fit Me in

Fit me In

I wait for our meeting.

So I can tell you

what it really means to be a lesbian

and free you from the misconceptions

that hold you in place.

I won't waste a word,

I will speak true.

And if you hear me

I will no longer be blue.

Wide eyed:

Secrets shattered

Bliss lay in wait,

for you to see me,

Beyond, lay
permission for Myself.

A forgotten tide

washes me on shore.

And I beg for exceptance

from beyond a Secret Door.

Fit Me In.

I Wait.

the L Word

Marga Gomez : Mojitos and Labels

Marga Gomez

Lesbian Comedians

Lesbian Comedy



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the Lesbian Kiss

Lesbian Love

The Layers of Intimacy in Lesbian Love

She Said

“Well it’s OK that they are Lesbians”,

she said today to her new Christian Lover,

“its not LIKE they show affection in Public.”

This, of course burns me up because the HETs

can show affection in public

and somehow that’s not GROSS. WHAT ?

Now the woman who said this has spent her life

on drugs and alcohol to the depths of complete disperse,

she partook in crank, cigarettes and alcohol while pregnant.

Lost everything, and has had multiple partners

over the years, but stands in judgment of me because

I am a Lesbian.

The fact that I have made better choices

does not matter in the least.

My spiritual belief, my financial status, my education level,

my achievements do not matter in the least;

all that Illuminates is that I am a Lesbian.

So Hard to Help those who Hate Us
But WE do. No questions Asked.

Hey Gals,

Note From The Webmaster

They beat us, they hate us, thye assume what
our “life of sin” is like and they do not take
the time to know “what really goes on”.

Gals,
I am so glad you come to my Blog.

I hope to support lesbians everywhere with internet

marketing. My partner and I have a strong presence

in the Search Engines. I have lots of

Lesbian Websites but have resisted putting

my personality forth on my sites because the more

I see online of peoples journeys the harder it is for

me to sit here and have a voice. I tear at what some of you

go through and I find it easier to deny the words that

wish to burst forth on this page.

The hate I see for Gays and Lesbians, at time,

crushes my spirit, so I than must step outside of it.

I have always thought of myself as,

who I am spiritually, what I love to do,

who I love and I never labeled myself.

Just because I am a Lesbian seems to make folks

not care about all the other aspects of who I am when

the Lesbian label is a very small part

of everything that we all are.

The “bad” thing and the hate I see put out to the

Gay Community makes we want

to put my voice forward as a LESBIAN,

even though that is not the

dominant label of who I really am.

We all have hopes, dreams, love, compassion

and we are shown such ignorance more times than not.

I honor you all. Here at OutLesbian.com

we are sending the love out to you and yours

and hope that you find success,

true love and lots of laughter.

I hope to make this website

one of those places you can come to feel

that YOU ARE NOT ALONE

and to encourage you to be true to YOU.

Thanks for coming here
Thanks for Coming OUT

Bring your Voice to the Internet

and Share YOU with Us.

Lesbians of All Ages

from every corner of the world are listening.

Have a Great Summer Gals
and When we see Each Other OUT there
traveling lets acknowledge and Be Kind.

We all need an Island of Kindness and Compassion
as we journey this Earth.

Gays in the Bible Belt Movie

This is very moving. I can totally relate to the way we are treated by those who do not take the time to really know. Many who are unhealthy, unproductive, and lead lives that are less than pridefull, as they sit and judge

our "Lifestyle" that "They" Assume we Lead.

Check This Out

The Buckle: Gays in the Bible Belt

How Are We Different ?

Is it in the way that YOU should not Matter
to you anyway ?

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Lesbian Independent Film

Sadie Benning

Sadie Benning began making videos at age sixteen when her father, experimental filmmaker James Benning, gave her a pixelvision camcorder for Christmas. The Pixelvision is a small, hand-held, black and white video-camera marketed for children by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s. The Pixelvision failed on the general market for the same reason it has been a hit with experimental filmmakers: grainy images, tinny sound, and a box frame. Benning's videos can be described in a variety of ways, including autobiography, ethnography, personal films, diary-films, and stories of coming-out. Thematically, her films consistently condemn homophobia, racism, and sexism while concerning themselves with the perspective of young people and women.Benning demonstrated an early ability to manipulate images and create sustained narratives. She culls from a wide variety of sources including television, magazines, newspapers and popular culture. Her recent work reflects many of the same themes she explored early on, yet also displays an increased ability and maturity as a filmmaker. Recent films include The Judy Spots (1995), which aired on MTV, and Flat is Beautiful (1998). Her work continues to attract attention and

is regularly screened at film festivals worldwide.

More at
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/benning.html

AND

http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?BENNINGS

What mysterious force lay behind the teenage
grrrl's crudely drawn but strangely evocative masks?
BY GARY MORRIS
Sadie Benning has been a cause celebre in the queer community for almost a decade. Born in 1973 to a filmmaker father and an artist mother, she began making short films at age 15 and two years later came out as a lesbian. An iconoclast even as a teen, she employed the infamous "Pixelvision" camera in most of her early work and continues to use it. For the uninitiated, Pixelvision was a "kiddie camcorder" from the late 1980s that sold for $100. Few kids bought them, but artists and filmmakers did, seeing fresh possibilities in the low-resolution format that gave everything an enticingly vague, "pixelated" look. (Rumor has it they now sell for as high as $1,000, though one appeared recently on the online auction house eBay for around $300.)
If her format was obscure, her subjects weren't. The early films are in the classic diaristic mode of experimental film: shot in her bedroom, starring an array of objects both culture-constructed (Barbie, natch) and self-constructed (masks). Her main subject was herself, coming to terms with a pervasive 1980s culture of junk TV and mindless consumerism and finding some kind of comfort level there as a budding dyke-artiste. In the early films, she appears as a fragmented character, floating elusively in and out of the frame. But Jollies, made when she was 17, shows her as an increasingly bold presence in her own work. In overdub she reads some lines describing her sexual awakening: "It started in 1978 when I was in kindergarten. They were twins and I was a tomboy. I always thought of real clever things to say, like I love you." A brief visual counterpoint to these words is the famous Diane Arbus shot of twin little girls.
The Judy Spots
Benning's manipulations of her material show a surprising complexity. In spite of her youth she was increasingly regarded as an important video artist, with frequent showings at film festivals and museums and a Rockefeller grant at 19. During an interview with The Advocate in 1990, she showed a strong political bent too: "My dad said to me, 'You know, I'm really worried that all your work is just going to be on one subject.' And I was like, 'Yeah, my life.' He makes [experimental] films. What are his films about? They're about his life. It just so happens that his sexuality isn't something that people are going to label or talk about or say, 'He's the heterosexual artist.'"
One can only wonder what Benning's father made of The Judy Spots, her five short films starring a grimly oppressed papier-mache teenager named Judy that were shown on MTV in 1998. It's hard not to see these brief works as autobiographical; in spite of their length, they have an intensity that could only have come from a sensibility that's studied our culture and come to some disturbing conclusions. In "Judy Feels Sad," Benning takes the admonition "You shouldn't cry in public" to hilariously dark extremes, as her pitiful moaning puppet unravels emotionally before our eyes, complete with cut-out teardrops on strings. "Judy Hates Her Job" shows the impossibility of reconciling society's demands for programmed behavior with Judy's desire to be herself, marked by her stuck-record screams of "I'm a people person!"
Benning's integration of drawing, masks, and video with a sure sense of how the consumer world impinges on, indeed overwhelms, the inner life is brilliantly played out in Flat Is Beautiful (1998), her most ambitious work to date. This 56-minute featurette shot partly in Pixelvision (interiors) and partly in Super 8 (exteriors) again has the feeling of autobiography. The story traces the life of latchkey kid Taylor (Sammy Steel), a 12-year-old girl living with her mother and a gay roommate. (Watch for a playful hardcore interlude between the roommate and the mailman.) Here Benning takes a potentially fatal artistic risk in having her actors wear crudely drawn masks throughout, but this not only doesn't detract from the story but gives it enormous force as her characters' authentic feelings and desires continuously strain to break through these rigid, unforgiving, literally constructed identities.

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