An Israeli court has ruled that a pair of lesbian parents — one donated her eggs and the other carried the fetus to term — can both be their son's legal mom. But unfortunately, this ruling might not have much broader impact.
Kenyata White and Aeimee Diaz were quietly celebrating their anniversary on Sunday at the District American Kitchen & Wine Bar inside the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel. The couple, both 38, met at the restaurant, but they weren't exactly given a warm welcome this time around. White describes what happened,
Today in religious people who act like dicks and say they have to do it because of their religion: a priest in Gaithersburg, Maryland denied a gay woman communion at her own mother's funeral, and then walked out of the church as she was delivering the eulogy.
Gaydar — the ability to be able to tell who's gay just by looking or talking to them — is a "skill" of debatable merit, but many people like to brag about having finely calibrated systems of working out who's gay and who's not. Of course, when pressed, nobody can ever really put their finger on why exactly they sense…
Once upon a time in Hollywood and Berlin, there was a New Woman running around.
Jenelle Hutcherson, 26, and Mollie Thomas, 19, didn't win the Miss California USA competition this weekend, but they made history by being the first two openly gay contestants in the 60-year-old competition. Two years ago a certain Miss California caused a huge controversy when she advocated for "opposite marriage,"…
A judge in Iowa has ordered new birth documents be issued to the child of a lesbian couple who were initially told they couldn't list both of their names on their baby's birth certificate. The Iowa Department of Public Health contended that God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, but was roundly rebuked for trying…
In 2007, a California couple's Hawaiian vacation got off to a bad start when they tried to book a room at the Aloha Bed & Breakfast in Honolulu and were turned away because they're lesbians. When Diane Cervelli said she and Taeko Bufford would only need one bed, owner Phyllis Young explained that she didn't want…
Houston mayor Annise Parker is not only the first openly gay mayor of any major U.S. city, she was also re-elected two nights ago after having served for the past two years. That's no small feat in any city anywhere but in Houston, Texas that's pretty phenomenal.
Jenelle Hutcherson is the first openly gay contestant in the Miss Southern California and Miss Long Beach pageant, and she looks poised to rock the house. In the video above, she details her plans to wear a tux to the formalwear competition. She also explains that she's entering the pageant as a statement in favor…
The US Senate has confirmed the federal judicial appointment of Alison Nathan, an out lesbian, with no Republican support. She's the second lesbian to receive a federal lifetime judicial appointment in the US and will join two other currently active gay judges in raining gay rainbow justice all over Real America.…
The Advocate's interview with Jane Lynch is fantastic, and we recommend reading it in its entirety. But as a teaser, here are the five best parts…
If a national commercial depicting a lesbian couple in pajamas talking about the fact that they have sex —because they're two people in a relationship and not because there's a guy around to think it's totally hot— isn't a win, I don't know what is.
Granted, it wasn't all that long ago that the UK series Skins was on the air, but given the fact that the series cast people who were roughly the same age as their characters —this wasn't your American casting of a 27-year-old playing a 15-year-old— a lot of them had little prior acting experience and many of them…
It's not exactly weird to see two drunk girls kissing—especially on a show that's all about people getting drunk and hooking up—but it was interesting to see Deena's open-minded approach to kissing a girl. It didn't really seem like it was one of those endeavors solely undertaken for the sake of turning on any guys…
A Sizzler restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens —yes, Sizzler is still around— is being slapped with a discrimination lawsuit after patron Liza Friedlander's "relaxing, enjoyable brunch" turned into "a horrifying ordeal of discrimination, violence and degradation":
On Sunday, a lesbian couple was kicked out of the Gertrude Stein exhibit at a San Francisco museum for the heinous crime of holding hands.
Sexual orientation and "gender conformity" in women are genetic traits, according to a study released by researchers from Queen Mary, University of London.
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