Ellen DeGeneres

• Birth date: January 26, 1958
  
• Birth place: Metairie, Louisiana
  
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And this time, she’s brought gorillas.

“I never forgot that as a kid. That kind of stuff sticks in your brain.”

Her people deny everything.

From the first conviction for lesbian activity to Ellen coming out on primetime TV, here are some important events in lesbian history.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were among the A-list guests at the couple’s home.

“I don’t know if I’m gonna do this,” Swift pled. “Yeah you will,” Ellen told her.

“We need to be nicer to Mother Nature, because Mother Nature is not happy with us.”

Michelle Obama, JoJo Siwa, and others shared remembrances of the dancer and DJ who died earlier this week.

Vilanch’s time in television coincided with a sea-change in LGBTQ representation on the small screen. This tour through the ages explores it all.

“All the people that were in that room, they just disappeared. I didn’t hear from anybody.”

Two very gay scenes from the new movie are being shared online: “Holy s**t they actually did it.”

“No one has reported that my friend Jamie Foxx felt the need to call Ellen and say, ‘You got this one wrong.'” Burrell claimed.

“I stopped watching The L Word because I lived it!”

The singer says Ellen dominated his career before completely dropping him.

“Call Me Anne” includes new insights into her headline-grabbing relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s.

“I never really got over it,” Rosie O’Donnell said.

Zaya Wade came out as a girl three years ago when she asked her parents, Wade and actress Gabrielle Union, to call her by her new name.

Rest in peace.

Ellen DeGeneres channeled her inner Mariah Carey when a reporter asked her to comment on actress Anne Heche’s fiery car crash and hospitalization.

It will be the first LGBTQ visitor center within the National Park Service’s network of public parks and monuments. The funders are a who’s-who of queer celebs and LGBTQ-friendly corporations.