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Babbit is on the board of directors of non-profit organization and film production company POWER UP. Founded in 2000 by Stacy Codikow and Amy Shomer, POWER UP promotes the visibility of lesbians in entertainment and the media.

While Jamie Lauren was certainly not the first lesbian culinary artist to display her skills on Top Chef she made quite an impression on her gay fans as she sliced, diced, sautéed and sizzled her way through the ranks of the competition on Top Chef Season Five.

Meredith Baxter beat the tabloids to the punch and came out in The Advocate and on The Today Show after she was spotted on The Sweet Caribbean Cruise in November. Baxter spoke openly about her coming out as a lesbian late in life and about her decision to live honestly.

As CEO of the lesbian-friendly travel company Wentworth found a way to mix business with pleasure and philanthropy setting sail with the Sweet Caribbean Cruise and a couple of thousand lesbians.

Beth Ditto is an American singer-songwriter, most famous for her work with the indie rock band Gossip. Beth Ditto has been an outspoken lesbian for years, but in 2009 she landed front and center on the notorious gay men’s mag Out and fully nude on Love magazine.

Kelly Ann McGillis is an American actress whose movies include Witness, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Top Gun, and The Accused. In April, 2009 Kelly McGillis confirmed long-held rumors that she’s a lesbian, according to an interview on the website shewired.

Jill Bennett is an American actress. She is known for her role in the film In Her Line of Fire. She co-stars in the third season of Dante’s Cove on here!. She also stars in 3Way, a lesbian web series, with Cathy Shim, Maile Flanagan and Maeve Quinlan Bennett is an out lesbian. She said “There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they’re not out. And that’s their choice, but I can’t do that, it’s too important to me”.

Maddow landed her top-rated news show in 2008, but the country’s first-ever openly lesbian news anchor continues to ask the tough questions with her brand of academia tinged with snark.