The message of universal equality (and great music!) is at the heart of the True Colors Tour, which features a stellar line-up, including performances by Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s, Joan Jett, Rosie O’Donnell, Wanda Sykes, and others. The Tour hopes to bring about awareness to the discrimination that that LGBT community still faces today.

A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to True Colors’ non-profit partners to increase funding for organizations that are working toward furthering LGBT equality. Tickets went on sale last week, and performances will happen around the country throughout the month of June.

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Groundspark Film Project (formerly Women’s Educational Media) works with social activists and educators to produce truly visionary films that inspire social action. A spirit of innovation and energetic activism colors their Respect For All Film Project and accompanying educational campaigns as they engage with youth and adults alike on topics of human diversity and preventing prejudice. The project offers a variety of resources for educators and service providers, including award-winning documentaries, a workshop series, and curriculum guidelines.

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The Oscars honored several films which highlighted several worthy causes worth paying attention to and taking action for.

If you like the Oscars and taking action, then follow this Top 10 list of actions inspired by the films, the speeches, the parties, and the outfits featured during the Academy Awards.

1. Julie Christie, who was nominated for her amazing performance in the amazing film Away From Her, directed by the Amazing actor/filmmaker Sarah Polley, wears an orange ribbon, representing the “campaign to close Guantanamo,” which Julie says is “a very, very important issue” It’s affecting the whole world.”

with Amnesty International’s online interactive Tear It Down campaign.

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is now here to give you the very best of Katie, Nicole, Giulia, Gina and Kerry! If you worry about missing your favorite bloggers’ posts as they push their way down the page each and every week - Never Fear! Check out our most popular posts of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

Woody Guthrie: This Grammy Is Your Grammy / This Grammy Is My Grammy

Rambo Fights for Burma’s Freedom + 5 Steps You Can Take To Help Burma In 5 Minutes

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Nicole:

“Yes We Can” Obama Music Video a Unique Celebrity Endorsement

Top 10 US Grant, Scholarship and Fellowship Awarding Foundations

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Giulia:

Ba-Da-Bling Commercials Pulled in New York

“Safe Sex or No Sex” Shirts Get Teens Suspended

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Gina:

10 Internet Videos Featuring Celebrities Advocating For A Cause

Close Up: An Introduction to Iranian Cinema and Cinematic Rainbows

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Kerry:

Sheryl Crow’s Apocalyptic Peak-Oil Song

Solar Powered Soldiers Wear Uniforms with Built-In Batteries

L Word Trippple L awards are back. Last week, I brought you episode one of the LLL awards, in which I hypothesized that the show gave its stars like Cybill Shepherd and Pam Grier, longevity, youthfulness, and beauty, as well as new careers.

Well, here is episode II. And these women are not only as beautiful as they were 20 years ago, but MORE beautiful, which is why they get an additional award: The SS Award named after Susan Sarandon, for becoming more attractive over time.

She may have won an Academy Award for her performance in Children of a Lesser God, but move the Oscar out of the way and make room for the LLL award. As television’s first deaf lesbian character, Jodi Lerner, the the bohemian, iconoclastic, sculptor, helps Bette loosen up and give up some control. Whether she’s seducing or sculpting, this heart breaker signs, seals, AND delivers. Unless she’s rocking crimped hair, which she did in one scene in a restaurant… IN PUBLIC… ON A DOUBLE DATE! Let’s hope Marlee lets go of the 80’s and embraces the 2000’s as much as they’ve embraced her. Because she used to be cute, but she’s now beautiful, the child of a greater goddess.

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Watching The L Word on Showtime on demand reminded me of the great adage, immortalized by Matthew Mcconoughy in Dazed and Confused: “That’s what I like about high school girls: I keep getting older, they stay the same age.” Except “what I like about L Word girls” is “they keep getting older, they stay the same” or as beautiful” or even more beautiful.” But the L word does more than just make its stars youthful and beautiful. In the case of the four “thespians” discussed below, it actually resuscitates the dead careers of former it girls, turning them into L women, taking years off their lives, and giving them new leases (or contracts) on life.

So here are my top 4 tripple L’s (Longevity L-Word Ladies.)

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