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How to Be a Happily Single Lesbian
This question seems ultra-relevant, given our tremendous focus on how to find and keep a mate. Â Research indicates at least 50% of lesbians over the age of 50 are single, so are they all unhappy? Â And common sense will remind you that many married people are miserable. Â So should we shift focus from finding happiness […]
A Big Lesbian F**k You
It’s not easy to sacrifice your anger, your sense of being wronged.- Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black Merriam-Webster’s Thesaurus lists only 2 synonyms but 5 antonyms for the word justice. justice: inequity, unfairness, wrong, bias, discrimination. Apparently, we are far more interested in describing things that are unfair than fair. Marci, a friend […]
Awards Season – a Lesbian Feminist Perspective
I am one of those people who pulls down her shades, turns the phone ringer off and tweets to only a select few in a circle of friends who watch awards ceremonies on television. I know I’m supposed to be too political, too lesbian, too mature, too sophisticated but I love watching. It started when […]
Lesbian Dating: Avoiding the ‘Bad Apple’
The rotten apple spoils his companion – Benjamin Franklin I am sitting around a restaurant table with several friends, sharing tales of our worst relationship ever. The stories, including my own, are of verbal and physical abuse, infidelity, drama, inappropriate boundaries with other women, lying, emotionally pushing away and then pulling back in, and more. […]
Why We Love Glee’s Lesbian Couple ‘Brittana’
As a person who grew up listening to the songs of Broadway musicals and going to NYC at least once a year to take in four musicals in three days, I was drawn to GLEE like a voyeur to the world I dreamed of and I had buried deep inside. Yes, I have always wanted […]
Lesbian Valentine’s Day Do’s and Don’t’s
I was talking to my niece and nephew in Germany about holidays and gifts. The holiday “tyranny,†we like to call it. We have all stopped giving gifts to each other. “But the girls,†my nephew remarked, “they want gifts because it’s romantic.†Christmas is barely over and there’s the next gift-holiday approaching. Valentine’s has […]
A Long Lost Lesbian Daughter
In 2010 I started watching Lisa Kudrow’s PBS show “Who Do You Think You Are?â€. As an adopted person, I was suddenly awakened to the desire to figure out who I am. Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adored my parents. If there is an adoptive lottery, I won the multi-million dollar mega-millions. So, […]
Lesbians: Find Some Joy on Valentines Day!
Valentine’s Day is approaching, and that’s a mixed blessing.  If you don’t have a lover, you can feel like a loser.  If you have a partner who’s no longer a lover–you’ve drifted into asexual “friendshipâ€â€“you may feel a painful loss of passion.  Even if you have a lover, you may feel stressed about getting the […]
Lessons in Lesbian Film Crowdfunding
In September of 2014 I decided to create a non-profit fiscal sponsor crowd funding organization. I have become well aware of the nail biting, gut wrenching, nose to the grindstone things that lesbian producers, directors and writers have had to do in order to literally squeeze dollars out of friends, family members and fans in […]
Lesbians Join the Fitbit Craze
With the new year comes the new resolve. With the new resolve came the Fitbit. After knee replacement surgery last year I was given a painkiller that made me constantly nauseous. That took care of the first ten pounds I needed to lose real quick. Since it was awhile before I could swallow anything other […]
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