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Jason Segel and long-time girlfriend Alexis Mixter split in 2021 after an eight-year relationship. Mixter is a photographer and works behind the scenes in show business, with experience in the art department of film and TV projects. Mixter is now married to comedian Joshua Dean, and they had a heartfelt wedding in the Pacific Northwest.

In 2021, actor Jason Segel split with his long-time girlfriend Alexis Mixter, and she has continued to pursue a successful career in the arts. Popular film and TV veteran Jason Segel first rose to prominence in the early 2000s in projects with producer Judd Apatow, and the cult classic series Freaks and Geeks ostensibly introduced the budding actor to the world. Known for his affable everyman characters, Segel became a household name as Marshall in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and it wasn't long before he was a bona fide movie star in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and 2011's The Muppets.

The Real L Word aired on Showtime from 2010 to 2012. It was one of the first reality television series to follow the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women who lived in Los Angeles. The original cast starred me, Jill Goldstein who was my fiancé at the time, Tracy Ryerson, Rose Garcia, Whitney Mixter and Mikey Koffman.

With a successful career behind the lens in entertainment, I’m often asked why Jill and I chose to put our lives on camera. The answer is simple: Seeing relatable stories and experiences on television can be validating and empowering.

As our narrative in the series was about wedding planning (which was legally unrecognized and unlawful in 2010 in California), we told our story to be seen and heard, to be visible outside of our community, to normalize our love for one another as no different than a traditional union between a man and a woman.

On Thursday evening, The Young Turks partnered with The Rubin Report and YouTube to host a panel and party to celebrate their #ProudToLove campaign and the supreme court decisions on Doma and Prop 8. After introducing his panel of Jonny McGovern, Hannah Hart (My Drunk Kitchen, Hello Harto!), Whitney Mixter (The Real L Word), Alec Mapa (Showville), and Bree Essrig (BREEessrig), host Dave Rubin began the night by asking the panel how they were feeling about the striking down of Doma. Alec Mapa immediately brought up a memory of a time in which he had to go through customs with his husband and son, but the agent informed him he and his family were not allowed to pass through as a single unit. For him Doma means, “We’ll be able to go through customs like everybody else. And that seems like kind of a trivial thing, but it did matter.

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Good morning! How about that Pretty Little Liars season finale, huh? I think the Jenna revelation was the biggest shock, Imo.

Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights will start screening this spring. I'm not sure if there's a lesbian component, but there should be!

The Huff Po has a piece on interracial lesbian relationships.

There's a short teaser for the return of All My Children and One Life to Live where you can see Eden Riegel glamming it up with her castmates.

Out reality star Po Johnson has released her video for "This My Ish." Listen to it and maybe it will be your ish, too.

I la la love this Salon interview with out actress Lily Tomlin about feminism.

I know that the first thing you were dying to know after Hillary Clinton came out...

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Happy birthday to Sigourney Weaver and Kristanna Loken!

Sigourney Weaver posing with her "Avatar" co-star Michelle “Mitchie Likes Sausage” Rodriguez in New York

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Kate McKinnon (The Big Gay Sketch Show) played Ellen DeGeneres and Jodie Foster in Saturday Night Live's “Lesser Known” Bond Girl sketch. And what do you think of Nasim Pedrad's Lea Michelle impression?

Esquire dubbed Mila Kunis the sexiest woman alive. Who am I to disagree?

Writer director Shamim Sarif released a new trailer for her book Despite the Falling Snow, available at Amazon and iBookstore.

If you live in Atlanta, Ga consider celebrating gay pride with The Real L Word's Whitney Mixter. On October 13, Mixter will host the official women's party at Center Stage (1374 W. Peachtree St. Nw) from 9 p.m.- 2 a.m.

Over the weekend the...

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Good morning!

Just in case you missed our Google Hangout with Whitney Mixter and Somer Bingham of The Real L Word yesterday, you can watch it all right here.

Bisexual actress Olivia Thirlby looked ravishing at the Dredd 3D premiere last night. I am loving her hair.

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Speaking of bisexual, Berkeley, California is celebrating Bisexual Day on September 23. Yay!

It's Pia Sundhage's last game with the Us Women's Team today. Espnw has a great piece on her leaving, with players like Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach praising her style. Pia talked about being a Gold-medal winning coach but still having a gender barrier in the game.

If I go into a locker room where it's only women's soccer, I have the status. If I go into a locker room with men, I don't have the same status.

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If you're still thinking about The Real L Word, then you should join us in a live Google Hangout today with Somer Bingham and Whitney Mixter. I'll be asking the girls your questions live on camera. Don't worry — if you can't watch live, it'll be recorded for watching later. It all starts at 3 p.m. Pst and you can send in your questions ahead of time on Twitter by using the hashtag #RealLWordHangout.

Bisexual author Piper Kerman's memoir Orange is the New Black is being made into a TV series for Netflix and Laura Prepon has been cast in the starring role. I just read the book and I honestly don't see Laura in the part, but I'll still watch with an open mind! If you're not familiar with the story, Piper...

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We took our cameras and our questions to Las Vegas this past weekend for Shedonism where we caught up with the girls of The Real L Word. In our interview with Whitney Mixter, we get the details on how her wedding with Sara came together in such a short amount of time and what she really thought of Romi's Vegas ceremony.

Keep checking back all this week for more interviews and video coverage of Shedonism.

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Jillian Michaels is on the cover of Shape magazine this month. (Her second time as the fitness rag's cover girl.)

She discusses motherhood in this video and shares her favorite workout playlist in the new issue.

Ali Adler talked about The New Normal with The Huffington Post, saying the show is not just about the gay couple at its center.

If you just look at my cast as representative, they all have a new normal. And maybe America does too -- married, divorced, gay, straight, we're brought together by the word family, or love, or anything as treacly as that. It's really true.

She also shares what she likes to watch on TV, which ranges from Real Housewives to Homeland.

Mary Portas's baby-mama-to-be broke her ankle a day before her due date. Yikes!

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Good morning! Can you believe that Us vs. Canada soccer match yesterday? I was sweating just watching it.

On the sports tip, this music video includes the following: Lesbians, vests, guitars and softball.

Singer Monifah is coming out publicly in the new reality show R&B Divas. Best known for her hit "Touch It," Monifah looks as if she's happy with her partner but will have to deal with an unsupportive daughter, as seen in this trailer.

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Monifah told Essence, however, that she doesn't see it as "coming out," per se.

I hate the term because I've never been anything but who I am, and I've lived my authentic life.

R&B Divas premieres on TV One on August 20.

Ludacris throws a house party Whitney Mixter would be proud of in his new video for "Jingalin.

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Last episode we learned that everyone hates each other. One of Hunter Valentine’s tour legs looked like it could have ended up as a main attraction on Pay Per View, and a scene at Here Lounge involving the entire Los Angeles cast minus Cory and Kaci turned into Lord of the Flies. As this season progresses the cast will only become more incestuous, and more alliances and conflicts will come to light – so here are a couple of charts to get you started.

First, the Real L Word: Season 3 incest chart.

And now, the Real L Word: Season 3 beef chart.

Scabies! Repulsion! Heartache! As you can see, love is a battlefield.

Also in the last episode Romi continued to make no sense whatsoever while recounting her dating history. You might have blocked out the previous seasons as a defense mechanism,...

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Project Runway, now in its tenth season with no signs of going out of style anytime soon, has had so many gay men on it, they could fill a Pride float draped in Italian wool, cut on the bias. Lesbian designers, not so much.

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This year, the show features out lesbian designer, Alicia Hardesty. The last (known) lesbian contestant was Zulema Griffin in Season 2, and she was famously made to appear straight in the edit room. Whether or not Alicia will get the same treatment, eight years later, remains to be seen, but considering Alicia cites Huckleberry Finn as a style inspiration, I'd love to see Project Runway try and de-gay that.

We talked to Alicia recently about her experiences on the show, her plans to launch her own collection called Original Tomboy, and how much she loves being mistaken for Whitney Mixter.

Ask any queer girl: When it comes to gaydar, haircuts count.

Surely not every pixie-haired chick out there is hiding steamy Sapphic fantasies inside her carefully pomaded head, and I've met plenty of lesbians with hair that looks straight in more ways than just texture, but any lady with a shaved side, faux-hawk or asymmetrical 'do gets at least a second glance from me.

When I came out in college, I was lucky enough to do so in the company of three highly experienced lesbian roommates, all of whom advised that I reconsider the long, shapeless locks I'd carried over from my high-school days. One of the gang, as odds would have it, owned all six seasons of The L Word on DVD -- 24 discs of the kind of soft-core, girl-on-girl action that only Showtime could get away with -- and we scoured each episode for hair inspiration.

I eventually settled on Shane's cut,...

On Thursday, February 16th, TV personalities, recording artists and entertainment industry executives came out to support jeweler to the stars Lauren Russell and celebrate the launch of her Lyon Fine Jewelry 2012 Collection and her Equality Bracelet to benefit the non-profit Friendfactor.

Partygoers experienced an evening of Luxury, Beauty, Style and Love at famed ink shop Freak Chic and the adjoining Tuff Sissy lifestyle store and event space. DJ Becka Diamond played 80’s, rock and dance tunes while guests checked out the stunning and sexy 2012 Lyon Fine Jewelry collection and the Equality Bracelets line modeled by two beautiful women. Sara Bettencourt, Kate Linder, Whitney Mixter and Rachel Rodriguez of Showtime’s hit TV show, “The Real L Word”, were all seen rocking their Equality Bracelets in support of Friendfactor’s noble work to secure equal rights for the Lgbt community.

Lyon Fine Jewelry has four different Equality Bracelets in the collection.

Showtime has renewed its reality series The Real L Word for a third season, but will film in New York City, in addition to Los Angeles, and producers are searching for new cast members. That's a shift from last season, which focused on Whitney Mixter. The Magical Elves-produced show "will straddle both coasts" and highlight "contrasting styles of east coast and west coast lesbian life," according to Showtime's announcement, which said the new season "will...

Get you pumps and pants ready. The Real L Word is coming back to Showtime for a third season. And this time, it won’t be content with just invading one coast. No, this time, no lesbian in Los Angeles or New York will be safe. Yep, the real world that Ilene Chaiken built is going bi-coastal.

The Showtime press release announcing the reality show’s renewal says the series will go into production in 2012 for nine new episodes that will introduce new women from the New York social scene. The Chaiken said of the new L.A./N.Y. season:

We’re excited and gratified to be picking up the stories of our most beloved Season 2 cast members at some truly major and life-altering junctures, and we think it’s time to throw down and invite the women of New York to join in and demonstrate the claims they...

"The Real L Word" is coming back with a lot less of old faces and a lot more of new ones. Whitney Mixter from season 1 is the only original cast that makes the cut in the revamped season 2, joined by Romi who was supporting in the first season, an online magazine entrepreneur, a business executive, a couple trying for baby and an Lgbt activist.

Whitney returns with a new agenda. The official site said, "An undeniable woman magnet, her life is a complicated web of friends and exes, and exes who are friends. By far the biggest complication is Sara, the temptation Whitney just can't seem to resist, despite her friends' warnings. But beyond the girl drama, Whitney is making 2011 her year to re-focus on her creative passions and give back to the community."

Claire is the mag entrepreneur who is in the middle of a major life change -...

R.I.P. to Rose, Jill, Mikey, Tracy, and Nikki! Those five former Real L Word cast members didn’t make the cut for the second season of Showtime’s revamped The Real L Word. Instead, there is a (nearly) brand new cast of luscious lesbians that join season 1′s lone holdover Whitney Mixter in the newest iteration, which launches June 5. EW is exclusively revealing the cast of the new group of gals, which — in addition to Whitney — includes magazine entrepreneur Claire; media and business exec Francine; fashion designer Romi (who you might remember from season 1 in a supporting role...

Showtime's reality series The Real L Word will return for a second season this summer, but will become "more premium, more exclusive" as it focuses on Whitney Mixter and her friends. Meanwhile, the network is working on a series that follows straight male prostitutes in Las Vegas called Gigolos. The network's president, David Nevins, told TV critics Friday that they "were the most authentic young 20 something lesbians in Los Angeles. I think we can...

About two years ago, I interviewed some amazing friends who work behind the scenes in Hollywood. They were (and in some cases, still are) responsible for the creatures in Lord of the Rings and Narnia, the clothes on True Blood, the girls on America's Next Top Model, the "look" of Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and Tyra Banks' production needs. Jealous? Yeah, me, too.

Well, it's been too long since we pulled back the curtain on Tinsel Town, so over the next few days, you'll meet a few more talented women who help bring you the shows you know and love. Beats working a desk job. And... action!

Cynthia Childs, Supervising Producer

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If you think shaping and telling stories for reality shows is easy, think again. Cynthia Childs knows a thing or two about making the most of what you've got, having story produced shows like Project Runway,...

This is The week to invest in a PS3 just so you can buy and download the fantastic Dead Nation exclusively on the Playstation Network. Trust us - it will be worth your while.

If you are not a gamer, this week's horror offerings are limited to some fangless bites with the latest installment of Twilight, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (and all its related merchandise), staking (ha!) out a Saturday release all by itself. There's also Vampires Suck, but the release party flash mob in Hollywood on November 30th sounds more interesting than the film itself.

Dead Nation (Video Game)

Available exclusively on the Playstation Network for $14.99, Dead Nation (Review) is said to be home to the "smartest zombies" to ever be placed in a video game, meaning that these baddies will perform surprise attacks, drop down on you from buildings, and even grab at you through fences. On top...

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HollywoodNews.com: Engaged couple Nikki Weiss and Jill Goldstein of Showtime’s “The Real L Word” aren’t surprised that the series – Season 1 comes out on DVD Oct. 19 — has been the subject of controversy. What has surprised them is, “The lesbian community has been the most critical of us. That was amazing to me. I was shocked. I joked in one of the episodes that Jill and I don’t define ourselves by our sexuality; it’s part of who we are along with being aunts and daughters and the rest of the things we are. That comment sparked hatred. People were very vocal on our fan page,” Nikki says.

On the other hand, fans have written in thanking them for making their lives easier and making other comments “that are so rewarding for us.”

“It would be a pretty tall order to...

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Whitney Mixter has been the love-'em-and-leave-'em cast member of 'The Real L Word' (Sun., 10Pm Et on Sho). But on the first-season finale, she discovers a taste of her own medicine isn't so delectable.

At the annual Dinah Shore gathering in Palm Springs, Whitney thinks she and Sara are "starting to expand our relationship ... We're definitely, like, learning about each other and potentially developing trust."

By day two, the player says, "At this point, I'm not gonna lie, I'm kind of like only eyes-only on Sara."

Next thing you know, she discovers Sara making out with Romi in the pool. Back in the hotel room, Whitney says, "I like to pride myself on not needing anybody." But the tears streaming down her face tell a different story.

 

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On 'The Real L Word' (Sun., 10Pm Et on Sho), L.A. Fashion Week producer Mikey Koffman popped the question on the runway at the Dolce Vita Fashion Show.

She called up Raquel Castaneda, her makeup-artist girlfriend, from backstage. Getting down on one knee, she asked, "Will you marry me? Please say yes. It'd be really embarrassing if you say no right now," she said, as the audience (including fellow cast mate Whitney Mixter) clapped and cheered her on.

It was a big "yes." Raquel later said, "That is so amazing to me. Mikey doesn't have the easiest time showing how she feels, so saying something that loud really got my attention, and I just can't believe she made a statement like that."

Mikey explained it this way: "I wanted to speak her language. I felt like she likes big gestures, and I was trying to give her that.