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Tyler Clementi’s Ex-Roommate Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail

Jessica WakemanMay 21, 2012 //

“I do believe he acted out of colossal insensitivity.”

This was the judge who presided over the trial of Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who was convicted in March with a bias crime (hate crime) for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi (in the pic), with a web cam while Clementi had gay sex. When Clementi discovered that he was being spied on and “outed” to other Rutgers students, he committed suicide.

Today, Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail and possible deportation. (His family immigrated from India.) Update: Ravi is also required to serve 300 hours of community service, attend a counseling program for cyberbullying, and service three years probation. The sentencing brings to an end to an incident that has had a coalescing affect on the national conversation about bullying. Keep reading »

Girl Talk: I’m A Lesbian Mom

Jaime JenettMay 11, 2012 //

Mother's Day

Everything you need to celebrate mom. Read More »

Lesbian Den Mother

The Boy Scouts refuse to let a lesbian mother lead her son's troop. Read More »

Obama Supports Gays

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

When I think about Mother’s Day, I usually picture a dad in plaid pajama pants destroying the kitchen with his kids in a clumsy effort to make his wife breakfast in bed. There is flour everywhere, kids are enthusiastically beating something in a bowl and Dad is putting a single red rose in a vase. The entourage brings breakfast to Mom, who is leisurely reclining on a mountain of pillows. Soon her kids are nibbling at the pancakes on her tray and her husband tells her she has an appointment for a massage/manicure/facial in a few hours. “Until then,” he says proudly, “you’re off duty.”

Mother’s Day looks a little different in our house. Because our four-year old son has two moms, it’s not always clear who gets special treatment that day. We both work hard all year and could both use a whole day “off.” Keep reading »

Mitt Romney’s “Gay Guy Impression” When Offered A Pink Tie Caught On Camera

Jessica WakemanMay 10, 2012 //

Obama Supports Gays

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

NC Gay Ban

North Carolina voted to add gay marriage ban to state constitution. Read More »

Bigots "Lost" Gay Marriage

Bigots admit they've lost the gay marriage battle in our generation. Read More »

Attention To Politicians: when cameras are rolling or even just present, it is not the best time for you to do a lispy impression of a gay guy’s voice when offered a pink tie. There is never a good time to impersonate a gay guy’s voice. But for fuck’s sake, you do it when cameras are around?

Mitt Romney learned this the hard way.

And this guy wants the nuclear codes? [BuzzFeed] Keep reading »

Stephen Colbert Begs Anna Wintour Not To Suck Him Into “Her Gay World”

Julie GersteinMay 10, 2012 //

Anna Wintour 101

What we can learn about style from Vogue's EIC. 9 Photos »

Obama Supports Gays

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

Wintour Wears Sunglasses

Inside... the White House. Read More »

Anna Wintour expressed a rare bit of enthusiasm on last night’s “Colbert Report” in discussing President Obama’s support of gay marriage. “I am thrilled,” Wintour managed to get out with a smile, even. “There were tears in the office at Vogue today. I think it’s a long overdue endorsement. And oh, they also discussed the Costume Institute’s “Schiaparelli and Prada: An Impossible Conversation.” [Comedy Central]

President Obama Believes Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

Jessica WakemanMay 9, 2012 //

NC Gay Ban

North Carolina voted to add gay marriage ban to state constitution. Read More »

"Gay Conversion" BS

Psychiatrist retracts BS "gay conversion" therapy study. Read More »

Bigots "Lost" Gay Marriage

Bigots admit they've lost the gay marriage battle in our generation. Read More »

[O]ver the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married. …

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Queen Latifah & 10 Other Celebs Who Came Out And The World Replied, “No, Duh.”

Amelia McDonell-ParryMay 9, 2012 //

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New Lesbians

8 famous lesbians who came out later in life. 8 Photos »

Hot Young Lesbians

Hollywood's 10 hottest lesbians under age 25! 10 Photos »

Is Queen Latifah finally coming out of the closet? The longtime rumored lesbian — who has never publicly identified as gay or straight, but has been legally testy when it comes to the former — is set to headline Los Angeles’ Gay & Lesbian Pride Festival on May 19. The press release underscores Queen’s membership in the community. Via Vibe:

From hip to R&B, pop to standards, Queen Latifah is the voice of our generation, and her concert here will be phenomenal, for her to make her worldwide Pride debut here in Long Beach is a tremendous testament to the popularity of our celebration and to the strength of our community.

It’s not quite an all-caps announcement on the cover of People, but maybe Latifah is saving that pronouncement for on stage. While I totally commend Latifah for her participation in the event and will be stoked if she officiallyofficially comes out as a proud gay woman, I suspect I’ll be one of many uttering a loud “duh.”

If this happens, Queen Latifah would join a long line of celebrities who came out of the closet to the shock of no one except maybe their most deeply in denial fans. Click through this slideshow of famous gays and lesbians whose coming out was met with a collective yawn.

Today’s Lady News: JCPenney Features Ad With Lesbian Moms, Bigots Freak Out

Jessica WakemanMay 3, 2012 //

Cry: Lesbians Engaged

Lesbian couple gets engaged during hockey halftime. Read More »

Lesbian Den Mother

The Boy Scouts refuse to let a lesbian mother lead her son's troop. Read More »

Today's Lady News

Catch up on all your women's news. Read More »

Cranky group of bigots One Million Moms is hopping mad at a new JCPenney ad for Mother’s Day which depicts models who seem to be gay moms. Gay women with children, gah! Doesn’t JCPenney know that the proper way to teach children about homosexuality is — as this North Carolina pastor advocated — to punch your son if he has a limp wrist?! Get with the program, JCP: less happy families, more child abuse! [ABC News]
Legislators in New York City have allocated funds towards the development of smartphone apps that will help report street harassment to appropriate city agencies — such as a man masturbating outside a school or workers at construction companies hired by the city who yell obscenities at women on the street. [NY Daily News]
This is what feminist porn looks like! [Em & Lo] Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Celebs Support Lesbian Den Mother Ousted From Boy Scouts

Jessica WakemanApril 24, 2012 //

Celebs including Josh Hutcherson from “The Hunger Games” and Jesse Tyler Ferguson from “Modern Family,” have come together in support of a lesbian den mother who was ousted from the Boy Scouts. Jennifer Tyrrell of Ohio, who has four children with her partner, has collected over 125K signatures on Change.org to ask the Boy Scouts of American to end their policy banning LGBTQ den leaders. [New York Daily News]
Florida’s governor has vetoed funding for rape crisis centers. During Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Good move. [Feministing]
Taxpayer-funded “crisis pregnancy centers” are still using religion to oppose abortion. [Huffington Post] Keep reading »

First Time For Everything: Kissing A Girl

Sara BarronApril 24, 2012 //

Lesbianism Adventures

This author is a lesbian, but also enjoys having sex with men. Read More »

On Screen Girl Kisses

Starlets talk about their girl on girl kisses. 14 Photos »

Lesbian Vs. Straight Sex

Lesbian sex changed the writer's definition of "straight sex." Read More »

Let me start by giving you two conflicting pieces of information: 1) I consider myself heterosexual, and 2) At the age of 13 – while in the violent throws of puberty – I saw the iconic Vanity Fair cover featuring k.d. lang in a three-piece suit alongside a leather bathing suit-clad Cindy Crawford, and thought k.d. was the single sexiest thing that I’d ever seen.

For the moment, let’s put these seemingly conflicting bits of information off on the theory of sexuality that goes, “It’s not some hard and fast thing. It’s a spectrum. And we all fall on different places upon it.” You’re 85 percent straight, 15 percent gay, let’s say. Or 60 percent gay, 40 percent straight. Or maybe 95 percent gay, 5 percent straight. Anyway, you get the point. As for me, I’d like to simplify my own sexuality by saying I think of myself as 70 percent straight, 30 percent gay. I’ve always been attracted to men, always figured that a traditional heterosexual future was ahead of me, but that image of k.d. lang, you see, it knocked something loose within and set me on the path to Barbara. Or, as I like to refer to her: Babs. Keep reading »

Japanese Girl Group In Trouble for “Suggestive” Candy Commercial

Julie GersteinApril 20, 2012 //

Crazy Video: Monaco

"I Almost Lost My Heart In Monaco" is painfully bad. Read More »

Gay Marriage Ad

This marriage equality ad will give you chills. Watch »

"Video Games"

We love Lana Del Rey's sultry song "Video Games." Read More »

The Japanese girl group AKB48 is under fire for filming a series of suggestive candy ads that some claim promote homosexuality. The group’s ads for a sugary gummy candy feature the members of the group clad in school girl uniforms passing a piece of the candy between one another using only their mouths. Watchdog groups claim this ad promotes the gay lifestyle and is overly suggestive, despite the fact that none of the girls actually touch lips in the thirty-second spot.

The candy makers are standing behind the ad, and say that it’s one of the most popular commercials they’ve ever run (surprise, surprise). AKB48 is hugely successful in Japan and across Asia; last year they made more than $200 million in sales. The band features more than 60 (!) members and has its own dedicated performance space in Tokyo. [Yahoo]