By: Amber Leventry Screenwriter and LGBTQ activist Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for his film, Milk, about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician to be elected into public office in California. Black hopes to win over audiences with his newest project When We Rise, an eight hour miniseries that tries to tell the […]
By The Lesbian Avengers 25 We did it and we’ll do it again. Since the November election, white supremacists, anti-gay activists and hardcore misogynists have come out in the open, trying to reverse the legal gains of the last two decades, and harassing us and attacking us in the flesh. One group fighting back is Lesbian […]
By Brandy Black Last week was National Coming Out Day — a day in which the world celebrates all the brave LGBTQ individuals who have come out and are now living their truth. It’s not an easy task to come out. It’s a personal journey that many people in the LGBTQ community take. Though the journey […]
By Lorie Hoag “Holy crap! I’m gay?” were the words that resonated in my head 3 years ago. I was 40 years old. How the hell did I not know that I was gay? I kept thinking back to my 20s when I was a free spirit and had my “experimental stage.” Sure, I kissed […]
By Alex Temblador Jeremy Jordan plays “Winn” in the TV series, Supergirl. And yet, it’s not his career that has this actor in the news right now — it’s his fight to save his cousin. Jordan recently set up a GoFundMe Campaign called, “Save Sarah.” Sarah is Jordan’s 17 year old cousin in Texas who […]
By Kelly Morris/The Seattle Lesbian A Williams Institute study from the University of California Los Angeles has found women in lesbian relationships feel more parental stress than straight couples. Ninety-five lesbian parent households were compared with 95 straight parent households to “compare same-sex and different-sex parent households with stable, continuously coupled parents and their biological […]
Scary Mommy is doing a new web series on YouTube which will feature mothers sharing the best and worst parts about being a mom. One of the first mothers they featured was lesbian comedian, Judy Gold. Gold is absolutely open and hilariously honest about raising her sons with their mother and her current partner. She […]
A new school aimed at LGBT youth and teachers who feel bullied or not accepted is opening up in Atlanta, Georgia. Pride School Atlanta will be open to any student K-12 who believes they’re not getting the support they need for “being different,” Christian Zsilavetz, Pride School founder, said. According to their website, the school is […]
Yesterday, antigay chief justice of Alabama, Roy Moore, sent out an order for the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples. His reasoning behind his order is that he’s not convinced that the ruling from Obergefell V. Hodges applied to Alabama. His administrative order reads: “Until further decision by the Alabama […]
By Alex Temblador A Spanish lesbian couple, whose names have not been released, went to Fundación Jiménez Diaz, a hospital, to receive IVF treatments under a financial assistance program that Spain’s Ministry of Health had enacted in 2013. The couple was denied financial assistance on the basis that they didn’t have a male partner, a […]
