Recommended Reading: Kathy Wolfe, Outing Judge Walker, and Black LGBT heroes

Here's this weeks' news round-up, good for queer cinephiles and gossips alike!

• Kathy Wolfe on the State of Lesbian Cinema (Cherry Girl) "It’s this film [The Kids Are All Right]. This is it. This is the film that distinguishes this year from all others. I mean, we’ve had some fantastic films in our history, but I don’t think that any have gone as wide as this is going…. This year is a milestone because of [the reach of] this film.  Our goal has been visibility, and this is what this film achieves."
• Judge Vaughn Walker Gets Smeared By the Media (Huffington Post) "But the outrageous hypocrisy here on the part of the corporate media -- and one that shows how they are manipulated by the right -- is the fact that, even with proof and evidence, news organizations refuse to report on the secretly gay sexual orientation of conservative, anti-gay politicians and public figures when the argument for their exposure is made from the left. When Kirby Dick's much-discussed documentary Outrage hit theaters in 2009, and later premiered on HBO (for which the film has now been nominated for an Emmy), many media organizations wouldn't report on the conservative Republican politicians who were claimed to be gay in the film, like Florida Governor Charlie Crist or California Congressman David Dreier, though there was a plethora of sources and witnesses in the film -- far beyond just 'open secret' reporting."
• 24 LGBT People We Admire (GiantLife) "With Proposition 8 having been overturned recently, black America is going through a change in perspective. From the spyglass of your average pop-culture junkie literati to the TV set of the humdrum family man to the subway rag of the fashion-forward mall rat, change is happening and people are reacting... So, we decided to take a look at the black LGBT people that changed (and are changing) the world as we know it."