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  • New York City Council to elect first female, openly lesbian speaker

    Christine Quinn is poised to become "the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country."
    By Lynn Harris January 4, 2006

  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" in New Jersey

    A dying lesbian cop still can't leave her pension benefits to her partner.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 23, 2005

  • A gay cop with six months to live is denied partner benefits

    A New Jersey county board apparently is still able to sleep at night.
    By Lynn Harris December 21, 2005

  • Ice queen

    In Antarctica, Gretchen Legler found a tribe of eccentrics living at 70-below under the biggest ozone hole on earth. She also found love.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 20, 2005

  • Divorce, lesbian style

    The nation's first lesbian civil union dissolves.
    By Rebecca Traister December 19, 2005

  • Vroom-vroom: Victory for Dykes on Bikes

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark office decides the word "dyke" isn't offensive after all.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 9, 2005

  • Religious conservatives: All women should be pregnant! Oh, except you

    Calif. fertility doctors refuse to inseminate an unmarried lesbian.
    By Lynn Harris December 7, 2005

  • Principal tattles to mom, lesbian teen sues

    A 17-year-old can sue her school district and principal, after she's outed to her mother.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 2, 2005

  • Lesbian cheerleader brawl!

    Lesbian cheerleaders stir up violence, get kicked off squad!
    By HH November 29, 2005

  • Attention Broadsheet shoppers! Run, don't walk, to American Girl Place!

    The terrifying doll emporium is the enemy of our enemy.
    By Lynn Harris November 4, 2005

  • Sheryl Swoopes comes out

    The basketball superstar tells ESPN why she decided to be honest with the world about who she really is.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 26, 2005

  • Sapphic soldiers

    Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
    By Christine Smallwood August 9, 2005

  • Canada drifts further from the U.S.

    Its new law legalizing gay marriage may not lead to a stampede to the altar -- but it highlights how much Canadians dislike self-righteous bigotry.
    By Barry Boyce June 30, 2005

  • Worth waiting for

    Washington is a rare outpost of optimism in gay America, and that may be because the state is moving slowly on same-sex marriage.
    By Eli Sanders May 2, 2005

  • Paralyzed Broadcasting System

    When Bush's education secretary objected to a lesbian couple in a children's cartoon, PBS instantly caved in. Is the network becoming the White House's lap dog?
    By Eric Boehlert February 4, 2005

  • The Oprah way

    To change people's minds on issues like gay marriage, liberals need to learn to tug at their heartstrings.
    By Jennifer Buckendorff January 24, 2005

  • Babymaking

    Jane and I spent 10 years discussing whether to have a child. Like many straight couples, we finally decided to leave it to the fates. But in our case the fates held a speculum, a catheter and a vial of sperm.
    By Amie Klempnauer August 11, 2004

  • Burning down the Log Cabin

    Assailing the "cabal of geniuses" who cooked up the gay marriage ban, one of the GOP's only openly gay leaders breaks with his party.
    By Eric Boehlert June 3, 2004

  • We're here, we're queer, we're married. Yawn.

    While my friends lined up in the rain to get married in San Francisco, I wondered: If this is what we've been fighting for, why do I feel so ambivalent?
    By Meredith Maran April 19, 2004

  • Straight eye for the queer gals

    Why do men love to see women kissing? It's about self-loathing -- and the lusciousness of the female body.
    By Charles Taylor August 27, 2003

  • Kissing into the wind

    Daytime TV's first lesbian kiss wasn't exactly red-hot -- but for the gay-friendly fans of "All My Children," it was better late than never.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 24, 2003

  • "Naked in the Promised Land" by Lillian Faderman

    A lesbian scholar remembers her youth as a pinup model, stripper and wide-eyed adventurer among the denizens of the seamy Sunset Strip.
    By Laura Miller February 26, 2003

  • Dykes on bikes with mikes

    Lynn Breedlove takes us to her manic world of speed freaks, strippers and queer-core punk rock.
    By Amy Benfer August 1, 2002

  • Coming out Rosie

    Is O'Donnell's admission of her sexual preference a bombshell -- or a no-brainer?
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams February 13, 2002

  • The female dad

    He calls me Mama, but who's he kidding?
    By Sara Keiko Sarasohn January 9, 2002
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