Jane Lynch has already shown, week after week on TV's Glee, that she can play the queen of mean just about better than anybody.

The lesbian actress has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of Glee's acid-tongue faculty member Sue Sylvester.

It was announced Wednesday (20 February) that Lynch will now be spreading her mean act to the Broadway stage in the musical Annie in the role of evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan.

Back in 2007, Anderson Cooper was still five years away from coming out publicly as a gay man.

But that didn't stop the editors of Out Magazine from featuring his image on the cover of its annual Out 100 issue alongside an image of Jodie Foster who has remained virtually silent about her sexuality.

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.'

Dustin Lance Black's play chronicling the historic trial challenging California’s Proposition 8 has just booked its 200th reading which will take place in Fargo, North Dakota, the Oscar winning screenwriter said Wednesday (18 July).

The play, simply called 8, has been performed in two star-studded benefit readings in New York and Los Angeles attracting such talent as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jane Lynch and Matt Bomer.

Both are married to the woman of their dreams, both have won Emmys, and both have stylish short blond hair.

So what else do Ellen DeGeneres and Jane Lynch have in common?

Both will receive their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced.

DeGeneres and Lynch are among the 24 names from the world of movies, television, theater and music who will be immortalized on the sidewalks of Hollywood.

The pro-gay play ‘8’, led by Hollywood actors George Clooney and Brad Pitt, will be heard again across American radio stations in June.

A recording of the 3 March performance, which also starred gay actors Jane Lynch and George Takei, will be played on 90.7 KPFK in Southern California, 89.7 WGBH in Boston, 91.5 WBEZ in Chicago, 89.3 WPFW in Washington, D.C. and over 100 other stations nationwide.

It will air on radio as part of the Gay Pride Month celebrations.

A courtroom drama about the legal battle to overturn Proposition 8 that re-banned gay marriage in California in 2008 is coming to Australia.

The play, 8, written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, was performed in Los Angeles in March starring a host of Hollywood actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jane Lynch, Jamie Lee Curtis, John C Reilly, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer and Matthew Morrison.

As if having a cast that includes George Clooney, Matt Bomer, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison wasn't already star-studded enough, Brad Pitt has been added to the cast of the benefit reading of the play 8 taking place Saturday (3 March) in Los Angeles.

The play based on the transcripts of the trial which led to an appeals court striking down California's Proposition 8 last month. Pitt will play the part of US District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker who found Proposition 8 unconstitutional after presiding over the historic twelve-day public trial. 

Last week's winter finale of Glee tackled the subject of gay teen suicide when a closeted football player is outed then bullied and tries to kill himself.

The character of Dave Karofsky (played by Max Adler) is a former bully himself who channeled his own self-loathing by tormenting one of the school's most openly gay students, Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). It is Kurt who is there for Karofsky and when he visits his former bully in the hospital, helps him imagine his future.

Glee star Chris Colfer (pictured) has joined the all-star cast of 8, a play based on the transcripts of the trial which led to an appeals court striking down California's Proposition 8 last week.

The one-night only performance, directed by Rob Reiner, will take place at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 3.

Is Glee's golden glow beginning to fade?

The show, which has suffered from dropping ratings this season, was nominated for a third consecutive Golden Globe Award on Thursday but none of its stars got individual nods including Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer who both won last year.

Colfer took to Twitter after the nominations were announced and did not mention the snub. Instead, he focused on the show being nominated and the fact that he has reached the legal drinking age of 21.