Melissa Etheridge is convinced a move to ban same-sex marriages in California is destined to fail - because even her nine-year-old son branded it "lame."

The singer wed her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels in 2003, just a day after state officials granted homosexual couples domestic partnership rights.

And she is dismayed at California's Proposition 8 ballot - which aims to roll back the law and make gay marriage illegal again - but is adamant it will be defeated when it goes to a vote on November 4.

Etheridge writes on the Daily Beast website, "Prop 8 is a blatantly hateful, and ...

Conventions or Concerts?

The month of August brought the U.S. two big music festivals, one in Denver and one in the Twin Cities. Oh, wait, what's that you say? These weren't music festivals, but the Democratic and Republican National Conventions? Interesting. In the past, presidential candidates have used music as part of their campaigns, but never before like this. This summer, the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions crossed politics and music so much that they rose to concert-like levels.

Obamapalooza, err, I mean the DNC featured performances by Melissa Ether...

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Patrick Swayze made his first public appearance since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis to provide a big surprise at the start of "Stand Up 2 Cancer" telethon on Friday night.

The star stepped out from behind a screen at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood to a standing ovation.

Looking thin, but healthy, the ailing actor said, "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, a life not lived in the shadow of cancer, but in the light. I dream that everyone diagnosed will be fortunate enough to have hope, that every human being lost to cancer isn't gone, but is standin...

Melissa Etheridge has urged her fans to support Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama - after changing the lyrics to one of her songs at a recent concert in honor of the politician.

The singer - who performed at last week's Democratic National Convention (DNC) - pledged her political preference at a Los Angeles concert on Friday. Etheridge, wearing an Obama pin on her guitar strap, prompted the audience to erupt in applause when she adapted the lyrics of her hit song What Happens Tomorrow to highlight the Illinois senator.

She sang: "I believe a black man can work hard an...

It's all the rage these days - twins that is. Angelina Jolie just gave birth to one of the most famous sets of twins in history, and Lisa Marie Presley & Rebecca Romijn just announced they're also expecting double trouble in the near future. Whether it's fertility treatments or just plain luck, the following celebrities have what it takes to produce two for the price of one:

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

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As a society we are mesmerized by the lifestyles of the rich and famous and, as evidenced by websites and tabloids that line supermarket checkouts, we want to be in the know when it comes to style icons, role models and, of course, our favorite heartthrobs. But sometimes our innocent curiosity about our favorite celebs can turn into full-throttled admiration and inspiration when "our" celebs do something courageous.

Perhaps the most courageous thing we've admired in the recent past is the struggle of cancer that some celebs have undergone and beaten. Being a successful (and often wea...

Gemini (May 22-June 21) are said to have a dual nature. The astrological symbol for Gemini is the Roman numeral for two, representing twins and duality.

Twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are Geminis. Last year the 21-year-old power duo earned $17 million, and they are planning on releasing a coffee table book about their fashion inspirations.

Gemini can be fickle. Those born under this sign represent the yin and the yang, or the law of opposites. It can be no coincidence that Anne Heche is a Gemini. She famously dated Ellen DeGeneres but later married a man. She di...

Lesley Roy is a 21 year old from Dublin, Ireland. Her debut album Unbeautiful is produced by Pop super-producer Max Martin and is due this fall. Most of the songs on Unbeautiful were co-written by Lesley, who also plays guitar on the entire record.

Lesley can best be described as a cross between Avril Lavigne and Melissa Etheridge, yet she certainly has a voice and sound all her own.

Her first single is called "I'm Going, I'm Gone" and is starting to impact at radio now. Her music was also recently featured on The Hills.

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Melissa Etheridge turned out to be a lucky charm for Once star Marketa Irglova after a chance meeting in the days before the Oscars. Irglova and partner Glen Hansard's "Falling Slowly" was the surprise winner of the Best Song category at the Academy Awards on Sunday - the honor Etheridge won in 2007.

And the Once star knew she was in for a chance of winning the award after meeting Etheridge in a restaurant last week.

Irglova says, "I asked, 'Can I hold the hand that won last year?' It was a very amazing moment for us."

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Stardust, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty are among the nominees for the 2008 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards.

The Matthew Vaughn-directed Stardust will compete in the Outstanding Film - Wide Release category, against Across the Universe and The Jane Austen Club, while The Bubble, Whole New Thing and Dirty Laundry are just some of the nominees up for the Outstanding Film - Limited Release award.

In the TV categories, Brothers & Sisters, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The L Word, Greek and Dirty Sexy Money are all in the runn...

In a grand commemoration of the 50th Celebration of the GRAMMY® Awards, Shout! Factory and The Recording Academy®'s GRAMMY® Recordings announce an electrifying 7-CD series encompassing GRAMMY® winners from four of the legendary awards' major genres. With a personal introduction written by 27-time GRAMMY® winner and 50th Celebration Ambassador Quincy Jones, this series is a sumptuous ode to the biggest hits in music history and a must-have for music lovers and collectors alike.

"We look forward to celebrating the past five decades of GRAMMY®-winning music with music fans everywhere thr...

Two-time Grammy Award winner Melissa Etheridge, five-time Grammy Award winner Faith Hill and nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys will host "My Night At The Grammys," a new entertainment special celebrating the upcoming Grammy Awards 50th Anniversary with the Top 25 Grammy moments, as voted on by viewers, as well as the stories behind them as told by the artists themselves, to be broadcast Friday, Nov. 30 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS.

Christina Aguilera, Billie Joe Armstrong, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion, Alan Jackson, Elton John, Ricky Martin and Us...

On July 7, 2007, 150 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts called Live Earth to raise awareness for the climate crisis and deliver a solutions-based message to a global audience. On December 4th, Warner Bros. Records will release Live Earth - The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis - a CD and 2-DVD package that brings together the most popular artists, best performances, and the solutions-based messaging showcased at this truly global musical event staged in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, with special events broadcast fro...

"If I get photographed in something, I can't wear it again." Mariah Carey discusses her wardrobe.

"He's the only naked man in our bedroom." Melissa Etheridge on where she keeps her Best Song Oscar.

"This woman comes up who'd had a little to drink. She said, 'I swear to God you look like Jake Goober-balls.'" Jake Gyllenhaal recalls the time a drunk woman tried to chat him up in a hotel bar.

"The idea that I got married at 45 to me didn't even really feel late. That's when I kind of grew up." Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is a late developer.

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"I think Johnny Depp is very in tune to his feminine side... We all have the male and female inside us and I think it's very attractive when you find... a man, who you can tell is not afraid of the feminine." Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge is turned on by the actor.

"I made the tea. She runs a tight ship. She's far too authoritarian for me to question any of the decisions, it was clear it was definitely her gig not mine." Colin Firth knew his place working with his wife Livia Firth on their documentary film "In Jail All My Life."

"Benicio Del Toro sends his apologies. He'd li...

"I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but couldn't because of my pop star thing. So I said I couldn't sleep with her either because of the ugly thing." British singer Robbie Williams hits out at the former Hole rocker.

"I did have on a teensy little thong... I'm not that bad." Mariah Carey insists she wasn't completely naked for the provocative TV ad that accompanies her new perfume, M.

"They don't so much anymore, we're all getting older... They used to." Rocker Melissa Etheridge admits lusty lesbian fans no longer throw their underwear onstage at concer...

Melissa Etheridge received a very special gift on her 17th birthday - the knowledge she was a lesbian. The singer/songwriter reveals that was the first time she kissed a girl, and she knew immediately she way gay.

She says, "I'd kissed a lot of boys and it was like, 'OK,' and then the first time I kissed a girl, it was like, 'Pow!' which is the way it should be."

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On July 7, 2007, 150 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts called Live Earth to raise awareness for the climate crisis and deliver a solutions-based message to a global audience. On November 20th, Warner Bros. Records will release Live Earth - The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis - a CD and 2-DVD package that brings together the most popular artists, best performances, and the solutions-based messaging showcased at this truly global musical event staged in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, with special events broadcast fr...

"I don't know! Do you want me to really try and think about it?" Mariah Carey gets flummoxed when asked how many bathrooms there are in her New York penthouse.

"I've always said I'll sleep when I'm dead!" Jared Leto explains how his double life as an actor and rock star keeps him up at night.

"I think the problem is that people take me too seriously. I am not saying I want to have babies. That's not what the song's about. It's not about having babies. I don't want babies. I'm terrified about having babies." Natasha Bedingfield sets the record straight on hit single "I Wanna Have ...

"I went to the doctor last week to get the check-up and it's all clear. I've been clear three years, which is the big one. I know, in my heart, that I don't have cancer." Melissa Etheridge is celebrating her good news.

"If it weren't for guns and people who know how to use them in America, we'd all be sitting around with swastikas saying, 'Heil Hitler.'" Kid Rock is pro-firearms.

"I told my son I was working with The Rock and he said, 'Mom, can you smell what The Rock is cooking?' I was like, 'What the hell are you talking about?'" Kyra Sedgwick had never heard her The Game Plan ...

Melissa Etheridge named her hit new album The Awakening after the "amazing peace" she found following days of constant agony brought on by chemotherapy. Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and was surprised to find peace of mind after painful hospital treatment.

She says, "When I got diagnosed with breast cancer, it knocked me on my butt, literally and figuratively. I came out of it with a new perspective, a new spirituality, a new meaning for life.

"While on chemotherapy, I would sit there for days and days and days. I couldn't read, I couldn't watch TV, I couldn...

"Alice Cooper is an American treasure, just like Boris Karloff and Vincent Price are American treasures. And I don't mean that I am an American treasure, but that the character of Alice Cooper is." Rocker Alice Cooper gives himself a little high praise, but forgets horror master Vincent Price was British.

"Kingston always claps for me. I love it." Even Gwen Stefani's baby son, who sat in the front row at mom's L.A.M.B catwalk show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, finds the pop star entertaining.

"Without sounding pompous, she looks like a combination of ancient Egypt and a...

Rocker Melissa Etheridge has lashed out at Hollywood's skinny stars because they continue to promote the sick message that rich and thin equals success and happiness.

The singer/songwriter admits it's bad enough seeing the waifs on TV, but when she meets them in person at parties and launches, she cannot believe how skinny they are.

She says, "Britney (Spears), Lindsay (Lohan), Paris (Hilton)... We watch these actors get skinny, skinnier and skinnier. You meet them in person and cannot believe how really skinny they are, because the pictures add weight and it's frightening and sc...

Los Angeles (July 17, 2007)- Singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton's much anticipated third studio album, Heroes and Thieves, will be released on October 9th through Irving "Gotti" Lorenzo's The Inc. Records, a division of Universal Motown Records. The singer's entry into The Inc. fold demonstrates how Gotti and The Inc. continue to breakdown musical barriers. The album, written by Carlton in her New York City Nolita neighborhood and recorded in San Francisco, was produced by Third Eye Blind front man, Stephan Jenkins, Linda Perry (Pink, Christina Aguilera, Melissa Etheridge) and Carlton, and ...

Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels has blasted CNN newsman Larry King for 'bumping' documentary maker Michael Moore in favor of a chat with Paris Hilton.

The respected talk show titan admits he took seconds to agree to landing the scoop interview with the socialite - rescheduling his chat with director Moore - upsetting fan Michaels, the lesbian lover of rocker Melissa Etheridge.

In an open letter to King, posted on her website hours before the newsman sat down with Hilton, The L Word star first praised the talk show host: "There are not many people who are blessed to have a position s...

LOS ANGELES – Taking Back Sunday, the New York-based melodic hardcore quintet, released Louder Now on April 25, 2006 and it skyrocketed to Number Two on Billboard's Top 200 chart a week later, scanning more than 157,000 copies. Now gold-certified, Louder Now has led to multiple sold out U.S. headlining arena tours. Taking Back Sunday has established itself as a pioneering leader and industry role model on the issue of global warming. The band has implemented a set of sustainable standards to all of its tours, such as tour bus and venue recycling programs, organic cotton merchandising altern...

Happy Birthday to Spice Girl Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown (1975), Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla (1969), Oasis founder Noel Gallagher (1967), "The Facts of Life" actress Lisa Whelchel (1963), singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge (1961), "Highlander" star Adrian Paul (1959), British actor Rupert Everett (1959), "Being Julia" star Annette Bening (1958), singer/exotic dancer LaToya Jackson (1956), Oingo Boingo frontman/film composer Danny Elfman (1953), "General Hospital" actor Anthony Geary (1948), Procol Harum singer Gary Brooker (1945), actor Kevin Conway (1942), 35th President of the ...

Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston is to be celebrated for her same sex kisses. The actress is slated to receive the Vanguard Award at this year's Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards on April 14. The awards pay tribute to stars who help promote gay rights.

In recapping her onscreen 'gay' moments, celebrity blogger Marc Malkin lists her girl-on-girl kiss with Winona Ryder in an episode of Friends and her recent lesbian smooch with pal Courteney Cox on TV show Dirt.

Aniston also appeared in lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge's I Want To Be In Love video and was the first guest on gay com...

"This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom." Gay singer Melissa Etheridge jokes about her plans for her new Oscar. The singer/songwriter claimed the Best Song prize at the Academy Awards last night.

"My daughter (Mia) came up with the color idea when she was eating mint chocolate chip ice cream." Kate Winslet on the inspiration for her Grecian Valentino Oscar gown.

"I was in bed watching his runway show and thought it was nice." Gwyneth Paltrow on how she selected her soft orange Zac Posen Oscar gown.

"I feel like I'm getting a workout - it's very heavy. I lo...