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A South African lesbian woman says she was beaten unconscious by shopping mall security guards after they saw her kiss her girlfriend goodbye. “I accompany her to work every morning,” said Khanyisa Ndoda, 21. “And every morning I give her a goodbye kiss. “But as we kissed that day, we heard these guys saying ‘Some people will never reach heaven’ …

When I first posted yesterday’s notice of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride’s death, some readers immediately seized upon the mention of her “partner of 27 years.” Last night Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner spoke to Ride’s sister, who confirmed that Ride was indeed a lesbian. The pioneering scientist was, a statement from Sally Ride Science announced, survived by “Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner …

A group of activists has banded together to form what they say is the first-ever lesbian Super PAC. “This year we have seen politicians repeatedly support policies that harm women,” said actress and supporter Jane Lynch. “It is important to me to elect leaders who care about issues that impact women and their families. That’s why I support LPAC.” After …

Yesterday I dropped by Rapture On The River, NYC Pride’s annual party for gals. The event was held for the first time at the cavernous and enclosed Pier 57 due the pending demolition of the open-air Pier 40 next door, the traditional site for the party. The space is astoundingly massive, so much so that some of the more athletic …

The Dyke March celebrates its 20th anniversary this week. Heather Cassell at Bay Area Reporter notes its history. The Dyke March started 20 years ago at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The crisis perpetuated lesbians being in the shadows of the Gay Liberation Movement, rendering them invisible rather than a significant part of the movement, especially during the early …

“Like the classic case of the bully who picks on people because he’s afraid, deep down, that he is the one who actually is weak, it appears that these guys beat up others in the community to divert attention from themselves and to show that they’re down with everyone else who’s doing the bashing. In the case of [Richard] Grenell, …

Towleroad points us to this bit of sweetness: On Saturday night at Scotiabank Place, a Toronto Maple Leafs fan named Alicia stood on the ice during the second intermission wearing a blindfold. When it was removed, she looked up at the video scoreboard and read a message from her girlfriend, an Ottawa Senators fan named Christina. Schmaltzy music played. Out …

Kristy McNichol, the Emmy-winning teen star of the 70s drama Family, has come out at the age of 49. McNichol’s butch character Buddy was the subject of much speculation and not a few fantasies among young lesbians of the day. McNichol, 49, who has lived with her partner Martie Allen, also 49, for the past two decades, decided to make …

Via the Bellingham Herald in Washington state. A 22-year-old man was arrested for an alleged hate crime against a lesbian couple early Sunday, Dec. 11, after he yelled slurs at them and smashed in the window of a victim’s car, but was then pinned to the ground by one of the victims, police said. William Adam Lane confronted the couple …

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2012 inductees. For the fourth time, multiple Grammy winner Donna Summer had been nominated, but was not selected. Of slight solace (to me), late lesbian singer/songwriter Laura Nyro made the cut on her first nomination. More than a quarter century after they brought hard rock back to the top of …

RELATED: Younger JMG readers might be unaware that many lesbians were real heroes to abandoned gay men during the onset of the AIDS pandemic. Maybe somebody here can provide a link to the excellent book I read on this topic many years ago.

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JMG reader Homer sends us this story I missed earlier in the week: Hege Dalen and her partner Toril Hansen were eating supper in the camping area opposite Utoya [sic.] island when they started hearing gunshots and screaming. Dalen and Hansen drove their boat to the island, and fished out of the water people who were in shock and young …

I gotta say, that took me by surprise.

Gay rights attorney and former San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg has been appointed by the president to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Achtenberg co-founded the National Center for Lesbian Rights and was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1990. In 1993, she became the first openly gay or lesbian person to be confirmed for a federal …

This is one of the more amusing/odd stories we’ll read today. From California State University, Long Beach. About 24 theatre arts majors protested in front of Brotman Hall on Wednesday by tribbing with one another, a lesbian sex act commonly known as “scissoring.” The demonstration was in response to Cal State Long Beach refusing to advertise a play on the …

The Williams Institute today reported (PDF) that a small study of the adolescent children of lesbian mothers showed no reported incidents of abuse by either their parents or another caregiver. The paper finds that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents report having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26% of American …

Mrs. Portia DeGeneres appeared on Oprah yesterday to talk about her struggle to come out. “The best possible response is, ‘So What?'”

With the guidance of GLAAD, Essence Magazine, which is aimed at black females, has published an online photo essay of a lesbian wedding. The article includes a profile of how the women met and later married in Washington DC. This is a first for the magazine.