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Certain Sapphic Addictions – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:41:48 +0000

My partner and I are both going through withdrawal. It ain’t pretty. We’re not addicted to drugs, alcohol, porn, sex, love, cigarettes, texting or gambling. I’ll bet you a case of gin we’re not. No, our addictions have a lesbian flare. Anne is mad for the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, while I’m obsessed [...]

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Senate Confirms Openly Lesbian Judge to Federal Bench

OIA Staff — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:54:43 +0000

The Senate confirmed Obama nominee for the federal bench Alison Nathan on Oct. 13 in a closely divided vote of 48-44. Nathan’s confirmation marks the second out of four openly gay or lesbian nominees for federal judgeship the president has nominated, following J. Paul Oetken’s confirmation in July , noted Advocate.com on Oct. via. Read [...]

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Shift in National Immigration Policy Just in Time for Woman Facing Deportation

OIA Staff — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:00:17 +0000

The Obama administration’s sudden shift in immigration policy had a tangible impact in a Denver courtroom Friday when a federal immigration judge delayed a deportation hearing for a lesbian fighting to stay in the country with her wife. “I feel relief, and I thank the judge because she is a human being,” saidPando, who is [...]

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Country Singer Chely Wright Marries Gal Pal

OIA Staff — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:22:25 +0000

Country singer Chely Wright has tied the knot with Lauren Blitzer, the woman she met shortly after coming out as a lesbian last year, Us Magazine reported Aug. via. Read the full article @ Country Singer Chely Wright Marries Gal Pal Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

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7 Years Later, The Air Force Is Finally Giving Lesbian Nurse Her Retirement Benefits

OIA Staff — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:41:36 +0000

Big congratulations are in order for the ACLU and Major Margaret Witt, who announced a major victory today over the Army’s still-in-effect Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Under the terms of a settlement, the government will remove the discharge from her record, provide her with full benefits, and will drop its appeal of a court [...]

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Lesbian ex-cadet giving up West Point fight

OIA Staff — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:36:55 +0000

A lesbian former cadet who left West Point saying she couldn’t live a lie was rejected for re-admission Wednesday because of the lingering military ban on gays and said she is giving up on her dream of graduating from the academy. Katherine Miller said in a statement that she plans to graduate from Yale University, [...]

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Walmart Wins Court Case For Defending Lesbians

OIA Staff — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:16:08 +0000

The 7th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that Walmart was acting within both its legal rights and the stated policy of the company when it fired a fundamentalist Christian for harassing a lesbian employee. via. Read the full article @ Walmart Wins Court Case For Defending Lesbians Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan [...]

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The Sandwich-Generation Lesbian – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:14:39 +0000

Ever heard of the Lingerie Football League? It’s a women’s football league where the women wear helmets, shoulder pads, bras, panties and garters. Billed as “true fantasy football,” the teams have names like the Los Angeles Temptation and the Dallas Desire. If this league catered any more to men there would be cigars at halftime. [...]

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Geri Jewell From ‘Facts Of Life’ Comes Out Gay

OIA Staff — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:56:25 +0000

Actress Geri Jewell, who played Geri Warner for three years on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life, has come out gay, Fox News reported. In her upcoming memoir I’m Walking As Straight As I Can, the 54-year-old actress announced she’s a lesbian. via. Read the full article @ Geri Jewell From ‘Facts Of Life’ [...]

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Obama Appoints Lesbian to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

OIA Staff — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:30:16 +0000

President Barack Obama today announced his appointment of Roberta Achtenberg, an out lesbian, to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Prior to her public service, Achtenberg was a civil rights attorney, nonprofit director and legal educator who helped found the National Center for Lesbian Rights. via. Read the full article @ Obama Appoints Lesbian to [...]

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Oprah Winfrey Tells Barbara Walters: ‘I’m Not Even Kind Of A Lesbian’

OIA Staff — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:53:59 +0000

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has denied rumors she’s gay. In an upcoming interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, the 56-year-old media mogul says she’s “not even kind of a lesbian.” “I’m not a lesbian,” she says in the special. “I’m not even kind of a lesbian.” VIA. Read the full article @ Oprah Winfrey Tells [...]

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Lesbian Student Denied Right to Graduate Because she is a Lesbian

OIA Staff — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:17:11 +0000

KWTV News is reporting that an 18-year-old Melissa McKenzie said she was kicked out of Del City High School in Del City, Okla., at the beginning of the semester when the principal found out she was living with her girlfriend instead of her family. The principal then told her if she returned to her family’s [...]

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Look Homeward, Lesbian – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:15:15 +0000

It was a North Carolina author, Thomas Wolfe, who wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again.” My partner Anne decided to ignore him and go home to North Carolina anyway. I decided to go along to help her clean out the family home in Rutherfordton. Over four grueling days we lifted and sorted an incredible number [...]

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Mädchen In Uniform

OIA Staff — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:09:42 +0000

Surreal and repressive, (1958) is the Technicolor remake of the dramatic — and downright shocking — 1931 German lesbian film of the same name. The story of a young woman who falls deeply in love with her teacher, it’s at once quaint and stirring… more VIA. Read the full article @ Mädchen In Uniform Read more [...]

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Lesbian Festival Flourishes on-Where Else?- Isle of Lesbos

OIA Staff — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:35:17 +0000

The Island of Lesbos has hosted the International Women’s Festival for ten years, growing from a tiny event that drew the ire of local politicians to a major celebration drawing women from around the world–and putting cash into the coffers of local businesses hard hit by Greece’s economic woes and the global recession. This year’s [...]

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The Girl Scouts Are Lesbian Feminist Training Camps

OIA Staff — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:51:42 +0000

Republican House candidate Hans Zeiger certain has some interesting views about, well, just about everything, including the Girl Scouts of America. Apparently, Zeiger believes that they have become “feminist training” camps teaching that lesbianism and atheism are alright, and being pro-abortion. VIA. Read the full article @ The Girl Scouts Are Lesbian Feminist Training Camps [...]

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Another Child of Married Lesbians Denied Enrollment into School

OIA Staff — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:05:46 +0000

A child has been denied entrance into an Episcopal school in Bedford because her parents, Jill and Tracy Harrison, are married lesbians. “I am horribly disappointed. In fact, we are in the 21st century and we are still dealing with this issue. We should just move on. Denying my daughter education based on who I [...]

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Off and Running

OIA Staff — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:52:43 +0000

With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers, Brooklyn teen Avery, a local track star in high school, grew up in a unique and loving household. But Avery’s curiosity about her African-American roots compels her to contact her birth mother, thrusting her into a complicated exploration of race and identity that threatens to [...]

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Doctors Using Birth Defect Enducing Drug Try To Prevent Lesbianism

OIA Staff — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:08:31 +0000

At what point does caring for a potentially non-fatal birth defect become human experimentation in not only preventing the birth defect but “curing” supposed behavior abnormalities in women? A group of doctors in the world are doing just that by giving women the Class C steroid dexamethasone in order to supposedly prevent congenital adrenal hyperplasia [...]

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Lit And Flicks Sustain The Newly Out – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:43:18 +0000

After we finished working out and I had breath again to speak, I asked my friend Louisa about her weekend plans. She said she intended to cozy up with a lesbian romance. It’s not that Louisa doesn’t have anyone real with whom to cozy up. She’s a year into her first lesbian relationship, and that’s [...]

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Lesbian judge wins statewide in New Mexico

OIA Staff — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:39:46 +0000

New Mexico last night joined just a handful of states to have elected openly gay candidates to statewide office. Judge Linda Vanzi won her Democratic primary for a seat on the Court of Appeals, and she faces no Republican opponent this fall. [ via GayPolitics.com ] Read the full article @ Lesbian judge wins statewide [...]

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Colorado gets fourth openly gay state legislator

OIA Staff — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:35:33 +0000

Lucia Guzman was already running a strong campaign for the District 34 seat in the Colorado Senate, but now she’ll be running as an incumbent. The openly lesbian candidate, an ordained minister and former Denver school board member, was appointed Saturday by a vacancy committee to complete the term of Paula Sandoval, who resigned to [...]

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Rapper Lady Sovereign reveals she is a lesbian

OIA Staff — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:32:43 +0000

British rapper Lady Sovereign has confirmed reports she is a lesbian, insisting she’d have ‘come out’ sooner if publicists hadn’t persuaded her to keep her sexuality a secret. Who didn’t think she was a lesbian? [ via Orange UK | Photo: Celebrity Big Brother 2010 ] Read the full article @ Rapper Lady Sovereign reveals she is [...]

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ROTC Lesbian Owes $80,000 to the Army For Coming Out

OIA Staff — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:57:54 +0000

A college student at the University of NC – Chapel Hill who was enrolled in the ROTC program has been told that she now has to pay back a $80,000 scholarship because she came out as a lesbian. Sara Isaacson is now facing massive debt for being honest about herself. [ via PRIDE In Utah ] Read [...]

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Nickie Antonio Poised to Be Ohio’s First Out Gay Lawmaker

OIA Staff — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:06:59 +0000

Nickie Antonio, an out lesbian, won the Democratic primary in the District 13 Ohio State House race last night, the Victory Fund reports. Antonio has no Republican opponents and is expected to win the election this November. [ via Towleroad ] Read the full article @ Nickie Antonio Poised to Be Ohio’s First Out Gay [...]

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Vancouver Catholic school teacher fired for being a lesbian parent

OIA Staff — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:36:09 +0000

A well-known Vancouver music teacher and founder of a Vancouver children’s choir says she was told to stay home from Little Flower Academy, an independent Catholic school, after they learned she was a lesbian whose partner just gave birth. Neither Reimer nor the school would talk to reporters earlier today. But Reimer referred questions to [...]

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MS School Cuts Gay Student Photo from Yearbook

OIA Staff — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:51:26 +0000

When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook. Sturgis and her mother commissioned the Mississippi ACLU to protest officials’ October [...]

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Three KY Students Charged With Trying To Kill Lesbian Classmate

OIA Staff — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:30:50 +0000

Police in McGee, Kentucky have charged three Jackson County High School students, 18-year-olds Corinne Schwab, Ashley Sams and an unnamed 17-year-old girl, with kidnapping and criminal attempt to commit murder of a lesbian schoolmate. Investigators say the three teens were supposed to be taking Cheyenne Williams to a job interview last Friday afternoon. However, Williams [...]

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Lesbian Judge Marisa Demeo Confirmed after one Year Smear Campaign

OIA Staff — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:34:12 +0000

Judge Marisa Demeo, one of President Barack Obama’s first openly LGBT appointees, was confirmed by the Senate last night for seat on the D.C. Superior Court. D.C. and Demeo have waited for more than a year while her nomination was held up in an effort led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C armed with the letter [...]

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Lesbian Batwoman, DC Comics Shows Some Love to the LGBT Community

OIA Staff — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:56:12 +0000

DC had some really pro-gay things to say about the launch of the new Batwoman series. DC is fully aware of the impact of having a lesbian superhero with her own ongoing comic. Dan Didio, the Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at DC Comics, says, “We’re all extremely proud of what Batwoman stands for [...]

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Jennifer Knapp, Christian music star announces she is gay

OIA Staff — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:35:07 +0000

Gen X Christian music star Jennifer Knapp has come out as a lesbian at the same time that she is coming out with a new album. The 36 year old Kansas native has been a popular Christian music singer since 1998 when her first album, Kansas was released. Reuters has stated that there are no [...]

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FOX News wants a ban on Lady Gaga’s ‘Lesbian Filth’ – ‘Telephone’

OIA Staff — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:35:42 +0000

Culture Campaign President Sandy Rios and FOX News anchor Megyn Kelly express their outrage over Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video. Says Rios: “And then we’ve got Beyonce and Gaga – gay, lesbian lovers? It’s disgusting Megyn…This is just poison for the minds for our kids, and for our minds for that matter.” [ via Towleroad ] [...]

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Constance McMillen, Lesbian Student Denied Prom, Speaks

OIA Staff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:40:28 +0000

Erica Hill spoke to Constance McMillen, the Mississippi lesbian high school student whose school canceled the prom because McMillen wanted to bring her girlfriend. The ACLU has now filed a lawsuit against the school on behalf of Constance to reinstate the prom for all students after the school canceled prom because McMillen petitioned to attend with [...]

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Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather Then Let Lesbian Take Girlfriend

OIA Staff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:55:20 +0000

The Mississippi school district that had refused to allow a lesbian student to escort her girlfriend to a high school senior prom has decided not to host the prom at all after its decision was challenged by the ACLU. In a statement issued late yesterday, Itawamba County school district officials said, “It is our hope [...]

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UK Prison Hosts First Lesbian Wedding

OIA Staff — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:42:41 +0000

Two women inmates have tied the knot in what is thought to be Britain’s first lesbian prison wedding. Sara Crane, a convicted killer, and drug dealer Joanne Davies who are both 31, married in a private ceremony earlier this month. [ via From Salisbury Journal ] Read the full article @ UK Prison Hosts First [...]

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Why did Rachel Maddow apply for a job at Fox News?

OIA Staff — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:59:58 +0000

In an interview with the New York Times in October, 2008, Rachel Maddow was quoted as saying: I don’t talk much about Fox. That’s more Keith Olbermann, but the only time Fox tried to book me on a show — ever — was for me to comment on Madonna and Britney Spears having kissed at [...]

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Buffalo Denied This Lesbian a Marriage License. A Moment Later She Grabbed a Stranger and Married Him

OIA Staff — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:00:20 +0000

Gay activist Kitty Lambert stopped by Buffalo’s City Hall this week to secure a marriage license for she and partner Cheryl. But as the staffer explained, she could not apply for one, because two women cannot marry in the State of New York. So (in a planned stunt, of course) Kitty grabbed a male stranger, [...]

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Out Heiress Casey Johnson Passes Away

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:00:17 +0000

A strange and sad development has occurred in the world of Hollywood lesbian socialites. Yesterday, Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and fiancée to Tila Tequila, was found dead in Los Angeles. She was 30 years old. [ AfterEllen.com ] Read the full article @ Out Heiress Casey Johnson Passes Away Read [...]

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‘Ex-Lesbian’ Mom Disappeared With Daughter

OIA Staff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:36:29 +0000

The birth mother of a 7-year-old Virginia girl must transfer custody of the child to the woman’s former lesbian partner, a Vermont judge ruled, adding that it seems the woman has “disappeared” with her daughter. Vermont Family Court Judge William Cohen ordered Lisa Miller of Winchester, Va., to turn over daughter Isabella to Janet Jenkins [...]

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Is Netflix “Borking” Lesbians With Subscriber Data Releases?

OIA Staff — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:12:27 +0000

An Ohio lesbian doesn’t want to be outed by her Netflix recommendations, and she is part of a new class-action lawsuit against the movie rental company. It was really just a matter of time before Netflix was the target of a class-action lawsuit over its privacy policies; academics have pointed out for years how the [...]

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Annise Parker Elected Mayor: Houston is the Winner

OIA Staff — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:36:08 +0000

Voters in the nation’s fourth largest city went to the polls today and elected Equality Texas-endorsed candidate Annise Parker the next mayor of Houston. Parker was elected with 53 percent of the vote, defeating her runoff opponent Gene Locke who garnered 47 percent. Houston is the winner because Annise Parker’s prior experience will serve her [...]

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Anglican Anger After LA Episcopal Diocese Elects Lesbian Bishop

OIA Staff — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:21:22 +0000

THE Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected the second openly homosexual bishop since the national church lifted a ban on gays in the church’s highest ordained ministry. The leader of the world Anglicans, the Archbishop of Canterbury, immediately issued a statement saying the development raised “serious questions” about the Episcopal Church’s place in the [...]

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Lesbian Mom Meredith Baxter Of Family Ties Comes Out Of The Closet

OIA Staff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:22:50 +0000

Baxter is probably best known for her seven years playing TV mom Elyse Keaton on Family Ties from 1982-1989. Married three times and the mother of five children, Baxter is the focus of a current National Enquirer story revealing that the former Emmy nominee had been on a “Sweet Caribbean Cruise” specifically targeted to lesbians [...]

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Historical Marker for Lesbian Author Natalie Barney Denotes Sexual Orientation for First Time in Ohio

OIA Staff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:48 +0000

A historical marker erected in Dayton, Ohio’s Cooper Park near the downtown library is the state’s first to indicate a person’s sexual orientation, the Dayton Daily News reports: She may be the most famous Daytonian unknown to Daytonians, but now Natalie Barney — literary patron and lesbian author who lived most of her life in [...]

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Gay Video News Channel

OIA Staff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:56:17 +0000

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Chinese Media Finger Swedish Lesbian Enclave

OIA Staff — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:36:52 +0000

Chinese media have confirmed what we in the West suspected all along: that concealed in the northern Swedish woods is a city of 25,000 women, many of whom have turned to Sapphic love to satiate their natural Scandinavian sexual desires. According to news agancy Xinhua, the all-female enclave is called “Chako Paul City”, and was [...]

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Federal court dismisses lawsuit from lesbian banned from dying partner’s bedside

OIA Staff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:42:19 +0000

A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by a lesbian who was banned by a Florida hospital from being with her life partner during her final hours. Lisa Pond, Janice Langbehn and their three adopted children were on a gay “R Family” cruise in February 2007 when Pond, 39, suffered a brain aneurysm that led [...]

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We Should Be Teaching Kids About Gays and Lesbians. Well, Here’s How

OIA Staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:05:34 +0000

When you mention the possibility of teaching — in schools! — young kids about what The Gay is all about, some people freak out and, like a mother throwing her arm around her child sitting shotgun in the car, get all protective. They think even a conversation about homosexuality means seven-year-olds will be learning about [...]

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Memphis Lesbian Couple Claims Church Members Assaulted Them

OIA Staff — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53:06 +0000

Memphis Police responded to a 911 hang-up call yesterday at the New Olivet Baptist Church where two women said they were assaulted because of their sexual orientation. Monique Stephens and her partner, Yas Meen, say they were attending the service at the central Memphis church because they wanted to meet the church pastor, Rev. Kenneth [...]

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America’s First Black Lesbian Mayor Is Getting Married!

OIA Staff — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:43:55 +0000

Cambridge, Massachusetts, may be in the news lately for one race-based incident, but let’s turn that frown upside down: Denise Simmons, Cambridge’s mayor, is marrying her partner Mattie B. Hayes next weekend. [ Queerty ] Read the full article @ America’s First Black Lesbian Mayor Is Getting Married! Read more articles @ our blogBecome a [...]

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