Heathere Matarazzo, the teen star from Welcome to the Dollhouse, is engaged to year-long girlfriend, Carolyn Murphy.

Matarazzo’s publicist, Lisa Jammal, told E! News that it was “love at first sight.” They both proposed to each other, “It was really cute. First Heather proposed to Carolyn, then Carolyn proposed to her.”

Matarazzo got her start as a tormented teen in the hit indie film Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) and went on to star in mainstream movies like The Princess Diaries (2001) and indie films like Saved! (2004) and Believe in Me (2006). She currently co-stars in Logo’s lesbian comedy Exes & Ohs, and was also recently seen in The L Word and the popular horror movie Hostel II (2007).

Matarazzo came out publicly as a lesbian in 2004, when she was 21.

In a 2006 interview with AfterEllen.com, Matarazzo recalled her first kiss with a girl as a teenager. “We were sitting in my pink room with pink carpeting,” she described. “It was summer and we were sitting Indian-style across from each other and I was so incredibly nervous. And I thought, ‘Yeah, I am definitely gay.’

No date for the wedding has been announced.

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IMDB reports that Pierce Brosnan, the former James Bond star, has beat fellow actors Bruce Willis and Richard Gere to land the title of most popular gay icon over 50 years old.

Brosnan took 33 per cent of the vote, compared with Willis and Gere, who took 25 and 14 per cent respectively, while Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford and Lethal Weapon star Mel Gibson scooped fourth and fifth places respectively.

The Queen actress Helen Mirren topped the most popular lesbian icon list with 32 per cent of the poll. Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep claimed second and third places with 28 and 25 per cent respectively, whilst the top five was rounded out by Goldie Hawn and Dolly Parton.

Us Weekly magazine reports that Katy Perry, 23, singer of this summer’s sizzling lesbian hot song, I Kissed A Girl will attend August’s Teen Choice Awards, which Miley Cyrus, 15, is hosting.  Perry says, “Maybe we’ll have another Britney-Madonna moment on stage (with a tongue twisting lesbian kiss),” Perry joked.  She understands pretty well that it likely won’t happen and would it be a bit creepy as Miley is but fifteen years old.

She adds, “I don’t think it would help her career. However, it would definitely help mine!” 

After months of speculations, Lindsay Lohan has finally admitted that she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson are in love, via an interview with Ryan Seacrest on his Top 40 countdown show. The pair has denied being an item ever since they started dating last year. However, she told Seacrest that for her 22nd birthday, “I just wanna live a happy, healthy year, continue on the path that I”ve been on and be with the person that I care about. And my family.”

Former Star Trek-er and recent Heroes star George Takei will become one of the first gay people to receive a marriage license when the historic documents are handed out on Tuesday morning across California, according to Star Pulse.

The actor announced his plans to wed longtime partner Brad Altman the day after new legislation overturned a ban on same-sex marriages in the state last month. And he’ll be among hundreds of gays and lesbians who will mark the first day of the new ruling by accepting a marriage license.

Takei and Altman, who plan to wed on September 14, will join other couples in West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles for the landmark license ceremony on Tuesday morning.

A spokesman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - the organization behind Tuesday’s festivities - says, “We are grateful that George and Brad are putting a public face on marriage, and are so willing to share their story during the coming days with millions.”

Takei has been publicizing the gay marriage ruling by making a series of TV appearances, which will continue throughout the week.

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Form MSNBC: A video surfaced on YouTube Tuesday showing Shia LaBeouf in a slapping contest with a friend where the “Indiana Jones” actor hurls anti-gay slurs to encourage his friend to slap him.

A rep for the actor told E!’s Marc Malkin that he is “embarrassed” by the video, where LaBeouf is seen calling his friend a “f—-t” multiple times.

“The videotape that is currently being circulated is several years old and captures Shia playing a game among friends in which he uses a derogatory word toward a friend,” a rep for the actor tells Malkin.

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Our NY gay lovers, Katie and Fred, grabbed these photos of Jake Silbermann, who stars as the totally hot Noah in As the World Turns, while he tossed a ball into the crowd at a NY baseball game. The game was CBS vs ABC’s ‘10th Annual Tammy Rubin Rice Celebrity Softball Game’ to support Shorefront Friends for Hospice. The game was held at Midwood High School, in Brooklyn, NY.

According to Jake, Van Hansis, (aka Luke) couldn’t make it… it was his mother’s birthday. What a good gay son!!

T.R. Knight and Mark Cornelson

Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight and his boyfriend Mark Cornelson celebrated queer love and the gay rights movement at the Love and Pride Ceremony in West Hollywood. The planned mass commitment ceremonies were put on by Judy Shepard and the Matthew Shepard Foundation and included dozens of couples committed to furthering gay rights in the U.S. The event was largely symbolic, yet comes on the heels of the California Supreme Court’s decision to permit same sex marriages in the state. June 17th is the official first day that same sex couples will be able to get married in California.

Couples at the event were wearing the Matthew Shepard Erase Hate pendant designed by Udi Behr for Judy in memory of her son, who was the victim of a brutal anti-gay hate crime in rural Wyoming 10 years ago.

Although rumors were running rampant that the two would tie the knot at the party, as of now, they remain just dating. But, T.R. told OK! just what he loves about Mark, 19, “Everything!”

The actor, 35, revealed that although he believes in marriage he’s just not ready to take the leap. “We’ve only been together for six months,” he told OK!. “I strongly believe in marriage though. Mark got a little bit more specific about what he loves about his famous beau. “His humor. He’s romantic too,” he told OK!.

He continued, “We just went to see Sex and the City and we both thought it was great. I’m a huge fan of the show. He never really watched the show but he really liked the movie. It was a great experience for us.”

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Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight and his boyfriend Mark Cornelson are set to kick off National Gay Pride Month with the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The couple will celebrate a massive symbolic commitment ceremony in Hollywood Wednesday, but the couple told UsMagazine that they are not planning to marry during the ceremony.

“Mark just moved here from San Francisco,” Knight told Usmagazine.com Saturday. “To clarify, we are not having a commitment ceremony and I am not performing a commitment ceremony.” Knight said the recent legalization of gay marriage in California gave him an “extraordinary feeling.”

“Once you are given something that you were never allowed before, you realize how much of a second class person you were before,” he told Us. “That is horrible and fantastic at the same time. It makes me want to sob and scream with joy all at the same time.”

“The floodgates have been opened they will never be closed,” Cornelsen added.

Knight said his “Grey’s Anatomy” cast mates really like his boyfriend Mark. “Someone in particular, I won’t mention names told me, ‘You know I like him more than I like you, right?’” the actor, 35, joked. “They said it about three or four times so it’s kind of not as funny as it was the first time anymore.”

“They love him,” Knight said. “They’re like, ‘When is he coming?’ They want him there.”

“They’re all wonderful and so sweet,” Cornelson said. “It’s amazing.”

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Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight, 35, and his boyfriend, Mark Cornelsen, 19, attended the 7th Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball in L.A. on Saturday night. The totally hot couple walked the red carpet hand-in-hand, giving their support to Chrysalis, the Los Angeles based organization promoting employment for homeless and disadvantaged people.

If you want to know more about Mark Cornelson, click here. 

Knight was recently nominated for the Top 100 hottest guys on AfterElton. In an email to the site, Knight had this to say about his nomination:

“Wait a second … I don’t even have abs! Thank you, AfterEltoners, I’m very flattered.”

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