What is Christmas for you? A day of endless parties? mountains of food? Santa Claus? snow? gift-giving? Ah, the holidays have taken on several meanings. However, strip it all of the capitalist touch, and you’re left with what it actually is: a remembrance of Mary’s virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Whether it’s true or not […]

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Rainie Yang and Isabella Leong star in the Taiwanese film “Spider Lilies” by out director Zero Chou. It won the Teddy Award at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival for Best Feature Film. Spider Lilies was also a box-office success, holding the record for being the top-grossing film in Taiwan this year. It was even allowed […]

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Both groundbreaking and well-criticized, the runaway hit ultimately disappointed its huge lesbian fan-base after Tila Tequila picked Bobby over Dani Campbell. The finale aired 10pm Tuesday night on MTV.
If one were political, this could be seen as yet another triumph of the patriarchy. If one hated Tila, it would be a relief. And if one […]

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Tegan and Sara Quin are young and out rockers from Alberta, Canada. They’re twins of identical features and, yes, identical sexuality. Twin lesbian sisters? Now that doesn’t happen everyday.
They grew up in a family that Sara says taught them to be “open-minded, strong, and empowered.” The open-mindedness, Tegan says, made it a lot easier for […]

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Dani Campbell, lesbiandom’s favorite firefighter, is branching out next year with the launch of her very own fashion brand called Futch. That’s the term she popularized after describing herself as not really butch, not really femme, but somewhere in the middle. Dani is on the final two of MTV’s surprise breakaway hit “A Shot at […]

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During the 1800s and the 1900s, “boston marriage” was a term used for households where two women lived together, independent of any male support. It is not a strictly lesbian marriage. Such a relationship may have intimacy and commitment, with or without having a sexual component. In those days, having a “romantic friendship” was perfectly […]

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This is the Somalian flag. In that country, 90-98% of women undergo infibulation, or the removal of most parts of the genital, then sewing the labias together to close it up. In their culture, it makes women more desirable to men, because it ensures their virginity before marriage, and prevents promiscuity during the marriage. That’s […]

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STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s Lutheran Church said Wednesday it was in favor of allowing same-sex couples to wed in church but recommended that the term “marriage” be reserved for heterosexual unions.
The position of the Church, which has 7.2 million members out of a population of 9.1 million, had been solicited by the government as it prepares […]

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Cydney Bernard has always been in the background. But on Tuesday night at the 16th Annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast, she was front-and-center as Jodie Foster acknowledged her after accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. In her heartwarming speech, Jodie thanked “my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and […]

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Friends, we have truly come far. It used to be that people who were accused of being gay vehemently denied it. Now, Maxim model Tila Tequila vehemently denies being straight, affirming the fact that she is bisexual, no ifs and buts about it.
The trouble started when the New York Post published an article citing an […]

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