Read Diane Sawyer's interview with DeGeneres in May 1998. Find out what the actor has to say about politics and her show's cancellation.

Shannon Wentworth reviews HBO's "Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning," a "return to her stand-up roots and the start of her career as an out comic."

In response to the media coverage surrounding the actor's fictional and real-life coming-out story, this journal offers essays on homosexuality.

Read about Ellen's mother, Betty DeGeneres, and her political activism supporting gay and lesbian rights. Describes various fund-raising events.