2010 saw the show's first lesbian storyline as Sophie Webster develops an attraction towards her best friend Sian Powers.

In several interviews published in April 2010, Knapp announced that she is a lesbian, and has been in a same-sex relationship since 2002.

Generally, as of 2010, autoerotic activity is the most common legally-available kind of live sexual activity, followed by lesbian performances.

According to the 2010 Census, the Pioneer Valley features one of the highest per capita lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) populations in the United States.

In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America, she explained that as a young actress, she was fearful of being exposed as a lesbian.

Araki's tenth film Kaboom made its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded the first ever Queer Palm for its contribution to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.

In November 2010, Mercer joined the It Gets Better campaign, a series of videos that aim to help gay and lesbian youth to overcome bullying.

On December 18, 2010, Nelson voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which established a legal process for ending the policy that prevented gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces.

Gilbert publicly came out as a lesbian in 2010.

In May 2010 she replaced actress Olivia Thirlby as the protagonist in the werewolf drama Jack & Diane alongside Juno Temple who portrays her lesbian love interest.

In an interview on February 11, 2010, on Hardcore Sports Radio on Sirius, Hardaway spoke about his recent work with The Trevor Project and The YES Institute, which he has done to educate himself on gay, lesbian and transgendered issues.

In 2010 and 2011 the Human Rights Campaign recognized LexisNexis as a company that treats its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees well.

In 2010, Joseph Chetcuti claimed Barbara had been a lesbian, based on interviews with contemporaries.

In 2010, Wong was selected by readers of samesame. com. au as one of the 25 most influential lesbian Australians.

Additionally, in 2009, the Human Rights Campaign awarded V & E a perfect score, for the second year in a row, on the HRC's 2010 Corporate Equality Index ( CEI ), which rates businesses on a scale from 0 to 100 percent based on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) workplace policies and benefits.

In 2010, Nicole Albino revealed she was openly lesbian and married female fashion designer, Erin Magee.

In 2010, the Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership ( CESCAL ) co-sponsored the first school counselor and educator conference devoted to the needs of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered students in San Diego, California.

The U. S. Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that " there were no known lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) organizations.

The U. S. Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that " there were no known organizations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons and no reports of

The U. S. Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that " there was not a large openly gay or lesbian community due to the social stigma associated with homosexuality " and that " there were no known cases of violence or discrimination against gays, lesbians, or transgendered individuals during the year.

The U. S. Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that " discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) persons was a problem, and LGBT individuals often kept their status secret from the community for fear of being harassed or discriminated against.

In June 2010 more than 1, 000 protesters in Takoradi, Western Region, participated in a peaceful rally against reports of gay and lesbian activities in their city.

In 2010, Perkins opposed the overturning of the " Don't ask, don't tell " law that prohibited people who were openly gay or lesbian from serving in the U. S. military.

In 2010, the value of the Armenian Dram ( AMD ) was artificially kept high during the height of the global economic crisis.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

In May 2010, provincial unemployment rates varied from a low of 5. 0 % in Saskatchewan to a high of 13. 8 % in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 2010, after controversial high school shootings in 2008 prompted government review, a constitutional law committee concluded that people over the age of 20 can receive a permit for semiautomatic handguns.

By the 21st century, the Netherlands had become a modern, dynamic country with a successful, internationally oriented economy ( the 16th largest in the world in 2010 ) and a high standard of living.

In October 2010, Lederman participated in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students got to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize-winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch.

It was created in 2010 to develop High Efficiency Video Coding, a new generation video coding standard that further reduces ( by 50 %) the data rate required for high quality video coding, as compared to the current ITU-T H. 264 / ISO / IEC 14496-10 standard.

A new high rise office building, The Pinnacle, was recently opened in 2010.

For example, there were more than 40 high ozone days reported between 1997 and 1999, a figure which fell to fewer than 15 between 2007 and 2009 and just 10 between 2008 and 2010.

The 2010 census shows that out of Shanghai's total population, 22. 0 % had a college education, double the level from 2000, while 21. 0 % had high school, 36. 5 % middle school, and 1. 35 % primary school education.

* 2010 – A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a " wall of fire " more than high.

In the 2010 WebcamGate case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, and therefore infringed on their privacy rights.

Industrial output for November 2010 reached another high, up 19. 37 % from a year earlier, indicating strong exports and a growing local economy.

With high oil prices and rising government expenditures, Venezuela's economy grew by 9 % in 2007 but is expected to have shrunk by 2. 9 % in 2009 and further in 2010.

An October 28, 2010 patent from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, describes a Wankel engine superficially similar to Rolls-Royce's earlier prototype that required an external air compressor to achieve high enough compression for diesel-cycle combustion.

Testing by the developer in 2010 showed performance to be similar to ext4 at low thread counts, and superior to ext4 at high thread counts.

The Bank's education lending reached a historical high of approximately $ 5 billion USD in 2010.

The Guardian reporter Andrew Clark described the years of 2006 to 2010 as " tumultous " in which the heartland of America is " mired in gloom " with high unemployment around 9. 6 %, with average house prices falling from $ 230, 000 in 2006 to $ 183, 000, and foreboding increases in the national debt to $ 13. 4 trillion, but that despite the setbacks, the American economy was once more " bouncing back.

Finally, the z-pinch machine, not using lasers, is expected to obtain a high fusion energy gain, as well as capability for repetitive working, starting around 2010.

Garland S. Tucker, in a 2010 book, argues that the election marked the " high tide of American conservatism ," as both major candidates campaigned for limited government, reduced taxes, and less regulation.

As of 2010, 24 European countries have some form of presumed consent ( opt-out ) system, with the most prominent and limited opt-out systems in Spain, Austria, and Belgium yielding high donor rates.

In October 2010, Subway franchisees in the UK lost a high court appeal against paying standard VAT on all toasted subs, as required by HM Revenue and Customs.

On June 19, 2010, after a month of deliberation, Vietnam's National Assembly rejected the high speed rail proposal due to its high cost ; National Assembly deputies had asked for further study of the project.