Water Lessons for National Poetry Month
Water Lessons By Lisa Dordal Through deeply personal and culturally grounded narratives, Water Lessons explores the relationship between reality and imagination, faith and doubt, presence and absence, as the speaker grapples with multiple dimensions of grief arising from her mother’s alcoholism and eventual death; her father’s deepening dementia; and her own childlessness. Against the backdrop […]
How to Be a Happily Single Lesbian
This question seems ultra-relevant, given our tremendous focus on how to find and keep a mate. Research indicates at least 50% of lesbians over the age of 50 are single, so are they all unhappy? And common sense will remind you that many married people are miserable. So should we shift focus from finding happiness […]
A Perfect Lesbian Rom-Com for Valentines Day
Well, Jan Miller Corran has done it again. Her first film, Snapshots (2018) which gets a 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, co-starring Piper Laurie, is magnificent. Along Came Wanda (2021), produced by Buffalo 8, is an insightful, romantic and playful new film that will delight you. The lead characters (Cathy DeBuono and Constance Brenneman) […]
A Most Unlikely Lesbian Mother
When I grew up in the 60's as a rough-and-tumble tomboy, I used to fantasize that I still had a choice as to whether I would grow up to be male or female. I was sure that if I ended up as a boy, I'd be shipped off to Vietnam. But if I was a girl–I would have to bear a child—an equally horrifying prospect.
Top 10 Lesbian/Queer Owned GIFT GUIDE!
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Leslie Cohen – Audacity Of A Kiss
Lovers of love, queer history, nightlife, art, and great stories from New York City in the 1970s are in for a treat. Leslie Cohen’s powerhouse memoir The Audacity of a Kiss has just been published. The breezy read includes her years running the landmark lesbian nightclub Sahara, which dazzled Manhattan from 1976-1980, and her romance, […]
That Time Melissa Etheridge Gave Me 5 Minutes
Did I tell you about the time I met Melissa Etheridge and asked her if I could do a 5-minute comedy set before her show? Yeah–I did. So it’s Summer 1985 and I am in Los Angeles with my friend Vivian who is trying to convince me that I should move from San Francisco to […]
Barbara Wilson & the Cassandra Reilly Series
Barbara Wilson is the author of seven previous mysteries, including Gaudà Afternoon, which introduced translator sleuth Cassandra Reilly and was made into a movie starring Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Hardin. She is a winner of two Lambda Literary awards and the British Crime Writers’ award for best thriller set in Europe. As Barbara Sjoholm, […]
Open Lesbian Bursts the Conservative Bubble
I was ready to burst the Orange Bubble as the first immigrant, openly queer woman to run for city council in the city’s history.
Lesbian Dating: EQ and Self-Regulation
“Self-regulation†often has a negative connotation. We think it means acting nice and controlled, keeping ourselves under wraps, not letting our real feelings show. How do we get to know the real person? And how does this relate to emotionally intelligent dating? Emotional self-regulation means the ability to recognize and manage emotions appropriately. Dating definitely […]
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