Robin Lowey �2011 All rights reserved
Marga Gomez
...The craziest thing that ever happened at my show this year was a 4.2 earthquake when I was ironically singing "Rock-A-Bye Baby." I couldn't feel it from the stage but I heard a crack and the audience got jolted. They start freaking out, talking amongst themselves and some people ran out. I thought it was because of my singing... Read More
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Lee Lynch �2011 All rights reserved
All I Want For Christmas When I was a kid, there was a popular holiday song called "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." So what does a grown up dyke wish for at Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hannukah?... Read More |
Fay Jacobs �2011 All rights reserved
Nobody Asked but Somebody Told ..."What proof does the ONI have that any of us are actually homosexual?" Lee asked the investigator.
"We have numerous ways of determining the validity of allegations," he replied. "Our office has been smoking out homosexuals for a long time, but not until 'strong' suspicions are formally presented. Your group just wasn't smart enough not to flaunt your ways, that's all."... .Read More
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Kim Powell �2011 All rights reserved
A Close Whale Encounter ...We were being checked out by a 90,000 pound creature.
As quietly as it had arrived, the whale sunk back below the blue hued sea. I struggle to find the words to express the feeling that flooded through every pore of my body. We were in awe and overloaded by the adrenaline that pulsated through us... Read More
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Ask a Battle Axe Eleanor Palacios �2011 All rights reserved
Booty Calls After Age 60?
...if you are texting you have to be careful of any photos of body parts you send. Personally I want a call, to hear a voice begging me to come over and it has to be before I put my jammies on and get too comfortable. Bring back Booty Calls!! Read More
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Jewelle Gomez �2011 All rights reserved
Barbara Grier Broke the Silence
...Barbara was determined to get Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence the attention it deserved and damn if she didn't get it! Barbara took those types of chances-like it or lump it as we used to say. She brought lesbian books back into print that might have disappeared into oblivion - like the Beebo Brinker novels...
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Katherine V. Forrest �2011 All rights reservedLesbian Outlaw: Jeanne Cordova ...The former editor of The Advocate, Mark Thompson, calls me 'the James Dean of the lesbian scene.' The backdrop of my life, the era, is the early struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left. I talk about the contradictions of feminism, the then real debate about violent overthrow of the government, and the huge divide and uneasy alliance between lesbians and gay men... Read More |
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