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Isabella Still Contested
August 4, 2006 | 
News Reports
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.” Meanwhile, Isabella is still separated from one of her mothers, who is missing her little girl growing up.
Lesbian Moms in Japan
July 25, 2006 | News Reports
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 for a year. (My snarky comment is that if they were going to change the names of the Australian couple, did they have to change them to Bette and Tina?!)
New York: No Gay Marriage
July 6, 2006 | News Reports
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 really hoping it would pass in New York, but apparently the rest of the state isn’t as enlightened as NYC and New Paltz.
Happy Pride Month
June 14, 2006 | News Reports
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 jeans. After the Dyke March I went over to the DC Eagle for some workshops given by a member of the local deaf leather community. I wanted to go to the big parade but I was exhausted from not sleeping well the previous night (the sunburn I got while interpreting didn’t help either) so I just headed home.
On Sunday I went to the big Pride block party. There’s nothing like celebrating your homosexuality literally in the shadow of the Capitol building! I managed to keep my spending to $10 - split between a donation to a cat-related charity, and purchasing a dog tag with the leather pride flag on it. I got to get up on the Main Stage - at Capital Pride! - to interpret for one of the performers, who I worked with before on the RSVP cruise last year.
Metro Weekly’s hardest-working photographer, Ward, was at both events…I can’t wait to see the pictures posted on the MW website!
Double Standard
May 28, 2006 | News Reports
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.
Recent News Roundup
May 25, 2006 | News Reports
New goal: post at least one lesbian-related news story per day. Ever since I started this blog, I have been getting multiple Google news alerts for “lesbian” and it’s about time I start sharing the interesting stuff! Here’s what I’ve found from the past few days. (Don’t worry, the sex posts will still be happening too! I have a review of a cool new rabbit vibrator coming up…as soon as I test it some more…)
- Rice Supports Gay Inclusion At UN, Move Fails - I’m impressed that this administration even tried to back something like this. There were no surprises on the list of countries who tabled the motion, but at least the U.S. wasn’t one of them.
- Gays’ place in textbooks: Debate is on - California is deciding how much importance should be placed on gay and lesbian contributions to history.
- Coalition forms to advocate for gay and lesbian rights - The city of Greensboro, North Carolina, is getting its own advocacy coalition. The state’s gay-related laws are not so great - they have a DOMA in place - but this is a good step.
- Island’s ‘in dire need of a gay and lesbian centre’ - The island is Bermuda, and I freely admit that I’m mainly interested in this because I’m going to Bermuda in October. I hadn’t expected to find much in the way of gay nightlife there, but it’s sad to hear how little there is in the way of gay community.
- Senate Threatens to Form Gay Coalition out of Mass. Gov. Romney’s Reach - Poor Mitt Romney. He’s an anti-gay crusader leading a state that allows gay marriage and supports coalitions for gay youth. You’re fighting a losing battle, Mitt!
- Gay and lesbian storks become parents - Just a final cute story. This was at a Dutch zoo.
Lesbian Soldiers and DADT
March 21, 2006 | News Reports
An interesting article from PlanetOut: “Don’t ask” targets women at higher rate. This seems particularly strange given that military culture probably accepts butch women more readily than effeminate men…I would expect dykes would be overlooked more frequently than gay men, but apparently not.
Gay Condo in Toronto!
January 25, 2006 | News Reports
As if I didn’t already want to move to Toronto enough! Now there is going to be a condominium for gays and lesbians there. You don’t have to be gay to buy there, but that’s who they’re marketing it to. How awesome is that?!
Homosexuality in Uganda
December 2, 2005 | News Reports
Uganda isn’t a country we hear a whole lot about. Many Americans know almost nothing about Uganda except that it was controlled by Idi Amin. Originally a British territory, Uganda’s official language is English and tourists are mostly attracted to its several national parks. Life is not easy, though, for lesbians and gay men in Uganda. The country’s Daily Monitor has just published an article called Lesbian by nature that I found quite interesting to read.
Catching Up on the News
November 18, 2005 | News Reports
With the whole family situation I haven’t been reading queer news lately. Here are a couple of things I missed; this weekend I will catch up on CyDy itself! Also, watch for potential changes around here in the coming months, especially integration with some other parts of CyDy.
- Those Panthers cheerleaders (you’ve heard about them, right?) got fired for code of conduct violations. Hopefully that has more to do with sex in a public place than it does the fact that it was lesbian sex.
- Georgetown University, which is local to me, is giving partner benefits to gay employees. This is notable mostly because it’s a Roman Catholic institution!
- I’m starting to get a little fidgety - PlanetOut just bought The Advocate and Out Magazine. I guess it’s time for queer corporate behemoths to come of age?
- Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey is more out of the closet now. Cool!
