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In a deliberate attempt to ridicule a lesbian couple involved in an adoption case, the Florida Family Policy Council used the above-left photo in press materials about the case. The actual couple is on the right. My source tips me that the left photo is the first result one gets when doing a Google search for “ugly lesbians.” Via the …

“I didn’t want to be gay. I wanted to be… I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay and I still have an easy life. I’ve had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn’t a big star, but I’ve made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, …

“It was initially kind of laughing, like that kind of smiling, going, ‘What are you doing? You can’t do this. Girls don’t play rock ‘n’ roll.’ And when they saw were really serious about it, the attitude kind of changed. Anything from really just insulting and dirty, nasty things. Calling us names, every name that you can call a woman. …

The Washington Post today reports the bizarre story of openly lesbian DC Superior Court Judge Janet Albert, who says she is being stalked by her ex-lover (left). Days after D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Janet Albert broke up with her girlfriend, the judge found her former companion unconscious in her attic, above her bedroom, with some food and an ice …

Everybody’s favorite evil gym coach, Glee’s Jane Lynch, will be marrying her partner this May. Viewers watching the recent Golden Globes Awards’ ceremony saw Jane Lynch celebrating the Glee award… and kissing athe woman seated next to her. The drums have been beating ever since! The Internet detectives have since put the pieces together and solved the mystery. Lynch told …

The Washington Post today tells the story of a disabled woman rescued from the tracks of DC’s Metro by a lesbian couple after her wheelchair malfunctioned and lurched off the platform. “Help!” the disabled woman cried, her motorized wheelchair overturned a few feet away as she lay sprawled on the Metro tracks at Union Station just before midnight one day …

Oh brother. In another one of their meant-to-cause-outrage pieces, Details Magazine says there’s a new “trend” of lesbians dating straight men. Because their biological clocks are ticking and they need a baby. Also, the “novelty” of lesbianism has worn off. There are no reliable statistics by which to gauge how many refugees there are from the isle of Lesbos. Nor …

Today openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn was re-elected by a near unanimous vote of her fellow council members. There wasn’t much doubt about the outcome, but the vote got rowdy as supporters of her only challenger, Charles Barron, who got one vote, yelled things like “sell out,” after many of the votes were cast. On hand for the …

Upon hearing that the body of Johnson & Johnson heiress and Hollywood socialite Casey Johnson had been found lifeless, her girlfriend, one-time reality star Tila Tequila, tweeted pleas for Johnson to live, then tweeted a request for privacy, followed by two more tweets expressing eternal love for the late Johnson. This is how the new class of celebrities grieve. Live …

During a private ceremony with her partner holding the family Bible, Annise Parker was sworn in on Saturday as the mayor of Houston. Parker will be sworn in again today in a public ceremony at City Hall. Houston is now the largest U.S. city with an openly gay mayor. New York, of course, has had at least one closeted gay …

Proposition 8 and Yes On 1 (Maine) campaign manager Frank Schubert has a domestically-partnered lesbian sister with two kids, not that he cared about his own family when he went about wrecking and ridiculing the lives of gay people. The Bay Area Reporter notes that Anne Schubert is now running for Superior Court judge in Sacramento, but she says that …

It’s a complicated story, but let’s see if I can break down the major points correctly. 1. In 2000, Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins get civil unioned in Vermont. 2. In 2002, Miller has a baby girl via artificial insemination. 3. In 2003, the couple breaks up when Miller “renounces” homosexuality, becomes an evangelical Christian, and moves to Virginia, taking …

Annise Parker won her runoff election tonight, making Houston the largest American city with an openly gay mayor. The Houston Chronicle is calling the mayoral election for City Controller Annise Parker. With 89 percent of precincts counted, Parker holds a lead of nearly 8,000 voters, a divide that former City Attorney Gene Locke cannot make up with the relatively small …

NYC’s tabloids will have a field day with this for awhile. Two female Romance language instructors were tossed out of their Brooklyn high school after being caught “undressed” in an empty classroom, sources told the Daily News Tuesday. Students at James Madison High School in Midwood were watching a talent show in the auditorium while Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro …

As he does on everything, Porno Pete LaBarbera gets it all wrong about Meredith Baxter’s coming out. Every homosexual “coming out” is a tragedy. Baxter became a lesbian, and is now in a seven-year sexually immoral relationship with another woman, following three failed marriages to men that produced five children. (Is her lesbianism a pitiable retreat after failed relationships with …

Meredith Baxter, star of the 80s sitcom Family Ties and numerous Lifetime movies about bulimia, came out this morning on the Today Show. “I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” she told Matt Lauer on TODAY. “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — not at all. This has …

The Singing Nun, Dominique (Disco Version), 1982. In 1963 Belgian nun Sister Luc-Gabrielle (real name: Jeanine Deckers) became a worldwide sensation as The Singing Nun when her album of original songs (recorded to be souvenirs for visitors to her convent) topped the charts across Europe. In the U.S. Dominique topped the pop charts for four weeks in December 1963, partially …

The right wing is stepping up their anti-gay campaign against openly lesbian Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker. Via Towleroad: Dave Wilson, an electrician who has spent years pestering incumbent politicians of both parties, has turned his sights on Houston Controller Annise Parker. He says that Parker should not be mayor because ‘homosexual behavior leads to extinction.’ Wilson says he is …

Openly lesbian Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker, who faces a runoff election next month, is the target of an anti-gay campaign by conservatives and Christians who say they fear a “gay takeover” at Houston City Hall. A cluster of socially conservative Houstonians is planning a campaign to discourage voters from choosing City Controller Annise Parker in the December mayoral runoff …