Category: News Reports

Del Martin was recently in the news when Gavin Newsom chose her and her partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, to be the first same sex couple married in San Francisco when same sex marriage was legalized in California. They were also the first couple married by Gavin Newsom on February 14, 2004, when the [...]

Finally! After yeeeeears of rampant speculation – and the recent cover of Out magazine – she has finally spoken out for herself. Obviously “everybody has known” for years that she’s gay, but I don’t like to speculate until somebody says it for themselves. According to the AfterEllen article about it, Jodie has been dropping little [...]

This story almost slipped through my radar. I get lesbian news in my e-mail, and I read down a list of stories and hit delete – then I realized the last one looked interesting. I retrieved the e-mail and took a look. Lesbian says restaurant ejected her from women’s bathroom for … AP NEW YORK: [...]

Whew, okay, now I’m back and posting. According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the LGBT Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society have stepped up their efforts to improve their collections. The LGBT Archives, which were established in 1991, are looking for personal stories, oral histories, documents, photographs, and publications. If you have anything to contribute I [...]

A follow up to my last post, about the father who’s overreacting that his teenage boys found Felice Newman’s Whole Lesbian Sex Book on the shelves. Felice herself sent an e-mail to her mailing list encouraging us to e-mail the local librarian and voice our support for keeping the book on the shelves!

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 lesbian sex [...]

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 five years old and [...]

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 offense [...]

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 of them [...]

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. And if you haven’t checked out our front page recently, go look, because the switch to WordPress and the redesign is done!