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The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV has dipped slightly this season to 19 out of nearly 650 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
The 16th annual “Where We Are on TV” report released Wednesday by GLAAD found that 2.9 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series […]

Singer, activist and breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Tuesday, an event she hopes can be an inspiration to anyone facing adversity or dreaming of a better life.
Etheridge, 50, who is known for her fusion of folk-blues rock in hits like “Come to My Window,” was greeted by hundreds […]

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres called paramedics on Monday after feeling pains and tightness in her chest, but jokingly brushed off the incident, saying she had a “baboon heart” and admitting she wasn’t sure what caused the discomfort.
“Everything is fine. I don’t know what it is but it’s fine,” DeGeneres told her TV audience, hours […]

Controversial NBC show “Playboy Club” now has even more reason to generate buzz: One of its actors came out of the closet Monday.
Sean Maher, who plays a character of the same first name on the television drama, told Entertainment Weekly exclusively that he’s been keeping a big secret for the 14 years he has worked in Hollywood.
“I’ve […]

Former “The L Word” star Leisha Hailey complained in a stream of Twitter messages on Monday that she and a girlfriend were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight in a dispute over their kissing on a plane.
Hailey, 40, tweeted that a flight attendant had told her that Southwest “was a ‘family’ airline and kissing was […]

DC Comics is planning to debut a gay teen superhero in Teen Titans known as Bunker, a hero who possesses the power to create small brick-like force fields.
Teen Titan artist Brett Booth posted a description of the character (known as “The Wall” in the solicitation text) by series writer Scott Lobdell on his blog:
“His real name is Miguel Jose Barragan. He was raised […]

He won’t be riding the main float during Pride, but Clint Eastwood doesn’t care if same-sex couples get married.
In the October issue of GQ Magazine, the steely gazed slab of machismo says he doesn’t think gay marriage should be such a controversial issue.
“These people who are making a big deal about gay marriage?” Eastwood tells […]

Voters would decide in May whether same-sex marriage should be barred by the state constitution under a measure that cleared the House 75-42 Monday evening.
The Senate is expected to take up the measure today.
Monday’s vote came during a long day of emotional debate, legislative maneuvering and public rallies both supporting and opposing the measure.
Republican sponsors […]