Oprah Winfrey may be an Oscar-nominated actress, the talk show queen has taken on very few roles since she made a splash in 1985's The Color Purple.

One of the acting roles she did take on was as a therapist in a 1997 landmark episode of Ellen in which the lead character played by Ellen DeGeneres comes out as a lesbian.

Winfrey now reveals that after she appeared in the episode, which won an Emmy for its writing, the backlash quickly began.

Just a month after her 95th birthday,  legendary comic Phyllis Diller died on Monday (20 August) at home in Los Angeles surrounded by her family.

Diller began working as a stand-up comic in the 1950s and is credited with paving the way for the likes of Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr and Margaret Cho, among others.

Diller had a gay following from the beginning.

'My first audience were gay people because they have a great sense of humor,' she once said. 'They love comedy and they love to laugh. How do you think they got the word gay put on them?'

Calvin Klein was 69 when he took up with male model Nick Gruber - more than 40 years his junior - a few years ago.

Now that the two have parted ways, Gruber reportedly has plans to share the details of their time together in a book he's shopping around called What Came Between Me and My Calvin.

'Yes, it’s true that I’m writing a book,' Gruber tells the New York Daily News.

When former University of Michigan Student Body President Chris Armstrong couldn't get an apology from Andrew Shirvell for engaging in a one-man, anti-gay campaign against him in 2010, he sued.

Armstrong was seeking $25,000 in damages from Shirvell,  a one-time assistant attorney general for the state. But a jury in U.S. District Court on Thursday (16 August) decided he deserved much more: $4.5 million.

When Glee kicks off its fourth season next month, gay couple Kurt and Blaine will no longer be strolling the halls of William McKinley High School together.

As Blaine (Darren Criss) begins his senior year, boyfriend Kurt (Chris Colfer) has graduated and is off to New York to pursue his career as a performer.

These high school sweethearts may be heading in different directions by the fourth episode of the new season.

Michael Leisner was largely unknown until during a few moments in the last weeks of his life, he tried to light some Cheerios on fire in a bungled anti-gay protest that went viral.

Just last week, Adam Lambert revealed via Twitter that he had done away with his trademark jet-black hair and become a platinum blond.

Now he's tweeted out the next step in his summer transformation: an arm tattoo.

Lambert has had the the Latin phrase 'Musica Delenit Bestiam Feram' tattooed onto his arm. Translated into English it means: 'Music Soothes the Savage Beast.'

Sean Hayes, an Emmy winning sensation on NBC's Will & Grace for eight years, is returning to the network this fall for a short-term role on the musical-drama Smash.

It was just last year that David Rackoff won the prestigious Thurber Prize for American Humor for his essay collection Half Empty.  One of the essays, another shoe, had the author ruminating about his battle with cancer and how there was chance he would have to have his left arm and shoulder amputated.

'There are other extra-functional and non-cosmetic realities I have to consider,' he wrote. 'How does someone without a left arm know he’s having a heart attack, for example?'

On Thursday (9 August), Rakoff died from the cancer at the age of 47.

All former University of Michigan Student Body President Chris Armstrong wanted was an apology.

But Andrew Shirvell, a one-time assistant attorney general for the state, has refused to say he is sorry for engaging in a one-man campaign against the openly gay Armstrong in 2010.

Now the two men will face off in court.

Jury selection is beginning in Detroit federal court in a defamation civil lawsuit Armstrong, who graduated in 2011, has filed against Shirvell.

Jane Lynch was host of the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr over the weekend and couldn’t resist taking a jab at a fast food chain that doesn’t think marriages like hers to Dr. Lara Embry should be allowed to happen.

Before introducing the evening’s honoree, The Emmy-winning Glee star took not of the female roasters on hand including Carrie Fisher, Katey Sagal and Ellen Barkin and cracked: 'This show is serving up more old spoiled hens than a Chick-Fil-A.'

Then she added a real zinger.

'Oh, that reminds me… Fuck Chick-fil-A.'