Posted in lesbian on Sep 1st, 2008
Del Martin, co-founder of the first national lesbian-rights organization in the United States, died Aug. 27 at age 87. We remember her with an excerpt from a Fresh Air interview that first aired on Dec. 29, 1992. (You can hear the complete conversation using the link at left.)
Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon founded the [...]
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Posted in lesbian, marriage on Aug 28th, 2008
Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco City Hall.
Ms. Martin, an author and organizer, died at UCSF Hospice after a long period of [...]
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Posted in events, gay, lesbian, sex on Mar 16th, 2008
Best Lesbian Erotica & Best Gay Erotica
Third Annual Joint Reading!
Get a double shot of hot smart queer erotica from some of New York City’s most provocative lesbian and gay writers. For the third year running, NYC-based contributors to the Cleis Press anthologies Best Lesbian Erotica 2008 and Best Gay Erotica 2008 will unite [...]
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Posted in gays, glbt, legislation, lesbian, military on Nov 30th, 2007
Marking the 14th anniversary of legislation that allowed gay men and lesbians to serve in the military but only if they kept their orientation secret, 28 retired generals and admirals plan to release a letter on Friday urging Congress to repeal the law.
“We respectfully urge Congress to repeal the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” the [...]
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Posted in lesbian, parenting on Sep 20th, 2007
Newswise — A study of families in the Netherlands indicates that children raised by lesbian couples “do not differ in well being or child adjustment compared with their counterparts in heterosexual-parent families.” The study was conducted by Henny Bos, Frank van Balen, and Dymphna van den Boom of the University of Amsterdam and published in [...]
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Posted in gay, lesbian, movies on Jun 4th, 2007
Turner Classic Movies showcases 44 films covering six decades when it looks at gay pride and prejudice in cinema. Every Monday & Wednesday in June. Thornyc] says “this is probably the most amazing historical gay and lesbian film festival ever put together. . .Half of the films are not available [...]
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The young gays and lesbians stream from subway stops dressed in their flashiest gear: rainbow sunglasses, 6-inch-high gold wedge sandals, a fatigue-printed hoodie, a rhinestone-studded pink Playboy bunny bag.
Hundreds of them make their way through the West Village — home of the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s — toward the pier overlooking [...]
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Posted in gay, legislation, lesbian on May 3rd, 2007
(AP) Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law.
The House legislation, passed 237-180, also makes it easier for federal law enforcement to take part in or assist local prosecutions involving bias-motivated attacks. Similar legislation [...]
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Posted in Jewish, education, gay, lesbian, nyc, queer on Mar 27th, 2007
By THOMAS BARTLETT
The Jewish Theological Seminary, considered the flagship institution for Conservative Judaism, will begin accepting gay and lesbian students into its rabbinical and cantorial schools, effective immediately, the institution’s chancellor-elect announced on Monday.
The decision followed a ruling in December by the movement’s highest legal body that allowed the ordination of gay rabbis but left [...]
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Garrison Keillor writes:
Ordinarily I don’t like to use this space to talk about my newspaper column but the most recent column aroused such angry reactions that I thought I should reply. The column was done tongue-in-cheek, always a risky thing, and was meant to be funny, another risky thing these days, and two sentences about [...]
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Posted in galleries, lesbian, lesbians, naked, tgp on Mar 15th, 2007
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Posted in gay, lbgt, lesbian, queer on Mar 12th, 2007
Maria posted about the sale of Daily Dose of Queer here. She recently sent me an email that included updated traffic statistics. Here are Daily Dose of Queer’s most recent monthly stats:
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Posted in lesbian, lesbians, photography on Mar 5th, 2007
Aaron & Theresa
A Lesbian’s Life blog is sponsoring a contest for the hottest kiss:
We love romance so we’re on the lookout for the HOTTEST KISS. We’re asking women to send us a photo of their hottest kiss. It could be a photo of you and your partner, girlfriend, one-night stand or a ’special [...]
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Posted in gay, law, legal, lesbian on Mar 2nd, 2007
Vivia ChenThe American Lawyer
In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’s same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracing the “anti-antihomosexual culture.” Well, Scalia got that right.
Not only are the nation’s elite law firms not anti-gay, they are putting out the [...]
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Posted in Suze Orman, finance, gay, lesbian, queer on Feb 26th, 2007
Financial guru Suze Orman was interviewed for the NY Times Magazine section (”She’s So Money“), admits she is gay, and wishes she could wed her partner:
Are you married? I’m in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I’m on the road every day. I love my life.
Meaning what? Do you live [...]
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I’ve set up my SpankBank at Emergency Porn, the porn recommendation engine. I found some interesting pics, and the upload interface is nice. I’ll probably cross post some galleries here, since it seems like a good way to organize and categorize them..
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Posted in NPR, lesbian on Feb 23rd, 2007
…Asked by her daughter about the differences between their childhoods, Hyde’s response is, “I grew up in one of those very typical families, with a mom and a dad. And there were seven kids.”
The hardest part, Hyde says, was her sense of being alienated from her family, because of the feelings she had for [...]
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Posted in babes, erotica, galleries, lesbian, lesbians, model, naked, nude, sexy, teen, tgp on Feb 22nd, 2007
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Posted in bloggers, blogging, gay, glbt, lesbian, queer on Feb 22nd, 2007
I got a note from Maria Angeline, who is selling Daily Dose of Queer:
It’s been a wonderful two years around here. This blog’s most recent accomplishment, becoming a 2007 Bloggies finalist, was a completely unexpected and amazing surprise…I’ve had a great run with this site, but it’s time for me to give all my time [...]
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Posted in Wet Spots, bdsm, cinekink, events, fetish, gay, kink, lbgt, lesbian, movies, nyc, pornography, wetspots on Feb 22nd, 2007
Tuesday, March 6th - 7 pm
“The Best of CineKink”The Pioneer Theater presents a special screening of the latest hot shorts from CineKink, “the really alternative film festival.” Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, the award-winning offerings in this year’s kink-friendly showcase include:
Best Documentary ShortWANTDirected by Loree Erickson, 2006, Canada, [...]
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Barbara Gittings, Gay Pioneer, Dies at 75; Mother of the GLBT Civil Rights Movement (Equality Forum)
A love triangle? Try a hexagon (St. Petersburg Times)
Man Sues IBM Over Adult Chat Room Firing (AOL)
Valentine’s Day love letters to our gadgets (Engadget)
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Kate Haigh, 18, a high school senior in St. Paul, recalls attending her first meeting at the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club when she was in the ninth grade. “I said, ‘My name is Kate, and I’m a lesbian.’ It was so liberating. I felt like something huge had been lifted off my shoulders, and finally [...]
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Posted in erotic, erotica, gay, horror, lambda, lesbian, literature, mystery, queer, romance, transgender on Feb 7th, 2007
The Lambda Literary Awards are presented in 25 categories. Click on a category below to see the nominees for this year’s awards. Nominations were accepted between September 1 and December 1, 2006.
Finalists in each category will be announced by March 1, 2007. Winners in each category will be announced on Thursday, May 31, at the [...]
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Posted in candidaroyalle, erotica, events, gay, jamyewaxman, lesbian, nyc, oral sex, queer, rachelkramerbussel, tristantaormino on Feb 6th, 2007
Valentine’s Day Smut: Zaedryn and Rachel read their stories from ‘Best Lesbian Erotica 2007‘ (edited by Tristan Taormino and Emma Donoghue) at Bluestockings Cafe.
‘Under the Covers’ Premiere Party: Rachel Kramer Bussel, Christen Clifford and Lillian Ann Slugocki
Under the Covers Premiere party: Jamye Waxman (one of the stars of Under the Covers) and her brother Ian. [...]
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