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Not long ago, Essence.com featured a lesbian couple in a popular, regular feature on weddings. The response surprised them. More »
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As a representative of the revered social grouping known as The Lesbians, at times a gay lady may find herself on the receiving end of some highly indelicate questions in regards to her personal life. More »
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Despite the heavy breathing in its trailers, The New York Times says the first few episodes of the reality L Word spinoff are surprisingly chaste. Says creator Ilene Chaiken, "I didn't want to put forward a bunch of trashy lesbians." More »
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How can parody possibly exceed the current cable-news absurdity over Elena Kagan's sexuality? Pat Buchanan compared women's softball to "two men sunbathing together." Joe Scarborough got downright Freudian: "I didn't know this, but a softball bat symbolizes a certain lifestyle." More »
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"Diva [Europe's only mainstream lesbian magazine]'s trajectory has mirrored the growth of Britain's lesbian scene. In 1994 it was sold bimonthly in independent bookshops; now every four weeks a new issue hits the shelves at newsagents and supermarkets." [Independent] More »
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Should all feminists be lesbians? It's a very second-wave idea, but according to Julie Bindel in the Guardian, its time has come again. More »
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This is Katherine Patrick, the 18-year-old daughter of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, soon-to-be Smith College freshman, MassEquality intern and, oh yeah, a now extremely out lesbian. She and her family sat down to an interview with Bay Windows this week, in no small part because they realized someone was about to do a hit job piece and make her parents seem less accepting of her sexuality (which she disclosed to them last summer) than they are. And if that PFLAG video made you cry, get your Kleenex before you continue reading because Deval Patrick's response to his daughter's disclosure of her sexuality was, "I don't think we thought about who they loved - more that they knew what love was and that they would have love in their lives." Sniff. More »
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