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Guest Writer
The Gift of a Name
by Jewelle Gomez


Inside Out

We Know Lesbian Drama When
We See It

by Shawn McAndrew


Cubs Corner
She's My Sexy Mama
by Kacy Stith

Ask a Battle Axe
Sex and the Single Gal
by Eleanor Palacios

Guest Writer
Solo in the Sierras
by Bren Fraser

Guest Writer
The Oldest New Graduate
by Kathleen Hill

August's Top Post:
The Kids Are All WRONG!
by Monica Palacios

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     Jody Cole
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     Margie Adam
     Leslie Larson
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     Kathleen Hill
     Bren Fraser

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Jewelle GomezGuest Writer - Jewelle Gomez
�2010 All rights reserved


The Gift of a Name
My name has been on my mind all of my life.  It's not like when you're called Mary Jones...perfectly lovely name but not uncommon. Gomez isn't that uncommon either actually; even Gomes (which is the original spelling) isn't unusual, especially in my father's Cape Verdean culture. Jewelle, however, is out of the ordinary...
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RizzoliInside Out
By Shawn McAndrew �2010 All rights reserved

We Know Lesbian Drama
When We See It

Have you seen the new lesbian cop show on TNT this summer? You know, "Rizzoli & Isles"? I like the not-so-subtle story line of Jane Rizzoli, a Boston police detective, and Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner, being hard-ass professionals on the streets, but in the evening somehow they end up "accidentally" falling asleep in...
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Ask a Battle Ax #6ELEANOR
by Eleanor Palacios �2010 All rights reserved

Sex and the Single Gal

Dear Battle Axe,
Have you ever had this happen to you? You see someone, they look very familiar, you know you know them, but can't remember where? All of a sudden it dawns on you...you actually had sex with them, triple gainers and all...

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BrenGuest Writer - Bren Fraser
�2010 All rights reserved


Solo in the Sierras
The only sounds I hear are the crunching of my boot soles as they connect with the granite on the trail, the steady thumping of my heart, and the exhale of my labored breath. Once I settle into the rhythm of climbing up over 11,760 foot Kearsarge Pass other sounds filter into my awareness. A cacophony of distant waterfalls the music of chirping birds, the flapping wings of...
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kacyCubs Corner 
By Kacy Stith �2010 All rights reserved


She's My Sexy Mama
The age difference bothered her in the beginning, for sure. Having a partner decades (that sounds jacked up) older can make one and everyone else wonder what's up...or more appropriately, what's wrong. Well, I can guarantee you nothing was ever wrong, and from the day that I went after her...
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Kathleen HillGuest Writer - Kathleen Hill
�2010 All rights reserved

The Oldest New Graduate
I went back to school at 50 years old.  I may be the oldest new graduate of a nursing program you have ever met. I tell people that I have retired into nursing. The thing is, I don't feel anywhere near retirement age. Actually, after completing my Bachelor's of Science in Nursing - I feel younger...
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August's Top Post: Greetings from a Queer Se�oritaMonica Palacios
by Monica Palacios �2010 All rights reserved

The Kids Are All WRONG!
"The importance of family," seems to resonate with critics about the film The Kids Are All Right, a story about a lesbian couple with 2 children who seek out their sperm donor. The importance of family? Really?

Is that why Jules, (Julianne Moore) one of the lesbian moms, starts having crazy sex with the family's jizz benefactor?! WTF!  I'm sick of movies depicting lesbians as these sex starved women in need of dick. We don't need dick-that's why we're lesbians. Hey, that would make a great bumper sticker...

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