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Director/writer/actor/all-around television genius Paris Barclay has been upped to executive producer status on HBO's In Treatment, according to Daily Variety. Barclay, an openly gay TV veteran, has a long list of LGBT-inclusive credits, including directorial stints with Weeds, In the Life, ER, Dirt, and, most recently, In Treatment, which he co-executive produced and directed 12 of the 43 half-hour episodes in the show's first season, including the episode in which Blair Underwood's character comes to realize he is gay.

In Treatment was recently nominated for three Primetime Emmys, including a Best Actor nomination for the series' star, Gabriel Byrne. HBO has ordered 35 episodes for the second season, and asked several new producers to sign on, including Hagai Levy, Warren Leight, Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson.

It's official! ABC announced today out performer Lance Bass will be a celebrity competitor on the new season of Dancing with the Stars. Bass is the first openly gay contestant featured in the show's seven-season history.

“ABC continues to demonstrate a commitment to inclusion of the LGBT community in its programming," says GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano, "and selecting Lance Bass to compete on Dancing with the Stars presents a great opportunity for audiences to see gay people included in pop culture in a matter-of-fact kind of way."

The seventh season premiere of Dancing with the Stars is Monday, September 22 at 8/7c.

Yesterday, openly lesbian Natasha Kai (pictured) and the U.S. women’s soccer team beat Brazil 1 – 0 to win the Gold. Although Brazil outplayed the U.S. for most of the match, excellent work by goalkeeper Hope Solo kept the U.S. in the game long enough for Carli Loyd to score in extra time.

Despite not performing well in the 3m springboard, openly gay diver Matthew Mitcham rebounded nicely in the 10m platform. Moving into the semifinals he is second out of 30 divers. Way to go! You can watch Matthew dive tonight on NBC at 10 ET. For more information and to check your local listings, please visit NBC’s Olympics Web site.

As always, this outstanding Olympics coverage is provided exclusively for cineQueer by GLAAD's Director of Sports Media, Ted Rybka.

A fresh batch of TV Gayed listings are up! This week's schedule includes:

Greeting card giant Hallmark has just introduced a line of wedding cards specifically designed to celebrate the unions of same-sex couples.

According to the Associated Press, Hallmark added the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only U.S. states with legal marriage for all couples. The language inside the cards is neutral, with no mention of wedding or marriage, making them also suitable for a commitment ceremony. Hallmark says the move is a response to consumer demand, not any political pressure.

"It's our goal to be as relevant as possible to as many people as we can," Hallmark spokeswoman Sarah Gronberg Kolell said.

The interior of the one pictured here reads, "Two hearts. One promise." Awwww!

Hallmark started offering "coming out" cards last year, and the four designs of marriage cards featuring same-sex couples are being gradually released this summer and will be widely available by next year.

cineQueer warmly congratulates reporter Gail Shister on her upcoming induction into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame! The ceremony will take place Saturday at the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Convention in Washington.
 
Here are some highlights from the press release:
 
Gail Shister was among the first "out" reporters in U.S. mainstream news media when she joined the New Orleans States-Item (now Picayune) in 1975 as its first woman sportswriter. Four years later, she broke the same barrier at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
 
Shister was named The Inquirer's television columnist in 1982. Widely recognized as one of the country's foremost observers of the industry, Shister's news-breaking column ran for 25 years and was distributed to more than 500 newspapers. On the Web, she had her own link on the Drudge Report.
 
Now a metro reporter for The Inquirer, Shister writes profiles for Page One. She is a columnist for tvnewser.com and appears regularly on CNN's "Reliable Sources." She also teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an adjunct professor in the English Department.
 
Shister served as vice president of NLGJA and won the Distinguished Service Award in 1997. She and her partner, photographer Penny Jeannechild, have three children.
 

Emmy Award-winning television journalist Ross Palombo has been named host of Logo's brand new 365gay News. Lest you think this means one measly Emmy, Palombo has six Emmy Awards under his belt, including Journalistic Enterprise, Spot News, Investigative Reporting, General News and Breaking News. He also won an Associated Press Award for Best Live Reporting. Not too shabby!

For those of you in NY, listen up!

The last TV Gayed posting has descended nearly out of view, so we thought you might like a gentle reminder of the two new shows debuting tonight: