Category: News Reports

I’ve always been shocked by how the sex-positive community can be so hostile towards sex workers and so very sex work negative. Maybe I’ve just been a sex worker for too long, but I withdrew from the sex-positive community several years back and now I’m starting to get pissed off. I had to unsubscribe from [...]

I fell in love with Tracy Elise of the Phoenix Goddess Temple at the Desiree Alliance convention in Las Vegas 2010. I really wanted to go visit the temple and spend time with these wonderful people, but they are now in a lot of legal trouble. Just as they had achieved legal protections as a [...]

Den Mother removed from Boy Scouts because she’s a lesbian Considering the recent history of gays in Scouts I’m not shocked that they’re going after lesbians now too. Zanele Muholi: Mapping and Archiving A Visual History of Black Lesbians in post-Apartheid South Africa Gorgeous photography and art about black lesbian’s lives in South Africa. I [...]

Workplace Atmosphere Keeps Many In The Closet by Jennifer Ludden Not specifically about lesbians but certainly something that all LBGT folks have to face. I don’t know if straight folks realize how much of a problem this is if we can’t participate fully in our work culture because of derogatory statements and having to hide [...]

Frequent visitors to CyberDyke will have noticed that for quite a while now we have been featuring a link to Lesbian Kama Sutra, a site run by a team of four delightful women in Europe.  LKS, as it is affectionately known, has been around for years doing its level best to promote a healthy and [...]

I know this has been making its rounds on the internet, but I just want to say that I am so proud of my local community for getting involved with the hotel union’s work. There have been a number hotel worker strikes all across the Bay Area in the past few years, and the issue [...]

Breaking news, Pres. Obama has announced the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the military. We ALL know that there are a ton of gay men and women serving in the military currently and many more gay veterans. For many folks military service is the path to college education and a better [...]

There has been considerable noise in the blogosphere lately about Amazon.com “accidentally” de-ranking thousands of gay and lesbian books. Without a sales ranking, it’s hard to find those books in search. In theory, this was done because the books were considered “adult” – and yet none of the straight “adult” books were de-ranked. The situation [...]

eHarmony goes gay! In response to a discrimination lawsuit, eHarmony is opening a matchmaking website for same sex couples after strongly resisting and refusing to work on same-sex relationships for years. They’re still icky evangelical, but in the event you want to see how they might match you up with another woman you can try [...]

Lesbian separatists are getting new attention thanks to a New York Times article about communes that are still running today. Most of these womyn’s lands, as they are called, are inhabited by older lesbians who felt the need to pull away from society in the 1970s. You can read more about the history of such [...]