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How My Identity Evolved As A Result of My Girlfriends Gender Identity
Before I tell you my story, I’d like to first thank all you wonderful readers for your comments on my “It Gets Better” piece. It was truly the single most difficult thing I’ve ever done online—aside from purchasing large-ticket items from possible scammers and clicking on iffy links that may put me at risk of [...]
It Gets Better
When Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide, we were all hit pretty hard. This was a kid who had made an “It Gets Better” video, yet even he lost hope in living. Back in August, Jonah Mowry also made a video. In his video, he made a pledge that he will not commit suicide because he has [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar – TLS welcomes a new team member, Lady Gaga to launch Born This Way Foundation
On The L Stop We’d like to welcome Meg O’Rourke to the L Stop team! She is a hilarious stand-up comedian, a teacher, and she does a lot of fundraising to help with her goal of adding curriculum inclusion of LGBTQA programs in local schools. We are very excited to have her. Did you read [...]
Asexual at The Chicago Filmmakers This Sunday
I was fortunate to have met David Jay, the founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) several years ago. Since then, we’ve had several delightful conversations around asexuality, or the lack of sexual interest or desire. And yes, that’s him in the photo. What is asexuality? A lot of people tell me that [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar: LGBT history month ends, Lesbians elected homecoming royalty
End of LGBT History Month November 1st signaled the end of LGBT History Month. To celebrate, Queerty gives us a list of 6 LGBT seniors we ought to know. Vernita Gray, one of our own in Chicago, is listed. California assembly member Cathleen Galgiani comes out From Our Own Backyard Howard Brown Health Center is [...]
TGIFriday Giveaway: Two Tickets to The Indigo Girls
The one and only absolutely MUST for any chick who truly wants her lesbo card to be 100% unrevokable is to get her ass to at least one Indigo Concert in her lifetime. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met in elementary school in the early 70’s and started performing around the Atlanta area in the [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar: Same sex marriage coming to France, 15 inspiring religious leaders
Making Progress Exciting: The first same-sex marriage in France will happen in December! More marriage news: trans lesbians wed in Britian Married gay and lesbian service members sued the government Jamaica sodomy law to face its first legal challenge 15 inspiring LGBT religious leaders Scottish students urged to back gay marriage proposals Singaporean LGBT website [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar: Ally Week, Spirit Day, Zachary Quinto Came Out
Ally Week It’s Ally Week this week! We are incredibly thankful to all of our allies in the LGBT community. Thank you for loving us, for supporting us, and for fighting with us for our rights. Thousands of students in the US and 9 countries pledged to be allies to anti-gay bullying. Students on Prairie [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar – National Coming Out Day, Gay Rights Pioneer Passes In His Sleep
Happy National Coming Out Day! National Coming Out Day was on Tuesday, October 11th. Did you come out of the closet for the first time? For the nth time? Did you follow this year’s Facebook trend in rainbow-izing your profile picture? We want to know! Sound off in the comment area! Ke$ha came out with [...]
Missed On Our Gaydar – Pride parade gets a new route, JD Samson is worried about her financial future
On The L Stop We’d like to thank all our fans and friends once again for supporting on Saturday, as well as Minibar for hosting. Emily and her chosen date, Jennie, will be having dinner and a movie, on us. Shannon Ennis asks our contestants “Which ‘L Word’ character represents you best?” Our contestant says [...]
