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Out Lesbians Take Six Medals In Beijing

In addition to the stunning upset victory of out gay diver Matthew Mitcham, six of the thirteen out lesbians at the Beijing Olympics won medals, including girlfriends Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nyberg, who took Norway’s handball team to the gold. Go to 365gay.com for a great photo recap of lesbionic fabulousity. Over at OutSports, there’s this fascinating factoid: Statistically speaking, …

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Rachel Maddow Lands MSNBC Show

Openly lesbian journalist Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show from MSNBC. Rachel Maddow has been sounding off about politics on MSNBC so often she might as well have her own show. And now she does. The liberal commentator and Air America host, who has become a breakout star for the cable channel during this campaign, is taking over the …

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Arizona To Get World’s First All Lesbian Housing Development

Travel company Olivia Cruises has begun taking deposits on the world’s first all lesbian housing development in Tuscon, Arizona. Olivia Communities will be a 334-unit resort-style living community in Tuscon, Ariz. Although anyone can purchase a home, the company is targeting lesbians. “My whole vision of this has always been about creating community and creating a place where we can …

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Morning View – The Cubbyhole

Opened in 1994, last year the tiny Cubbyhole was voted the best lesbian bar in NYC. Perhaps that’s faint praise for a town that has less than a handful of such establishments, but the few times I’ve been inside I found a generous and friendly staff and a welcoming clientele. The Cubbyhole is on W.12th Street in the West Village. …

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The Summer Of (Bi-Curious) Love

With I Kissed A Girl, Kate Perry’s pop ode to lesbian experimentation in its third week at the top of Billboard’s singles chart, conservatives are continuing to fruitlessly (heh) blow their tops. Over on Townhall.com, Brent Bozell III is calling this “the bi-curious summer.” When our culture merchants calculate how to exploit societal attitudes toward the homosexual lifestyle, one factor …

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Scottish Lesbian Cleared Of Assisted Suicide

In Scotland, a lesbian was found not guilty of assisted suicide after a judge ruled that her partner would have committed suicide on her own anyway. A woman prison officer who watched her lesbian lover commit suicide was spared jail Monday after a judge ruled it was ‘an act of love.’ Patricia Mulpeter, 48, comforted her dying friend as she …

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Rubyfruit To Close

One of Manhattan’s few remaining lesbian nightspots, Rubyfruit, is closing. RUBYFRUIT, the beloved West Village lesbian bar and restaurant, is closing after 15 years – a victim of rising rents and smaller crowds. “It was the first of its kind as a meeting place for local lesbians and those visiting New York from all over the world,” owner Debra Fierro …

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Ode To Lesbian Liplocks Tops Chart

The #2 pop single in the nation this week is Katy Perry’s ode to lesbian experimentation, I Kissed A Girl (which is not the Jill Sobule song of the same title from some years back). The Concerned Women of America are horrified: The song, performed by Katy Perry, is called I Kissed a Girl. The lyrics speak of kissing a …

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The Case Of The Insulted Lesbians

Those unhappy Lesbians began their court case yesterday. Three islanders from Lesbos told a court Tuesday that gay women insult their home’s identity by calling themselves lesbians. The plaintiffs – two women and a man – are seeking to ban a Greek gay rights group from using the word “lesbian” in its name. Also known as Mytilini, Lesbos was the …

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A Historic First, For The Second Time

This time, it will be legal. When same-sex marriages start at 5 p.m. June 16, San Francisco will stage a repeat of the ceremony that started the 2004 Winter of Love, when thousands of gay and lesbian couples married at City Hall. This time, though, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon’s wedding will be legal. Mayor Gavin Newsom said Monday that …

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Lesbian “Super Bowl” Hits Tampa

The NCAA Women’s Final Four basketball tournament is playing out in Tampa and the lady-loving-ladies are pouring into town. The Final Four games Sunday and Tuesday will showcase the nation’s best women’s basketball match-ups. But the tournament will also usher in what is widely believed to be the largest lesbian gathering in the history of the Tampa Bay area. Other …

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