The results are out for the Berlinale film festival! Everybody’s talking about the big winner of the Golden Bear award (the equivalent of Oscars Best Picture), Brazil’s Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). I haven’t seen it myself aside from snippets, but from all accounts it seems like it’s 1) political, 2) about the slums of […]

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 […]

If Muslims have Mecca, we lesbians have Lesbos. This lush Mediterranean island has been a popular tourist destination for women with a sapphic bent since the 1950’s. And why not? The word lesbian, after all, was derived from this place where the poet Sappho lived. Her works contain lines that undeniably speak of love for […]

Move over, Ellen and Portia. Germany has just gotten their own lesbian sweethearts: top TV talk show host Anne Will and University of St. Gallen Professor Miriam Meckel. Beauty and brains never rang as true as with these two lovely ladies - both extremely successful in their careers, intelligent, respected, and undeniably gorgeous to boot.