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Lesbian rock star Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher, her partner of eight years, are expecting! Last week, Etheridge and Cypher announced the fact that Cypher was four months pregnant. Although the women declined to discuss the method of fertilization or the name of the sperm donor, Etheridge said, "Both Julie and I have been planning this for a long time, and we couldn't be happier.” Etheridge and Cypher will be on tour this summer to promote Etheridge's new album, Your Little Secret.

Actress Jessica Hecht says that she plans to keep her role as the lesbian spouse of Ross' exwife on the NBC sitcom Friends.

NYPD Blue's Detective Adrienne Lesniak is being written out of the show. Lesniak appeared to come out of the closet as a lesbian last season but the writers had her reveal that this was a ruse to avoid a relationship with one of the male detectives.

Xena: Warrior Princess is a sword-andsorcery action series about a woman warrior who fights evil and rescues other women from danger with the help of her adoring sidekick, Gabrielle. Liz Freeman, the openly lesbian coproducer of Xena, talks about the show's lesbian subplot and how the show has become a lesbian cult classic in the August 20 edition of the Advocate. The show airs on the WGN cable superstation Mondays at 12:30 midnight, and also on WUAB Channel 43 in Cleveland Sundays at 4 pm.

Helen Mirren portrays a married suburban woman recovering from a mental health crisis who falls in love with the nanny hired to help her in the made-for-cable movie Losing Chase, now playing on Showtime. Kyra Sedgwick, who portrays the nanny, kissed her costar John

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Liz, the closeted half of the young lesbian couple on Showtime's new sexual drama series Bedtime; has been torn by doubt about her sexual orientation. Liz said her heart told her that she was a lesbian while her head told her she was supposed to be straight. Liz's closet issues were threatening the relationship, so Liz's lover challenged Liz to figure out whether she is gay or not while she was out of town. In an attempt to sort things out, Liz came home with her first man in two years, but realized she really is a lesbian without the necessity of going to bed with him. Bedtime can be seen on Showtime Fridays at 11 pm, repeating Mondays and Thursdays at 10 pm.

A transgendered woman talks candidly about her life, her dreams and her view of the world late at night to a taxi driver in New York City on Taxicab Confessions III, the latest edition of the HBO's cinema vérité documentary series, airing on HBO.

Kelly volunteers at an AIDS hospice on the season premiere of Beverly Hills 90210.

Bar Girls is described as a "subversive little comedy about the amorous escapades of eight grown-up urban women who meet, retreat and regroup in their home-away-from-home, the Girl Bar in Los Angeles." Bar Girls, also described as "a being out—not coming out-movie, has begun airing on cable's Cinemax.

According to a report in the August 9 edition of Entertainment Weekly, actor Jason Alexander has signed up to play Buzz, an HIVpositive gay man in a film adaptation of Terrence McNally's hit play, Love! Valour! Compassion!

The Human Rights Campaign ran pro-gay marriage television ads during the Republican Convention in San Diego. The ads, which were to air on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN in San Diego; show presidential candidate Bob Dole and his second wife Elizabeth while a voiceover says, “At one time, a divorced man would not have made an ideal candidate for president." Then the announcer says, "Some marriages would not have been accepted by some people," as the scene changes to Republican Sen. Phil Gramm and his Korean-American wife Wendy. A shot of African-American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, who is white, appears as the voice says, "Some marriages were so shocking to the majority that they were not even legal." "Some still are not," the ads conclude, with a picture of a lesbian couple. "Why are Bob Dole and Congress wasting our time with new laws attacking gay relationships? They have better things to do."

Let's hope these ads run nationally during the campaign for the presidency.

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