Suze Orman

We just want to give a hand to Suze orman for her courage, intelligence and paving the way for Lesbian Professional and Strong, and Gorgeous Lesbians EveryWhere.

Links to Suze' Coming Out awhile back.

In the Feb. 25, 2007, issue of the New York Times Magazine, financial guru Suze Orman revealed that she is a lesbian and has been with her partner, Kathy Travis, for seven years.

http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/2/suzeorman

And just when you thought the celebrity news couldn't get any more personal or surprising. Boy, were we wrong. For some reason, Suze Orman, the world famous money guru, not only announced herself a lesbian to a New York Times Magazine reporter (that I can understand if one is asked and does not want to lie), but then went even further. She noted she's never, ever been with a man, and then labeled herself a 55-year-old virgin. I've been hesitant to blog about this only because I'm probably the last person who should comment on an adult's sexual admissions. But I do know some of you may want to chime in, so here goes.

http://tammybruce.com/2007/02/suze_orman_knows.php

Words have meaning. To be a virgin is not just to abstain from sexual intercourse with a man, but to remain completely chaste and pure. It’s no more accurate to say that a sexually active lesbian is a virgin that it was for Bill Clinton to say “I did not have sex with that woman” — and furthermore, it’s terribly dangerous to mislead young people like this.

http://americansfortruth.com/news/suze-orman-lesbian-and-virgin.html

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Queen Latifah Marriage ?

After the state of California overturned a ban on gay marriages, many expected a rash of same-sex marriages to be scheduled in the state. On the celeb side of things, it seems that Queen Latifah will be amongst the first big stars to marry her longterm partner.

According to this week's edition of the National Enquirer, Queen Latifah plans to marry her partner of five years, personal trainer Jeannette Jenkins.
Queen Latifah has been very tight-lipped about her relationship with Jenkins, and told Ebony magazine in 2007 that she would not comment on the rumor that Jenkins was her girlfriend. She didn't deny it, she was just annoyed that she was asked.

“No comment on that at all. I’m done commenting on all that … It’s ridiculous, I know me and that’s all I need to know.

“And if the readers don’t know me, then that’s one part they aren’t going to get to know. Those are my people but they don’t sleep with me,” she says in a very even tone that is very consistent with her relaxed mood. “It feels so invasive. It’s the one thing I don’t think people need to know about.”

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http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/5706

http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20080607/11711/queen-latifah-to-marry-girlfriend-of-five-years/

http://www.hollyscoop.com/queen-latifah/queen-latifah-is-getting-hitched_16364.aspx

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Ellen To marry

Well Gals are You Ready ? With the Marriage ban being lifted in California its good news for Lesgian Rights. My Partner and I have been Registered Domestic Partners for 12 years now out of Northern California. Its Time for the rest of the US to follow.

Links to Ellen Video
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/ellen-degeneres-announces-plans-to-get-married-after-yesterdays-court-ruling/

http://video.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wv&q=ellen

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Coming Out - Queen Latifah

IS actress and singer Queen Latifah coming out of the closet?

I, for one REALLY hope so. She is a strong and talented woman and is an asset to our community. If it is her than Awesome.

The story says, "WHICH big Hollywood actress is about to come out of the closet? She's been living with her girlfriend in a small town, where all the neighbors know, and the two are now engaged to be married." We WILL wait and See.

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Is it almost 2008 and ....

I cannot believe that even in New York this can happen.

2 Arrests in Anti-Gay Beating of 'Top Chef' Contestant Josie Smith-Malave

Police say two women have been arrested in an anti-gay attack on a former "Top Chef" reality show contestant and her friends in Sea Cliff, on Long Island.
Nassau County police announced the arrests a day after victim Josie Smith-Malave's attorney said she had filed a complaint accusing investigators of not pursuing the case energetically enough. Police said at the time that an arrest had recently been made and another was imminent.

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Thoughts of a Rural Lesbian

Thoughts of a Rural Lesbian

I just feel that a small town holds you into being what they think you should. And even if you are, say a lesbian, anyway despite the gossip and the negative glances. You still may not dress how you REALLY want or have your hair as radical as you may like. A life of mediocrity, I guess you would call it. Where your dreams are in your head, your passion is secretly kept to your bed, and well, your appearance is status quo with no real direction.

Breaking Out of this MOLD, no matter how unfulfilling it may be, is for most simply an impossible and unbearable feat.

It simply is harder than it sounds, for me to Really carry ME beyond my room and out into their version of me. I can go among them, I can take the constant disapproval, with this I can stay positive, however, I find it almost impossible to radically be me on all levels I know myself to be, when just walking into a room, still in this day and age, makes the rooms mindless – idle chatter come to a halt.

And why, I ask, what is such a big deal that the local drunk – the town slut – the adulterine businessmen, the bank teller, and all the townies with secret lives must quit eating their breakfast in a crowded café and look at me and my partner with a quietness and a stillness that really is unmatched. Once, a waitress took such incredible note of the obvious reaction that she, herself apologized.

I am kind of tired of hiding parts of me, though I am OUT, without a doubt. Not even a mouse, does not know I am a lesbian in my small town. However, is that enough? If I cannot be me, the writer in me cannot burst forth, my healing abilities are closeted, and I wear my hair in a way they will understand. Even though that is impossible

All because being a lesbian, well that’s about all they can take for now, as a community and being a lesbian is a very small part of who I am.

I want to be a Good Strong Lesbian, and empower lesbians everywhere. I want to walk through their version of me and walk my path, unafraid of their eyes and their blather. I want you to be proud of you, and if I stand tall than, somehow it is winning one or taking one for the team, per say.

If I can take the chatter, the stares, the negativity shot from the eyes of sinners, and the constant inner disapproval that I can feel – even if I ignore – than maybe I am making the world a better place for all lesbians.

Lately, I wonder if me simply walking a half baked version of my truth to gain approval of some sort from those who are not even looking, is enough for me to call a life?

What if I did not live here, what if their eyes could not see me and I got them all out of my head? What if their disapproval was not even noticed and I laughed everyday, somewhere else without caring what they thought of me? Could I really do that? Could I really get them all out of my head, off of my bed, and out of my sight?

Though I know that no matter where I am, someone will have some kind of problem with what I may say or do, how I walk or dress, or who I seem to be. And someone will sling the negativity mud ball.

However, there is NOTHING quite like the ties that are wrapped around you in a small town where everybody thinks that they had some part in raising you and expect you to be a product of society that they can relate to, however impossible that may be, and somehow be proud of, even if they never tell you.

The ties are so tightly wound, that even when you move away, the town, the glances, the disapproval tries to live on in your head.

One wonders what would happen if I truly did give up their version of me and truly did walk into the person I think of as me when I look into the mirror in my mind.
My guess is in that place of mind, that place where they don’t have a clue what I do with my days or my nights, that I would than be my perfect weight, my heart would not be heavy on a daily basis for reasons I cannot quite make out, I would not be nervous at who I might see and what asinine thing they may say.

I don’t want to seem weak, I am not weak. And I do enjoy seeing the faces I have known for years. I mostly enjoy spreading cheer, and light and letting people know how great they are and who they can be. I like seeing some of the people I have known my whole life, however, it does not out weigh the binds I place on myself to live in a daily “sameness” forever awaiting an event that never happens.

Though I convinced myself it was the mountains I loved, the drama of humans has kept me off the trails and away from the high country lakes that I love so. And in this I ask is living in the mountains, enough to truly experience them in the way I see myself interacting in my minds eye?


I feel I live a life separate from myself. I have different blog accounts for my different levels of acceptance and almost to 2008 now and still being really OUT, seems impossible.

What if I let myself physical live in the mystical magical place in my mind and find that cabin that soothes my soul, spend my mornings with my lover in non-assuming embrace, and went for a kayak ride before the morning coffee looking into her eyes know that WE DID IT, we walked right through the fire they lit, and we walked right out of the mold they laid for us, and we truly became an us without anybodies version of who we should be left to keep us from truly experiencing joy and bliss.
And than in the afternoon, while walking under the large aromatic trees we would feel laughter, we would walk without burden and we would let go – truly let go – of what anyone ever needed us to be to make their life more comfortable. You and I, my lover, would laugh all day, a deep hardy laughing knowing that we Truly did Break the Mold.

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Lesbian Consumer Trends Report

Lesbian Consumer Trends

September 26, 2007 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Groundbreaking New Survey Describes Lesbian Consumer Habits in the USA
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c69414 ) has announced the addition of USA Lesbian Consumer Index Report 2007-08 to their offering.
An unprecedented 25,000 participants, split almost evenly between gay men and lesbians, have completed the CMI Gay & Lesbian Consumer Index survey, resulting in the most comprehensive and truly representative LGBT market research in the world. The USA Gay Consumer Index™and the USA Lesbian Consumer Index™include ground-breaking quantitative data and deep insights on demographics, psychographics, purchase behavior and motivations, and social and political perspectives.
Methodology
In the 34-day period from Friday, April 13, 2007 to Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 12,044 men and 10,380 women who self-identify themselves as gay or lesbian and reside in the United States completed this survey. The goal of this study was to survey self-identified “out” lesbian and gay consumers, who interact with gay and lesbian print or internet media, regarding their purchasing habits and motivators. With sample sizes of over 10,000, the margin of error is plus or minus 1% at a 95% confidence interval.
Because this study encompassed such a wide variety of media and other partners, covering virtually every geographic area of the USA, the findings contained in this report present the first truly representative profile of lesbian and gay male consumers in history. Analysis of the geographical distribution of respondents closely matches the distribution of gays and lesbians in the United States as found in 2000 US Census and other CMI research comparisons.
The methodology employed polls consumers representing the target audience who can be reached using LGBT print and Internet marketing resources. The findings derive from those who identify openly as gay or lesbian and read LGBT publications and/or websites, and/or belong to email lists. These results should not necessarily be extrapolated to the entire gay and lesbian population; however, these findings do provide guidance regarding the perceptions and opinions of “out” gays and lesbians who can be reached through LGBT websites and publications.
By using more than 75 local, regional and national media distributed throughout the United States, as well as our own survey pool amassed from more than 14 years of research of lesbians and gay men, we assured geographic distribution covered the entire nation. (37% of respondents to the Gay Consumer Index and 41% of those from the Lesbian Consumer Index live in non-coastal states.)
CMI chose not to weight the results of this survey, but instead to offer insight to specific questions based on age, gender and/or income. The decision to weight a national sample assumes that there is a reliable measure with which the sample can be weighted. There are, however no official government-provided data on sexual orientation (as there are for education, race, age, gender, and region, all provided by the U.S. Census Bureau). All available data is based on surveys, subject to a variety of sources of error, and therefore not suitable as a weighting target.
US Census data is misleading as it only considers same-sex couples living together in the same household who specified that the relationship between the first party and the second party on the survey form was "partner." Census data ignores all single lesbians and gay men, and couples who do not live together, and those who interpret their relationship as other than "partner" on a government form, therefore other available data (including the US Census) was used to determine that this study fairly represents US lesbians and gay men.
Analysis includes a review of the age distribution of respondents compared to the age distribution of men and women from the US Census. Respondents skewed toward the median age in both studies as disclosed in the reports. The survey samples of lesbians and gay men under age 25 and over age 65 are lower than the percentage of US residents in that age brackets. However, social issues may attribute to this. Because people come to the conclusion that they are gay or lesbian at different ages, it is understandable that the percentage of younger respondents would be lower than the US population as a whole. Seniors may have experienced different social taboos and therefore may be less likely to be “out”. In addition, especially among older gay men, the lower numbers could be partially contributed to the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
THE MEDIAN US LESBIAN CONSUMER…
GAY AND LESBIAN MARKET TREND OBSERVATIONS
LIST OF COMMENTARIES
DEMOGRAPHICS
AGE
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
OCCUPATION
RELATIONSHIP STATUS
CHILDREN
ETHNIC DIVERSITY
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
PROPERTY OWNERSHIP
PET GUARDIANSHIP
PSYCHOGRAPHICS AND MOTIVATIONS
ADVERTISING
EMPLOYMENT POLICIES
SPONSORSHIP
IMPACT OF ADS FOR ALCOHOL
RETIREMENT PLANNING
SOCIAL RECOGNITION
HOMOSEXUALITY AS A DIVISIVE ISSUE
TERMINOLOGY FOR ADDRESSING LGBT COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Dining Out
Fine Dining
Spending on Dining
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Preference of Spirits
Preference of Vodka Brand
MOVIES
Internet Usage
Online Purchases
Online Banking
TV VIEWING
TV Networks Most Watched
PUBLICATIONS READ
PURCHASES
CREDIT CARDS
Preference of Credit Card Brands
ELECTRONICS
THE COFFEE CULTURE
BOTTLED WATER & SPORTS DRINKS
CLOTHING
TRAVEL
PLANS TO PURCHASE REAL ESTATE
SERVICES
CHARITY
TYPE OF AUTOMOBILE OWNED
Frequency of Purchase
Criteria for Purchasing Vehicles
HEALTH AND FITNESS
VITAMINS
HIV STATUS
Last Tested
POLITICAL PROFILE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
MID-TERM ELECTION
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
ADVOCACY FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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Democratic Debate for Gay Rights

Democratic presidential contenders faced pointed questions on gay marriage and the basis for sexual orientation in a forum that forced candidates to confront politically touchy issues that have vexed a nation.

Former Sen. John Edwards found himself discussing whether he is comfortable around gay people he said he is. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson appeared to struggle with a question about why people become gay or lesbian. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ended up defending the record of her husband, former President Clinton, on gay rights.

Mitt Romney in the Cross-Hairs on the Eve of Ames Straw PollDems Tiptoe Around Issues in Gay ForumRADAR: Giuliani: 'I Have That Same Risk'Related Topics
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"We certainly didn't get as much done as I would have liked," the New York senator said. "But there was a lot of honest effort."

Six of the eight Democratic candidates answered questions Thursday on gay rights at the two-hour forum co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group active in Democratic politics, and Logo, a gay-oriented cable TV channel that aired the forum live. More At… http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3467118


THANK YOU Melissa and Hillary

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.

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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.