Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell once had an affair with an FBI agent's wife. So, what did the FBI agent do? He tried - and failed - to kill his one-time love, Margo Bennett. What did Bennett do? Nothing - until now: she's releasing a titillating tell-all about Cornwall's seduction.

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres takes readers through her fashionable evolution in these week's Us.

Dress her up, dress her down, girl still looks like a lesbian.

France got a judicial spanking yesterday. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the nation discriminated against a lesbian teacher for denying her adoption claim.

A French court decided last year that the single woman couldn't have her dream child, particularly because of a lack of a "paternal referant".

The European Court said, however, that since heterosexual singles can adopt, there's no reason why the unnamed lesbian should have been refused.

It's a big day for Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee! Chief of Staff Leah Daughtry takes the stand today in the ongoing discrimination discovery hearings. Daughtry allegedly asked former staffer Donald Hitchcock to resign after Hitchcock's boyfriend, Paul Yandura wrote an open letter criticizing the DNC.

Confused? Yeah, we are, too. That's why we've compiled a list of all the witnesses testifying during the case's discovery period. Get to know the DNC players, because you may be hearing a whole lot more from them.

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• We've been seriously missing They Might Be Giants. In an effort to satisfy our aural yen, here's "Istanbul".

• University of Texas professor launches hunger strike for domestic partner benefits.

• Tabloid rumors hurt Queen Latifah's feelings.

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The L-Word ladies let the good times roll at this weekend's season five premier in Los Angeles. Even Miss California Raquel Breezly made an appearance! As did a finger flicking Marlee Matlin.

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Whoever says television does not good should read this story:

…A fan of the popular show The L Word has donated $1 million to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation in the name of some the show's most prolific stars. Actress Erin Daniels who portrays a gay breast cancer victim on the series inspired the anonymous donation.
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Daniels played Dana Fairbanks, Hailey's lover on the show, who discovered she had breast cancer in season three and eventually died of heart failure. The generous donor recognized the realism and truth the actress brought to the breast cancer story line and made the largest private donation to the Foundation ever.

Meanwhile, in other L Word-related news, season five starts this Sunday and lesbian networking site OurChart is all over it. Starting today, fans can view the season premier prior to Showtime's January 6th event.

Also, for those of you who are totally obsessed, you may want to check out the characters' New Year's resolutions. They're dyketastic!

We get a lot of bullshit emails on a daily basis. Here's a sample from a recent missive from Witeck Combs:

When it comes to stress or depression during the holiday season, lesbians tend to feel both at higher levels than their heterosexual counterparts. In a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive, four out of five (80%) of lesbian adults say they tend to feel more stressed around the holidays while 64% of the heterosexual women surveyed said they tend to feel more stressed. Additionally, while half (51%) of lesbians said they tend to feel depressed around the holidays, only 36% of heterosexual women said they did.

The survey also indicates that smoking's a "health factor" for lesbians. Astonishing!

Here's a PDF of the study. It'll blow your mind.

Some sad news out of Florida. Five people are dead in what appears to be a divorce drama gone terribly, horribly, nightmarishly awry.

27-year old Jennifer Davis and 36-year old Oliver Thomas Bernsdorff had been married for eight months years when Bernsdorff filed for divorce last August. Davis moved out and took up with Andrea Pisanello, whom she met at a Unitarian church and told friends she "loved". Bernsdorrf didn't seem to like this turn of events and reportedly began beating Davis.

Things got so bad, in fact, that Davis went to a domestic violence support group last Thursday. Her friends suggested she call the police. She didn't. Bernsdorff shot Davis the next day. He also killed their children and Pisanello. He killed himself, as well.

It's worth noting that St. Petersburg Times refers to Pisanello as Davis' "roommate," but then discusses their relationship. Queer.

Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston remain unhappily married. Rhode Island's Supreme Court ruled 3-2 today not to dissolve the couples 2004 marriage:

[The Court] said the state’s family court lacks the authority to grant the divorce of a same-sex couple.

Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers wed in Massachusetts in 2004 after that state became the first to legalize same-sex marriages. The couple filed for divorce last year in Rhode Island, where they both live.

Perhaps the ladies should consider moving to Massachusetts for a few months.

American singer Patti LaBelle sure does have a way with words - and a myopic understanding of vaginal hygiene: "When I got my divorce, the women jumped on me like white on rice! I said, 'Look, I ain't ever did fish, I don't intend to do fish so leave me alone.'"

What would Eve Ensler say?!*

*"Vagina!"

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• Snoop Dogg showed up on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show to talk about fatherhood: the experience and his new reality show.

• Scowling lesbians want their dyke tv!

• DC Cowboys Dance Company strips down on stage.

• Which Senate-investigated televangelist would you rather screw?

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Lesbians sure do have a flair for the dramatic! Brooklyn college student Anastasiya Andreyeva allegedly slit her lady lover's husband's throat about three week after having a public meltdown. Not only did she completely lose it in front of her peers, but young, married Andreyeva reportedly took teeth to a shrink's skin:

[While] reading an essay in a class at Fordham University in Manhattan, [Andreyeva] said she no longer wanted her husband and declared her love for one of her female professors, the sources said.

Then she wrote on the blackboard that she was God.

The teacher called 911 and Andreyeva was taken to Roosevelt where, after being initially cooperative, she bit a nurse and had to be tied down to her bed, sources said.

Roosevelt officials didn't feel the student's God-complex and oral attacks were anything to worry about. They were wrong.

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• This is why we love New York. The Broadway strike comes to an end and the cast of A Chorus Line dances through the streets. And that lead liner looks pretty cute. Maybe we should become theater queens…

• NYU's Stern Business School just got its first gay group. How did they not buy into gay rights sooner?

• Lesbian love quarrel flames: "A lovers' quarrel between two women got out of hand, police said, and one found herself nearly set on fire." Ow!

• John Travolta at notoriously gay spa?

• Anti-Gay marriage radio ad plagues New Jersey.

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• Alright, we don't really want to look like DNA's newest cover model, Vincent Gough, but we don't mind looking at him. See more, after the jump. And, of course, thank DNA and photographer Pedro Virgil!

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