Out Lesbian

Rosie and Barbara

Barbara Walters "wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if [the women on 'The View'] get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that's just not the reality. "I'm not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is, there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera." Rosie ...

"There are some people who have done this show and then for years feel like they have to dump on it, maybe for their own publicity. And that not only hurts me, but I resent it, so if the shoe fits, lady, get on, ladies, get on with your lives. We are not perfect, we are not always happy, but we're pretty good." - Barbara Walters on "The View"

Steph - Parady

Callie Confides in Bailey - Grey's Anatomy

Out Lesbian

Callie and Erica

Callica

Why McCain - Palin

Religious Beliefs - Civil Rights

If you cannot see the video Click Below
http://www.gaywired.com/video/index.cfm?showID=1073479

Fringe's Out Lesbian Jasika Nicole

"For fans growing tired of the gang from Lost’s Oceanic Flight 815, the show’s creator J.J. Abrams offered something equally compelling when he plane-crashed into prime time this fall with Fringe. In typical Abrams fashion, the show quickly introduced a dozen unrelated events and characters in as many minutes. Left to figure out the common thread?

FBI agent Astrid Farnsworth, is played by the adorable Jasika Nicole, whom you may recognize from her role in Take the Lead with Antonio Banderas. Nicole, a theater, voice, and dance major, relished the jump into the supernatural. “I think that we as actors are as excited to get the scripts as people are to watch the show to see what happens. Usually when you start a project you have a pretty good idea of who your character is and how they fit into the story, but each episode I get a little more information about who I am. It’s an ongoing practice in character development,” she says.

For Nicole, who lives in Brooklyn with her partner of more than three years, being in the closet was never an option: “I came out about 3½ years ago. When I went on my first date with a woman, it was so exciting that I wanted to share it more than anything because it was such a big deal to me,” she recalls. So isn’t prime time ready for an out lesbian detective already? “You’re absolutely right. Who knows? We’ll need to see how that all plays out. I definitely want Astrid’s personal life to show up a little more, she told Out.com."

http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?Section=2&ID=21204

Obama - Rick Warren

Well Folks, it was the VP Debates where my heart first sunk, I even changed the Channel, when Biden said what he did about Gay and Lesbians. So we knew then that Obama was not pro gay. We can hope that there is not an all out war out on us. I am saddened on the Hate Crimes in California involving Lesbians and hoping for Justice though I know this will not take away the pain of the Horrific Crime that have happened Recently.

Obama Picking a Lesbian and Gay Hater to Speak is Of Course Sad and Will most like bring out more "justified" hate our way.

The LA Gay and Lesbian Center Responds to Rick Warren's Selection
By:

Jim KeyChief

Public Affairs Officer

323-993-7623

L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Calls on Obama to Disinvite Homophobic Rick Warren From Delivering Inaugural InvocationPresident-Elect's Big Tent of Hope Stretches to Include BigotryLOS ANGELES, December 18, 2008-In response to President-Elect Barack Obama's selection of homophobic mega-church minister Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Chief of Staff Darrel Cummings has issued the following statement:"

If President-elect Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation is intended to send a message to America that he will be an inclusive leader, then he has clearly made a decision that the exclusion of the LGBT community is acceptable.Inclusion is generally a term referencing the involvement of those who have been historically underrepresented, the subject of historic discrimination, or unrecognized altogether. The inclusion of people with disabilities in public policy decision-making related to housing and building codes, for example, is vital and a relatively new trend. T

his kind of action not only sends an important symbolic message to people with disabilities and to the larger community, it contributes to better policy.Mega-church multi- media stars and religious "leaders" like Rick Warren have been overrepresented in government decision making for many years and have brought their narrow, exclusionary brand of theology into the oval office, Congress and the Supreme Court. They amass great wealth, own powerful financial empires, and preach division on the public airways. Yes, they and their followers are part of America-a relatively large part-but they are redundant as messengers of inclusion since they have always had influence over government, especially since 1980.

The unfortunate consequence of this "big tent" approach is that Obama is not really sending a message of inclusion, at least not the kind that invites into the tent those who have been historically and intentionally locked out for so long. Instead, on the first day of his presidency, he plans to send a very clear message that LGBT people are only welcome if we are agreeable to our own oppression, as represented by his choice of spiritual leader on inauguration day. Obama's response to press inquiries on the subject rings hollow.

He talks about others like Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph Lowery who will share the spotlight and bring alternative views to the stage, as though it's important to have "balanced" representation regarding the issue of our civil rights. Joseph Lowery does not represent an alternative viewpoint to Warren.

He represents an ethical and just choice on behalf of people historically oppressed and left off the presidential stage. Is it important to "balance" the work of a person who has spent his life fighting racial bigotry and discrimination with someone who opposes those ideals? Are these the politics of hope we have heard so much about?Continuing his defense, Obama spoke eloquently about his campaign's support for full equality for lesbians and gay men as an indication of how he will govern. Unfortunately, he did not and does not now stand for our full equality since he has made it clear that he opposes marriage equality. In this regard, he walks in lock step with Warren, even though Obama opposed the passage of Prop 8.Warren played an important role in helping to re-write the California constitution to eliminate our rights. So now it is clear.

If President-elect Obama does not disinvite Rick Warren, then he is defining what inclusion in America will mean under his administration. It will mean that the practice of bigotry is acceptable, and that as president-in the name of "inclusion"-he will provide a place and platform for that bigotry to be expressed and grow. Apparently we are welcome into the big tent of hope, but if we choose to enter, we should do so knowing we are in hostile, yet "balanced" territory."

http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20225358&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=569342&rfi=6

Jerry Brown - Debates Continue

As the Saying Goes, the Majority Should NEVER vote on Rights for the Minority.

Jerry Brown's reverse on gay-marriage ban: Is it a game-changer?

Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown's reversal on Proposition 8 -- he now is asking the California Supreme Court to reject it -- is the talk of the blog world today. Of course, the pro-gay-marriage forces are happy. But there is a lot of debate about whether Brown's rejection of the voters' will on gay marriage can fly. Jonathan Turley writes:

Brown's position between the earlier and current litigation seems hopelessly conflicted. It would have been more consistent if he refused to defend either the earlier law or current law. Yet, there is the problem of lawyers defending a law that they consider to be unconstitutional. Brown can argue that, once the Court recognize the constitutional right of same-sex couples in the Constitution, it became a problem to have it set aside by popular vote. The earlier law was the result of legislative consensus while this is the product of popular vote.

Yet, there status as "law" is the same for the purposes of the Attorney General's office.

Red County California sees a political motive in Brown's stance:

Jerry Brown, as the California State Attorney General, said that he would defend Proposition 8 if it passed. He is now asking those same black-robed dictators to declare Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Heck of a democratic state we live in, when an attorney general with an eye on the next gubernatorial race will pander to an activist voting bloc to thwart the democratic process dutifully followed by a majority of citizens to express their will multiple times and in multiple ways.

-- Shelby Grad

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/12/jerry-browns-re.html?cid=143189014#comments

Sarah Waters - Lesbian Novelist

Sarah Waters is a British Novelist

Sarah Waters is best known for her novels such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

Sarah Waters was born in 1966 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. She studied English Literature at the universities of Kent and Lancaster, after which she worked in bookshops and libraries, before returning to postgraduate study.

She then gained a Ph.D in English Literature, her field of study being lesbian and gay historical fiction, and also had articles on gender, sexuality and history published in a number of journals.

While working on her Ph.D thesis, she became increasingly interested in London life of the nineteenth century, and began writing fiction. She has since written three novels set in Victorian England, for which she has received high praise from both mainstream reviewers and the gay and lesbian press.

In 1998, her first novel Tipping the Velvet was published - a picaresque adventure based around Victorian music hall, with a lesbian love story at its centre.

This book was adapted into a drama serial by Andrew Davies, and received much press attention when it was shown on BBC TV in 2002. Her second novel, Affinity (1999), is a darker novel set in a London women's prison, and explores the Victorian world of spiritualism.

This book won a Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction and a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2000. Fingersmith was published in 2002, a thriller and love story set among petty thieves and criminals in 1860s London.

Its central character, Susan, is a pickpocket. This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Sarah Waters was for a time an associate lecturer for the Open University and has also tutored on Creative Writing programmes, but is now a full-time fiction writer living in London. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her novel, The Night Watch (2006), is set in London during and after the Second World War.

Before writing novels, Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete. Her work is very research-intensive, which is an aspect she enjoys. All of her books contain lesbian themes, and she does not mind being labeled a lesbian writer. She said, “I’m writing with a clear lesbian agenda in the novels. It’s right there at the heart of the books.”

She calls it “incidental,” because of her own sexual orientation. “That’s how it is in my life, and that’s how it is, really, for most lesbian and gay people, isn’t it? It’s sort of just there in your life.”

Alison Bechdel

Two years ago Alison Bechdel seemed to come out of nowhere with a graphic memoir, “Fun Home,” that knocked a lot of people, myself included, right over. You didn’t have to go quite as far as Time magazine, which called “Fun Home” the single best book of 2006, to recognize Ms. Bechdel’s achievement. Her memoir, about coming of age as a lesbian in her secret-filled family’s rural Pennsylvania funeral home, was moody, astringent, microscopically observed. “Fun Home” belongs on that same small, high shelf of comic books where “Maus” dwells.

Plenty of readers, however, needed no introduction to Ms. Bechdel. For more than 20 years she has been the creator of “Dykes to Watch Out For,” a weekly comic strip, printed mostly in college-town alternative newspapers, about the fractious lives and loves of an articulate group of lesbians in a city that resembles Minneapolis. The strip is sexy, sometimes in an R-rated way — imagine “Doonesbury” with regular references to sex toys — and it’s political, in a feisty, lefty, Greenpeace meets PETA meets MoveOn.org kind of way. Ms. Bechdel’s lesbians wanted to impeach the first George Bush.

Taken together, these comic strips don’t have the tightly coiled impact of “Fun Home,” but in some ways they offer greater consolations — they’re looser, more funny, and they offer the chance to watch a group of very appealing women grow and change (and struggle to have better sex) over the course of more than two decades. Ms. Bechdel calls her strips “half op-ed column and half endlessly serialized Victorian novel,” and that’s not far off. I suspect that, over the years, “Dykes to Watch Out For” has been as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle” (1973) and Lisa Alther’s “Kinflicks” (1976) were to an earlier one.

As Ms. Bechdel observes in her introduction to this new anthology, “The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For,” it was not especially easy to be openly lesbian back in 1983, when she published her first cartoon. “We had no ‘L Word,’ ” she writes. “We had no lesbian daytime TV hosts. We had no openly lesbian daughters of the creepy vice president. We had ‘Personal Best,’ and we liked it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/books/03garner.html?ref=arts

Toni McNaron -

Toni McNaron, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is a multiple award winning teacher and scholar who worked joyfully with graduate and undergraduate students for over 35 years at the University of Minnesota.
Her passion as a writer led her to explore topics ranging from diversity in the academy, gender and genre, the works of Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson, to the contours of her own life as a white Southern lesbian.

In recognition of her accomplishments, the Steven J. Schochet Center for GLBT Studies was pleased to inaugurate its Distinguished Lecture Series in April 2000, by introducing the Toni McNaron Lecture in Arts and Culture.

The Sister Bond : A Feminist View of a Timeless Connection (Athene Ser., No. 6)

Inquiry Set

Mormons... Loving that Sanctity of Marriage...

"California officials will investigate accusations that the Mormon Church neglected to report a battery of nonmonetary contributions — including phone banks, a Web site and commercials — on behalf of a ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage.

Roman Porter, the executive director of the Fair Political Practices Commission, which oversees California campaign finance laws, signed off on the investigation after reviewing a sworn complaint filed on Nov. 13.

The complaint, filed by Fred Karger, founder of the group Californians Against Hate, asserted that the church’s reported contributions — about $5,000, according to state election filings — vastly underestimated its actual efforts in passing Proposition 8, which amended the state’s Constitution to recognize only male-female marriage.

Broadly speaking, California state law requires disclosure of any money spent or services provided to influence the outcome of an election.

Mr. Porter said the announcement of the investigation was not “a determination on the validity of the claims or the culpability of the individuals,” but that the claims had been reviewed by a lawyer for the commission and its chief of enforcement and deemed worth pursuing. "

Full Article Click Below

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/politics/26marriage.html?ref=us

Lesbian Internet Marketing

We Specialize in Keeping the Pink Dollar Pink. We are a Lesbian Owned and Operated Internet Marketing Company that Gets Your Lesbian Business, Music, Product Found on the Internet Where your Potential Buyers - Customer and Clients are Looking for You. We are WELL established online and have websites that have been online for over 8 years

It is Important that You market your Lesbian Business, Art, Writing, Film, Photography or Music on Targeted Websites, Web Sites to target your specific buyer.

Your Buyers are Online looking for What You Have to Offer, they are looking on the Internet, are they finding what you have to offer.

www.LesbianInternetMarketing.com

It is Important to Marketing on Websites that have a Historic Creation Date, Newer Websites are Not as Strong in the Search Engines and are Not the Best Place for you to Market. Find Your Niche - Get Found -Support other Lesbian Businesses Online and KEEP the Pink Dollar Pink.

Al Gore on Gay Marriage

Marriage Miracle Cure

What do you Folks think of this Video.

Married When Home from Your Mission.

Pray Away the Gay...

Same Sex Marriage Debate - Dr. Phil

Interesting and Well a Bit Stressing Discussion over Same Sex Marriage on Dr. Phil.

Shame On YOU !!!!

Mariah Hanson - Lesbian Icon - Event Promoter

Mariah Hanson is a lesbian icon / event promoter extraordinaire .

Mariah Hanson is the founder of The Club Skirts. Mariah Hanson presents The Dinah, the largest and the original event of the modern Dinah Shore weekend festivities.

The Dinah, drawing over 10,000 participants, has become more than Just a GetAway weekend. The Dinah is a cultural and an international phenomenon.

The Dinah is the Creme De La Creme of all things in Lesbian Entertainment.

Women Come from all over the world (Australia, France, England, Germany, Scandinavia, Asia, Canada, South America) flock to Palm Springs for a chance to be part of this once a year monumental event. Mariah Hanson is a Big Part Of What Makes that Happen.

To date - and still five months away from the event - hotel room reservations are already at 40% of their capacity. Why? Because to some degree, Mariah Hanson understands how recessions, leisure, and mindset converge .

Most forms of leisure are not purchased for practical purposes, but for emotional ones and for The Dinah audience the economic turbulence does not mean that any type of leisure indulgence is out of the question .

Quite the contrary: leisure diversion becomes a necessity for many (who will seek relief of some sort) especially when it delivers the caliber of entertainment The Dinah has continuously been providing for many years combined with the top of the line selection of social entertainment venues (The Riviera Resort and The Palm Springs Convention Center) and the financial incentive of all-inclusive package deals.

Again, this is where Mariah Hanson comes in - going after key sectors of the travel industry serving a unique product catered to a specific market niche.

Known as the 'go to' person, Mariah Hanson has assisted many big corporations and business companies in helping develop a productive marketing approach to the GLBT market and, as part of a comprehensive integrated marketing strategy, assisted in branding their products to specifically respond to the Lesbian audience of this ever growing market.

To that end, The Dinah 09 has already secured the corporate support of market leaders such as Miller, MTV/LOGO Networks, HereTV! and Bacardi. In addition, Hanson is welcoming new sponsorships including The Advocate and SheWired.com, and forming exclusive partnerships with entertainment moguls such as MTV/LOGO Network (Viacom International, Inc.) which has made The Dinah 09 one of its signature events of the year, and the non-profit organization GLAAD - the official charity recipient - which will be hosting its first ever cocktail reception in an effort to increase its visibility and presence among women.

Hanson's road to success is truly one of extraordinary inspiration.It was back in 1991 that Mariah Hanson produced her first solo Dinah Shore Weekend. The simple but daring concept catapulted the Dinah to international fame. Today, The Dinah is considered the largest lesbian event in the world.

The 2009 Dinah will continue Club Skirts groundbreaking trend of a high profile, entertainment packed and star filled tradition spearheaded a few years back by the monumental performance of the Pussy Cat Dolls and followed the preceding years with an equally big line-up of celebrities/performers including the cast of the L-Word, India Arie, Pat Benatar, Colbie Caillat, En Vogue, Crystal Waters and Ilene Chaiken, to name a few.Always pushing the envelope and being cutting edge, Hanson pulled another coup de forte for the 2009 Dinah. As you may know, The Riviera Resort and Spa recently underwent an estimated $90 million rejuvenation becoming the epic and contemporary deluxe Mecca for high-end world-class travelers - certifiably the most ultra chic, ultimate top of the line destination resort in Palm Springs. As the esteemed legendary venue is christening its official reopening this Fall, it will also welcome another legend: The Dinah.The natural symbiosis between these two iconic entities was logically inevitable: The Riviera Resort has a long standing tradition as the first EVER hotel host of The Dinah series. Maintaining a discreet policy about its business, The Riviera Resort welcomes back the original: Club Skirts Presents The Dinah - taking this grand annual pilgrimage extravaganza to a whole new higher level!

With The Dinah, Hanson has not only successfully built an business empire but as well accomplished a cultural and social phenomenon that crosses over any genders, races and religious denominations. She has certainly become a voice to be reckoned with not only as a savvy business entrepreneur and avant-garde event coordinator/promoter but as well as a gay woman doing it all by herself!

Mariah Hanson has Been Called the mastermind behind Dinah Shore.

We Won't Go Away

We Won't Take This Lightly.

This Is Our Life you Have Voted Against.

You cannot Vote Away Equality

Crush Discrimination ...

CEO Gay Lesbian Center

Legistation, Voting, Ballot Box, We are Coming Back..

Ban on Gay Marriage.. It is So interesting to Me that
in Late 2008 People Still Care Who I marry, How
Can it Possible Matter TO you, WHO I Marry

the O'Reilly Factor - Prop 8

Gay Marriage Debate on Fox News

Back in May of 2008

California Supreme Court Ruling on Same Sex Marriage ... was to be the last Chapter... NOT..

And after this Wonderful Moment, It Brings a Tear to My Eye
to See the Relief, the Love, the Happiness of this Moment
and in November HATE took Over... The California Constitution

Prepare to Cry... I LOVE YOU !!

the 18th Amendment .. Prop 8

What Do You Think of This Guy

California Constitution Unconstitutional

Ask a Black Lesbian Couple

Support Lesbians Online

http://www.youtube.com/user/curlmebella

Black Lesbian and Gay History

Racist Homophobia

Lesbian Herstory

Lesbian Freedom - thanks to Lesbian Herstory and Still We Fight

www.LesbianFreedom.com

Rosie O'Donnell Variety Show Promo

Rosie's New Show Coming Soon

Lesbian Elders Village

Promoting Healthy Lesbians. Workshops on Spirituality, Community, Death and Dying, Natural Health and Healing, Exercise for Elders and Lesbian Support. Find Out More About Lesbian Elders Village, Old Dyke's Rest Home, Lesbian Herstory, and More.

www.LesbianEldersVillage.org.nz

Whoopi on the View

We all Love Whoopi, thanks Whoopi for Keeping it Real on the View.

You Obviously get the Whole H8 and the Rights Concept of all this.
Elizabeth sure is full of seemingly disguised Hate.

Lesbians and Gays are Out to Stop Hate
Toward them and to Get Equal Rights.
It is Simple. Gay and Lesbians have been
Shown alot of Hate Crimes that have seemingly
gone unnoticed by Society as a Whole.

www.OutLesbian.com

What Do Lesbians Do in Bed ?

By LAURA DOUGLAS-BROWN NOV. 14, 2008

It’s the question we hear from straight people, gay men, and even lesbians who are just coming out: What is it that lesbians do in bed, anyway?

If you believe straight-male porn, we rub our impossibly large breasts on each other, run our long polished nails through our bleach-blond hair, and strike seductive poses while we wait for a man and his penis to arrive.I

f you believe the myths about lesbian bed death, we lounge around in matching tie-dye t-shirts, eating granola and petting our dozens of cats until it’s time for the next folk music concert.

And if you believe the slang terms used to denigrate us, it’s all about oral sex (we’re muff divers and carpet munchers) or about wanting to be as masculine as possible (diesel dykes, bulldaggers).

...The largest group — 98 percent — reported sex involving some sort of vaginal penetration, while 97 percent said they “rubbed genitals” with female partners and 94 percent reported oral sex.Still, stereotypes about what lesbians “do” persist, and they often contradict each other...

Click Below to Read the Article

http://www.sovo.com/2008/11-14/news/localnews/9430.cfm

Lebian Cure - A Cure for Homosexuality

This is Pretty Darn Funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e6kGH-qTU8

Check Out this Video it is VERY Funny..

What Do you Folks Think of This ?

I wonder is there a Cure for Lesbianism ?

Former Lesbian Publisher Charlene Cothran Featured in National TV Show

PALM COAST, Fl., Nov. 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- Former lesbian publisher, Charlene E. Cothran of VENUS Magazine will be featured in an episode of Pure Passion on the Direct TV network. The episode will air Sunday (Nov 16th) at 11 PM (ET) on Direct TV channel #376.

Click Below for Full Article

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/204268685.html

another Article Below

http://www.southernvoice.com/today/index.cfm?blog_id=21928

Shame on YOU..

On a Personal Note: this is really sad stuff, I mean if the Venus
magazine was to be in support of Gays, then she should have SOLD

the magazine and kept it that way.. then if she wanted to turn and

Support the Ex-Gay or the Lesbian Cure movement then
She should have started a New magazine... Sad..

a Bit Hyprocrytical ... Hmmmm

OUt lesbian rights

Oshawa Lesbian Couple

Hundreds attend rally for Oshawa lesbian couple

Hundreds of people turned up on a rainy Friday night to support an Oshawa couple who say they were assaulted because they're lesbians.

"No more fear, no more anger, no more hate," Jane Currie told the crowd. "Peace, love, acceptance for all," the crowd chanted at one point.

"Oshawa won't sit back and let anyone or anything sully the good name of our people," Mayor John Gray said. "We'll always stand up for what is right."

The response left the two women touched."When I walked out, I automatically started to cry. I couldn't believe the turnout," Anji Dmitrou told CTV Toronto. "Emotionally, today I feel fantastic."

Full Article Click Below

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081115/oshawa_lesbians_081115/20081115/?hub=TorontoNewHome

that So Gay ..

Don't Say, that's so Gay

Dumb or Stupid ... so Gay

out lesbian advocate

Out Lesbian - Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes Came Out Today...

All Right all ready, thanks Wanda, however, we loved you either way. Wanda Sykes is awesome, strong, Funny, and Smart. We Love ya Wanda Thanks.

I have loved Wanda since the first time I saw her, she is so inspiring, and just makes me feel good with her intellectual comedy.

In Las Vegas Today Wanda Came OUT Here is what she said.... "You know, I don't really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn't feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life"

Wanda was in Over the Hedge, Monster In Law,
Evan Almighty, and Lots of FUNNY Stuff.

Thanks Wanda

www.WandaSykes.com

Out Lesbian Comedian

Montel: Homosexuaity-Is There a Cure?

Did you Folks see this Video. I mean We can Cure this Right.. I
have seen videos about women, lesbians who were cured. What
Do you folks think about this... Cure Lesbianism.. a Choice?

Hmmmm.

LINKS....

Exodus International has big plans for the future. The ex-gay group, which uses reparative therapy to "cure" same-sex attractions, apparently wants to expand its network to 10,000 new churches.

r
The plan includes a liaison in each participating branch. "The vision," says [Exodus' Randy] Thomas, "is that there would be churches that people struggling with same-sex attraction could go to where they could learn how to be Disciples of Christ.”…Seventy churches have already signed on, but Exodus hopes to build its network to 10,000 congregations by 2010.
Be. Very. Afraid.

http://www.queerty.com/ex-gay-exodus-looking-for-new-recruits-20080110/

Gay Prevention - Lesbian Cures
Ridiculous...

Saving Homesexuals - that do not
Want to Be Saved

http://www.postfun.com/pfp/cash/

http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2007/06/prodigal-sons-exodus-ex-gays-shun-the-survivors/

Spouses for Life -- Documentary about Gay Marriage

Documentary in Support of Lesbian and Gay Marriage

We are Just Like You. Love ...

National Center for Lesbian Rights At 30: A Short Film

National Center for Lesbian Rights

Anti-Gay Blacklist

www.AntiGayBlacklist.com
This is Quite Shocking... Some of the Names are Below and
We Will Discuss these Folks in Later Posts.

Steven Olsen /
Psi Network, Inc, President /
Laguna Niguel, CA / $24,999

Calvary Chapel Of Costa Mesa, Inc / Santa Ana, CA / $9,000

Mont Flora / Manager, Liberty Heating & Air / Laguna Hills, CA / $5,000

Robert Eakin / Tutor, Mobile Math Tutoring / Carmichael, CA / $3,000

Nancy Hales / Self Employed, Hales Engineering / Camarillo, CA / $5,000

Lupeni Tuaone / Construction, L.t. Concrete / Chino, CA / $1,614

Ryan Hall / Real Estate, Keller Williams / San Clemente, CA / $1,000

Brent Webb / President, Rpm / Granite Bay, CA / $5,000

Sarah Pack / Therapist, Emq Children And Family Services / San Jose, CA / $2,000

Neal Proctor / Appraiser, Appraisal Net / Folsom, CA / $3,000

Michael Manning / Cpa, Qlogic Corporation / San Juan Capistrano, CA / $20,000

Tracy Pickett / Executive Support, Ladera Integrators /

Mountain View, CA / $3,000

Garth Pickett / Accounting, Ladera Integrators / Mountain View, CA / $3,000

Richard Marshall / Veterinarian, Sutter Institute

For Med. Resrch / El Dorado Hills, CA / $1,000

Angela Li / Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Inc. / San Mateo, CA / $1,300

Bruce Jensen / Engineer, Raytheon Co. / Goleta, CA / $1,250

Linda Reeve / Landscape Design, Self- Linda Reeve / Alamo, CA / $9,500

Ca State Council Knights/columbus / Fontana, CA / $8,889

Susan B. Jones / Psychotherapist, Susan B. Jones, L.c.s.w. / Yuba City, CA / $5,000

Gregory Clark / Consultant, Cirrus Financial / Dublin, CA / $21,500

Cooley Family Investment Llc / Higley, AZ / $10,000

Why Do People in Other States Get to Fund to STOP Gay and Lesbian’s from Marrying in the State of California ?

Jennifer Johnson / Manager, Coraticum Asset Mgt. / Holladay, UT / $2,500

Mark Lindgren / Pilot, Fedex / San Luis Obispo, CA / $5,000

Thomas Brasher / Insurance, Brashers Insurance Svc. / Newcastle, CA / $2,500

Jeff Nelson / Tech Support, Shields, Harper & Co. / Vacaville, CA / $1,800

Mike Denning / Consultant, Ernst & Young / San Clemente, CA / $3,000

Jeff Grover / Manager, Solecon / Modesto, CA / $1,000

Lu Little / Admin Asst, Rw Little Ins Agency / Los Angeles, CA / $8,500

Robert Little / Ins Agent, Rw Little Ins Agency / La, CA / $9,500

Cheryl Aday / Real Estate, Provident Realty / Upland, CA / $1,000

Jan Pinney / Insurance Broker, Pinney Insurance Center, Inc. /
Granite Bay, CA / $10,000

Jay Clark / Produce Dealer, A & Z Produce / Centerville, UT / $25,000

Patrick Foley / Ceo, Rirock Technologies, Inc. / Redlands, CA / $5,000

Bruce Andrus / Hotel Owner/operator,
Huntington Hotels / Park City, UT / $20,000

Country View Farms / Pierce, NE / $2,500

Container Supply Co., Inc. / Garden Grove, CA / $250,000

Fieldstead And Co. / Irvine, CA / $95,000

Local News Los Angeles Prop. 8 Protest in Hollywood

Los Angeles Protests

Rights Given by the Supreme Court
and Taken Away by Votes

ABC: The View - Prop. 8: Fact and Fiction

Ellen Sets the Gals on the View "Straight" about Prop 8

Whoopi Marching for Lesbian Rights

Thanks Whoopi - We ALL Love You !!!

I Chose to Be Gay ?

I heard a Guy say on the News this evening that Gay Rights - Lesbian Rights is NOT a Civil Issues, he said he could not choose the color of his sking. Suggesting that I chose to Be Gay.

I did not Choose to Be a Lesbian, I Chose to NOT pretend I was Not a Lesbian or to Find a Supposed Cure for Being a Lesbian.

I Did not Choose to be a Women, I am a Woman, a Lesbian Woman. I Choose to love who I am and to be proud of who I am and NOT to be someone I am Not.

Prop 8 Illegal

was It illegal to even put Prop 8 to a Vote, it is said that 2/3 of the Senate and 2/3 of the House have to agree and then it can go to a vote. It is said that the People can't just sign a petition and then put a constitutional change to a vote.

Gay Marriage was Legal and And there was a Vote to Put hate - to make it illegal and CHANGE the constitution, What?

Links to This Issue

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-gaylegal6-2008nov06,0,5471913.story

Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles -- After losing at the polls, gay rights supporters filed three lawsuits Wednesday asking the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, an effort the measure's supporters called an attempt to subvert the will of voters.

http://commonmistakes.blogspot.com/2008/11/was-proposition-8-illegal.html

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The Process by Which Prop 8 Came About was Illegal ?

Why Marriage Matters

..."Wolfson articulates the pioneering arguments that have made him one of the nation's most influential gay activists."— LA Times Book Review

"Armed with Wolfson's arguments, you could sell anyone with an IQ over room temperature on the wisdom and humanity of marriage equality."— The Oregonian

"...thoughtful, reasonable, and eminently worthy..."— Kirkus Reviews

"Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written... [A] cogent and moving argument."— Time Out New York

Civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson has been on the front lines in the battle for the freedom to marry for the past twenty years. In his book, WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry (Simon & Schuster; June 2, 2005; $13.00 paper), with a new foreword by the author, Wolfson presents a compelling case for ending discrimination in marriage. ..........

http://www.freedomtomarry.org/get_informed/marriage_basics/why_marriage_matters.php

It is Ok To want This.. Learn More

Vickie Shaw -

"I don't look the part. I blow away all their stereotypes. I'm the woman next door - except I just happen to be gay." ... Vickie Shaw

www.VickieShaw.com

What Do We Do Now?? An Answer to The Gay Marriage Bans

If you were one of the couples affected by the gay marriage bans voted into law in the states of Florida, Arizona, or California, our sincerest condolences go out to you and your family in this time. The same if you were affected by the adoption ban in Arkansas.

It's a bittersweet time in our history, with the country's first African American President in history set to take office; while chickens and cows won more rights than gay-people did in California. "Everyone is hurting and don't know what to do," said Kimberlee Woods at a protest Nov. 7th. She is the executive director of The Gay and Lesbian Center of Long Beach. "The overwhelming response is not surprising.

People are tired of being relegated to the back of the bus", she said. You can bet that there are a lot of us here in California, around the nation, and across the world who are angry and ready to act, so here is a list of the things that we can all do to answer to the marriage bans and the fact that California just wrote discrimination into their Constitution, and other states have banned gay marriage as well.

They will continue to do so unless we stand up united and fight for our rights. If not, who knows which rights of ours will be voted away next! Here is a checklist of things for you to make sure to do to voice your disagreement with the gay marriage bans:

____ File a Lawsuit.
Lawsuits are being filed on behalf of the couples who were married in California, and you should check to see if there are lawsuits you should be included in where you live. Filing a lawsuit when your civil rights have been violated is a duty you have to yourself and those who look up to you, and can have a huge impact on these discriminatory laws.

Donate to The Invalidate Prop 8 Campaign. Send a message to the Mormon Church, whose members raised more than $15 million to fund the deceitful advertising campaign for Proposition 8, the initiative that takes away the right to marry for same sex couples in California!

Make a donation to support the legal organizations working to invalidate Proposition 8 and to fund grass-roots activities in support of full marriage equality. For every donation of $5 or more, the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center will send a postcard to President Thomas Monson’s office in Salt Lake City, acknowledging your donation in his name.

____ Attend a Local Protest.

You can find a list of protests going on around the nation here, including a national cry to call for equal rights at the steps of your city hall on November 15th. Bring signs with valid points plus your camera or take video. Be friendly and peaceful to the media, make your point with your signs. Wear your walking shoes and bring a bottle of water. More info on the National Protest can be found at JoinTheImpact.org .

____ Join The Rainbow Dragon Network. The Rainbow Dragon Network is a list of organizations around the world who are ready to be called upon when members of the LGBT community are in need. If you lead a local LGBT outreach organization or program, please send your contact details to therainbowdragon@yahoo.com .

____ Display Signs and Graphics. On The Smoking Cocktail I saw that Rob at Scout Productions (producers of Queer Eye) made signs that are really catchy. If you are going to a protest, these are some cool signs to have. Here's a picture of Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, the original plaintiffs in the gay marriage lawsuit here in California with one:

You can find out who the major supporters and opposers of Prop. 8 here, or you can find out who donated to the campaign in your area here.

____ Start Your Own Website or Blog. Sharing your voice with the world or maintaining a resource site for the LGBT community is one of the best ways you can help spread the message of equal rights around the world. We have a database of sites that are available and waiting for you to manage them!! Please contact Julie Phineas if this is something that interests you.

____ Help Our Campaign Land Celebrity Endorsements. Many celebrities have spoken out for us Madonna, Chelsea Lately, Darryl Stephens, Samuel Jackson, Melissa Etheridge and more. Celebrity visibility is important to keeping our issue in the spotlight! If you've heard about the theory of 6 degrees of separation that means that some of you out there know celebrities and can make contact with them.

If you ever needed to call in a favor, NOW is the time to do so! Reach out through your network and get the message to celebrities that we need their help and support towards the LGBT civil rights movement. Encourage them to perform to raise money and awareness for our community and let them know about this post so they know what else they can do to help!

____ Mass Mormon Resignation Planned. If you are a Mormon, consider joining the mass resignation planned. Visit this site to find resources and information about resigning and to post your letter of resignation.

____ Go to A Church Where You Are Supported. If you are a church-goer (or not), attend local church services where you know that you and/or your family will be accepted and invited. ____ Call for A Separation of Church and State Donate to the Freedom from Religion Foundation started by atheists who are active in the call for a separation of church and state. ____ Join the Fight to Revoke the LDS Tax Exempt Status. Visit this website which gives out detailed information on how to do that.

For More Information Go To:

www.LezGetReal.com

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Webmaster Note: Folks another thing to Do is Video, those who spoke out the loudest such as the group of people named in the L.A times under their photo. Those who you know that are against your Rights, nothing works better then exposing their morals. Video Tape their Behaviors - affairs - drinking or anything that would Expose them and their morals that they are will to Stand up for So proudly that they deny us basic Rights. Post these videos on EVERY free site that takes videos. Get Heard However you Can - Peace and Love to You ALL, we at OutLesbian.com Love you and Support you Online...

Ellen Sad - Melissa No Taxes - Boycott Utah -

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres said she was “saddened beyond belief” at the decision by voters to ban the newly-won rights of gays and lesbians to marry in California.
But singer Melissa Etheridge sounds downright angry.

Etheridge, 47, who did not get to marry her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels before the Nov 4 ballot, suggested in a blog post that she would no longer pay her California state taxes because, as a lesbian, she did not now enjoy the same rights as as other Californians.

http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/11/06/ellen-saddened-beyond-belief-at-prop-8-gay-marriage-ban/

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/1265854,CST-FTR-eth07.article

http://gaysocialites.com/2008/11/ellen_degeneres_saddened_beyon.html

http://www.afterelton.com/blog/michaeljensen/prop-8-update-ellen-degeneres-daily-show-mocks?&comment=57786

Prop. 8 Rally Santa Monica

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Homophobia - Discrimination - the Back of the Bus
We are AMERICANS - We Deserve RIGHTS...

They Say Why Don't We RESPECT the VOTE
of the PEOPLE, the PEOPLE should not GET to
VOTE on our RIGHT to Marry - we DID not

get to VOTE on their Right to Marry.

Why are the Mormons Trying to Stop Gay Marriage in California

Why are the Mormons Trying to Stop Gay Marriage in California - Don't they make the Laws in Utah? Why fight so hard to STOP us from Marrying when the Mormons should know how bad it is to have others judge who you want to Marry and what goes on in your Home. The Mormons have NO RIGHT to speak of what they deem to be our morals or to tell us what we need to do in order to be moral.

It is Time To Stand Up - to Make Folks know that We are Viable - Productive - Intelligent members of this society and we deserve the same rights as all who "Choose" to be Straight.

Prop 8 Rally Call to March on Mormon Temple in Los Angeles

Lez Get Real's own contributors were at the Prop. 8 Protest Rally held in Santa Monica, CA earlier tonight. Streets were closed in the area to accommodate the gathering. Here is what happened at that rally, as reported to me via text message from p.

Johanna: "There was a reverend speaking and also another woman, who said this is a human rights issue. The crowd was really hyped. They said we need to stay angry! We need to keep going against Prop. 8 and towards civil rights and equality in the U.S.

The crowd cheered in unison 'Yes we can! Yes we can!' They said we shouldn't be violent, but that we should work together to not be at the back of the bus anymore.

The crowd yelled 'Equal rights! Equal rights!

News channels began to arrive and it seemed like they didn't know this event was happening. A call was issued to march on the Mormon Temple at 10777 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles at 2pm tomorrow November 6th. Bring your signs and video cameras.

Jerry Brown the State Attorney spoke saying that

the marriages performed between June and yesterday are still valid.

They are fighting for us and it's a legal mess. They are working around the clock on this. Jerry Brown says that we need to walk together, to walk in solidarity. The crowd yelled together 'Yes we can! Yes we can!'.Javier Angulo called for a Chicano clap.

The crowd yelled 'Si se puede! Si se puede!'. A helicopter flew overhead, and the crowd cheered at it. Javier Angulo quotes Martin Luther King Jr. saying that he had a dream and Obama made part of that dream come true.

He says that now our fundamental rights have been infringed upon, but hold onto hope - all the votes have not been counted. Regardless, he said to take pride in achieving social justice.

He said that the Latino community is often overlooked, and that Latinos value social justice. He says we have an ally. At that point everyone, even other nationalities chanted 'Si se puede! Si se puede!'.

The helicopter shined its light on the crowd. He said they were shining the light on discrimination. At that point, the woman began to speak again and said that bigotry is not only here, but in Arkansas, Arizona and Florida, but said that years to come the people who voted Yes on Prop 8 and in the other States will be ashamed of themselves. The crowd cheered 'Shame! Shame!'. She said that we are on the right side of history.

Now, we're mad. And when we get mad, we work harder and we work smarter.

The opposition will wish they didn't mess with us.

At that, the crowd went crazy. I would often hear, 'TAX THEM! TAX THEM!'

She continued by saying that if we look at Prop. 22 we lost by a higher margin. This time we were within 5 points. That is enormous progress. The crowd yelled 'Not enough! Not enough!'.

They were very angry!

She went on to say that we make a promise to our opponents that we will gain our rights back, and we will crush discrimination. She said don't lose heart; use this as a push; don't give up... vow to continue the fight. She said to talk to everyone you know and tell them why the vote was wrong and how it was wrong from the start. Tell them how the majority was tyrannical to the minority, she continued. Tomorrow we will march on the Mormon Temple.

"Folks Please Go if you can Get there - it is Time for the WHOLE nation to fight for California. California Lesbian Rights Activists change the world for ALL of us Lesbians" OutLesbian.com

The crowd cheered. The emphasis seems to be against the Mormons, and to fight against them. The crowd cheered in unison 'Equal rights! Equal rights!'

There was a sign next to me that said 'You can't amend love.'

At that point she told us the rally was over.

She said that tonight do not take it to the streets.

We aren't taking it to our streets, she continued, tomorrow we take it to theirs."

Thank You California Lesbians,

Our Prayers are With You All...

Thank YOU for Fighting for ALL of Us OUT Lesbians.

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Proposition 8 from ChuloonThe6

Gay Folks - No Rights - Why

Caution - there is quite a bit of cussing in this Video

But I Like It

California Passed a Law then they Let People
Vote for other Peoples Rights...

Is Love Traditional ?

Blacks SHOULD Know Better
then to Discriminate -
I mean Are We NOT Equal ?

Gay Marriage Supporters March in Protest of Prop 8 in Los Angeles

Marching in Protest Right Now..

California VOTED for HATE

Californians Voted to Get Discrimination
into the Constitution...

Oh So Happy a Victory

Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times Photo
Bob Knoke, of Mission Viejo, Amanda Stanfield, of Monrovia, Jim Domen,
of Yorba Linda, and J.D. Gaddis, of Yorba Linda,

celebrate returns for Proposition 8 at an Irvine hotel.

Now These are Some Happy Folks.

Hate Makes Them Happy, WHY?

Never Will I understand How Keeping Me from Being Married as You Can affects your personal life. With the Heterosexual Couples, the Multiple Marrying Couples (Mormons) and the Faith Be Stronger and somehow restored by keeping me from marrying. I am still just as married as you are but without the government benefits you get, without basic human righs of visiting my spouse easily in the hospital - your VOTE is not changing our moral choices and can NEVER change who we are, Your Vote only puts your Hate on your Sleeve for ALL to See.

Well At least the Conservatives Did Not Lose Everything on Election Nite..

Most Gay and Lesbians will simply and peacefully return to the lives and wait to stand up again when the time comes. However, the folks - the Mormon Money - and all those who rose up to Stop Loving Couples in California from Marrying - I ask you, will this really make your life better? How Could it Possibly?

My Love is NOT a Contract it is a Committment, STOP saying you approve of 2 adults having a Contract, I don't approve of a large percentage of Heterosexual Couples - of Loveless and abusive marriage - of WEAK domestic violence laws - of pregnant teen - of smoking while pregnant BUT I don't see any laws to assist with any of this.

Only a Law to Keep me In my place and try and save the supposed spiritual sould of which Do unto Others as you would have be done upon you is apparently of NO Use. Seems to me it is a chance to pick and choose which parts of the bible and your intrepretation of this parts that you ENFORCE onto the rest of us with really NO right to do so. We cannot come into your home and change what we Do Not approve of YET you in your almighty Right believe you have that Right over Us.

Attention: All of you OUT Lesbians, We at OutLesbian.com wish to say we are Sorry For Your Loss on Proposition 8 and we are glad that you are out and proud, tell your story online, share your wonderful words - your beautiful life with all of us. Share your Art - Your Photos and your love for your Wife with all of us in your Online Lesbian Community - WE Love You - We support You and We Stand Here with you.

Please Do Not let this defeat take your Light down one knotch, you are wonderful - bright - gorgeous Lesbian Women loving other awesome - beautiful - brilliant Lesbian women. Keep on doing what your doing and don't let THEIR vote define one moment of your life. Share with us your obstacles, your issues.

Idea: Lets Start a Group, a MASSIVE group to get Group Insurance for Lesbians and once and for all overcome the issue of a Spouse not being insured for whatever ignorant reason should come up.

Let's hit each issue the Lesbian community faces with Numbers, Millions and Millions of Us online networking - creating - supporting each other and Creating Solutions BETTER then ANY government could EVER created for Us...

Take Care OUT theres.
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Why is this Such an Agenda ? Does It Really Matter so Much to Keep Us from Equal Rights?

Early Polls Show California's Prop 8 Gaining

Early poll results Tuesday night showed California voters leaning toward overturning same-sex marriage in the state in a decision that could impact how the issue plays out elsewhere in the nation. Approval of Proposition 8 would be a stunning upset in a $70-million campaign that just weeks ago looked to be running in favor of preserving gay marriage rights.
By 9 p.m. in California, 54.5 % of voters favored passing Prop 8, as the measure is known, and 45.5% were against it, with 20.9% of precincts voting, according to the Secretary of State. However, both sides cautioned that the vote could be very close and that it might still be early to declare a winner. The passage of Prop 8, as it is known, would be a major victory for religious conservatives seeking to ban gay marriage in other states, and a crippling setback for the gay rights movement nationwide.

Full Article Click Below

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122586056759900673.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Why Do We Bother Loving Our Country or Paying Our Taxes.

How Can This Possible Be Such an Issue,
Is Not your Relationship With God About Love and
about YOUR relationship YOU with Your GOD and Not
about who I choose to Spend my Life With... Stunning Really.

I must Rest Tonight.. But I Pray this Is Not the way
this Article Seems to Be Leaning.