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The GLAAD Awards were this weekend, and man oh man were the stars out and about in all their glory! Bill Paxton brought his son, Ellen and Portia looked fabulous, and the lovely ladies of the L Word accepted a special recognition award!

The few and the proud who showed up to accept the award on behalf of the entire L Word cast looked as gorgeous as ever. Jennifer Beals stunned in her springy yellow dress, while Ilene Chakin belted her stunning grey number.

Actresses Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig snuck past red carpet cameras but showed off their basic black numbers on stage with Chakin and Beals, accepting the award on behalf of the entire L Word cast.

Jane Lynch stepped up her basic black suit, stunning as always!

Tons more pictures follow after the jump from the red carpet, the after party, and more! Look for a few QAF faces to make their appearances as well!

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Now that the L Word has closed up shop, many of the actresses have found themselves skyrocketed onto new television shows and into new movies. And Kate Moennig has been able to do both. We’ve alreay discussed her various new movie roles, and it’s just been announced that she’s going to be heading to CBS this fall as well!

Kate will be joining Alex O’Loughlin and Daniel Henney (from X-Men: Origins) in the organ transplant drama.

However. And this, to me, is a big however. There’s no information on the show on any of these actors’ IMDB pages. And IMDB tends to update more frequently than any other movie news-related site. So to not see any info on the show, either under the actors’ pages or even just as a show in process makes me question.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

Just as The L Word has taken it’s final bow, it will be nominated by GLAAD with a Special Recognition Award.

The Los Angeles ceremony, which is set to take place on April 18, 2009 in the Nokia Theater in LA, will honor many people, including Kathy Griffin and Bishop Gene Robinson.

The Special Recognition Award will be given to The L Word because the show “broke new ground for LGBT visibility on television with its focus of exploring the lives and loves of a group of lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles”.

With a cast full of out lesbian and bisexual women, the show is now aired in 39 countries, bringing worldwide recognition to the GLBT community. Ilene Chakin, along with cast members Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Kate Moennig, and Pam Greer will accept the award that evening.

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With just a few short weeks before the final end to everyone’s favorite lesbian drama, The L Word, all sorts of great quotes are coming out. And now that we know Ilene’s taking Shane down with the ship, setting her up with crazy Jenny, many fans of the show have been pining after the good old days of Shane/Carmen love.

And while we won’t get any more days of Shane and Carmen, we will get a cameo appearance by Shane’s first love in the final episode. And we’ll always have past seasons to watch on DVD to keep us happy.

Wouldn’t you know it, we’re not the only ones talking about Shane and Carmen. Kate Moennig gave up a juicy quote herself, having this to say: “I think everyone believes that Shane is meant to be with Carmen. I always look at the Carmen situation as that one first love that got away. You’ll never find something that will match that level of intensity. I think the Molly thing was fun and cute, I don’t know how profound it was.”

Aw! Even Kate knows Carmen was Shane’s first love!

First, she was spotted out shopping, and then she was spotted slouching her way through eastside Hollywood club Boobietrap. Apparently people tried to pretend they didn’t notice they were in the presence of greatness and pretty much left her to her own devices, while Moennig looked very Shane with her sheared hair, tight pants and general bad-ass movements.

While the L Word has officially wrapped shooting for the last time, Moennig resides in LA and so she should be spotted out more and more often now that her slate seems somewhat clear of projects. Currently she’s got a movie in post-production with one in production.

Everybody’s Fine (post-production), she’s featured in an ensemble cast that follows a “widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife”. The man “sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.”

Currently in production is Remorse, a psychological thriller set to release at some point in 2009. currently, IMDB doesn’t have much information on the movie, and only five actors are listed, one of which is Moennig.

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