Voice's' Out Alt Rocker Michelle Chamuel Raises the Roof with 'Raise Your Glass'
Out alt rocker Michelle Chamuel brought down the house with a killer rendition of P!nks “Raise Your Glass” during her Knockout Round on The Voice Tuesday.
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Teenage Lesbian Boy Scout Camp Employee Fired, Forced to Sign Document Saying She's Gay
A 19-year-old lesbian from Brighton, Mich., was fired from her job at a Boy Scout Camp near Detroit because she is gay, according to a petition the teenager launched on Change.org. The woman says she was forced to sign a document stating that she is gay before being unceremoniously kicked out of the camp, without so much as a car to make the two-hour journey home.
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Pretty Little Liar Shay Mitchell Dishes About What is Next for Paily
Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell recently chatted with Wetpaint about just what will go down between her character Emily and her girlfriend Paige (Lindsey Shaw) when the show returns on June 11. She also weighed in on what it’s like to be a role model, and what’s down the pike for the Liars of Rosewood.
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Shot of the Day: P!nk is Glamour's June Cover Girl - Expounds on Being a 'Reformed Slut'
Nothing screams summer like a badass pop diva with a pink coif. P!nk is Glamour’s June cover girl and she looks as fierce as ever for the smoking hot spread.
P!nk is characteristically candid in her interview for the mag, telling Glamour she’s a “reformed slut,” which is actually not as tawdry -- and much more feministy -- than it would initially seem.
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Trans Student Petitions All-Women Smith College After Being Rejected
A group of students will deliver a petition with 4,000 signatures to all-women Smith College after refusing to consider the application of a transgender student.
Calliope Wong will join Smith Q&A, a campus gender and sexuality advocacy organization, when the signatures are delivered to the office of admissions this Thursday at 4 p.m.
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WATCH: New Promo for Lesbian Moms Series 'The Fosters' Asks 'How Do You Define Family?'
The first teaser promo for ABC Family’s The Fosters had affectionate lesbian moms (Teri Polo, Sherri Saum) front and center nurturing their family, but the new promo also pulls in some of the show’s built-in tension when their new foster...Show More Summary
WATCH: Team Shakira's Out Rocker Karina Iglesias Moves on to Live Shows on 'The Voice'
Out rocker Karina Iglesias, who switched teams to Shakira following last week’s battle rounds on The Voice, won her knock out round to proceed to the live shows Monday!
Coach Shakira, who “stole” Karina from Team Adam last week when she lost her battle round to the incendiary Judith Hill, pitted Miami native Karina against Monique Abbadie for the do-or-die knockouts.
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WATCH: Ellen DeGeneres Congratulates Jason Collins, Makes a Lot of Tall Jokes
It was big, big news in the sports world yesterday when Washington Wizards’ center Jason Collins came out to become the first openly gay male in major league sports.
His historic coming out lit up Twitter to the point of nearly crashing it. Show More Summary
Op-Ed: Out Athlete Brittney Griner is Revolutionizing Women's Basketball
Basketball star Brittney Griner is one to watch for many reasons. She came out and revealed she was gay before she had her first professional game aft for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. She is one of the rare athletes to come out as an active player. Show More Summary
WATCH: Trailer for Jennifer Beals/Troian Bellisario Series 'Lauren' Season 2
The L Word’s Jennifer Beals and Pretty Little Liars ’ Troian Bellisario have teamed up again for twelve new episodes of their webseries Lauren, which shines a light on military rape, and the trailer for season 2 on WIGS has just dropped,
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Mary Thom, Prominent Feminist, LGBT Ally, Dies In Motorcycle Crash
Mary Thom, a prominent feminist, longtime executive editor of Ms. Magazine, and an outspoken ally to the LGBT community, died Friday, reports ABC News. Thom was 68.
Thom was an avid motorcyclist, who died Friday evening after her 1996 Honda Magna 750 crashed on a highway in Yonkers, N.Y., according to ABC.
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12 Hot Shots of Girlbar's Dinah Shore Weekend Vegas
Vegas Baby!! This past weekend Sin City got even more wild when thousands upon thousands of lesbians descended on it for Girlbar's Second Annual Dinah Shore Weekend Las Vegas in conjunction with Truck Stop Girls and Caesars Total Rewards. Show More Summary
American Horror Story: Coven Adds Gabourey Sidibe to its Fold
American Horror Story: Coven has added another big name to its brood for season three of Ryan Murphy’s mega-creepy series. Gabourey Sidibe, Oscar nominee for Precious, has signed on for the series Murpy Tweeted, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Spain's Only Out Lesbian Politician Asks Closeted Politicos to Come Out
Spain's only openly lesbian politician asked her fellow closeted officials to come out at Madrid's annual Day of Lesbian Visibility on April 26.
Ángeles Álvarez, a member of Spain's ruling Socialist Party, gathered with other out Spanish...Show More Summary
NBA Star Jason Collins Becomes First Openly Gay Male Player in Major League Sports
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." So begins the historic coming-out essay from NBA center Jason Collins, which appears in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated.
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Shot of the Day: 'Pretty Little Liars' Season 4 Promo Complicates the Mysteries of Red Coat
Pretty Little Liars' season four premiere is about six weeks away and the first promos are starting to land. This latest promo of the Liars all spectacularly showing off red trenchies really does nothing to help solve the mystery of “Who is Red Coat?”
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Washington State Goes Gender Neutral
Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a bill earlier this week that will change all the state's statutes, dating back to 1854, to gender-neutral descriptions.
Terms like "Firemen" have also already been changed to "firefighters," but the new law will go further, adjusting words like "ombudsmen" to "ombuds," and "watchmen" to "security guards."
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