Yesterday the District of Columbia's City Council voted to legalize gay marriage. That means couples could begin getting married in D.C. as early as March. Congress, which has authority over laws passed in D.C. and the mayor still have to sign the bill, but it is expected that they will.

Earlier this year, the District of Columbia voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Now gay and lesbian couples can also get married there.

Washington, D.C. joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire in legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States.

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A friend of mine turned me on to this new web series called Any One But Me. Just in time for the second season to begin, I sat and watched the whole first season in one sitting.

Anyone But Me follows Vivian, a teen lesbian who must move from New York City to a rural community and leave her girlfriend behind. It's sexy and current and is mostly devoid of angst-filled coming out scenarios.

I think we'll be seeing more and more shows like this end up on the web, especially ones with gay and lesbian characters as the mainstream media is still shy about showing two girls kissing. I spoke with Anyone But Me Writers Susan Miller (who wrote for The L Word) and Tina Cesa Ward about why they chose the internet to tell their stories, how it differs from The L Word and how creating for the web is so much different than TV.

Annise Parker, an open lesbian, has been elected mayor of Houston in a race that was riddled with anti-gay attacks. Despite conservatives trying to use scare tactics and homophobic claims that she would push a radical gay agenda (whatever that is!) Parker was elected because she is the most qualified candidate for the job. Parker is currently Houston's city controller.

She becomes the first open lesbian of a major US city. Corine Mauch, another lesbian politician, was elected mayor of Zurich earlier this year.

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I don't live in New York City, but I am so happy now to have a correspondent who does. So many arts and entertainment events take place in New York and I miss them all. But thanks to Stephanie Schoeder, who writes entertainment and movie reviews, for Lesbian Life, I feel like I was at the OUT Music Awards earlier this week.

From her report, it sounds like there were some fun moments and a lot of glitches with the show. Stephanie covered the red carpet and highlighted all the lesbian and bi winners.

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