Category: News Reports

I hadn’t known this before, but apparently The Whole Lesbian Sex Book is suitable for public libraries. It was written by Felice Newman, and it appeared on the shelves of a public library in Arkansas, at least until recently. It seems that some guy is outraged that his teenage sons came across a [...]

Unbelievable. The Lisa Miller-Jenkins and Janet Miller-Jenkins trial is still going on. This article from ChristianPost.com says that Vermont has decided Lisa does have visitation rights. That article is rather revolting, though – the spin is dizzying – so here’s another one from a Vermont newspaper instead. Meanwhile, Isabella is almost [...]

Brenda Gazzar has written an article about Palestinian lesbians in Israel, including an interview with the founder of Aswat, which is the only group of its kind there. I was surprised to read that an Arab community leader said “we do not oppose their personal choice” – I had thought lesbianism was a punishable [...]

An interesting twist from Great Britain: Sisters demand same-sex couple rights. Two elderly sisters are taking the British government to the European Court of Human Rights, saying that they are being discriminated against because they are single. They’ve been trying since 1976 to get inheritance law changed, because as of now if either [...]

According to this story from Gay.com, Antioch University Los Angeles is offering a first-ever Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in LGBT counseling.
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Back in November 2004, I wrote in this blog about the saga surrounding two-year-old Isabella Miller-Jenkins. To my amazement, the story continues. A Vermont TV station reports that the same issue is still at hand – the Vermont courts are saying “we have jurisdiction” and the Virginia courts are saying “we don’t care.” [...]

The Japan Times has an article called Lesbian mothers’ twin tasks. It gives brief profiles of three lesbian moms through the prism of Japanese culture. Only one of the couples is Japanese; there is also an Australian couple living in a Japan and an American couple planning to live in Japan [...]

I know I haven’t updated in forever, and I haven’t had a Cyber Dyke update in even longer than forever (that’s like infinity plus one, I guess), but I did want to mention that New York just said no to same-sex marriage. Georgia did too, but that’s not really a surprise. I was [...]

Happy Pride Month, everybody! I had a great time this past weekend during Capital Pride. On Saturday I interpreted for the DC Dyke March, and then participated in the march itself; you can check out pictures from that here; in the one with Dillon I’m the one in the yellow shirt and blue [...]

Lesbian student who wore tux to prom says school rules unfair – Not to her, because they let her wear the tux…but to a gay male student who wore a dress.