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HomoQuotable – Rachel Maddow

“The women in American cable news look like a beauty pageant. I’m not very pretty. I sorta look like a dude, and I have short hair, and I wear boring gray jackets, and I have a big nose. No one’s gonna confuse me with a Fox News anchor. No one’s gonna call me the anything-Honey.” – Rachel Maddow, quoted by …

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School Board Upholds Yearbook Photo Ban For Tuxedo-Wearing High School Lesbian

The superintendent for Copiah School District in Mississippi has upheld the decision to ban the yearbook photo of out lesbian senior Ceara Sturgis, who posed in a tuxedo. In a statement released Friday to the Copiah County Courier, school Superintendent Ricky Clopton said the district has no intention of reversing its decision. “We have had our legal counsel research the …

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Teen Lesbian Gets Photo Pulled From High School Yearbook

Openly lesbian Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis had her photo pulled from her school’s yearbook because she dared to pose in a tuxedo. Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as a perfect child: a straight-A student, goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving. She also is …

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Mary Cheney Pregnant Again

Mary Cheney, spawn of Satan and sister of a birther, is pregnant with her second child. Mary Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, and her long-time partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their second child, a source close to the family told True/Slant. [Ed. Note: Since publishing this piece, Cheney has confirmed that she and Poe are expecting their second child …

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UPDATED: Dirty Tricks In Houston

Saying that she is a heathen who doesn’t believe in God and is therefore unworthy to hold public office, a group called Christians For Better Government has emailed thousands of voters attacking openly lesbian Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker. An excerpt: “Annise Parkers lifestyle that of being a HOMOSEXUAL is not the proper role model to lead the fourth largest …

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HomoQuotable – Ellen DeGeneres

“Apparently, there’s a lot of debate going on right now, whether I’m qualified or not to be the new judge on American Idol… I’ll tell you right now, how I know I’m going to be a great judge — because I’ve spent my whole life being judged. So, I know what it’s like. So, I will be kind. I will …

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Out Lesbian Becomes Tampa’s Top Cop

Out lesbian Jane Castor has become the chief of police in Tampa, Florida. There are nine female police chiefs in Florida, including Pinellas Park Chief Dorene Thomas, according to the Florida Police Chiefs Association. Nationwide, about 300 out of 18,000 police chiefs are women, according to women-in-policing expert Dorothy Schulz of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New …

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Ellen Joins American Idol

Ellen DeGeneres will replace Paula Abdul as American Idol’s fourth judge on the coming season. “I’m thrilled to be the new judge on American Idol,” said DeGeneres in a press release. “I’ve watched since the beginning, and I’ve always been a huge fan. So getting this job is a dream come true, and think of all the money I’ll save …

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UK: Lesbian Couples Get Equal Birth Rights

In the UK, lesbian couples can now have each of their names put on the birth certificates of children conceived via artificial insemination. The law change applies to female couples in England and Wales who were having fertility treatment on or after 6 April 2009. However critics say the change would be detrimental to family values. Previously, the mother’s female …

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South Africa: Trial Begins In Murder, Gang-Rape Of Lesbian Soccer Star

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …

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Naughty Girls Need Wives Too

Former Page 3 topless model and 80’s dance artist Samantha Fox is getting married to her female manager. Via SheWired: Fox, most well known for her popular nude pictorials and eighties pop songs, tells OK! Magazine of the nuptial’s planned for England, “We might get Liz Mitchell of BoneyM to do the ceremony – she’s a pastor now… and have …

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HomoQuotable – Melissa Etheridge

“We (gays) are a sweet group of people who just really want to love and dance. We want to work and decorate our homes and fix up our houses. For us to have to fight for our equal rights for that is really strange.” “I could have probably been under that label (sex addict) but I was more of a …

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80’s Flashback

Lois Bromfield, Sorority Girls From Hell, 1985. Arguably the most popular gay video bar clip of its day, this film by the openly lesbian Bromfield first appeared in former Monkees member Mike Nesmith’s short-lived summer replacement show Television Parts. Ah, the stampede to the monitors at Fort Lauderdale’s Cathode Ray when this was on. Picture two hundred gay men shouting …

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Heather & Chelsea Edgett – The Proposition

Married ladies Heather and Chelsea Edgett give us a lovely tune about Proposition 8. Love it. Sweet kiss at the end, too.

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Lesbian Couple Celebrates 70th Year

Caroline Leto and Venera Magazzu of Dania Beach, FL, met at a party in 1939. They’re still together. Yes, couples in their 90s still argue occasionally. This is how it went recently for Caroline Leto and Venera Magazzu as they sipped lemonade on their couch in Dania Beach: “We’re not going to have a party,” said Magazzu, 97, insisting they …

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Batwoman Runs For Mayor Of DC

Billing herself as the nation’s first openly lesbian Jewish superhero, a candidate named Batwoman has thrown her cowl into the DC mayoral race. Today, I Batwoman, proudly announce my candidacy for mayor Washington, DC. I do so because I believe that we are in a monumental period in the history of our nation’s capital that requires a different kind of …

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Tammy Bruce Is A Tea-Bagger

Out lesbian and right-wing radio host Tammy Bruce spoke at one of them tea-bagger thingies in Tuscon this weekend, where she railed in familiar fashion against the liberal elite. Such a contradiction for a former ACT-UPer, former NOW chapter president, longtime abortion rights kinda gal. She’s like Rachel Maddow gone horribly wrong. (Via – Good As You)

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Bronx Teens Voted “Best Couple”

A cute story courtesy of SistersTalk: While the adults in Albany, NY still can’t get it together to vote on the gay marriage bill in the NY Senate, the students of Mott Haven Village Preparatory (Public) High School in the Bronx have already cast their vote – and made history. For the first time at their school (and perhaps in …

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HomoQuotable – Rachel Maddow

“It didn’t come to me in terms of like, ‘I think I like that girl’, or ‘I think I’m falling in love’ or ‘I think I know what this feeling is.’ It was, ‘It would make sense to me if I ended up being a gay person.’ “It very quickly became a hormonal urge, but I remember when it first …

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Camille Paglia: Gay Activists Are Childish

Camille Paglia thinks gay activists shouldn’t be bothering the president at a time when he so many others issues to deal with. She also announces the breakup of her relationship and says she questions whether lesbians are as capable as as gay men in maintaining long-term relationships. “I envy gay men. A fling for a lesbian couple is a betrayal.” …

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