Eventually I lose myself a little in his life, dancing along with Austin, William, Nicolas, and a few hundred other gays and lesbians when the parade organizers blast the Village People’s “In the Navy.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On us, it ended up sounding like a lesbian rock ballad. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thankfully Lindsey was back doing her lesbian bravado, and she said, “I’m making you a mix tape like the second I get home,” and pulled me in for another hug, a real one. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Many people don’t accept me when they find out I’m a lesbian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Elizabeth hates high school and wants to explore lesbian relationships. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But just suppose I was developing into a lesbian, how would she react? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have spoken with two whole men—two!—who pretended to be lesbians just so they could talk to me, an actual lesbian.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She says I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, that why should she listen to me when I dress like a homeless lesbian? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I realized I was a lesbian just recently, when my best friend told me that she loved me and I returned her love. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I guess there are a few lesbian and bisexual girls, but I think it’s different for girls. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Low blow. Yeah, I can keep my mouth shut. Until I have something to say. You try being the half Dominican lesbian with buckteeth in this town, okay?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He knew that Esperanza’s parents had reacted much more strangely when she had told them that she was a lesbian. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A number of these women are lesbians, newly declared or changing over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Ellis, who says things like lesbian luncheon. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Thirty-seven of them will be about a shy, reclusive Pennsylvania Dutch lesbian who Wants To Write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Is he weird about her being a lesbian?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But now I’m Astrid Jones, recently out lesbian who just got back from being suspended for saying the F-word several times right in front of the vice principal. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, my aunt Nadine is a lesbian. I think Aunt Patty is bi.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I gave the kid drum back to the hippie lesbian and told her thanks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The public library gave information on the finished lesbian—and that woefully sketchy—but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew plenty of girls who played sports when we went to school who weren’t lesbians, Claire,” Dad says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were married by a lesbian justice of the peace while their friends played a guitar-feedback-heavy version of the “Wedding March.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God doesn’t like lesbians,” Grandma Huberman hissed, throwing the magazine in the trash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny and made Maya very glad that she had been born a lesbian. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were “bom that way.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t we go back to talking about the lesbian luncheon or whatever?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“My sister, for one. Hell, my mother played sports in the fifties. Last time I checked, she wasn’t a lesbian, either.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So the answer is probably yes, I am a raging lesbian. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After my third reading of The Well of Loneliness I became a bleeding heart for the downtrodden misunderstood lesbians. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means I am more of a lesbian than I was only a minute ago when I was just looking at Kim and thinking about how cute she is. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I should not be, but come on. What did these guys think the end result would be? That you’d renounce your sexuality just because they could catfish a lesbian really well?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These two lesbian girls I don’t even know come up to me at my locker and hug me and give me their phone numbers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I thought maybe I was turning into a lesbian.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, if you’re expecting some big news about how I’m some lesbian or whatever because I got busted at a gay club, then you’re fresh out of luck.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I thought “lesbian” was synonymous with hermaphrodite, and when I wasn’t actively aching over their pitiful state, I was wondering how they managed simpler body functions. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody doesn’t stop speaking to me or send me away to live in a home for lesbian middle schoolers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know, none of this would have happened if you had just been a lesbian like your adorable little sister.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Seriously, how can a person with a lesbian sister not even consider that as a possibility? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing the Tumblr has taught me, it’s that a lot of guys consider it hot when a girl is a lesbian. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It has more lesbian couples per capita than any city in the nation, and one of the largest proportions of gay- and lesbian-headed households. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After a while this lesbian hippie chick tapped me on the shoulder and held out a little kid drum. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I grew up with gay parents, and I’ve always known I like girls, so I just assumed I was a lesbian, you know?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“A lesbian? Where the hell did you get that idea?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were women exploring "what their bodies were all about" and a whole chapter on lesbians. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wright is promoting an album and a new book about her life as a closeted lesbian, and her revelation gives her exposure to a potential fan base outside traditional country audiences. Cultural Studies: A Celebrity Comes Out of the Closet? So What? 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z

She and Adrienne Monnier were leading figures among the brilliant Left Bank lesbians of the era, along with Stein and Toklas. Books of The Times: ?Letters of Sylvia Beach,? Edited by Keri Walsh 2010-04-18T22:21:00Z

The change in attitude is best reflected in a conversation a lesbian friend overheard between her 12-year-old and his friend. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

The two were best friends in high school, but their lives diverge after Addie moves to Chicago, where she comes out as a lesbian. Reviews: ‘Trish Tinkler Gets Saved’ and ‘The Long Way Around’ 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

For example, she made a negative comment about lesbians. My mother says intolerant things while my daughter is around. Should I confront her? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

But lesbians accounted for 33 percent of all regular and recurring L.G.B.T.Q. characters this season, up 8 points from last year. The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Among the lesbians I know, either the one who asked the question bought the ring, they got matching ones, or they just didn’t bother. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

But years before that 5-4 decision, film and TV helped spur Americans' acceptance of gays and lesbians. Years before court ruling, pop culture shaped same-sex marriage debate 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

As lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make summer travel plans, or even plans to attend pride celebrations in our own cities, how important is safety when deciding where to go in a post-Orlando world? Gay Travelers on Where to Go From Here 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

And if we want to get technical about the timeline, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" actually predates "Dracula" by 25 years, and revolves around lesbian vampires. The emasculation of the modern vampire? 2011-07-29T21:30:00Z

By 10th grade, she had come out as a lesbian. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

The landmark series followed the lives of a group of lesbians in West Hollywood as they hung out, gossiped, dated, broke up, made up and had plenty of steamy sex. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

You had to stick together in a pack and be friends only with other lesbians. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

He was about to marry Abraham Olusegun Oni, a Nigerian who had immigrated to South Africa because of its relative safety for gays and lesbians. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 25, 1992, the Sundance Film Festival convened a panel on contemporary lesbian and gay cinema and “the significance of this movement,” according to the program. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

That's why Sue Perkins' lesbian vet sitcom Heading Out was insufficiently – oh, how it pains me to write the next word – funny. Does feel-bad TV make us feel good? 2013-06-11T07:00:00Z

"People publicly admitted to their fondness for drugs, preached mystical bedevilment and … made no secret of their homosexual or lesbian tendencies". The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z

“I love that I feel like I can peek into my future by seeing older lesbians, who I never get to see,” she said. In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

It is of course a tragedy that it would seem libellous to an American woman in the 1980s to be portrayed as a lesbian. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Another old deleted message contained a slur directed at lesbians. After recent cancellations, Iggy Azalea needs to be in crisis mode 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Under Big Mother’s tutelage, the trainees of her Female Liberation Army are encouraged to practice lesbian separatism as the revolutionary model for a future society without male domination. Review: ‘The Misandrists’ Makes a Mockery of Matriarchies and Patriarchies Alike 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

But in “Pariah” the gaze of desire doesn’t emanate from predatory males but A.G.’s, that is aggressive lesbians, who, in a safe space where they enjoy the fellowship of peers, can be true to themselves. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

When the team won the cup, their official Twitter account affirmed the quote by saying, "Told ya" over a photo of three lesbian team members. Women's World Cup was a triumph — and totally triggered the right-wing snowflakes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Page also spoke of her privilege as a white lesbian and called for people to support other survivors of violence who are more marginalized than she was. Ellen Page says Brett Ratner outed her as gay in sexual remark when she was 18 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The hysterical response of the Saudis to the cheerful Icelanders — a lesbian, a gay man and a woman whose husband stays home to care for the children — is presented as a smutty sex comedy. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Related: Carol sweeps gay and lesbian critics' awards after Oscars snub Though critically adored, the film has also failed to set the box office alight as comprehensively as many had hoped. ABC refuses to show Carol ad featuring lesbian love scene 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

It would be easy for her to cast Paul as the story's comic villain, the blithe, privileged, good-looking straight white guy who screws up the happy lesbian household. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z

The lesbian family comedy "The Kids Are All Right," the ballerina melodrama "Black Swan," and the mountain misadventure "127 Hours" also have multiple bids at both events. "Winter's Bone" seeks indie film honors 2011-02-26T17:50:27Z

Triply marginalized — as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew — Ms. Rich was concerned in her poetry, and in her many essays, with identity politics long before term was coined. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

Mark Semple, a veteran hospitality professional, is the wedding concierge at B Ocean Resort Fort Lauderdale, where he organizes custom ceremonies and receptions, including those for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples. A Concierge for Same-Sex Weddings in Florida 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Hough was supposed to be a Lambda Award finalist for best lesbian memoir, one of 24 categories announced last week by the Lambda Literary organization. Judges pull award nomination for book by Lauren Hough 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

She is persona non grata in their cloistered community — where gay and lesbian relationships are forbidden — because of a teenage relationship she had with her friend Esti, played by a deglamorized Rachel McAdams. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

A child is born in America, the son of an immigrant South Asian lesbian mother and a Black father. 10 books to read in August 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fuller, herself a clinical social worker, had begun class an hour before by clarifying that she is a “male-identified, African-American lesbian.” The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Violet Tendencies charts a Manhattan fag-hag's romantic crisis, and no prizes for guessing what BearCity is about, or its lesbian equivalent, an experimental thriller called The Owls. This week's new film events 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

This is a proud lesbian musical that also happens to be one of the best new musicals of our era.  This 'Fun Home' weaves tragedy and comedy into a wholly original American musical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

My mom was a card carrying feminist lesbian. UnREAL and the Evolution of the Female Anti-Hero 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

For too long, lesbians have been perceived as unfashionable, miserable and ugly. Lip Service is groundbreaking ? whatever its star says 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

Steamy lesbian sex -- in Tehran A luscious, sensual journey into the underworld of Iranian youth culture, Maryam Keshavarz's debut feature "Circumstance" is one of the biggest indie-film discussion topics of the year. Steamy lesbian sex -- in Tehran 2011-08-26T20:50:00Z

They rejected genteel proprieties and posed women with full-frontal nudity, in lesbian seductions, as victims of murder, in bondage restraints and as killers of hapless men. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Peggy’s debut was coming up,” she notes, “and, lesbian or no lesbian, you had to have a tea-length off-the-shoulder dress made of boiled cotton with a flower print and tulle underskirts.” ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

We are all — the gays, the lesbians, the transgender community — still stalking, tottering and sashaying along it. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Like when we’d go out to lesbian bars in the hope of picking up a woman to bring back to my place. My open relationship went awry 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

“Whitman-Walker was more than just a clinic to our community. It was the resource center. Whitman-Walker was counseling specifically in a gay and lesbian context.” The District’s HIV clinic was failing. This ‘old, straight white guy’ managed to save it. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“There is a unique historical experience here to gay and lesbian Americans. To minimize it by calling it ‘snippets’ is to walk away from any claims for justice.” In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Then Mary Lambert, an openly lesbian singer, delivers a stirring chorus over Mr. Lewis’s lush piano. Stars Align for a Gay Marriage Anthem 2013-06-30T18:10:26Z

Yes, the movie's family matters matter, but the film also deserves note for its frank and lighthearted depiction of lesbian sex. Cinema's most pivotal gay sex scenes 2010-07-11T15:01:00Z

His website is for all rural dwellers, including gay and lesbian ones. FarmersOnly.com founder on why rural Americans need their own dating site 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

The cameo appearances in a later episode of Penny Marshall and Lorraine Bracco, as Oscar’s lesbian friends, exceed the show’s maximum capacity and detract from its notable efforts to improve. Fox’s ‘Mulaney’: When a bad sitcom happens to a great guy

Bette is campaigning to be the first lesbian mayor of Los Angeles. ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

So the next time one of your lesbian friends announces her engagement, don’t hesitate to ask what the brides will be wearing. Civilities: ‘When two lesbians marry why does one wear a dress, and the other pants?’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Healy has become even more a caricature, with his ranting about the “lesbian agenda.” 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: The Water Is Rising, Rising, Rising 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Standard definitions like transgender or lesbian don’t apply. Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z

On getting to second base with a guy who dressed “vaguely like a middle-aged lesbian”: The most Lena-Dunham sex scenes from Lena Dunham’s new book 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Each chapter hews to the conventions of a different genre: road trip, romance novel, creature feature, lesbian pulp novel, stoner comedy. ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Together with a burgeoning men’s gay movement, feminist lesbians and gay men formed the Gay Liberation Front in the 1969. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

Lesbians patronized various Mafia-run lesbian bars elsewhere in the Village, like the Sea Colony and Kooky’s. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the late 1970s, Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign was centered on the notion of “homosexual recruitment,” the belief that gays and lesbians tried to woo unsuspecting children into their ranks. Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

UW students opposed to Coulter's views were holding a fundraiser Thursday for gays, lesbians and advocates of people with alternative lifestyles. Coulter brings conservative rebuttal to Wyoming 2011-03-31T19:29:12Z

We outlasted being a joke only to find our adversaries had repositioned “feminist” as synonymous with “lesbian”—therefore oooh, “dangerous.” Robin Morgan on Why Feminist Is a 21st Century Word 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Two women drivers, one from a local family, the other returning to the city with her lesbian lover, are brought face-to-face with pain and death when they cause an impromptu traffic jam. Australian trek, Sicilian stand-off feature at Venice film fest opening 2013-08-29T20:05:36Z

Clinton embodies something many lesbians accomplish effortlessly: She dresses in a way that does not cater to, or even consider, the male gaze.” “Hillary’s look is a practical one”: Can we stop talking about Clinton’s clothes now? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Your goal may be “equal rights for gays, lesbians and other historically marginalized groups.” David Brooks writes most mansplainy David Brooks line ever 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

For no particular reason, except perhaps desperation, the story halfheartedly throws in a lesbian angle by having Cat pine for Alice. Movie Review: ‘Coming Up Roses,’ Starring Bernadette Peters 2012-11-09T01:36:08Z

The edited version, she said, also censored the words “vagina” and “lesbian.” Delta responds to backlash over in-flight film censorship of 'homosexual content' 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Regardless of your particular circumstances, it’s difficult to ignore that some hotels, restaurants and even bakeries continue to discriminate against gays and lesbians. A gay couple is angered when addressed as ‘Mr. and Mrs.’ Is it homophobia?

Ms. Foster has not discussed her love life in interviews or made a political point of being a lesbian. The TV Watch: Jodie Foster Lifts a Veil at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T23:02:55Z

"Orange is the New Black" is set in a women's prison and frequently focuses on lesbian relationships. 'Orange is the New Black' star, show writer get engaged 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Chaz Bono, Jean Smart, Amber Heard and Ed Begley Jr. were among the celebrity attendees who toasted the group, which focuses on how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks are presented in the media. GLAAD celebrates 25th anniversary 2010-12-04T17:16:00Z

We learn that the vivacious Clare has secrets to protect and that her friend and editor Rory, a lesbian, is in love with her. Inspector Lynley returns in Elizabeth George’s ‘A Banquet of Consequences’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

In Brazil, “lesbian” was the second most-searched term, with “Brazilian lesbian” also making the top 10. Why lesbian porn dominates 10 Years Of Pornhub data 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

While there are no significant statistics comparing the cohabitation speeds of queer vs. straight women, there is some science that pinpoints why a lesbian couple might move in together sooner than a hetero couple. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

She frets about her lesbian Nazi vocal-coach roommate and a mysterious, powerful Palm Springs man who she believes kidnapped her dog. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Last of the Red Hot Lovers,’ at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls 2013-06-15T00:31:49Z

The new constitution even banned discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people, making South Africa the first on this overwhelmingly homophobic continent — and one of the few in the world — to do so. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In this class the word is gay or lesbian, and this is why.’ “ Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

At points I’ve paid for a Guardian Soulmates subscription, which admittedly attracts a higher calibre of lesbian, but the pool of women seeking women is a small one. Love me Tinder – tales from the frontline of modern dating 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Today, it’s a room of one’s own for women: In 1979, a group of women, most of them lesbians, bought the building and opened it as a community center for performances and courses. Uncovering Gay History in San Francisco 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Signs of changing Middle East times are also evident in “Circumstance,” a plaintive lesbian love story set in Tehran — though shot in Lebanon — from the director Maryam Keshavarz. Critic?s Notebook: Awkward Embraces, Assured Directors 2011-03-27T21:52:50Z

He studies what he refers to as “minority stress” and its effect on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z

There were no niceties of language when it came to the way the U.S. government treated gay and lesbian people for most of the past century. In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Will she be a lesbian and have a strangely intimate will they-or-won't they relationship with Bill? A Female 'Doctor Who?' It's About Timey Wimey 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

News anchor Robin Roberts, on the other hand, received a generally positive response when she said she was a lesbian. How long will a public figure coming out of the closet still make news?

There are a few men around – staff working the event and guys who have been dragged along by lesbian friends – but they are hard to spot. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The aim was to create space for gays and lesbians to come together without fear of official harassment. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Separatist lesbian culture was kind of willfully low-tech. Everything was sort of homemade,” Ms. Moyer said. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

At this point the movie goes overboard and flirts nervously with the possibility of a lesbian attraction between Katie and Lauren. Movie Review: ‘For a Good Time, Call...’ Is a Romp About Phone Sex 2012-08-30T22:21:53Z

The movies arrive at a delicate moment in the long battle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in India. Gay-Themed Movies in India Fight Back Against Taboos 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

But the Bat-family has form for this sort of thing, the Mail – almost sadly – acknowledges in its closing paragraph: "Batwoman, a DC favourite, made her comic book comeback as a lesbian in 2006." Gay superheroes: Holy cow! Why is everyone in a hurry to out Batman? 2012-05-23T11:41:34Z

And the amount of sapphic activity in the show was much appreciated by gays like myself, making Kohan a cultural icon among lesbians – or, to use the technical term, a “dykon”. Screen queens: the funny, fearless women who revolutionised TV 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

She calls herself a “political lesbian” because for her, dating women was as much about finding her own feminist strength as it was about anything else. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

When I asked Hoffman if there is a misconception that lesbians don’t care about vulva grooming, she said there is, particularly among straight people. Does waxing make me a bad feminist? 2014-02-17T22:00:00Z

PO'N It's episode two of the lesbian melodrama, and it's time for Frankie's aunt's funeral, which calls for some serious acting of being drunk. Tonight's TV highlights: The First Men In The Moon 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z

Most people had never encountered lesbians before, or, if they had, they didn’t know it. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's not only gays and lesbians who feel persecuted in Uganda, Nakato said. 'Bad' laws hurt sex workers, gays from Uganda to Nepal, AIDS meeting told 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

For black lesbians like us, it can feel like a radical act. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

It is now Sydney’s biggest street party and a major focal point for Australia’s gay and lesbian community. Sydney's gay pride street parade celebrates same-sex marriage,... 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

Even in the bathroom of a lesbian bar, McEnany said another woman confronted her and said, “Ugh, who are you? Pat?” Who Is Julia Sweeney Coming to Terms With? It’s Pat 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

She had followed an MA in gay and lesbian historical fiction with a PhD on the idea of history in lesbian and gay writing. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

“I think if you ask any lesbian of a certain age who has traveled at all, upon check-in they have gotten funny looks,” Ms. Johns said. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

I am drawn to women and will happily talk about scissoring and other exquisite lesbian stereotypes, for sure, but there’s not an inescapable magnetism forcing me to leech onto women. Yes, my sexuality is a choice: Why I reject the “born this way” narrative 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

This isn’t just about lesbian and gay, it’s about tolerance and acceptance.” 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z

His film includes footage from a tape discovered in an unmarked can at a San Jose flea market, showing the San Francisco lesbian bar Mona’s Candle Light around 1950. The Moving Revelations of Gay Home Movies 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

We knew them — they are part of the large yet still mostly familiar population of black lesbians who seek asylum in Bed-Stuy because of its affordability. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Did I mention that I’m bisexual with a strong lesbian preference and had a girlfriend for six years? I’m doing my ex again — why? 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z

She also seesaws between the personal and the impersonal, following up portraits of fellow lesbians and practitioners of S&M with steely conceptual-documentary shots of freeways and mini-malls. Last Chance: Ryan McGinley at Team, and Catherine Opie at Gladstone 2010-04-13T21:27:00Z

In ancient Greece, lesbians or women who actively desired sex were often considered witches, “despite the fact that your husband could have 16 lovers, and be off at the bath houses with young men”. Clitbait: 10 things you didn't know about the clitoris 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

In some ways a lesbian version of those men from 1968, she hilariously cuts down anyone who crosses her, leaving a trail of havoc in her wake. What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Beginning in the early ’90s, Opie made her name with a series of portraits of Bay Area lesbians who engaged in sadomasochistic practices, a community to which she belonged. Finding a Lavender Thread Even in Catherine Opie’s Landscapes 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ironically, it was the very lesbian sex scenes – one about 10 minutes long – that Maroh found so foolish, which played a fundamental part in its radical appeal to critics and jury members. Blue Is the Warmest Colour sex scenes are porn, says author of graphic novel 2013-05-30T13:10:12Z

Bishop, meanwhile, was a lesbian and a lifelong wanderer. Theater Review: ‘Dear Elizabeth,’ a Sarah Ruhl Play 2012-12-10T22:49:38Z

“This was what was missing on the set: lesbians,” she wrote in an English translation of a French “communiqué” posted on her blog after the film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

This new series follows the day-to-day dramas of the management, staff and regulars of London lesbian venue the Candy Bar, recently taken over by new management and undergoing a revamp. TV highlights 07/07/2011: The Apprentice: The Final Five 2011-07-06T22:00:00Z

They gave crucial support to openly gay and lesbian artists in the years when AIDs was devastating New York’s art world, and Ms. Hearn, in particular, was notably supportive of women. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Todd Haynes’s lesbian drama “Carol,” a sensation at Cannes and a main slate entry in the New York Film Festival, will be the Newfest centerpiece film. Newfest Lineup Includes Peter Greenaway and Todd Haynes Films 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

She can be ribald, not least in her inspired collation of songs tracing the career of a roué called Johnny, and she sparkles every time she narrates a tale of real-life lesbian love. The Girl I Left Behind Me 2010-05-20T21:15:00Z

In the tradition of the lesbian film, these differences are often reconciled with an oedipal undercurrent, or “mummy issues”, to put it crassly. Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

A poll of 1,145 pupils in 2007 by the charity Stonewall found 65% of lesbian, gay and bisexual students had experienced homophobic bullying. Lessons on gay history cut homophobic bullying in north London school 2010-10-25T23:01:00Z

The main customers of Naiad Press were the hundreds of lesbian and feminist bookstores that sprouted up across the country in the 1970s and ’80s, at the dawn of the sexual-identity liberation movement. Barbara Grier, Publisher of Lesbian Books, Dies at 78 2011-11-14T00:30:10Z

Before she died last November, she affirmed that Hepburn was a lesbian. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

I just made the obvious connection -- I must be a lesbian. Chaz Bono's complicated path to manhood 2011-05-10T15:30:00Z

Gay men regarded Queer as Folk, another Channel 4 series, as the most influential show of its type, while lesbians cited Sugar Rush and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, among others. Homosexuality on TV: viewers react 2010-09-29T23:36:00Z

It was easy at first, even though she had never been in a lesbian relationship. ‘Heart’ Review: First a Starter Marriage, Then Real Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

In a survey released Monday by the advocacy group, 17.5 percent of last year's films from the seven major studios contained characters who were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Hollywood films remained static in their inclusiveness of LGBT characters in 2015, but the racial diversity of those characters fell dramatically, according to the findings of GLAAD's annual study released on Monday 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Only later did we learn that the Moors was a gay and lesbian bar,” Carly Simon wrote in her 2015 memoir, “Boys in the Trees.” Lucy Simon, Singer and Broadway Composer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

That could be "worst mayor ever" Lori Lightfoot whose looks Gutfeld relishes tearing to pieces while positing that her identity as Black lesbian was the only reason she was elected to lead Chicago. The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something. It isn't funny, but that doesn't matter 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

It was entirely plausible that as the lesbian dog trainer in “Best in Show,” she was so irresistible that she persuaded her wealthy client to play for the other team. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z

She first published under a pseudonym, for a small publisher that produced lesbian fiction because her publisher, Harper’s, refused to. ‘Carol’ director talks about the roots and relevance of his latest film 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The phrase “lesbian bar” is rarely used in these shows. Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

In comparison, Park Chan-wook – who shot the explicit sex scenes between the lesbian lovers of his new film, The Handmaiden, from a distance – seemed shy. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

As one of the show's creators, Ilene Chaiken faced criticism for its seeming willingness to cater to straight male viewers and its narrow representation of lesbian life. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

Along with chronological vignettes from her relationship, Machado weaves in childhood memories, meditations on queer representation, and a legal history of lesbian domestic abuse. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

A 2015 poll found that 73% of Americans – including a majority of white evangelical Christians – said they would support a pro sports team signing an openly gay or lesbian athlete. How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Her father came out when she was barely a toddler, and she went to a very progressive elementary school in California, where she never had any problems since several other students had gay/lesbian parents. What it’s like growing up with an LGBT parent, in their kids’ own words 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The publisher bills it as dystopian satire and lesbian pulp noir — all of which is to say that this story is unclassifiable. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Trumpism is a movement that is explicitly hostile to America's multiracial democracy and a more inclusive and cosmopolitan society where nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians, and other groups have equal power with white Christian men. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

With no connections and no money, she plans to support herself — and her “anemic black child” — by producing experimental lesbian plays. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Kathryn Hamm, a lesbian and the publisher of GayWeddings.com, said, “With the increased participation of parents and wedding professionals in our celebrations, we are incorporating more of the ‘old standards.’ The GOP wants to ban same-sex marriage. These newlyweds just want a traditional happily ever after. 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

You’ll run into friends you know from different places, and though there are straight folks who go there too – men and women – there’s definitely a lesbian vibe. Gay New York: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer culture 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

I meant Native American women, Asian women, Latino women, African-American women, trans women, lesbian women, white women.” Patricia Arquette urges action on the gender pay gap with an inclusive call-to-arms: “It was never about only actresses or white women to me” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

He seeks out her forest hideaway, where the witchy, lesbian Beatrice explains her lifelong absence. ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The archive serves as a testament to the vibrancy and viability of the decade’s largely invisible lesbian culture. How the “guerrilla archivists” saved history – and are doing it again under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

A few writers I talked to said their agents were very dubious about the saleability of work with a lesbian theme. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

He founded the Washington, DC, chapter of the Mattachine Society in 1960, and also launched a systematic attack on the federal government’s discrimination against gay and lesbian employees. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

She never asked me to lie about our relationship, but it seemed unnecessary and gauche to throw a “Well, when we were lesbian lovers …” into the casual conversations. I used to love the bride 2013-04-09T23:50:00Z

It was the first book by author Leslea Newman, who composed it after meeting a lesbian parent who was looking for reading material that reflected the life of her family. Heather's two mommies get married 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Prasad spoke to Salon by phone from her home in London about everything from “lesbian lizards,” virgin births and greatly exaggerated reports of the Y chromosome’s death. The future of sex 2012-09-19T19:20:00Z

Bornstein thought of herself as a transsexual lesbian woman and, she said, “I just wanted to disappear into the lesbian community. It was warm: they had potlucks and game nights. It was family.” Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

What does a lesbian bring on a second date? Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Initially she would post what she described as “relatable lesbian content,” she said in a phone interview from Florida, like a re-enactment of a friend meeting her girlfriend’s parents for the first time. The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Although Ms. Gomez doesn’t press the point home, the takeaway on the subject of lesbians on film is that they generally don’t live happily ever after. Review: Marga Gomez’s ‘Pound’ Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“A lot of people don’t even realize that when you deal in a world that is all binary gay and lesbian, when a T.G.I. person comes in you’re automatically subjecting them to that world.” When ‘Sir’ and ‘Ma’am’ Miss the Mark: Restaurants Rethink Gender’s Role in Service 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Yet not everyone in Glow seemed to understand this – and lesbian issues, she felt, were being ignored. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

But "The L Word," canceled last year, also demonstrated just how loaded the politics of lesbian representation can be. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

Thursday, the official girls night, has already become a popular gathering on the downtown lesbian circuit. Boîte: The Dalloway in SoHo 2013-01-16T16:14:47Z

The lesbian romance “Carol,” overlooked for best picture, also managed to come up with six nominations, as did “Bridge of Spies,” a best picture nominee directed by Steven Spielberg. Oscar Nominations 2016 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Julie Chen, who is giving up her "Early Show" co-anchor job to join "The Talk," said the focus will be determined in part by the level of media emphasis on "Sara Gilbert is a lesbian." CBS daytime show aims to be 'The Talk' of the town 2010-07-28T21:07:00Z

"A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours." Justin Bieber aims for redemption during Comedy Central roast 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The inability to find a hardware store, a shoe repair, a lesbian bar, a drag-queen bar, an independent music club, the commercial casualties of vertiginous rents. How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Just 3 in 10 of those surveyed worldwide said their community is "a good place" for gays and lesbians to live. Residents see Europe best for gays and lesbians, Africa worst: poll 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

His “Killing of Sister George” was rated X for its lesbian TV-star heroine, while the Depression-era “Emperor of the North” pitted hobos against rail cops in bruising fights. Burt Lancaster in ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ 2012-10-20T23:03:01Z

Kovner has also supported left-leaning organizations, including the Innocence Project, which aims to free the wrongfully convicted; and Lambda Legal, devoted to civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. After a Showdown, Juilliard’s President Retains Support of Board 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

And perhaps I overcorrected because I was—I think most of my Rutgers classmates would agree—singularly identified as, well, a lesbian, for better and for worse. I never thought I’d see the day 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

But my books have never been about being a lesbian. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

“That certainly doesn’t mean that women don’t experience a similar phenomenon, but only that lesbians’ personal stories don’t seem to emphasize it as much.” Young, gay and trying too hard 2013-04-18T00:00:00Z

The very fact that Wolfson could conceive of such a paper was itself testament to the efforts of countless gay and lesbian advocates before him, operating in far more difficult circumstances. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Such stories of pending obsolescence are common among the living leaders of the womyn’s land movement, who began founding rural lesbian utopias in the 1960s. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

This pack of homophobes who unfailingly go into outrage overdrive at the very acknowledgement of gays and lesbians in our culture are in reality an itty-bitty, worthless speck. One Million Moms overreaches again 2012-07-25T17:05:00Z

They chose gay men because they were considered supportive of lesbian motherhood, and both were in California, distant from the children’s East Coast home. Filmmaker revisits case that challenged her and her 2 moms 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

When ultimately published, “Riverfinger Women” “was the first book that was advertised in The New York Times that was identified as a lesbian book,” Ms. Dykewomon added. Elana Dykewomon, Author Who Explored Lesbian Lives, Dies at 72 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

As for the pitfalls of fame, Rachel Thevenard, 17, who plays Tony’s girlfriend, and Sofia Black-D’Elia, 19, who plays a lesbian cheerleader, both said they were “taking it one day at a time.” Scene City: Prom Night, Chaperoned by MTV 2011-01-19T17:30:17Z

“In fact,” Bullens says, “the most angry I ever got in my entire life was when a record company tried, behind my back, to label me a lesbian singer-songwriter.” This is pioneering rocker Cidny Bullens’s ninth album. But his first as a man. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Come out as lesbian, and later declare you were “three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay”? Sinead O’Connor Was Ireland’s Alternative Moral Compass 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The “dead lesbian” trope, in which a queer woman would be introduced then killed off, seems to be dying its own death, at last. The return of The L Word: the groundbreaking lesbian show is back 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

“I like romanticizing the idea of growing up as a boy,” said Ms. Ahlbom, who came out as a lesbian in college. Grace Ahlbom: Photographer of the Skateboarding Set 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a politically correcting lesbian, she’s the subject of the occasional satirical barb. ‘The Money Shot,’ by Neil LaBute, Satirizes Hollywood 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Paul Verhoeven is now very much back in the game after the success of Elle; here he is courting controversy once again with a thigh-slapper about lesbian nuns in renaissance-era Italy. The most anticipated films of 2019: 11-20 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

And his deep-sigh line about being a lesbian on “Girls Want Girls” is aimed not at the progressives who have lambasted it, but those in search of a cheap wink. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

The book’s one-line synopsis might go: A lesbian who’s not a lesbian walks into a bar, and heaven and hell break loose. A Lesbian Who’s Not a Lesbian Walks Into a Bar, and ... 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

In 2004, in the days before streaming, the arrival of The L Word, a drama all about lesbians, was such an enormous event that a global black market in DVD copies sprung up around it. The return of The L Word: the groundbreaking lesbian show is back 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

With such categories as best kiss, including a nod this year for the lesbian scene in "Black Swan," nobody could ever confuse the MTV event with the self-congratulatory Academy Awards. MTV film award winners take back seat to new clips 2011-06-05T14:45:56Z

The brittle, drug-addicted lesbian in High Art, the unravelling, gutsy bohemian in Six Feet Under, the cancer-ravaged mother in Pieces of April, the acidic cosmopolitan in The Party? Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

For one class project, she performed a section from “The Children’s Hour,” a play written in the 1930s about two women shunned for being perceived as lesbians. The Pill Helped Start the Sexual Revolution. What Will Phexxi Do? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Lauper's True Colors Fund, aiding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths who are homeless, was partly inspired by Fierstein's longtime efforts as a gay rights activist. 'Kinky Boots' creators Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein kick back 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

“I was doing some Wikipedia-ing last night, and I had completely forgotten the fact that Kitty was a lesbian,” Hannah says. On HBO’s ‘Girls,’ a Kitty Genovese Plot Proves Eerily Timed 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

And Montell has lots to say about “queer language”: why there’s so much gay male slang and so little lesbian slang; why some gay men speak with a “gay voice,” though there’s no lesbian equivalent. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Ten years ago, when most people were unfamiliar with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, romance was conducted underground as people could not openly seek out partners, Liu said. Nine Chinese gay, transgender couples to tie the knot on cruise ship 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

She was also a lesbian, and the dilemma of being gay in the South in the nineteen-fifties likely played a role in how assiduously she guarded her privacy. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

And she shows how fluctuations in the rights of trans people evolved in tandem and in conflict with those of gay men, women and lesbians. The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

In 1988, the words of the African-American lesbian writer Audre Lorde became a rallying cry: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Based on a novel by Dorothy Bussy, “Olivia” was released in the United States as “Pit of Loneliness,” thus creating an association with the once notorious novel of lesbian passion “Well of Loneliness.” ‘Olivia’ Explores Love and Tragedy in a French Finishing School 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

She now identifies as lesbian despite having almost exclusively dated men. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

One of Phryne’s close friends, Mac, is an out lesbian doctor, and episodes have touched on everything from women getting clandestine abortions to unsafe labour practices in a factory staffed by female employees. How Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries conquered America 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Johns also appreciated Las Vegas’s “Everyone’s welcome. Even straight people” print and digital campaign, introduced in 2012, because it aimed to make gay and lesbian travelers feel as if they are a majority. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The group helps create gay-straight student alliances to foster understanding and a safer environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students or those questioning their sexual identity, Byard said. `Modern Family' to be saluted by tolerance group 2010-10-07T22:11:00Z

As she reads a Mackinaw poem, which is really an Eileen Myles poem, out loud at a lesbian bowling night, her gaze turns lascivious. ‘Transparent’ Season 2, Episodes 2 and 3: Pool Parties and Provosts 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

This fall, the show has become a cult hit internationally, with double-digit audience growth in the United States, Russia and France, especially among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social media circles. Will ‘Skam,’ a Norwegian Hit, Translate? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

A guidebook features dozens of cafes, clubs and bars where lesbians could meet. The Queer Cultures That the Nazis Destroyed 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Others wondered about the negative implications for lesbians. Every man’s favorite sex study 2012-08-26T01:00:00Z

A lesbian playing a lesbian is not a prerequisite, but it is demonstrating some kickass representation when it happens. Ruby Rose’s Batwoman casting prompted celebration, but the backlash tells us a lot about our era 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

In the roughly two years since the nation’s supreme court ordered that gay, lesbians and transgendered people be afforded equal rights, this conservative, mostly-Hindu country appears to be moving ahead full throttle. 2010-01-09T01:05:00Z

That diary focuses on her lesbian encounters with women she stalks and surreptitiously records during their steamy couplings. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z

Like good lesbians, we remained close friends throughout the years, through different cities, lovers and occupations. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z

A woman who was a lesbian, but who had, in an extraordinary turn of life events, married her best friend from college—a man. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sarah Silverman is excellent as a Fifties lesbian passing for straight. Masters of Sex Gets Dark, Delves Deeper Into Desire 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t seeing myself in Alike,” the main character, a teenage lesbian. Carpetbagger Blog: From 'Pariah,' an Ingenue in Her First 'Fancy-Fancy' Dress 2011-12-02T17:39:47Z

Several weeks in, the interracial lesbian couple told the hippie that, to their dismay, their baby was stuck in the breech position. My awesome C-section 2012-11-06T01:00:00Z

"The unapologetic way Beth Ditto presents herself to the world – as a lesbian, as a fat girl, as a feminist – comes directly from riot grrrl." Riot grrrl: searching for music's young female revolutionaries 2013-03-18T16:33:46Z

When Aladeen calls her a “lesbian Hobbit” or recoils at the sight of her unshaved armpits, we’re really laughing at what a jerk he is. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z

The bar’s intergenerational gravity offered palpable allure to Eleana Molise, 27, a White and Latino lesbian mental health justice community organizer. In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Several years later, she opposed an anti-discrimination law that was designed to protect gays and lesbians. Orlando isn’t what you think it is 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

My now husband is the biological father of two children with some lesbian friends in Minneapolis, and he had already had one of them at the time I was working on the book. Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states' 2013-02-16T15:00:01Z

Surely, I suggest to Barbara Sukowa – as she strolls around her garden in Brooklyn and I watch from 3,500 miles away on WhatsApp – it’s time lesbians were shown differently in cinema. 'When I travelled, I hid my passport': Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa on Hitler's legacy and hidden love 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

With that, the crowd began shouting for Mrs. Obama to stay put, and Sturtz was escorted out, still yelling and calling herself “a lesbian looking for federal equality before I die.” Michelle Obama’s heckler win 2013-06-05T14:41:00Z

In the early 1960s, Mayor Robert Wagner had closed all gay and lesbian bars in a misguided effort to “clean up” the city for tourists visiting the World’s Fair. How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there | Edmund White 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

How meaningful or funny can a sharp swipe at Israel seem if it's followed minutes later by the devastating observation that a famous sportswoman might be a lesbian? Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z

At this point, exactly what was I trying to accomplish by clinging to the lesbian label? Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Religion has long played a part in some national cinemas, so it’s no surprise that fundamentalism has a role in the likeable, earnest Iranian lesbian love story, “Circumstance.” Critic?s Notebook: Turns Out Sundance Thrives on More Than Just Money 2011-01-27T22:58:17Z

We observe gatherings of senior citizens, gay and lesbian residents and recent immigrants. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

In the longest-running study of lesbian families to date, zero percent of children reported physical or sexual abuse—not a one. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z

Minor roles are given to a token lesbian, and a token Chinese American. Milk: the creme de la creme of faithful biopics 2010-08-05T08:29:00Z

She sets her history in New York in the years between 1987 and 1993, when the Monday night meetings at a downtown lesbian and gay community center attracted hundreds. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“We create five days where we are living in a queer, nonbinary, lesbian world. We celebrate who we are.” Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zambello has reimagined the Composer — written, in a nod to Classical style, for a woman playing a man — as a lesbian, to inoffensive if hardly innovative effect. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

A mode of being, a vocabulary, a particular way we cut our hair—this is going to be lost if there’s no lesbian anymore. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Waters did not really set out to be a novelist, nor, in truth, did she know right away she was a lesbian. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

But in lieu of deepening its characters, this show about four New Jersey lesbians looking for love strings together an increasingly generic series of Mary J. Blige-esque soul-sister numbers before abruptly swerving into tragedy. Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z

Brooks was born in 1874, had an unhappy childhood, fled to Paris when she came of age and, in 1902, inherited enough money to live independently, both as an artist and as a lesbian. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

When I became a radical black lesbian feminist, I could hardly blame my dad for leading me astray. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

This week, lesbian couple Donna and Louise are up against Sarah the life model. Tonight's TV highlights: Crufts 2011 2011-03-10T00:04:01Z

In the first month of the law, about 1,600 civil union licenses were issued across the state, according to Equality Illinois, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group. Civil union law spurs NU health plan dispute 2011-10-14T16:36:00Z

“Some guy wanted to read a 1,000-page book on lesbians who were persecuted in Russia,” he said. Men Have Book Clubs, Too 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

This book is a hive of frenetic experimentation, tactics and tricks; nested essays on film scholarship, queer villains in Disney films, “Star Trek,” the campaigns addressing domestic violence in lesbian relationships in the early ’80s. ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The editorial managers of The Times began debating policy on gay and lesbian couples in the wedding pages. How the Vows Column Came About 2012-05-20T06:47:18Z

After some seconds of lesbian romping, one of the women tells Alex, “You are going to want to change those sheets.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Sunny in Philadelphia? and ?Blue Mountain State,? the Height of Crass 2011-09-14T22:09:27Z

Ms. Tomei has fun with the nastier lines given to her character, a lesbian businesswoman brought in to finance Cookie’s attempted takeover, but overall she’s bland in the part. ‘Empire’ Returns for Its Second Season, Still Juicy With Melodrama 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

“Because every bit of research that’s ever been done says if you know more gay and lesbian people, you are going to support our rights.” Howard Bragman, Publicist Who Helped Clients Come Out, Dies at 66 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

There is undeniable novelty to a movie about a lesbian couple whose two teenage children were conceived with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z

And how can you ask two actresses who are not lesbians to play any scene that is something other than his fantasies?” Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

The rediscovery of Brooks in recent decades was driven, in part, by a new scholarly focus on gender and sexuality, and greater interest in and tolerance for artists who worked within gay or lesbian milieus. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The Plush Pony, housed in a squat, one-story building amid auto body shops and warehouses, was a lesbian bar that attracted Mexican and Chicana women with drink specials and Latin grooves. Stories of the Plush Pony: Vincent Price Art Museum pays tribute to a working-class lesbian bar 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

In addition to Tolstoy College, there was Rosa Luxemburg College, which focussed on labor issues; a women’s studies college, led by Elizabeth Kennedy, a pioneer of lesbian history; a black studies college; and several others. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Johnson’s engrossing debut novel explores a young, single, lesbian mother’s path to self-discovery and self-acceptance. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“We’ve always been very tolerant about sexual preferences as some Khmer Royals are/were openly gays/lesbians.” Next Stop: Siem Reap, Cambodia, Welcomes Gay Travelers 2010-03-19T18:51:00Z

So ‘The Prom’ is really unique in that it’s a celebration, and it’s funny without being at the expense of lesbians. An Onstage Wedding Brings a Broadway Happy Ending to Life 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

So I’d get up every morning at 3 and just lie there with my lesbian roommate in my bed with me. | Around the World with Chelsea Handler 2014-02-28T17:16:36Z

Todd Haynes’ lesbian period romance Carol, which was a hit with critics at Cannes, is sure to also win over audiences when the Weinstein Company opens it in November. Arthouse blues: why did indie films have such a terrible summer? 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Films from seasoned directors join the work of newcomers in the lineup for Newfest, New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival. Newfest Lineup Includes Peter Greenaway and Todd Haynes Films 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The lesbian bar might be facing an uncertain future, but it’s alive and well at the Metrograph Theater. Pride Month in New York Is Bouncing Back. Here’s How to Celebrate. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

The essentials: Create an email, plug in Mom and Dad’s address, tell them you’re a lesbian. The 99-Seat Beat: 'Rotterdam,' Almodóvar, a Watts drama and dancing with Lear 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Some feminist lesbians think a change in the law is retrograde. France Debates Gay Marriage 2013-02-01T21:10:09Z

The Trevor Project is a nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention and crisis intervention for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning young people. Lil Nas X honored by anti-suicide group The Trevor Project 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

You know, the word “lesbian” has a negative connotation to me that I have now tried to strip because I grew up being like oh, I’m not a lesbian. In a Holiday Lesbian Rom-Com, Kristen Stewart Saw Herself 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The date said that their family would not accept having, not only a lesbian daughter-in-law, but a Jewish lesbian daughter-in-law. Discussions about antisemitism need to include gender and sexuality 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

In London, burlesque generally draws more male heterosexuals while Sweden’s festivals are attended primarily by women, many of them lesbians and Paris shows attracted a mixed group, including gay men. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z

In the meantime, it's important to recognise Lip Service for the great service it's doing to British lesbians. Lip Service is groundbreaking ? whatever its star says 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

Now a “lesbian widow,” Ms. Chin still feels the maternal urge, but also believes that at 32, she has all the time in the world, and has a carefully thought-out master plan. Review: In ‘MotherStruck!’ Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Quest to Become Pregnant 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

He added that “it’s often forgotten that racial segregation was justified on religious grounds, just like today’s hostility to equal protection of gays and lesbians.” Did a lesbian couple bully Christian innkeepers over the right to marry on their farm? 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Your mother looks like a predatory older lesbian,” he said, to the younger one, who did not seem to mind at all. David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Given my age and the relative easiness of being gay now in Britain, I no longer read a novel or go to a film just because there are lesbians in it,” Ms. Waters said. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It is now Sydney’s biggest street party and a major focal point for Australia’s gay and lesbian community. Sydney's gay pride street parade celebrates same-sex marriage,... 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

“People compare me to them a lot. They say I’m a lesbian Deuxmoi.” The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Steps away, Los Angeles’s newest lesbian hangout, a chic gastro pub, served cocktails and sliders under Edison lighting. ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The French lesbian love story and Cannes film festival winner "Blue is the Warmest Color" was predictably nominated for best foreign-language film. '12 Years a Slave,' 'American Hustle' take lead for Golden Globes 2013-12-12T19:43:41Z

Miss Missouri, Erin O' Flaherty, will compete for the Miss America crown this weekend as the first openly lesbian contestant. There she is: Out of the closet, and ready for Miss America 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Her oracular integrity comes into question, however, when she introduces characters who are lesbian or gender nonconforming. After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Provoked by constant efforts to “tarnish” all feminists as lesbians, activists chose to embrace the label, rather than exclude lesbians from the movement. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

After Betty Friedan dubs lesbians the “Lavender Menace,” big internecine questions only get bigger: Are lesbians a threat to feminist goals, or its purest proponents? Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

“I am not a lesbian,” Dana announces, to which Cary replies, “I know a lot of people who weren’t anything until they met Kalinda.” ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: Many Cases, Not Much Movement 2011-11-14T06:01:21Z

The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were presented in New York on Monday night, celebrating the best gay, lesbian and transgender books of the year. Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“None of the women in this play apologize for being lesbians,” Chambers said in an interview with The Times in 1981. Cynthia Nixon to Direct Groundbreaking Lesbian Play on Broadway 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a satire about the misfits, exiles and lesbians who live, squabble, flirt, fornicate and gossip on Capri during World War I. It’s venomously funny and has one of the best endings ever. Cathleen Schine Writes Fiction. But She Prefers Not to Read It at Work. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

One of the major characters in my 2005 book, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost," was a supernaturally talented young lesbian musician friend of mine, who died at 24. "I'm not getting over violence against women": Rebecca Solnit discusses her new anti-memoir 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

NBC-affiliate station KSL-TV have deemed the show "inappropriate" for family viewing, sparking protests from the show's stars and from gay and lesbian groups. Edinburgh is over. But comedy keeps the laughs coming 2012-08-29T09:06:23Z

Perry’s “Looking for Lorraine” has helped to draw attention to Hansberry — who had relationships with women and wrote lesbian fiction under a pseudonym — as a queer pioneer. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Harrison’s great-aunt Cecily was a lesbian who lived with not one but two lovers, all three in one bed. Vagabond Lives: Happier Memories From Kathryn Harrison’s Childhood 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

My boyfriend’s nightmare came true: At age 69, I’ve been a lesbian half my life. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

When Angel changed sex, he lost most of his friends – mainly lesbians who regarded him as a gender traitor. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z

She escaped a marriage to a man who she said abused her and found a long-term partner in Connie Gonzales, but the 1970s and ’80s weren’t always welcoming times for lesbians. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Jason Baumann, curator of the lesbian and gay collection for the , said, “It’s exactly the kind of material that I constantly have historians and the general public wanting to have.” Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Ms. Waters has succeeded in having it both ways, writing mainstream novels that happen to have lesbians in them. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

“There are going to be people who would never have picked up a gay romance or a lesbian romance who may see an ad in the subway,” she said. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Pioneer Award recognizes individuals who have broken new ground in the field of gay and lesbian literature. Rita Mae Brown, awarded as pioneer of lesbian literature, scoffs at the term 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Last week, Chiah Connolly-Ingram, 21, the daughter of a lesbian couple, helped close the rally outside the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco, where Proposition 8 is being challenged. 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z

He reimagined the place first as a lesbian bar and, after a few years, as a drag cabaret. Walter Cole, Who Dazzled as Darcelle, the World’s Oldest Drag Performer, Dies at 92 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Martin seems to be charting new territory, as few gay and lesbian celebrities have taken the route he has. Ricky Martin?s Personal Spin 2010-04-02T21:35:00Z

Before Emerson, my closest encounter with lesbians was kissing a friend on a drunken dare. I married my sorority sister 2013-01-23T01:00:00Z

I’ve probed the data to see if the old lines about U-Hauling, lesbian bed death and others had any statistical sway. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Kids would come to our Chicago set, and tell us about how they were thrown out of their homes for being gay, lesbian or trans. ‘Shameless’ Showrunner Says Goodbye to the Gallaghers 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

Within months, some 17,000 gay and lesbian partners married in California, but the pattern of backlash replayed itself here, as well, and with a vengeance. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z

Q: So, what office would lesbian transvestite politician Eddie Izzard run for? "Cars 2" star Eddie Izzard plans political career 2011-06-24T19:24:36Z

During my long relationship with a woman, I tried calling myself a lesbian, but that didn’t fit either. Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rees has been busy doing just that since Sundance, writing an HBO pilot, another film for Focus and a spec script about an insurance adjuster, all featuring lesbian or bisexual characters. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

Among the writers he championed was Milo Yiannopoulos, who elicited both a rapturous response from Breitbart’s readers and heavy criticism elsewhere for columns about lesbians, blacks and Muslims. Stephen K. Bannon leaves Breitbart after blowup over comments in Trump book 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The kids, filming and holding up a painting to recreate the “20/20” set, react to the lesbian revelations with cheering nonchalance. Theater Review: ‘She Is King’ Focuses on Turning Points for Billie Jean King 2014-01-15T03:00:01Z

Preferences and experiences differ, of course, but I took a straw poll of lesbian, bisexual and queer women to see if there was any consensus. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

It's seeing lesbian, gay and bisexual lives in the warp and weave of everyday broadcasting. Does Vicious mark the end of gay TV characters being invisible? 2013-04-29T17:24:49Z

According to the Times, players who were interviewed said the dynamic, unified activism among players has been "borne of necessity in a league dominated by Black women, many of them lesbians." How the WNBA is light years ahead of its male counterpart 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

That afternoon, all three lesbians arrived: Beth with a smile on her face followed by her girlfriend Paula and our friend Cindy, all bearing delicious Thanksgiving treats. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The first generation of lesbian and gay scholars after Stonewall compiled tomes of evidence proving that men had gone to bed with men, and women with women, early in history and often. In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The wives pass the time shopping, decorating and bossing their servants around while secretly conducting a passionate lesbian love affair. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But Bening, who portrays a lesbian mother in "Kids," is a three-time loser at the Oscars, and there is a feeling that it is her time to win. "King's Speech" awaits Oscar sweep? Not so fast! 2011-02-16T22:22:57Z

Soon, lesbian feminists created an all-women’s group called the Lavender Menace. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

The pace on gay rights in Illinois is quickening, however: It took several decades to expand civil rights protections for gays and lesbians but only six years after that to pass civil unions. Illinois push begins for gay marriage, amid much skepticism 2012-02-21T13:27:00Z

At age 13, Chaz told me, he knew he was attracted to women, and assumed he was a lesbian. The Reluctant Transgender Role Model 2011-05-06T20:53:26Z

Maybe we didn’t expect our lesbian and gay friends to have kids. Civilities: When friends ‘hijack’ adults-only social events with kids 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Carol: Carol is Ross’ lesbian ex-wife and the father of his child, Ben. A Viewing Guide for the 'Friends' Newbie 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

By the time she met Ms. Adams in Ukraine, she had divorced and come out as a lesbian. In Lockdown, a Long-Distance Romance Grew Stronger 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Tonight’s just great,” said Kris Perry, the Berkeley lesbian whose name is on the famous trial, Perry v. Scene City: After a Reading of the Play ?8,? Stars and Real People From the Proposition 8 Trial Mingled 2011-09-21T22:44:49Z

As she reminds us early on, Ms. Gomez herself once played a lesbian — or so she conceived her character for her three lines of dialogue — in the 1998 film “Sphere.” Review: Marga Gomez’s ‘Pound’ Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Russo-Young was part of the first generation of children raised by openly gay and lesbian parents. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Citizen Hearst’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

These were the lesbians who liked to dance and who idolized Bette Midler; the other lesbians, who hosted potlucks and listened to women’s music, lived across the river, in Cambridge and Somerville. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Advertisement On the surface, this screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” is a period lesbian soap opera set in the early 1950s. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In recent years, however, campaigners for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender rights have become increasingly vocal. Kenya bans lesbian love story film 'Rafiki' set to debut at Cannes 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Meanwhile, supporters of Lily Tomlin, who plays an acerbic lesbian in “Grandma,” are already pushing her as an Oscar candidate. Lesbian Love Blossoms in New Screen Dramas 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ignited by a kidnapping that’s no more than a device, the maddeningly complicated plot — bubbling with revenge sexting and lesbian longing — unfolds in parallel timelines that slide back and forth without warning or notation. ‘A Girl Missing’ Review: In Two Minds 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Dr. Lyubomirsky’s research shows that compared with the most traditionally married pairs — same ethnicity, opposite sex — adaptation slows for gay and lesbian couples and couples of different ethnicities. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z

In that time, the makeup of couples and families has changed drastically—the series includes sessions with gay, lesbian, trans, and polyamorous couples—but the basic tenets of her trade have stayed the same. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

And the more I was explaining, the more I realized, You are right, I’m not”—not a woman, a lesbian woman. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

For me, it is the dogs and the lesbians. Why Nancy Friday’s 1970s collection of women’s sexual fantasies still matters 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

When it was my chance to direct a play in our workshop group I requested permission to do a lesbian alternative casting and put her in the lead. The wrong kind of queer 2014-01-06T01:00:00Z

In an October Instagram post, Carlile said that although she was “flattered to be considered ‘pop’ as a 40 year old crooning lesbian mother,” she was “a bit surprised and disappointed” by the decision. Brandi Carlile is Americana’s latest transcendent star. And she hasn’t forgotten her roots 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Alsop, like Tár, is a lesbian with a partner and a child. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

See also: the noxious phrase “lesbian until graduation.” It’s not “just a phase”: How Cara Delevingne is changing the conversation around bisexuality 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Within a week of discovering the letters, Shapland cut her hair short; within a year, she was calling herself a lesbian “more or less comfortably.” She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

He began his rise in the 1980s at Washington’s DC101, launching lesbian “Dial-A-Date,” doing a bit that made light of the Air Florida crash in the Potomac River and openly dissing station management. Meet the new Howard Stern. He’d like to make amends for the old Howard Stern. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

This new edition of “The L Word” arrives a decade after we collectively shut the door on this group of sophisticated, effortlessly fashionable, and preternaturally cool Los Angeles lesbians. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

The weekend is full of events for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community and their supporters. Seattle Pride events 2013 2013-06-26T19:05:41Z

Comedy and singing routines were performed, including one with a Lady Gaga impersonator as a lesbian bride in a long white wig and sunglasses. France Debates Gay Marriage 2013-02-01T21:10:09Z

A more expansive view of the world also is part of the ride, with a lesbian couple included in a Freeform film and Hanukkah shout-outs on the Hallmark and Lifetime channels. Holiday TV forecast: a sleighful of movies, music, a Grinch 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Most gays and lesbians understandably chose to keep their sexual orientation hidden. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

She did not want to be known as a lesbian artist, preferring to be known “just as an artist,” Chinn said. Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

“You have to go through everything again with the new director,” explains Arienne Mandi, who is currently starring in Showtime’s reboot of The L Word, the groundbreaking lesbian and bisexual drama. 'Everyone's heard the horror stories' – how to do an ethical sex scene 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Craig ploughed on with his thoughts on Wagner before telling the story of two lesbians with great anuses. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z

Did Ms. Weisz do any research for the love scene with lesbian friends? Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The film is the most mainstream American depiction of a lesbian relationship made to date. Cate Blanchett: 'I've never had a sexual relationship with a woman' 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Although there are well over 40 openly gay and lesbian athletes competing in the Summer Games, neither of the two reported trans athletes has come out publicly. Do transgender athletes have an unfair advantage at the Olympics? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

And she was uneasy about how being seen in public as a lesbian would affect her career. Nancy Locke and Meredith Baxter: A Finish Worthy of Hollywood 2013-12-15T14:19:52Z

Shortly after that breakup, Jordan won a trip for two on a weeklong lesbian cruise. The year I was venomous 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Born in Flames” concerns a gender war, refracted through the news media, that involves a largely black and lesbian army. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The show consists of his learning valuable lessons about gay and lesbian history, as well as the importance of connecting in real life. Review: A Gay Nightclub Tragedy, Decades Before Orlando, in ‘The View UpStairs’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

On "Sex, Love & goop," lesbian couple Camille and Shandra open up about their struggles to feel confident in their sex life. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

"Honestly, when I first found out I was booked on a lesbian cruise I was angry," Deborah declares at the top of her act. Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

So when websites started reporting, based on no particular evidence in the Finding Dory trailer, that there were lesbians in the new movie, DeGeneres was surprised. Ellen DeGeneres on Lesbian Fish and Why It Was Finally Time for Finding Dory 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

One threat that was always hanging over our heads was that of custody – in the 1970s, courts routinely took children away from lesbian and gay parents. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

And she came down to Greenwich Village and there were lesbian bars where she researched. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The evening will celebrate the achievements of gay and lesbian mathematicians and scientists, as well as the museum’s participatory artwork “Julia’s Stars,” a giant fractal made of rainbow-colored LEDs. Spare Times for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Every year at the end of March, 20,000 lesbians from around the world fly into the Californian desert for five days of debauchery, and I’m one of them. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

A former assistant and a former audio supervisor at Long Wharf, both of them lesbians, said Mr. Edelstein also made a habit of inquiring about their sex lives. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

A woman who made lesbian love an acceptable fixture of populist lore, but who chose men for company. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z

“Maybe you really are a lesbian, just like your mother.” I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Losing her virginity during her sophomore year of college is rather drab — the boy dressed "like a middle-aged lesbian" and the hymen-breaking felt "less like a stab wound and more like a headache." Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Grier’s most controversial and successful book, “Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence,” was a 1985 nonfiction work by two former nuns, based on interviews with 50 former and active nuns who were lesbians like them. Barbara Grier, Publisher of Lesbian Books, Dies at 78 2011-11-14T00:30:10Z

Men should not fetishize lesbians--they are not here for your enjoyment. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Thirty-three years since Martina Navratilova told the world she was a lesbian. How long will a public figure coming out of the closet still make news?

Twenty-some years ago, in the dark ages before lesbian chic, my poor mom had to deal with me writing about my lesbian life for the big lefty weekly in San Francisco. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Gay rights activism grew in strength, and gays and lesbians attained greater visibility. The secret history of gay marriage 2013-09-08T14:30:00Z

After making that frantic plea, Lili apparently had second thoughts, deciding that it probably wouldn’t be wise to invite her former lesbian lover to her volatile husband’s birthday party. ‘Mala Hierba,’ a New Play by Tanya Saracho 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

As with Cameron Post, well-judged depictions of lesbian sex have the potential to be even more erotic, which seems like the way to go. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Salon spoke to Chaiken over the phone from Los Angeles about the queer community's criticisms of her shows, "The L Word's" straight male viewers and the problem with portraying lesbians on TV.  "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

While the marriage of Ms. Griner and Ms. Johnson, who said she is not a lesbian, was greeted with skepticism by some, it was largely celebrated by fans, who welcomed the early baby news. An Abrupt End to Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson’s Marriage 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Those last three lesbian bars are the only ones still open. Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The expectation is that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people have the protection of full citizenship. Review: A Nuyorican Artist’s Career Survey: Loud, Proud and Timely 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

She paused, holding the beat while judges and audience members tittered over the implied allusion to her being a lesbian. Television: Ellen DeGeneres, ?American Idol? and the Power of Niceness 2010-04-04T02:34:00Z

DiMarco did not mention any of these jokes by name, but the movie does feature numerous characters assuming Sierra is a lesbian based on her appearance. Netflix’s “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” criticized for main character pretending to be deaf 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

She felt I had let the boy’s parents off the hook — my solitary participation allowing them to suppress their knowledge of our lesbian coupledom. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

But some gays and lesbians say there is nothing to be gained by switching to another channel. Noted: Citing Discrimination, Some Gays and Lesbians Call for Boycott of Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014-01-31T21:21:10Z

The menacing display was a theatrical embodiment of the gleefully confrontational role Imam, the lesbian daughter of refugees, has come to play in Swedish pop culture. She Raps and Sweden Listens 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cutrone tells of an abortive effort to “turn” gay, as those around him were, before deciding he would be better off as a “lesbian” to catch all the girls. Ronnie Cutrone, a Man of Another, Cooler City 2013-08-02T22:08:34Z

One woman told me not to worry; I was a lesbian but as long as I didn’t act on it, I’d be fine. Experience: I tried to exorcise my sexuality 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Though innuendo and omission have long been tools of convenience for gay and lesbian pop stars worried about alienating straight audiences, that calculus is changing with a new, more socially progressive generation. Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

When she noticed that she and Mr. Chan had both made gingerbread women in white, she held an impromptu lesbian wedding. Tiffany Haddish Puts the ‘X’ in Christmas Cookies 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

It was a risky personal move for Mr. Denneny, the rare openly gay editor in a publishing industry in which many gay and lesbian editors were still closeted. Michael Denneny, 80, Dies; Editor Created Outlets for Gay Literature 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s almost like the stars have to align before we get another Black lesbian movie,” Drew said. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

The doctor boastfully holds up her own lesbian relationship as a paragon of coupled bliss. Movie Review: Bored Housewife Searches for a Spark in ‘Afternoon Delight’ 2013-08-29T23:11:04Z

When it comes to relationships, it turns out this works in lesbians’ favor. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Older French gay and lesbian couples look back on their lives, providing a window on a more oppressive era, and a tribute to enduring love. Pacific Rim, Monsters University, The Deep: this week's new films 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

She makes sure everyone feels welcome at her party, including the women she singles out as "lesbians" for no particular reason. Dixie Longate rings up laughs and sales in 'Dixie's Tupperware Party' 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

After all, gay and lesbian couples are seeking not to destroy the institution of marriage but to join it! Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

His musical tributes to her began in the 1990s, when he returned to a few hypnotic, sensuous chords he had created as part of a soundtrack for a lesbian erotic film. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“Hollywood changed how Americans understand gay and lesbian lives, and TV is starting to do the same for transgender people with authentic transgender portrayals being major hits with critics and audiences,” Ms. Ellis said. Scarlett Johansson Withdraws From Transgender Role After Backlash 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

“Wildness,” about a bar for gay and lesbian Latino immigrants, will be shown during the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight series. The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z

On broadcast television, there are now 86 regular or recurring characters identifying as gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual or transexual, a lowly but ascendant 6.4%; on cable, there are 173, and on streaming services, 70. As Queer Eye gets a reboot, television enjoys a wealth of gay perspectives 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The efforts have endeared Mrs. Clinton to many gays and lesbians who are raising money toward her potential run. Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The acclaimed French lesbian love story, "Blue is the Warmest Color," which was snubbed by the Oscars earlier on Thursday when it failed to be nominated, won the award for best foreign language film. '12 Years a Slave," 'American Hustle' win big at Critics Choice awards 2014-01-17T04:22:43Z

Not long ago, gays and lesbians were not only considered unsuitable parents; they were an active danger to children, child molesters and abusers. “Would you criminalize fornication?” Desperate new argument against same-sex marriage laughed out of court 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

This minor star of the 1990s and early 2000s was coming out as a lesbian. Music: Chely Wright Comes Out, Testing Nashville?s Tolerance 2010-05-05T23:41:00Z

But she added: "It would be difficult for me to appear as Miss America" since the photographs, showing her in a lesbian embrace with an unknown white woman were published in the magazine. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z

The women originally identified as either lesbian, bisexual or preferring not to put a label on their sexuality. The pansexual revolution: how sexual fluidity became mainstream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

It is a beautiful thing to see Lily Tomlin get her due with a nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her tough-loving, lesbian poet grandmother in Grandma. The Golden Globe Movie Nominations: Snubs and Surprises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Being a lesbian,” Ms. Zink writes, “had given her practice keeping secrets.” Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

For the past two weeks, I’ve been haunted by a lesbian ghost story, and I hope its ectoplasm hangs around for a long time. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Everyone knew one another—it was an intricately interconnected multigenerational community, mostly of gay men, but with a sizable lesbian minority. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

My first act of open rebellion was to go see “Brokeback Mountain” in Seattle’s rainbow-striped Capitol Hill neighborhood with a pair of lesbian friends. Modern Love: Single, Female, Mormon, Alone 2011-01-07T17:04:40Z

“The Handmaiden” has generated headlines for its explicit lesbian sex scenes, but it bounds from graphic sensuality to horror to slapstick to comedy of manners, sometimes within a single shot. Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Her parents had got used to the idea that she was a lesbian and would not accept that she was a single mother, so will not see the baby. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Naturally I’ll play Stanley an angry white lesbian walking through the burning streets yelling Stella. Review: In ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ and ‘Chelsea Girls,’ Eileen Myles Ruminates 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

And when Meg announces that Sally Ride, the physicist and astronaut, is a lesbian even though she’s married to a man, it’s a revelation that stirs a revolution. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The women joke they are the lesbian cliché between their rapid-fire courtship and their domesticity that includes two dogs, a cat and a fish. When They Knew, They Knew. And Nothing Else Mattered. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Their first question is ‘What are you doing?’ and the second is, ‘Are you a lesbian?’ Silicon Valley’s Embrace of the Gay and Lesbian Community 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

For fans of seasonal festivity, the lesbian romantic comedy “Happiest Season” is a three-for-one bargain. ‘Happiest Season’ Review: Make the Yuletide Gay 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Riffing on Forefathers and Mothers “COMING out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian,” the painter Deborah Kass said on a recent morning in her Brooklyn studio. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z

She traveled after high school, before landing back in Toronto and attending a women’s and children’s counselor advocate program, or “lesbian finishing school,” as she put it. Your Favorite Internet Astrologer Wrote a Book 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Ann Bannon’s lesbian pulp novels, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Bing Crosby’s “Dear Hearts and Gentle People” — the references fly as we zip between nostalgia and smirks. | 'Under Construction': Tales From a Hard-Hat Zone: The U.S.A. 2011-04-27T22:19:43Z

“We know the struggle. We know what it’s like to lose a job when you come out in the 1970s as a lesbian, or to lose an apartment. They have not known any of that.” A generation of LGBTQ advocates hopes the clock isn’t ticking backward 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

While gay and lesbian characters are standard players in movies and TV shows for adults, they remain a fleeting or barely acknowledged presence in children’s entertainment. Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 2011, a lesbian at Splash Country, the water park at Dollywood, was asked to turn her T-shirt inside out because it read, “Marriage Is So Gay.” Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In Florida’s Duval County, a production of “Indecent” was killed because of its lesbian love story. It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

But, she said, “humor was going to be part of our messaging because there was a stereotype that remained in the culture around: You are angry, humorless lesbians.” The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, the United States was home to more than 200 lesbian bars. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Clarkson is always asked whether she has a boyfriend, with some interviewers directly inquiring if she is a lesbian. Kelly Clarkson, the Role Model Next Door 2011-10-29T13:24:15Z

This year, she's considered a potential Oscar contender for "The Kids Are All Right," a comic drama about lesbian parents whose teenage children contact their sperm-donor father. Moore to get pudding pot from Harvard drama group 2011-01-19T01:59:08Z

It is less an avant-garde piece of cinema than a restating of tired tropes and is further proof of Weiss’s theory: only one type of lesbian is permitted at a time. Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

She may have had a lesbian relationship, and she committed the decidedly revolutionary act of abetting the elopement of two friends, one of them a cross-dresser who insisted on taking a man’s name. The Woman Who Created a Monster 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

We embraced, and she whispered in my ear, “It’s been four years since I got a hug from my mom because I’m a lesbian.” This Mother Strives to Change the World, One Hug at a Time 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

She added, “I can be in Seattle by tomorrow lunchtime if you’re free to go ahead and start picking table arrangements for our small but elegant lesbian wedding.” Moving Cross Country for the ‘Real Deal’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

She says she read a lot of lesbian literature when she was looking for a movie to make. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

At some point, it may be time to make it for lesbians and transgenders or queers. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Abby McEnany, the co-creator and star of the Showtime comedy series “Work in Progress,” said she has been called Pat because she is a lesbian who happens to resemble the character. Who Is Julia Sweeney Coming to Terms With? It’s Pat 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Work from seven decades displays Rich’s evolution from careful neo-classicism to free verse, and her embrace of lesbian feminism and radical politics. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

That story is of the actual court-ordered silencing of a play in New York in 1923 that depicted a lesbian kiss, the first time the act had been contemplated on a Broadway stage. Review | How ‘Indecent,’ about art happening against all odds, speaks to our time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

So Out passed our secret lesbian discrimination test but lost points for not having my room ready until almost 5 p.m., despite a 3 p.m. check-in time. Explorer: To Be a Hotel and Gay in New York 2012-03-16T21:27:58Z

She said that because she is a lesbian, she was not a sexual target for Mr. Friedman, but the two had a close, tumultuous relationship that she now sees as abusive. Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

After a period of discernment, my husband, Bob, and I became advocates for the civil and religious rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Oprah's influence has touched readers' lives 2011-05-18T23:13:35Z

The Web-based initiative hopes to educate for "the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality." Gay rights video with Paquin causes site to crash 2010-04-02T18:35:00Z

She was known for introducing herself with a string of her own: "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." 11 things you should know about Audre Lorde 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

So when the Kansas-born lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge released the album “Yes I Am” in 1993, featuring the hits “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One,” she made a splash. Melissa Etheridge and Jill Sobule Bring Their Whole Lives to the Stage 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

The second book in the trilogy features Phyllisia’s sister, Ruby, who embarks on a lesbian relationship with another girl — a taboo subject in children’s literature then. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

When the subject shifted to an activist group she was part of, I said I’d be glad to help, if they needed a lesbian on their board. I’m a lesbian marrying a man 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

We need better lesbian scenes, not ones that blatantly pander to men, with heterosexual actresses looking vaguely nauseated as they gingerly trail their fake nails across each others' breast implants. Porn for all, not a ban, is better for women 2013-03-13T10:17:44Z

Ms. Norman met several college students whose peers viewed the term “lesbian” as too “woman-identifying.” Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

To many fans who had long presumed as much and treated her as a lesbian icon, it was not a shocking revelation. After Decades of Hints, Scooby-Doo’s Velma Is Depicted as Lesbian 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Dominic is determined to save his brother-lover from the clutches of the dirty Father, so that they may return to the sanctuary of their lesbian earth mother. ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

While the recent off-screen heat may have detracted from the film itself, there’s one thing people are still whispering about: Does the film realistically depict a lesbian relationship? 5 lesbian films that get queer love right 2013-12-05T13:30:00Z

When I finally told my mom about Sam it wasn’t to come out as a lesbian; I just needed to cry to her, like any girl suffering her first broken heart. I married my sorority sister 2013-01-23T01:00:00Z

A lot of people are very curious why I'm a lesbian ... The Emmys we didn't expect 2011-09-19T12:49:00Z

His well-written journals are filled with admiration for lesbians, whom he calls “the only couples who seem to enjoy pleasing one another in bed.” Making a Case for ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ by Gay Talese 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

“Everything that she did was about being a public lesbian in the world,” said Cowen, who also took the striking photo. ‘Head lesbian,’ singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Come for the comedy and you can also fall for the sentimental back stories and the sheen of relevance provided by the large ensemble of working-class, minority, lesbian and transgender characters. Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The actress of the year award went to Annette Bening for her portrayal of a lesbian mum whose life is upset by the arrival of her children's genetic father in The Kids Are All Right. The Social Network triumphs at London critics' awards 2011-02-11T12:25:07Z

In a video that delivers a rollicking guide to lesbian sex, Ms. Scarcella playfully informs her audience that you can spot a lesbian by the relative length of her pointer and ring fingers. The Sex-Ed Queens of YouTube Don’t Need a Ph.D. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

I didn’t tell anyone that I felt a tingle when I looked at female models on the cover of fashion magazines or that I secretly feared I was a latent lesbian or at least bisexual. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Polyamorous relationships are as varied as any other straight, gay, lesbian, asexual or wholly platonic relationship. 'Do you get jealous?': the six questions I always get asked about being polyamorous 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

They used to be so reliable – either swarthy-looking aristocrats with slicked-back hair who could turn into bats or, in the case of several specific European films, lesbians who couldn't keep their tops on. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z

We learn a good deal about the lives of a lesbian couple who own the oceanfront hotel in Washington State where June stays, and about a part-Native American woman who works for them. Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Being an out lesbian in Jamaica, however, even amid well-educated students, soon brings Ms. Chin serious trouble, when she’s verbally and then sexually assaulted. Review: In ‘MotherStruck!’ Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Quest to Become Pregnant 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

First, on the prediction’s implausibility: Kurtz is basing his argument on the premise that gay male couples tend to be less sexually exclusive than either heterosexual couples or lesbian couples. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z

The memoir’s title is the question Ms. Winterson’s adoptive mother asked after discovering her daughter was a lesbian. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

Her film career was further damaged, perhaps fatally, by an innuendo-laced 1954 article in Confidential magazine suggesting that she was a lesbian. Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Period drama Gentleman Jack tells the extraordinary story of 19th-century landowner, adventurer, industrialist and intellectual Anne Lister, hailed as “the first modern lesbian”. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

It appears alongside "Warming Her Pearls", a lesbian love poem in the voice of a lady's maid who fancies not the mistress's pearls but the mistress herself. Carol Ann Duffy on her collection Love Poems – Guardian book club 2013-02-08T17:35:01Z

“I didn’t exist as a young lesbian, Muslim woman, with an immigrant background,” she added. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

But in , one of the accused women is clearly not lesbian while the other one confesses ultimately that she is, and tragedy ensues. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z

In a long section dropped into the middle of the book, for example, Ford introduces a lesbian couple and their mentally disabled 26-year-old neighbor, Mose, who’s left to fend for himself after his mother dies. A Novel About 3 Generations of Cherokee Women (and No-Good Men) 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

It would be foolhardy to suggest that the dynamics of hetero, gay and lesbian relations are identical. Does Patti Stanger hate everyone? 2011-09-27T15:28:00Z

Some said her portraits of lesbian and gay characters and themes were unrealistic, even stereotypical. Doris Grumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

The state has a number of openly gay and lesbian public servants, including Houston mayor Annise Parker. Transgender bathroom panic triumphs in Houston: The Duggar-level bigotry, fearmongering and lies that set Texas back 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Butterfly Kiss, which came out in 1995, is about a lesbian serial killer who randomly picks off her male victims in different locations around Lancashire. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

They flip through a stack of DVDs — all about lesbian relationships. Netflix Counts the Reasons Teens Should Watch ‘13 Reasons Why’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Sunshine—now known by her birth name, Suzanne—and I are sitting in her VW bug, parked across the street from Amelia’s, the notorious lesbian bar. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Paul Thompson, a lawyer for the lesbian couple, told the Oregonian newspaper on Monday that "the law is black and white." Judge rules Oregon bakery discriminated against gay couple in wedding cake rebuke 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He lived as a lesbian for nine years before addressing his discomfort with his gender. Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

The show about a group of beautiful, femme lesbians in Los Angeles had to have a bad boy. "The L Word: Generation Q": Shanes I have known 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

In the novel, young woman August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, falls in love with Jane Su, a punk lesbian from a completely different time period, after somehow meeting on the subway. “Red, White & Royal Blue”: Here's what Henry's and Alex's taste in books say about their characters 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z

After quoting a lyric from “La Vie Bohème” that reclaims slurs for gay men and lesbians, for example, Rapp quips we wouldn’t hear it from Andrew Lloyd Webber. ‘Without You’ Review: Anthony Rapp’s Seasons of Love, and Loss 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

If I'm even slightly curious about seeing myself as a cartoon lesbian floating on the moon, or whatever the internet is encouraging me to try, I'm all in. Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Together, they create an alternative reading of the American artistic mainstream with works that, if you were gay or lesbian, you might decode in ways that straight viewers wouldn't. Controversial 'Hide/Seek' appears at Tacoma Art Museum 2012-03-21T22:54:40Z

Stine’s horror series, queer people not only are the lead characters, but a lesbian romance propels the entire narrative. In ‘Fear Street,’ a Lesbian Romance Provides Hope for a Genre 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Looking at those notes a couple months later, the playwright had a vision of a suicidal lesbian, cornering a bunch of kids and telling them her life story. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Gays and lesbians, until fairly recently, largely did not exist in mass-market American comic books. DC Comics superhero: “All Star Batman” author Scott Snyder on politics, diversity and comics in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Not a lesbian belly flop – a beautiful fish arc of a dive. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

One of the earliest mainstream comics to feature gays or lesbians appeared in 1980. Superman Comes Out, as DC Comics Ushers In a New Man of Steel 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Their children grew up with Brookside’s celebrated lesbian kiss and the scrapping of Section 28. The pansexual revolution: how sexual fluidity became mainstream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Yesterday, when I was leaving, I quoted someone who had watched your movies and said, “She makes being lesbian look like such fun.” Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The musical, a true story about a lesbian cartoonist trying to understand her father’s suicide, was the against-all-odds triumph that Broadway occasionally loves, recouping its capitalization and booking a national tour. ‘Fun Home’ to Close in September 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

It accepts gay and lesbian lives because those people can spend money like anyone else. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

This novel chronicles, in detail as damp as the bad guy’s handshake, an unexpected lesbian affair that develops between Enrique’s wife and the wife of his best friend and lawyer. A Pulpy New Novel and Juiceless Old Essays From Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

"This lesbian must be broken!" she brays after her first angry rejection, at which the crowd turns on her. Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

After his death, in America, his ashes are being carried back to Ireland by his friend Beni Banikin, a lesbian playwright who is herself a casualty of a violent history. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

It’s taken more than 50 years to get Highsmith’s seminal – and once shocking – lesbian novel to cinemas. Passion project: meet the indie super-producer behind Cannes hot ticket Carol 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The basic data on Hannah is that she is a vegan, and that she has just walked away from a tumultuous long-term lesbian relationship. Movie Review: Lynn Shelton’s ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ 2012-06-14T21:38:38Z

Part of the reason is that your data set of lesbian brides is leaving you with a skewed snapshot. Civilities: ‘When two lesbians marry why does one wear a dress, and the other pants?’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The unconventionality that serves as the show’s principal hook — A guy and a lesbian having a baby! ‘One Big Happy’ and ‘Undateable’: Why one sitcom stinks and the other doesn’t 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

But The L Word flailed precisely because it strived to represent every sub-section of lesbian: disabled, military, older, mixed-race, or faux. Sue Perkins's lesbian sitcom Heading Out is a step in the right direction 2013-02-27T07:45:50Z

Other laureled films like Brazil’s “Bacurau” and France’s lesbian love story “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” deserve consideration, too. Which Cannes Films Will Factor Into the Oscar Race? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

She is a lesbian, an observant Jew and a die-hard Democrat for whom 12 hours constitutes a light workday. Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump’s life extremely difficult 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z

Rotterdam West Coast premiere of Jon Brittain’s comedy about a lesbian whose girlfriend comes out to her as a transgender man. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 5-12: 'Something Rotten!,' 'Spamilton' and more 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

She said it is the only electronic game she still plays regularly and that her latest project in the game is a “lesbian commune.” The Sims Is Bringing Its Inclusive Spirit to TV 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

If I'm even slightly curious about seeing myself as a cartoon lesbian floating on the moon, or whatever the internet is encouraging me to try, I'm all in. Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

An inveterate tomboy and a closeted lesbian, I felt like an impostor in a dress. Mom’s girly presents to me 2013-12-24T23:00:00Z

“People were a combination — not just afraid of being outed, but afraid of dying,” said Michael Adams, the chief executive of SAGE, an advocacy organization for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults. Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

The twist: The pugilists are lesbians, and they are wailing on each other — in the guise of self-defense — as a way to attract the hottest cheerleaders. ‘Bottoms’ and the Tricky Tone of a Horror-Indie-Drama-Action-Teen-Sex Comedy 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

On a Sunday night in July 1991, at a sprawling complex called Tracks in the District of Columbia, I found thousands of young black gay men and lesbians. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“We have our lesbians, our gays,” he said, before adding, “bisexual, transsexual, queer, homosexual, asexual.” Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

We had an interracial lesbian couple in the class. My awesome C-section 2012-11-06T01:00:00Z

I felt like for the first time, “Go Fish” really showed how we lived as lesbians.It made me feel like there was hope even for an actor like me. ArtsBeat: The Gay Film That Changed Your Life 2012-03-16T15:00:11Z

This was especially the case with some of Mr. Beal’s all too harmonious settings of lines by Pauli Murray, a black lesbian civil rights activist and correspondent of Roosevelt’s. Review: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Explores Issues Facing Its Members 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Gay men and lesbians may be winning the culture war at the moment. ‘Victory,’ by Linda Hirshman 2012-06-22T22:49:03Z

Another was a young woman who was struggling with her conservative Jewish family accepting her as lesbian. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Pride is celebrated in June, but comic books and graphic novels featuring characters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender aren’t confined to one month. Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

They wanted to provide a feminist alternative to the Mafia-controlled lesbian bars. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

But surely that would make lesbian refs OK? Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z

So it has been interesting to hear some readers complain about what they see as the negative portrayal of lesbians in the series. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Morello Hears Wedding Bells 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Spartacus” offered liberal graphic sex scenes, and “Black Sails” does the same, particularly when it comes to two lesbian characters. The new ‘Black Sails’ on Starz: a sexy, violent pirate soap opera 2014-01-25T00:07:00Z

"Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it," said DeGeneres, one of Hollywood's most prominent lesbians. "Project Runway"s Tim Gunn reveals early suicide bid 2010-10-06T19:16:00Z

Baby news aside, the real reason I am below 14th Street is to discuss hot lesbian sex. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

He began with a cheapy paperback titled “The Strange Sisterhood of Madam Adista,” followed by a more serious lesbian novel, eventually published as “Strange Are the Ways of Love.” Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

I've been talking to lesbian friends about "The Real L Word" and the reaction has been all over the place. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

In it, Jay jokes about her relationship and the intersectionality of her identity as a lesbian of color. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero’ and a Timely Documentary 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

“It was called The Avengers because Diana Rigg was a lesbian icon on the TV show ‘The Avengers’,” said Ms. Schulman. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Film gave way to a decade spent building commercial success in television, most notably as the co-executive producer of the lesbian drama “The L Word.” Watch a nightclub shooting in virtual reality? For Rose Troche, painful subjects make for powerful art 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Meaker had in fact founded a new genre, lesbian pulp fiction, which was to become for a stretch of about 15 years wildly successful, and a moneymaker,” she said by email. Marijane Meaker, 95, Who Helped Launch Genre of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

She wants to dispel any remaining myths that all lesbians look or act a certain way, she says. What’s a nice lesbian like you doing at Miss America? Erin O’Flaherty’s historic quest 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

I can’t tell you how much this meant to gays and lesbians all over the country. Brad and Angelina Getting Married Is a Slap in the Face to Gay Americans 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

The sense is that Abdellatif Kechiche's lesbian love story ticks all the right boxes, in that it is small but expansive, gently political, and formally radical enough to appease the fringes without spooking the mainstream. Cannes festival diary: day 10 2013-05-24T12:17:45Z

The future looks brighter for lesbian love stories. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

A typically Gallagherian ruse draws her and her indomitable lesbian partner out of hiding, but how will it affect their kids? TV highlights: 18/09/11 2011-08-17T21:00:01Z

Here, Richard E. Grant’s Jack Hock is the gadfly, often unreliable confidante of Melissa McCarthy’s Lee, a frumpy lesbian saddled with a cat, frustrated longings and thwarted literary ambitions. The Roles Are L.G.B.T.Q., but the Movies Are Not About Self-Discovery 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to create a lesbian world,” she recalled in a phone interview before last weekend’s event. Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

This lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival begins its 24th season this Friday at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and runs through Tuesday, with 14 narrative features and 4 documentaries. Critic’s Notebook: NewFest of Gay-Themed Films at Lincoln Center 2012-07-26T21:49:29Z

Because I wasn't convinced by them – I don't mean as lesbians, I mean as characters. Lip Service and Tom Daley: the Diver and his Dad 2010-10-13T07:00:00Z

She’s not your daughter’s “lesbian friend,” she’s your daughter’s girlfriend, and, yes, you must include her as you would a girlfriend you liked. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Today’s theme is ‘Daughters in love and parents in a huff’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, "going to Venice" was her private code for having a lesbian sexual adventure. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z

At one point, he said to me: 'I just want to play it like an old lesbian.' Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

They flirted with the margins of taste: a sketch about the Holocaust was rejected, but others about child abuse and the murder of lesbians made it onto the air. Tom Davis, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedy Writer, Dies at 59 2012-07-19T21:41:39Z

Should a kid's book about Jesus's friends also have included a Muslim, a Native American, and one of those hilarious one-legged lesbians? Oops, we forgot Jesus's women 2010-07-30T11:14:00Z

In another, a teacher was accused of saying gays and lesbians should be stoned to death. SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans 2013-06-01T04:35:09Z

It takes the usual prison TV tropes of bent screws, lesbian affairs, claustrophobic pettiness and racial divides, and makes them seem fresh, skewing our perspectives in unexpected ways. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z

“These were films about lesbians made by guys who didn’t care about lesbians,” Mr. Henenlotter said. Sexploitation Films, Short on Good Taste, Still Have Devotees 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was a hit in New York, too, first on the Lower East Side and, eventually, in an abridged English translation, at the Apollo Theatre, where it featured the first lesbian kiss on Broadway. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

For the People Celebration Theatre presents a staged reading of Carol Mullen’s drama about a lesbian politician in Pittsburgh. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

"Many cities have lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community activities." Nine Chinese gay, transgender couples to tie the knot on cruise ship 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The first feature by an out Black lesbian, this tale of an aspiring filmmaker making a documentary about uncredited Black actresses in Hollywood was another must-include for many readers. Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

It was always gay male actors being cast as weak, victimized gay characters, lesbians being cast as psychotic murderers etc... For ‘Transparent,’ Accusations Against Jeffrey Tambor Burst an Idealistic Bubble 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It tells the story of a lesbian couple and the lengths they go to to have a child without going to a sperm bank. Ethan Coen plays 'may come to UK' 2013-10-14T10:32:51Z

When audiences at test screenings reacted negatively to two lesbian characters in the Steve Martin comedy LA Story, the studio responded by removing all references to their sexuality. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

I remember asking my mom what a lesbian was and not getting an answer. Katy Pyle and Her ‘Misfits of Ballet’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

In Thatcherite England, gay and lesbian activists try to raise money to support striking miners and their families. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

As they enrolled in the study, Chivers' subjects identified themselves as straight or lesbian. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z

Fifty-two women — including Erin O’Flaherty of Missouri, the first openly lesbian contestant — vie for the crown and a scholarship in Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Churchill’s Secret’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

And yet many lesbians are also subject to daily misogyny, which is also classified as a hate crime when it manifests in violence. After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Lemml's rapturous and completely unsalacious devotion to the lesbian love story at the heart of Asch's play has a fanatical quality that can seem strained. 'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cave and Mr. White’s collaboration will be staged on Sunday at the Ruth Ellis Center, which serves homeless and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. For Detroit Artists, Almost Anything Goes 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

So, aside from coming out as bi whenever lesbians started talking about how untrustworthy or confused bisexuals are, I held fast to the gay label. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Yet both dramas, centering on older-younger lesbian romances, converge on points that are remarkably similar: Be true to yourself, and demand your place at the table. Lesbian Love Blossoms in New Screen Dramas 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

But the musician said that the wave of support around the world for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community after Sunday's shooting proves that "we're winning the fight against prejudice." Musicians use song, statements to respond to mass shooting 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Before there was an official event with tickets and swag, groups of lesbians convened in the Coachella Valley during the Dinah Shore Golf Championship, an annual tournament for the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

When you look at straight women versus lesbian women, you see that there isn't the same phenomenon happening. Tracy Clark-Flory: "Our culture is totally ignorant around the realm of sexual fantasy" 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The scene isn't exactly sexy, no, but it's refreshing to see lesbian sexuality portrayed with a respect and humor rarely exhibited in mainstream movies. Cinema's most pivotal gay sex scenes 2010-07-11T15:01:00Z

And it was the era in which large numbers of gay and lesbian student groups began petitioning university student governments for official recognition and funding, and often winning both. Why "Glee" is the new "Rocky Horror" 2010-10-19T15:45:00Z

Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra faced a similar “limit” in its depiction of a lesbian relationship which couldn’t move beyond hand-holding. Steven Universe censorship undermines Cartoon Network's LGBTQ progress 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

To be a lesbian, I thought, you had to wear mannish clothes and crop your hair short. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Showgirls” has a queer appeal, not just in the unsubtle lesbian subtext but also in the fandom. Was "Showgirls" actually a failure? "You Don't Nomi" revisits the craptastic cult film we can't quit 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

She argues that the only way you can be a lesbian is to be sexually involved. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

These older lesbians would have intriguing stories that I would never know about. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

When a lame joke about parallel parking is booed down, she swings back with, "Oh please – it's not a lesbian joke, it's a woman joke! Everyone hates women!" Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Gay rights groups have praised “The Favourite” for its depiction of a lesbian love triangle. Oscar Nominations: ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Break Ground 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The word “lesbian” is used about 12 times in that episode. The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

"I think it would open his eyes to understand that just because we are a lesbian couple, we're really not any different than him and Mrs. Cathy." New transgender discrimination lawsuit marks decade of anti-LGBTQ controversies for Chick-fil-A 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

Over wine and cheese, they planned to start a group that would fight for lesbian visibility. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

I mean, how come women get to have lesbian “experiments” with little judgment and not men? A frat boy’s “gay experience” 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z

But Betty has no intention of resuming their secret lesbian partnership. 'Masters of Sex' recap: Racial tension flares at Bill's new hospital 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

There was the sprawling ensemble of "Orange Is the New Black," whose numbers include white, black, Asian, Latino, transgender and lesbian performers. SAG Awards 2015: TV shows off its diversity 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Pat Robertson, an American televangelist, might have said it best when he described feminism as a movement that “encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians”. Broomsticks, T-shirts and coffee: what every feminist wants for Christmas 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

As a radicalized young lesbian, I got my therapist’s name from the bartender at my favorite women’s bar. What I’ve learned from transgender clients: Psychotherapy on the gender frontier 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The two played cynical, slightly neurotic lesbians living in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. ‘Appropriate Behavior’ filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on her debut film and how she got her role on ‘Girls’ 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

There is some truth to these tropes, and, perhaps because of them, gay men are targeted vastly more than lesbians by the straight men who overwhelmingly perpetrate violent hate crimes. After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It was a striking change in public rhetoric — from a politician who has otherwise consistently opposed anti-discrimination laws, HIV policies and same-sex marriage laws supported by gay and lesbian groups. In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Silkworm,” at the Assembly Roxy, tells of a lesbian couple from Nigeria who arrive in Glasgow seeking permanent asylum in Britain. At Edinburgh’s Festivals, Big Names and Live Issues 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

The gruesome results of Jesse’s descent into a superficial community involve scenarios that wouldn’t be out of place in fantasies of a teenage goth boy: lesbian shower scenes, medieval-looking corsets and human sacrifice. Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The findings will shape coverage for years to come and could lead to the introduction of more lesbian characters in the corporation's dramas. Homosexuality on TV: viewers react 2010-09-29T23:36:00Z

Here is an inter-species lesbian couple in the 19th century that you can actually believe in. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

It appears Ash was not devotedly uxorious to his wife Ellen and that Christabel may not have been a lesbian feminist icon. Digested classic: Possession by AS Byatt 2010-07-09T13:17:00Z

One of its strong points is a sense of humour, and though tonight's episode is a touch cheesy, it settles down quickly, which, appropriately, is the punchline to many a lesbian joke. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-11T23:05:00Z

Six foot tall and with no womanly curves, the teenage Angelou worries she might be a lesbian, has sex with a local boy to prove she's not and then falls pregnant. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou – review 2013-04-22T06:30:01Z

Fingersmith is in some senses very much of its time – “To me it seems like quite an old-fashioned lesbian story. I think of queer as a 90s thing.” Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

So where are all the new lesbian writers? Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

For years, Styles has worn various flags given to him by fans during certain moments of his shows — to name a few, the trans, pride, bisexual and lesbian flags. How Harry Styles became an even bigger star – and the one we needed the most – in 2022 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

For her first film, in 2008, she interviewed some 50 Black lesbians of different backgrounds. Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

An early leader in the music scene for lesbians and women, she passed away at her home from a brain aneurysm and stroke, according to Liza Cowen, her friend and former partner. ‘Head lesbian,’ singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

This includes her radical leftist politics as well as her struggle to identify publicly as a black lesbian in the 1950s and 1960s. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Anne, this movie has a scene where Reese and Sofia pretend to be a lesbian couple to get out of a jam, and a period joke. Three women in 'Hot Pursuit' of laughs -- and audience and respect 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The eldest by a minute, she is the only heterosexual in our family; her twin is a lesbian and so are her two moms. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mom, son, sister, brother-in-law, nieces, nephew, lesbian ex and her kid: What more could a guy want from a gal on a third date? Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

"If a gay man was a donor and in a dispute with a lesbian couple or a single lesbian mother, the law recognized that relationship over any other partnership or non-biological family member," Russo said. How a queer, "Nuclear Family" was threatened by a sperm donor: "Biology trumped everything" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The acclaim for the previously unknown Adepero Oduye’s performance as the young lesbian Alike in “Pariah” is typical of how black film spotlights otherwise marginalized actors. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

Ms. Dunye was working on a film called “Watermelon Woman,” partly about the life of a black lesbian Hollywood actress named Fae Richards, whose career had been thwarted by racism. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

As a female rapper, do you think it’s easier to come out as bisexual – or express interest in both sexes –than as lesbian just in terms of marketability? Hip-hop’s sexual coming-of-age 2012-08-02T14:35:00Z

The ill-fated journey to Broadway of a Yiddish play with a lesbian subplot. 2017 Tony Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

"I'll tell you how I'm serving the gay and lesbian community," he said. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z

For basic white girls with no subtlety, for women at lesbian bars making small talk, for those who have taken no time to get to know me and are obviously not invested in my answers. Yes, it’s possible to be queer and Muslim 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

As Frank Bruni put it, gays and lesbians are no longer cultural rebels; “We’re aspirants to tradition, communicating shared values and asserting a fundamentally conservative desire… for families, stability, commitment.” “Traditional marriage’s” lamest defense 2013-04-03T15:50:00Z

And Eve Fowler inscribes the revolutionary, logic-skewering language of the lesbian modernist Gertrude Stein on a large wood panel, a format that brings protest posters to mind. Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’ 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

In 2005, an episode of the children’s program “Postcards From Buster” featuring lesbian parents set off conservative complaints. PBS Showed TV the Future. But What Does Its Own Look Like? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

And here's to a new era of appreciating that lesbians are normal and, yes, can be very cool, sexy and funny, too. Lip Service is groundbreaking ? whatever its star says 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

The lesbian blog, founded in 2002, will publish its last post on Friday. AfterEllen and the digital media bust: Queer spaces for women are disappearing, even on the Internet 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

June, who is married to a man, can get indirectly into hers, while Moira, a lesbian, is totally locked out. Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Feminist 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Pride focuses on one London group of lesbian and gay activists, who "adopted" a mining community in south Wales, despite initial suspicion and prejudice from residents. Nighy takes Pride in miners movie 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

But Katherine Brault, the current owner of Bonheur’s chateau, which is now a museum, says there is no proof that Bonheur was a lesbian. Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The classic union anthem “Solidarity Forever,” sung by Pete Seeger, introduces “Pride,” a stirring film about the uneasy coalition of British mineworkers and gay and lesbian activists during a labor strike in the mid-1980s. ‘Pride’ Shows the Alliance of a Gay Group and Mineworkers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Gently mocking how things have changed, or maybe not, Ms. Gomez adds: “That’s how it was back then for even possibly lesbian characters. Not like today, when lesbian characters lead happy lives in prison.” Review: Marga Gomez’s ‘Pound’ Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Jane Roe,” coming out as a lesbian, then turning to strict Catholicism and repudiating both her lesbianism and Roe v. 40 of America’s Greatest Writers on Key Supreme Court Decisions 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Another oft-recited stereotype is that lesbians are known to process everything to death. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

In 2004, “The L Word” premièred, introducing a tight-knit group of Los Angeles lesbians as thin, glamorous, and erratic as the straight New Yorkers of “Sex and the City.” “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

It brings to television a rare depiction of a lesbian couple as heads of a household. Jennifer Lopez brings 'The Fosters' to ABC Family 2013-06-07T12:10:12Z

Though a victory by Ms. Baldwin on Tuesday would represent the election of the first openly gay or lesbian person to the Senate, gay groups have been surprisingly low-key about their public support. Tammy Baldwin, on the Edge of Making History 2012-11-05T18:31:35Z

Earlier this month the Twitter campaign #giveElsaAGirlfriend called on Disney to include a lesbian relationship in the sequel to Frozen. Finding Dory trailer raises hopes film could include lesbian couple 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

For a book that unpacks birth control, body autonomy, feminism and the mind-set of the oppressed, the lack of any lesbian characters was a touch baffling. ‘The Women’s War’ Is an Epic Feminist Fantasy for the #MeToo Era 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The film groups Wong, who, like Fay, was rumored to be a lesbian, with casualties of the advent of sound. ‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibit called Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, which explores gay and lesbian themes. The Smithsonian 'Anty Christ' censured and censored 2010-12-02T19:00:00Z

I am a poor, lesbian/feminist, vague socialist, professional waitress, and over-age student from the rural/poor socio-economic stratum of America. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

And although lesbians have been with us always, the pageant didn't feature an openly gay contestant until Erin O’Flaherty donned the sash as Miss Missouri two years ago. Miss America’s #MeToo reboot: Can a former beauty pageant really evolve? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Gays and lesbians in South Korea have been subject to hate crimes. Gay South Korean film director to marry in bid to pry open closet 2013-05-15T08:36:35Z

“This lady ran as a moderate or whatever, and she was a lesbian but she’s kind of stayed quiet, under wraps so to speak,” Robertson said. Pat Robertson blames mayor’s lesbian “predilections” for Houston LGBT equality law 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Sometimes I think there is no hope," says Ngwabeni, "but then my director reminds me what we are doing: for many lesbians in the townships, I am living a dream. Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women calls shame on South Africa 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

In a similar vein, so to speak, Nicholas Winding Refn brought bloodthirsty lesbian vampire supermodels to LA’s fashion world in The Neon Demon – a variation on a well-worn horror tropes, but in no way traditional. How post-horror movies are taking over cinema 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

And it was after hearing her tell intimate stories about coming out to her mother as a lesbian that Mr. Ansari urged Ms. Waithe to turn it into material for the show. With ‘The Chi,’ Lena Waithe Heads Home in Search of the Real Chicago 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Supreme Court decision may further validate the rights of gays and lesbians, but their practices in the bedroom are still repugnant to a lot of people. Critic’s Notebook: NewFest of Gay Films Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-09-05T21:36:08Z

Still others like the media blog Gawker wondered whether Ms. Roberts was chosen because she is a lesbian, though that was not widely known at the time. The Morning Muse of Television 2014-05-09T20:25:04Z

So, it’s a small sample, but I did interview half women of color and half white women, half queer, lesbian and bisexual women and half straight women. Finally! A nuanced look at hookup culture 2013-03-03T01:00:00Z

She’s a quirky lesbian with a soft spot for animals and a brand of observational humor that turned out to be tailor-made for social media. Ellen DeGeneres, TV and Twitter Hit, Ready to Host Oscars 2014-01-17T13:00:22Z

Though Ross’ jealousy of his ex-wife Carol’s new partner, Susan, bordered on homophobic, the character redeemed himself when he walked his lesbian ex-wife down the aisle after her disapproving parents bailed on the wedding. These Shows Helped Shape America's Attitudes About Gay Relationships 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

In a sense this return to gender-fluid people and gay and lesbian people of color is a recapitulation of the original Stonewall warriors, those drag queens and tough kids from Harlem. How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there | Edmund White 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

To its credit Investigation Discovery isn’t entirely down market; last September it aired the critically-acclaimed “Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four,” about four lesbians wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting two children. Opiate for the Masses: Oh, “Snapped”! Oxygen joins Investigation Discovery as a purveyor of true crime, all the time 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Alexander took a moment to stress that Witches of Bushwick was not just for women, or lesbians. Witches of Bushwick Is a Social and Creative Group in Brooklyn 2014-02-12T23:42:18Z

Meanwhile, a staggering 80 percent of first-year medical students expressed some form of bias against lesbians and gays, the National Institutes of Health reported in 2015. For many LGBTQ people, even a routine doctor visit can be a ‘degrading experience’ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

In addition, she was open about being a lesbian — and about her committed relationship with Kristin Jurkscheit, a horn player, and their young son, Auden — in what remains a largely straight profession. A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

They met in the late ’80s at a Los Angeles fundraiser for a gay and lesbian organization that provided social services to teens. In gift to MOCA, Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard give key works that explore gender and queer identity 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Thanks Jodie Foster for just coming out as a lesbian — in such an odd way!!!!!!!!! Hashtag Nation: Wow! (Whatever It Was Jodie Foster Said) 2013-01-18T16:23:02Z

Fifteen years ago, at age 19, I made the decision to come out as a lesbian to my evangelical parents. A Thanksgiving Snapshot: Readers Share Their Holiday Stories 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

But is there really a lesbian way to fight? Gay Couples Can Teach Straight People a Thing or Two About Arguing 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

One said he knew Crane because he read about him on Purple Armadillo, a website devoted to gay and lesbian Clevelanders. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z

“Lori Lightfoot is good for lesbians like Queen Elizabeth is good for women,” said Rebecca Angevine, 59, a White lesbian staff volunteer coordinator at a local college. In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

It animated the Black Arts Movement, which in turn inspired new generations of Latino, feminist and gay and lesbian artist-activists to pursue autonomous, independent, separatist cultural paths. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

My public school sex-ed class didn’t say a word about the possibility of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, or transgender folks. 8 most absurd lessons Americans teach kids about sex 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z

The initial questions turned into desperate ones of bargaining: Can’t you just become a priest or marry a lesbian? When I came out to my parents, kimchi fried rice held us together 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

And the intentional comic stereotypes — swaggering lesbian pro golfer, limp-wristed gay minister — don't help. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

You talk about Bill Moyers, or a documentary you charge with liberal bias, or the elitism of NPR executives, or some show with lesbians in it. Why is Mitt Romney Picking a Fight With Big Bird? 2012-10-05T14:57:05Z

I used to be terrified of being a lesbian. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a trans nonbinary person, and lesbian culture is as expansive. There are not a lot of social spaces for lesbians, and it’s important to keep that history alive, evolving and thriving.” Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s the sort of arrangement a stereotypical lesbian, who shows up on the second date with all of her possessions in a U-Haul, would absolutely adore. Mother May I Sleep with Danger?: James Franco's lesbian vampire flick lacks bite 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

And even fewer women do that, and even fewer lesbians. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

But over the last 10 years, not a single feature focused on Black lesbians has made it through mainstream pipelines. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

As for the future of lesbian-centric events, there has been a trend of lesbian bars closing recently. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

You're apt to consider her long, luminous history as a champion of female, feminist and lesbian visibility in the art world through her writings, her co-founding of a women's gallery and her own formidable example. Harmony Hammond: Boundary-breaking work with a story on its surface 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Members of that faith community didn't feel that they could continue to be in relationship with a lesbian who left my husband. "They cannot survive without fear": A heretic on leaving the evangelical church 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, a lively chat about Sue Perkins, and whether her new show Heading Out is a "lesbian sitcom". Ricky Gervais back as David Brent, while Derek passes the taste test 2013-03-05T15:19:48Z

“Our lesbian history and movement are not for sale,” the letter read. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

A&E Networks, a joint venture of The Walt Disney Co. and Hearst Corp., called itself a supporter of the lesbian and gay community. Patriarch off 'Duck Dynasty' after gay comments 2013-12-19T21:54:02Z

But surely the worldwide movement to demand marriage rights, in which lesbians have played a crucial role, at least deserves passing mention. First Comes Love, Then Comes What Exactly? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Written by Sholem Asch, “God of Vengeance” is credited with presenting the first lesbian kiss on Broadway in 1923. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Presented in Yiddish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

She worked in television, hosting episodes of “In the Life,” a PBS newsmagazine series about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Lesley Gore, Teenage Voice of Heartbreak, Dies at 68 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Thirty million people saw a positive portrayal of lesbian moms through their friend Ross. Wonder Woman’s Surprising Back Story Has a Film of Its Own 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

The lesbian singer and feminist activist who appeared in an iconic and recently resurgent 1975 photo wearing a T-shirt that read “The Future is Female.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

That's much higher than the rates of violence faced by straight women, lesbians, or straight or queer men. Celebrating the casual bisexuality in "Hacks" 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Luckily, not all the Stackhouses are so self-centered when it comes to their problems: Sookie has Tara over for a girl's night to discuss her best friend's lesbian dilemma. "True Blood" 4x5: Vampire history lessons 2011-07-25T11:20:00Z

“Are you going to do ‘crying at work?’ ” she asked Liz Armstrong, who will write about lesbian relationships for the site and act as New Age editor. Jane Pratt, Unbound and Ready for the Web 2011-05-19T04:20:10Z

Conroy kindly offers his readers occasional relief with hysterical tidbits like when the kids tried to explain to their grandmother that one of the Conroy girls was lesbian. Pat Conroy Writes About Relationship With Father 2013-11-04T19:42:12Z

The musical "Fun Home" follows the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel as she goes from an uncertain childhood in a small-town funeral home to a career as a highly successful lesbian author and artist. Tonys 2015: 'Fun Home' concludes offbeat journey with musical win, 4 others 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The Village Pride Tour includes stops at Christopher Park, across from the Stonewall Inn, the landmark bar Julius’ and the former home of the Sea Colony, a popular lesbian watering hole. Pride Is Coming Back to New York. Check Out These Events. 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Maker and child have the kind of poignant scene that you might not expect from a millenium-old Viking prince and a century old lipstick lesbian. "True Blood" recap: Dirty dealings 2010-08-16T13:20:00Z

His arthouse hit, "The Duke of Burgundy," about lesbian S&M lepidopterists, had a perfume credit. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

There’s no other show that depicts a black lesbian with a developmental disability, raised by white parents and incarcerated for reasons that remain unknown. From Titus to Marshmallow: ranking TV's top five black LGBT characters 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Titled "AWP Is Us," the post's references to ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians rehearsed outdated cliches that immediately offended a wide readership. Criticism of diversity issues at AWP conference inflamed by Kate Gale piece 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

He cited personal accounts from gay and lesbian Russians, who have faced discrimination and violence because of their sexuality: Elton John Blasts ‘Vicious Homophobia’ in Russia 2014-01-23T12:51:37Z

Bose, 49, said she hoped the film would contribute to the debate over Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which forbids homosexual sex, and eventually lead to sexual legitimacy for homosexuals, bisexuals and lesbians. Indian film-maker hopes to take gay issues out of the closet 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Neil obsessed over a lesbian betrayal that ends in wedding bells. Motley Crue goes out with a bang at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Since then, there’s been a burst of books featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning young people. Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Female commentators on the popular portrayal of women’s sexuality acknowledge the difficulty of realistically depicting lesbian sex on the big screen. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

A very minor, very angry lesbian on a boat. How "Fire Island" passes the Bechdel test – by creating a new one 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

He had approached the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which runs the Harvey Milk High School for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, to donate proceeds from his art. Michael Alig, the Former King of the Club Kids, After Prison 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

We’re not the only ones, said Ellen Kahn, the director of the Family Project for the Human Rights Campaign, a leading advocacy group for gay men and lesbians. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z

But Pegeen attaches herself to Simon and, with a suitcase of sex toys, moves in with him, announcing that her 14 years as a lesbian have been a mistake. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Yet we still got very few entries from lesbian writers. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

For his part, Walker said he was already familiar with Nobody’s Darling from a fellow patron: his 66-year-old lesbian mother, Charlotte, who is a regular. In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

And if you know of any great new lesbian writers, let us know. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

It was a great year for women in particular: Todd Haynes’ masterful lesbian romance “Carol” led the film pack with five nominations: Picture, Director, Screenplay, and bids for both its actresses. A Golden Globes victory for women: There’s life and prestige after 40 for actresses, after all 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

He is a founder and board member of Out in Tech, a nonprofit organization that unites lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people within the technology community. Marc Dickstein, Mark Dato 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the curiously commercial documentary “Ahead of the Curve,” the lesbian magazine formerly known as Deneuve receives a second shot at the cultural spotlight. ‘Ahead of the Curve’ Review: The Business of Lesbian Identity 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Radclyffe Hall’s pioneering 1928 novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” naturally forms the centerpiece of the chapter on lesbian romances. Review | A look at the bad boys of 20th century romantic fiction 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

For many years, as gay rights activists have fought for equal opportunity, lesbian and gay writers have penned works that provide a richer understanding of the joys and challenges of their lives. 21 classic works of gay literature 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

I fell into the gay women’s liberation movement, and for the next 25 years I identified as a lesbian. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

But with her affecting photographs and videos, documenting the lives and deaths of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, Ms. Muholi is claiming her own place in history. Review: Zanele Muholi, a Visual Activist, Presents ‘Isibonelo/Evidence’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

As we carried on down the road, she casually asked: “Liz, are you a lesbian?” Coming out meant I could stop fighting the world 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

A slew of politicians, many not normally allies of gay and lesbian Israelis, publicly expressed solidarity, and a clutch of celebrities came out of the closet. A Crime Against Gay Israelis Is a Symbol, but of What? 2013-07-26T17:36:52Z

The store carried early gay and lesbian publications. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

I was acutely aware of my secret, special feelings — I still didn't call them crushes — and I was sure that I was not a lesbian. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

When the Palms closed in 2013, leaving one of America’s most populous and diverse cities without a lesbian bar, she felt a painful absence. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ask a lesbian parent if this is so. Should I knock myself up? 2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

Below, some other prominent gays and lesbians recall what gay bars meant to them as they began to embrace their sexuality, some eagerly and some nervously. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ongley, who describes herself as “the school lesbian” and regularly wears pajama pants to class, said none of her peers were shocked by her prom look. Prom Looks Now Include Vintage Clothing and Styles from the Red Carpet 2014-04-25T22:16:02Z

I went off and did exposés on arms dealers and expounded the virtues of the right to protest and, in return, he stopped wincing every time a lesbian character appeared on TV. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

Midge blithely takes Susie, against Susie's will or knowledge, to a lesbian bar, hoping to set the manager up with someone. Before jumping into the final "Maisel" season, here's a tight five refresher 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

Also starting June 17, the theater will host a weeklong run of Leilah Weinraub’s documentary “Shakedown,” about the Black lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles. Pride Month in New York Is Bouncing Back. Here’s How to Celebrate. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

“As the first gay and lesbian swim team, we were fighting against the idea that men are sissies and the only thing women did in sports was softball.” 'We were forming family': how LGBT sports grew in the early 1980s 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

"I am much more likely to be offered a corporate lawyer than I am to be offered a lesbian of whatever ilk." "Sex and the City's" Nixon lives her own New York 2010-05-26T16:33:00Z

Liselle is a senior, “the only Black girl who ran with the boldest” lesbians. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Here's the moment when a group of lesbians protesting about section 28 invaded the studios of The Six O'Clock News in 1988. The One Show: when TV goes wrong 2011-02-24T12:15:21Z

"The real monsters of lesbian feminism that won't die," Mitchell says, citing archetypes that seem particularly uncomfortable to the mainstream. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

"Men enjoy looking at lesbians, so why can't I enjoy gay men?" she wonders. Bigas Luna obituary 2013-04-07T16:53:09Z

I read The Well of Loneliness and thought that I'm obviously not a lesbian because I didn't want to wear a man's suit or be called Stephen. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

She also found herself particularly disappointed at the absence of lesbian actors from the set. Blue Is the Warmest Colour sex scenes are porn, says author of graphic novel 2013-05-30T13:10:12Z

The singer’s 2017 song “Smile” revealed that his mother was a lesbian. Beyonce and Jay-Z dedicate GLAAD award to family members 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It was a situation any now or formerly single lesbian knows all too well. ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Some things she didn’t enjoy when she watched videos – group scenarios, lesbian relationships or male-on-male – she now enjoys. Porn without the visuals: I tried audio erotica – would it turn me on? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

And we see the conflicts and minefields a lesbian character, Allie, faces when she finds herself falling for Vi, and has to defend her relationship with Vi to her lesbian friends. Eve Ensler: trans people have been caricatures for too long 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

There are the persecuted lesbian couple and an inmate whose problems begin with his interracial marriage. Television Review: ‘American Horror Story’ on FX Begins Second Season 2012-10-16T23:27:18Z

A drama about young lesbian love, it was so celebrated for its explicit sex scenes that it won the festival’s top prize. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

Ry Russo-Young’s three-part documentary about her lesbian mothers and the sperm donor who sued them for parental rights, threatening to pull apart her family, built to a powerful and eloquent conclusion. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

And shifting conceptions of sexuality and gender extend beyond what words like gay, lesbian, male or female can accommodate. Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Last year, a TV spot for Todd Haynes’ lesbian romance Carol was banned from Disney-owned network ABC for being too explicit. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The  next step was to make it  safe—or at least, less costly—to “come out” by publicly identifying oneself as lesbian or gay. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Both books recount the world of oppression that prevailed for gays and lesbians well into the latter part of the 20th century, and Klarman does so in shocking detail. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z

As Nelson George wrote in The Times in 2011, “No film made by a Black lesbian about being a Black lesbian has ever received the kind of attention showered on Ms. Rees’s film.” ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

An American commentator wrote a blog publicly warning my husband he would one day come home to find I had burned down our house, murdered our children and joined a “coven of lesbian witches”. What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

And here the specificity falls away, because this isn't just a programme about an awkward, bumbling lesbian vet; the situation is universal. Sue Perkins's lesbian sitcom Heading Out is a step in the right direction 2013-02-27T07:45:50Z

“No,” she concedes, “Jill wanted a true-blue lesbian. The real McCoy.” Chimerica's Cherry Jones: 'Everything progressive in America has been trampled on' 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Her refusal may also be more explicitly autobiographical; she is a lesbian who said in a recent interview in The New York Times that she is “gender fluid,” and that she uses the “she” pronoun. Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Bisexuality was the gateway identity, easier to say to someone than lesbian.  “Are you a boy or a girl?”: Our trans-bisexual love story 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit of anonymous letters she wrote to The Ladder, the first nationally distributed lesbian magazine in the United States, remains open until March 16. ArtsBeat: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Exhibit Opens at New York Public Library 2014-02-18T18:53:00Z

In later series, the gay subtext is made text via a relationship between Willow and Tara, still one of the most positive, remarkable-in-its-unremarkability and, alas, rare depictions of young lesbian love around. Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

One night, drunk and depressed, I sat outside the bar with a heavyset lesbian who was willing to listen to my self-absorbed epiphanies. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z

Betty DiMello’s line — “there’s nothing we can do about it” — regarding the prospect of two lesbians adopting a baby felt similar to me. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: With an Ape, the Show Jumps the Shark 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Black, an activist in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, is engaged to the British diver Tom Daley, 21. Sam Smith, the Only Openly Gay Oscar Winner? Not Really 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

In 2000, a lesbian couple was ejected from Dodger Stadium for kissing. How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Others defy expectations by making sexual orientation a distinctly secondary concern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lesbian, as in “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Wedding.” What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

It has the best lesbian and gay youth centres in the world. Ian McKellen: 'My ambition is to get better as an actor' 2011-08-24T19:59:01Z

“I don’t think even lesbian is the right identity fit for me. I really don’t. I may as well come out now. I identify—as tired.” The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vellucci, 31, is the director of fund-raising at Black Tie Dinner, a nonprofit organization in Dallas that supports the local and national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. John Christian, Anthony Vellucci 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

Open lesbian Josefine Tegblad produced the film and has said that it in many ways mirrors her own experiences of falling in love with another woman. 5 lesbian films that get queer love right 2013-12-05T13:30:00Z

The author understands that of course there isn’t one typical lesbian style, but what she admires about Clinton is her career-long commitment to not pandering. “Hillary’s look is a practical one”: Can we stop talking about Clinton’s clothes now? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

So, for male screenwriters, producers and directors, it isn’t a huge leap of imagination to create a character that appeals to a lesbian audience. Xena: Lesbian Warrior Princess – have the rules of TV just been rewritten? 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

In other words, men who had sex with men and women who had sex with women did not consider themselves gay or lesbian. Japan’s long history of blurred sexualities and gender-bending 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

“The Killing of Sister George,” directed by Robert Aldrich, centered on characters who were lesbians, a taboo subject at the time. Susannah York, British Actress, Dies at 72 2011-01-17T04:58:05Z

"They got a huge shock when they discovered that lesbians, gays and people of good conscience around the country are speaking out and protesting their bigotry." “Bigotry was the blue plate special”: How Cracker Barrel went from anti-gay to angering the GOP 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

The roster includes films with more provocative themes: “Obvious Child” is an abortion comedy, and “The Foxy Merkins” focuses on lesbian hookers, a topic that has become a Sundance perennial. A Sundance Lineup Laced With Race, Horror and Family Turmoil 2013-12-04T22:27:15Z

“She’s a gun-loving lesbian who says whatever is on her mind. But we found a middle ground, because Harry also doesn’t like to wear a bra.” Bridget Everett Gets Fitted for a Flaming ‘Tina Turner’ Dress 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

A Puerto Rican lesbian who works as a nurse at New York hospital is, somehow, less of an American than the white guy fondling his "granddad's gun." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

One of the biographies says we were lesbians together, but we were just good mates. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z

Or maybe the extended family, the kid, the dog, the lesbian exes or the distance scared him off. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Her talk, somewhere between manifesto and tone poem, began, “All women are lesbians except those who don’t know it naturally.” ‘The Town Hall Affair’ Recreates a Feminist Firestorm 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Garfield dedicated his award to gay, lesbian and transgender people, and alluded to the recent U.S. Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ rule the show 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

"If I were a lesbian, I'd be all over you," De Niro joked. Mariah Carey is no stranger to honors and awards, but the pop star said that her GLAAD Ally Award, which she received at the annual event on Saturday in New York, was something more 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The dialogue is over the top of the top: “Have you ever danced naked before a lesbian sodden with absinthe?” Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Dear Civilities: I am writing about the New York state couple who refused to allow a lesbian couple to use their farm for their wedding. Did a lesbian couple bully Christian innkeepers over the right to marry on their farm? 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

I’m not in that community so I can’t answer for it, but I think the gay and lesbian community has made huge strides. Chloe Sevigny: LGBT community’s made “huge strides” 2012-07-11T12:00:00Z

The diaries were “a comprehensive and painfully honest account of lesbian life,” said the UN cultural body. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Being a lesbian, she says, apropos of Barbara, is “not a Jewish thing to be.” Theater Review: ‘A Letter to Harvey Milk’ at Pershing Square Signature Center 2012-07-27T21:36:40Z

Openly gay, lesbian and transgender people face persecution across the Islamic world. Disney’s ‘Lightyear,’ With a Same-Sex Kiss, Faces a Backlash in Some Muslim Countries 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

He noted that, though lesbians, gay men and transgender people often remained siloed during that period, with their own bars, clubs and publications, there were intersections as well. The Queer Cultures That the Nazis Destroyed 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

His documentary, Red, White and Black, will feature several people of colour and a lesbian couple; their stories, he says, prove that despite financial barriers, first-generation minority winemakers can succeed. African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

When I had “Kissed a Girl” coming out, it was dicey because it was like, “Is she a lesbian singer-songwriter?” Melissa Etheridge and Jill Sobule Bring Their Whole Lives to the Stage 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing aggressive about it. You have women in their 60s next to gay guys in their 20s or lesbians in their 40s. And then they start talking with each other.” In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

“There were trans girls on the subway, lesbian couples holding hands in the street, everything felt like a possibility,” she said. Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

On Sunday’s episode Barb sought the counsel of a Mormon lesbian women’s studies professor who encouraged her questioning and pursuit of the priesthood. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: Anything Is Possible 2011-02-22T20:10:46Z

Even with a lot of competition from "The Fosters" and "Orange Is the New Black," Cosima is, hands down, the coolest lesbian on television. 'Orphan Black,' Emmy snubs and questions of identity 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Forthcoming BBC2 dramas include The Night Watch by Sarah Walters, who also wrote the lesbian tale Tipping the Velvet, which caused controversy when it was adapted for the channel by Davies in 2002. BBC costume dramas to bare all 2011-03-18T18:25:25Z

“You know. That old trope. … It’s sort of tiresome and regressive and, well, done. … And the mad lesbian, isn’t that a stereotype as well?” Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties' reclaims the female body in subversive, joyful ways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Kirstin Croon-Mills' "Beautiful Music for Ugly Children" won the Stonewall award for best children's book about the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender experience. DiCamillo wins Newbery for best children's book 2014-01-27T17:00:32Z

She’d been growing up in public for years by August 2019, when she posted a video titled “a ramble about self identity, growth, and being a lesbian.” Chloe Moriondo and girl in red, Maestros of Growing Pains 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

This mostly genial, often funny omnibus is essentially a staged celebration of the recent advances in winning marital rights for gay and lesbian couples, and how the changing laws are changing lives. | 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays': ?Standing on Ceremony? at Minetta Lane Theater - Review 2011-11-14T03:01:01Z

BURKE: Remember, when you limited it to lesbian experimental filmmakers, you said, “How many are going to apply?” Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

So that's not any different than any of the lesbian or gay male parents that I know. Q&A: Julianne Moore of 'The Kids Are All Right' 2010-07-08T09:05:00Z

Yet the site, which is not associated with the university, has since begun allowing other singles — Harvard women, gay men, lesbians — to join. Narrowing the Field Before Playing It 2011-01-06T00:48:26Z

As an aging unattached lesbian, she also understands Jimmy’s worries about a future without an anchor. Theater Review: Charles Busch’s ‘The Tribute Artist’ Is at 59E59 Theaters 2014-02-10T03:00:01Z

She warned her children never to tell anyone she was a lesbian, lest they be taken away. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

Lois becomes a target for Jean’s star student, who bullies Lois by suggesting to the class that she might be a lesbian. ‘Blue Jean’ Review: No Privacy in the Girls’ Locker Room 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The United States Supreme Court has begun hearings on two cases that squarely confront the issue of the equal right of gays and lesbians to wed: in Hollingsworth v. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z

It is as a lesbian identity story that “Eve’s Song” works best. Review: In ‘Eve’s Song,’ the Ghosts Are Not the Scariest Part 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Her words echoed the same questions my high school friends’ parents – mostly fathers – asked me, “Do you ever think you’re a lesbian like your mother?” I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

If Clinton were a lesbian, I’d be proud to claim her fashion sense. “Hillary’s look is a practical one”: Can we stop talking about Clinton’s clothes now? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The more broadly sketched figure of Ed, Roberta's father, brings a refreshing lightness and wit to the story, as does Tempe, the wry lesbian aunt. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z

But that five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative. Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

On a recent Saturday night, there was even a lesbian bachelorette party with the brides-to-be sporting matching princess crowns. Boîte: Elixir, a New Gay Bar in Queens 2013-12-04T22:13:44Z

Creating the “right” type of gay or lesbian character can be challenging. Gay Parties in New York Attract the Superhero Crowd 2010-04-17T03:47:00Z

Samson, 32, a lesbian who proudly sports a mustache, was shocked by the level of attention her appearance drew onstage. The riot grrrl movement still inspires 2011-06-04T02:53:25Z

When the tabloids began to nag Hudson to get married, the executives betrothed him to his lesbian secretary Phyllis. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

But “Flaming Ears” is also inventive and goofy — an oddball entrant into the lesbian cinematic canon. ‘Flaming Ears’ Review: A Madcap Paradise Restored 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Little happens in the two episodes I've seen that could not be mathematically extrapolated from the premise — not even that one couple, parents of a 9-year-old boy, are lesbians. Canada's 'Backpackers' and 'Seed' come home to roost at CW 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

His emotional shutdown worries both Bevy, his bossy lesbian friend, and Zeus, a Latino transgender student with whom Will has embarked on an uneasy courtship. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

She was able to turn potential liabilities into creative assets, in part by making herself — a large-bodied, disabled, working-class Latina lesbian — a primary subject of her art. She Turned Her Audacious Lens on Herself, and Shaped the Future 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Imagine a night when the two big winners are a lesbian musical and a play with a protagonist who is on the spectrum. Tony Awards show a new maturity in theater scene 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

I definitely can't think of any told from the perspective of a Tasmanian lesbian. With "Douglas," Hannah Gadsby is a comedy pioneer with her whimsical, meticulous show about autism 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Transgender people and transsexuals long have been living at the margins of society, often ostracized even within gay and lesbian communities. Pivotal time for trans people as rigid notion of gender challenged 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

It was great, she tells me, but there were sadly no lesbians in Asia. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Things went along smoothly until November 2009, when the couple went on a lesbian cruise and it seemed inevitable that the tabloids were about to run stories outing Ms. Baxter as a lesbian. Nancy Locke and Meredith Baxter: A Finish Worthy of Hollywood 2013-12-15T14:19:52Z

“She never experienced any difficulty in reconciling her lesbian sexuality with her Christianity,” said Helena Whitbread, who has studied Lister’s diaries for 35 years and is writing a biography. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

There was this great scene where a new inmate arrived and was quite stoical, but it turned out she was sharing a cell with this brilliantly dungareed lesbian, who starts copping a feel. The Dead Boss guide to TV prison 2012-06-08T23:06:00Z

“And there’s a lesbian on my team. And I’m on my team. It’s cool. I like that.” Silicon Valley’s Embrace of the Gay and Lesbian Community 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Then exited stage-left with Gentleman Jack, a sly, swaggering and deeply sincere masterpiece about a Yorkshire woman dubbed the first modern lesbian, directed by the Andrew Davies of the 2010s. Bodice-rippers! How period drama went from buttoned up to sexed up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

The comedy legend is a force as a cantankerous lesbian poet on a road trip with her granddaughter. And the Oscar may go to: 30 key movies that could win big next award season 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Two of the most prominent lesbian heroes, The Question and Batwoman, are at DC Comics. Gay Parties in New York Attract the Superhero Crowd 2010-04-17T03:47:00Z

The blogger/mogul/feminist/editor/writer/actress is to play … Haddie’s surprise lesbian girlfriend! | Pharrell’s Next Collaboration, Karl Lagerfeld’s Destination Fashion Show and Alexander Wang’s First Instagram 2014-04-18T21:33:43Z

“If that’s what people want then, yes, there are lesbian fish in the movie. There are plenty of them,” she says, surprised to hear about the rumor. Ellen DeGeneres on Lesbian Fish and Why It Was Finally Time for Finding Dory 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

With the recent passage of same-sex marriage laws in a number of states, destinations and hoteliers are increasingly welcoming gay and lesbian couples, honeymooners and celebrants. Gay Pride Promotions 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

There, she also realized she was a lesbian. Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Oh, there it is, in the book of Doesn’t Exist. Right next to the verse condemning lesbians.” Sam Bee destroys the religious right’s abortion obsession: “There it is, in the book of Doesn’t Exist — right next to the verse condemning lesbians” 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

This is a guy who has professionally worked against gay and lesbian people, against reproductive choice, all from the cushy perch of reality TV recognition. Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison account: Celebrity infidelity doesn’t justify the outing of hacked clients 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

“So if Carolco turns this picture into something with ice-pick-wielding lesbians, then I will be the first person out in the street to join the protest against it.” ‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, its lesbian representation is so shoddy that its scares also suffer. ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

This was a time when the peak lesbian visibility on prime time television was Ross’s ex-wife Carol on “Friends.” Xena comes out, finally: The rebooted “Warrior Princess” won’t just wink at her romantic relationship 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

"In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society." Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Almost all Americans believe that some religious institutions should be exempt from some laws – your priest should not be forced to marry two lesbians, for example. Study: Three-quarters of American donations go to religion 2013-12-05T13:45:00Z

When Taylor-Klaus auditioned, the role had originally been described as "compact lesbian supermodel." 2021 was an extraordinary year of making the nonbinary ordinary 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

He wants Michael to use his platform to make a statement about Hollywood’s lack of diversity and “historic abuse” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally and pansexual” people. Paul Rudnick's 'Big Night': Comedy and crisis in the awards machine of Hollywood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

"The double standard still exists," says Sharon, 33, a photographer and a lesbian, who lives in Brighton. From private passions to sexting: how Britain's sex life has gone public 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Despite the occasional lesbian overture after the odd cooking sherry, Dave, I think, will be ideal. 'I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s' 2013-07-01T06:00:18Z

Kiss the Women, a one-woman play that explores the experience of black lesbian women in townships, drawing on Ngwabeni's own experience of discrimination and violence, including the brutal killing of Nkonyana, who was her friend. Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women calls shame on South Africa 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

We Americans want everyone to be a lesbian and we want it now. Everybody thinks I’m lesbian! 2012-11-27T01:00:00Z

Blakeson doesn't quite equate homosexuality with villainy but "I Care A Lot" also doesn't measure up to the "lesbians take on the mob" pleasure that is "Bound." "I Care a Lot" is a darkly amoral joyride for Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

But even if the audience remained absolutely silent, her chief objection may well have been the same – that these people weren't "real" lesbians. Blue Is the Warmest Colour is too moving to be porn 2013-05-30T13:03:15Z

Though she still feels lesbianism is a political issue, “The nobility of lesbian life has worn off over time,” Ms. Waters said. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Adam Freedman, fed up with lack of social success at home in California, goes to spend the summer with his lesbian older sister Casey in New York. Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

“Blue Jean” looks fantastic, and the period details are pitch perfect, from the moppish 1980s haircuts to the New Order music choices, all the way down to the neon gender symbols at the lesbian bar. ‘Blue Jean’ Review: No Privacy in the Girls’ Locker Room 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Hulu scored with the lesbian romantic comedy “Happiest Season” last year, and now Netflix is striking back with a male version. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

That is a question that many gays and lesbians around the country are asking themselves this week as the Winter Games approach. Noted: Citing Discrimination, Some Gays and Lesbians Call for Boycott of Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014-01-31T21:21:10Z

And in any case, there was more lesbian smut with Vastra and Jenny in this episode than we’ve ever seen before from them. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Journalists must learn that it is unacceptable to out a transgender person, in the same way it is unacceptable to out a person who is gay, lesbian, or bisexual.” Matrix director Lilly Wachowski comes out as a transgender woman 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The show depicts Julia as conflicted in her feelings about queer people, particularly when she crosses paths with a fellow Smith graduate who names her as the reason she embraced her lesbian identity. Are "Julia" and "Minx" the same show? Basically, yes. That's wonderful 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Known now by the publication name Curve, the magazine was founded by a lesbian named Franco Stevens in 1990, in the midst of the culture wars. ‘Ahead of the Curve’ Review: The Business of Lesbian Identity 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Don’t fear judgment, or the girls at school who single out the “lesbians” – they’re immature and not worth your attention. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Yet she desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be lesbian by nature. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z

Take Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who announced Wednesday that he is trying to negotiate a deal to permit gay and lesbian groups to march in the city’s notoriously restricted St. Patrick’s Day parade. Taking a stand against St. Patrick’s Day homophobia: Mayors sit out the parades 2014-02-28T20:39:00Z

Photograph: Sarah Lee If I were to say to you that there seems to be a shortage of lesbian writers in Britain today, you'd think I was mad. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

Even if the bar isn’t real, it wouldn’t be the first way in which Showtime’s “The L Word” put a fantastical sheen on lesbian life in Los Angeles. ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

A member of his management team said Sheridan is also the executive producer of a documentary about a young lesbian Indigenous woman, and is donating his producing fee to the center. Why the Weinstein Company Bankruptcy Hurt Native Women 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Lesbians went to Bloodroot, a still-busy vegetarian restaurant in Bridgeport, Conn., that sprang from the lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s. Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

He was equally nonplused to learn his girlfriend was a lesbian in the lunacy of "Gigli." Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Do you worry about lesbian identity politics when you're putting together a show? "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

Pyle, who identifies as genderqueer lesbian and uses they/them pronouns, says the disparagement was devastating, triggering an eating disorder and other trauma. This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

But it’s there in her turn as a gutsy lesbian on the Showtime drama “Masters of Sex,” a recurring role that has allowed her to stretch in surprising ways. Review: ‘I Smile Back’ Traces a Mother’s Addiction 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, Indiana State Rep. Bob Morris called the Scouts “a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood” promoting “feminists, lesbians or Communists.” Conservatives’ ridiculous war on the Girl Scouts 2014-01-31T16:02:00Z

Almost all lesbians and gay men were closeted, shamed into lives of a million lies, or driven to a desperate end on a train track. Jodie Foster's 'coming out' speech was glorious – but something bothered me 2013-01-15T11:34:51Z

The apparent contradictions in her early life might explain how, as an adult, she has been both mistaken for a militant lesbian and reviled for promulgating anti-LGBT beliefs. “Galileo’s Middle Finger”: When scholars and activists clash over controversial research, we all lose 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

And I’m gay”—allude to the inseparability of blackness from sexuality in a culture that often expects black gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to choose one identity over the other. Religious right shuns black gay athlete 2013-05-09T20:05:00Z

The other characters on the show range from bisexual to lesbian to straight. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

But within the lesbian community there was always a little tension about me working for tabloids. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

There, Vera was on her own, working at typist jobs, living in crummy boardinghouses and awkwardly testing out the underground dating scene in lesbian bars like “The Bracken.” Review | Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The show’s pilot, directed by Rose Troche—who made the scrappy, influential lesbian film “Go Fish,” on a tiny budget, in 1994—is witty and startling. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Here’s the tightly wound, smartly layered, compulsively watchable crime drama about an alcoholic, lesbian marine fisheries agent that you’ve all been waiting for. Review | New TV is starting to dwindle, so watch these 3 recent shows that are among summer’s best 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

They run a comedy showcase and are trying to establish stand-up careers in a field that often hasn’t been welcoming to female comics and certainly not to lesbian comics. In ‘Take My Wife,’ Two Comics Seek the Punch Lines in Life 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

The two set off on a giggly, disturbing and confusing journey through the city, placing art installations, having pseudo-deep talks and eventually becoming physical, despite Li’s early proclamation that she is a lesbian. ‘Art of Love’ Review: An Erotic Male Fantasy in Puerto Rico 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

All my female friends were straight and most, being single, were not interested in coming to lesbian parties with me. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

In a 2008 interview with the Dallas Voice, Shocked strongly denied rumours that she is a lesbian. Michelle Shocked enrages fans with onstage anti-gay rant 2013-03-19T11:11:21Z

"The green M&M got her boots back, but apparently is now a lesbian, maybe?" Tucker Carlson is once again enraged by "woke M&M's" lack of sex appeal 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy being the daughter of lesbians in the 1980s. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

She believes the party is strongest when it speaks to its base of loyalists: union members, ethnic minorities, environmentalists, and gays and lesbians. The legend of Donna Brazile: Why the DNC turned to an old pro in its time of need 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Armed with a handsome private income, she abandons herself to the sensual lesbian underworld, in which she becomes something like a Dorian Gray figure or a vampire: the "night" is her vocation. Gigola blends pulp and soft porn at London lesbian and gay film festival 2011-03-30T11:52:01Z

The gossip website Hollywood Life alleges that jealousy over her former romantic attachments was the cause: The A-list actor was uncomfortable with his estranged wife’s “lesbian friends.” Amber Heard’s “bisexual past”: Lurid coverage of Johnny Depp abuse allegations shows how deep bisexual backlash can go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Though Moore's win for "Still Alice" is much deserved, the role that remains my favorite is as one-half of the lesbian couple in "The Kids Are All Right." Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore and the art of effortlessness 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Messy modern-day east London lives captured in the raw in this unpolished drama, centred around a disintegrating lesbian relationship, with music, drugs, and nighttime lowlife to the fore. This week's new films 2011-07-22T23:07:03Z

In the U.S., the No. 1 search term was “lesbian,” a leap from 15th place the previous year. MILFs, butts, and threesomes: This was the year in porn searches 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Plenty of gay and lesbian travelers want to participate in L.G.B.T.-related activities; many do not. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The show, based on the graphic memoir by lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel about her search for clues about her closeted gay father's apparent suicide, is hardly your typical Broadway tourist bait. Tony Awards show a new maturity in theater scene 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Unlike similar parties that attract circuit party gays, Gay Days does outreach to lesbians and gay parents. Celebrating Gay Pride All Over the Map 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

And with that in mind his next two planned novel projects will be written in the voices of, first, a 19-year-old woman and then a lesbian in her 70s. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z

“I had a lot of commentary from ardent feminists and certain lesbian groups going: ‘Well, you’re just catering to the male gaze,’” she says. Workin’ it! How female drag queens are causing a scene 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Another factor feeding into the debauchery, of course, is that lesbians rarely have such a large dating pool on hand. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

I got money from Yale for my paper archives, and I decided that this money will go—through an annual award I have established—to lesbians and nowhere else. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

I was in a bar in Chicago when I told a close friend of 20 years that, despite being a lesbian, I was marrying a man. I’m a lesbian marrying a man 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Make the lesbian version of "When Harry Met Sally". Queer young adult fiction grows beyond the coming out story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

“A little Catholic priest, a little lesbian Pulitzer Prize winner, a little equal rights for all,” Ms. Kerr explained after the ceremony. First, a Mixtape. Then a Romance. 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

St. Martin’s Griffin recently bought a lesbian romance about rival soccer teammates called “Cleat Cute.” ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

But if I were to ask you to name the new generation of lesbian writers, the ones who grew up reading all of the above, I think you'd struggle. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

As for the sex in "The Real L Word" -- and there is plenty -- Chaikin noted that sexual preference is part of what differentiates lesbians. Lesbians get real on TV's "Real L Word" 2010-06-18T18:34:00Z

What time of day is good for a lesbian?’” Extremely "Relatable": Even Ellen DeGeneres is entitled to her darkness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Women, particularly queer women, came together to watch it, shared discs both legal and otherwise, and developed a complicated, love-hate relationship to its shiny saga of wealthy West Hollywood lesbian life. The return of The L Word: the groundbreaking lesbian show is back 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Sexploitation looked to lesbians for titillation and shock. Sexploitation Films, Short on Good Taste, Still Have Devotees 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

DeGeneres’ statement Tuesday on Twitter came several days after Burrell refused to apologize for a sermon in which she referred to gays and lesbians as perverted. Singer Kim Burrell off 'Ellen' show after anti-gay sermon 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

“The Other Boy” is part of a new battleground for rights for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. Reaching Out to Younger Hearts and Minds About L.G.B.T.Q. People 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But at 13, I wasn’t yet a lesbian, or anyway I didn’t know it. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

For example, the radical lesbian Rita Mae Brown said to me, “The difference between you and me, Camille, is that you want to save the universities and I want to burn them down.” “Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Google “sexiest movie lesbian scenes” and you will find a lot of tawdry thrillers. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

On top of that, with being a lesbian in a homophobic place, the U.S. seemed the best choice. A Novelist Who Knows the Real Jamaica 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The night before the trek out to the Mojave Desert, I had a funny exchange with a friend from work, a lesbian in a long-term relationship. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z

Shaggy grew up in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, where gays and lesbians are forced into a parallel universe of underground clubs and hushed encounters. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Her early material was personal but not quite as cerebral, with bits about her weight and being a lesbian. The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Jay is the only Black openly lesbian writer in the "SNL" writers' room. Sam Jay brings her raw "SNL" comedy to Netflix for "3 in the Morning" 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

I learned I’m probably not a lesbian, but I discovered a lot about myself in the process. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

“You would be married to some feed salesman,” Megan’s opinionated lesbian roommate suggests. Theater Review: ‘The Water Children’ at Theater 54 @ Shetler Studios 2012-10-07T21:50:50Z

Rounding out the nominated quartet is “Fun Home,” a musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel about growing up lesbian with a closeted gay father. The shows you should be rooting for at Sunday’s Tonys 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“The nobility of lesbian life has worn off for me.” ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Based on the trailer, expect lesbian rumors, abusive boyfriends, and an actual, literal grenade. This week's TV: The Crown, People of Earth and Who Killed JonBenét? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

You played a nun in Dead Man Walking and a lesbian vampire in The Hunger. Susan Sarandon: 'I've done everything wrong' 2012-07-19T19:30:01Z

"It is unlikely she would have experienced the sort of discrimination let alone homophobia — subconscious or overt — that sadly still affects so many gay, lesbian and non-hetero people." Why Rebel Wilson was pressured to come out before an Australian paper could do it for her 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Before the screening, word swirled that it featured a 20-minute lesbian sex scene and one male critic overshared, if in more colorful language, that he had been told it was an onanistic fete. Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z

English law ignored lesbian sex; most of the women in Ackroyd’s catalogs were in trouble not for disorderly love but for breaking gendered norms of dress and behavior. In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

So let me be clear, since I can’t be the only one: I am a lesbian marrying a man. I’m a lesbian marrying a man 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

These women do not watch lesbian-categorised pornography because, leaving aside an emerging market for pornography made exclusively by women, lesbian pornography is mostly aimed at men. Do lesbians have better sex than straight women? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

This is overwhelmingly a gallery of the white male gaytriarchy, with lesbians and people of color mostly on the sidelines. ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

She had moved to Maryland from Raleigh, N.C., in 2016, the year after she divorced her husband of two years when she came out as a lesbian. Moving Cross Country for the ‘Real Deal’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Usually, when lesbian romances are featured onscreen, they are fraught with misery or are set as a period film — look at "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," "Carol," and "Ammonite." TV's first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

This hour-long feature explored the breakdown of a relationship and played with queer stereotyping in an innovative way, by getting the lead character to challenge her own preconceptions of lesbian archetypes. Cinekink festival celebrates a very un-American view of sex on film 2013-03-02T14:01:45Z

Twenty-seven years later, Shadow is still the only lesbian in the world for me, a very happy Devil. Tiny Love Stories: ‘At the Halloween Party, Anxious to Go Home’ 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Recipients were praised for the fair and accurate inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues affecting their lives.  Kerry Washington, Roland Emmerich push for diversity at GLAAD awards 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Yet it is part of a growing trend in highly specialized psychotherapy, which in recent years has become especially pronounced with regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Gen Zers are also more likely to identify as lesbian, gay, transgender or “other” than members of other generations, according to the results. A record number of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ. Gen Z is driving the increase. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

I was acutely aware of my secret, special feelings — I still didn't call them crushes — and I was sure that I was not a lesbian. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Council planners said Legends these days primarily hosted gay and lesbian club nights, changing its "social value". Twisted Wheel joins Cavern and Wigan Casino in music venue graveyard 2012-12-27T19:39:56Z

It said: “If you’re gay or lesbian and don’t want to be, make a change.” Experience: I was a gay-conversion therapist 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

He was handcuffed in the patrol wagon to a lesbian and he got her a lawyer – he wouldn’t let her pay for the lawyer. Gay-rights activists give their verdict on Stonewall: 'This film is no credit to the history it purports to portray' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The film highlights the fact that two of Fanny’s members — June Millington and the drummer Alice de Buhr — are lesbians, something that the band never dared speak about publicly in those days. The All-Female Band Fanny Made History. A New Doc Illuminates It. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

It was the first national survey estimating how prevalent intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking are among people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual in the US. Transgender victims have few places to turn as LGBT domestic violence climbs 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

I'm now married with kids, but Glad to Be Gay was about anyone who didn't conform, from lesbians to transgenders, a way of recognising that most of us have complex sexualities. How we made: Tom Robinson and Nick Mobbs on Glad to Be Gay 2013-07-01T17:24:15Z

Rivera’s death was the third of a major cast member of “Glee,” the Fox TV musical comedy that Rivera starred in from 2009 to 2015, playing a singing and dancing lesbian cheerleader. Autopsy report: Naya Rivera called for help as she drowned 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Another reason for Lost River’s popularity with Washingtonians, I discovered, is The Guest House, a sixteen-room inn that’s friendly to gays and lesbians. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Sara Gilbert, producer and co-host of the new CBS daytime show "The Talk," said she will share her life as a lesbian partner and mom on the air when it seems right. CBS daytime show aims to be 'The Talk' of the town 2010-07-28T21:07:00Z

Some of us may even know the phrase “internalized homophobia” – when lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and queer people take on society’s negative perceptions about them, leading to devaluation and poor regard for themselves. Not sticking together: Why did women ignore the hate speech against Hillary Clinton? 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Many of the other works that took prizes Monday night are published by smaller independent publishers, some of which make publishing books that speak to bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgendered readers part of their mission. Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Television might be getting more inclusive, but when it comes to lesbian and bisexual characters, the small screen remains a graveyard. Stop killing off TV’s lesbians: This depressing trope limits storytelling about queer women 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Her choice of the color lavender for the special edition of the "Midnights" album, becomes an opaque reference to lesbian movements. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

O' Flaherty, will compete for the Miss America crown on Sept. 11, as the first openly lesbian contestant. There she is: Out of the closet, and ready for Miss America 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But part of what makes Ms. Thompson remarkable is that she operates out of a raggedy space on Jay Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, where lesbians and transgender men previously engaged in Turkish oil wrestling. An ?Outsider? Blossom Upends the Flowerpot 2011-03-30T22:41:16Z

As You Are Bar, a pop-up bar in Washington, D.C., that will become a cafe and dance club in Barracks Row, is another up-and-coming venue looking to revive the lesbian bar. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

I thought she was a reclusive, former lesbian. "AKA Jane Roe" filmmaker on Norma McCorvey's authenticity and getting to that "deathbed confession" 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

But there's nothing forced or false about what develops between Paul and Jules, and Cholodenko's definitely not interested in that story line about a hot lesbian who goes straight after a healthy dose of rogering. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z

She made me swear I’m not a lesbian. Should I Come Out to My Parents? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

I can be a lesbian and not be involved with anybody. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Now we have more light shining down on us. If audiences think they’re just getting a lesbian in their dad’s clothes, I take that as a challenge to show them.” Drag Kings Are Ready to Rule 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

I must admit to being troubled and puzzled by the criticism of the lesbian couple, especially if that’s any measure of general public opinion. Did a lesbian couple bully Christian innkeepers over the right to marry on their farm? 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Sure, I had a mysterious attraction to certain women, but those certain women and I were nothing like the lesbians at church, I thought. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Within a year, she had a daughter, separated from her husband, and began the process of coming out as a lesbian. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Last month, Ms. Taylor was invited to a White House event honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists, and attended a panel about “inclusive storytelling.” Transgender, and Embraced, on the Red Carpet 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

There’s no need to wear a hat at night, except to say you’re a lesbian.” Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Well before they could get married in Washington or any other state, gays and lesbians could find community, safety and affordable housing on the Hill. Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

AfterEllen.com also picked out other less well-known lesbians and lesbian characters also enjoying Emmy success this year. Emmys confirm new wave of lesbian visibility: 'Everyone is reveling in it' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The lesbian joke about Hillary Clinton was beneath him. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Hammer, an experimental filmmaker whose movies have often chronicled lesbian experience, largely examines Bishop’s private life, an often peripatetic existence strewn with lovers in a deeply closeted era. Review: ‘Welcome to This House,’ the Private Life of a Poet 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

“When guys dream of lesbians, they’re not thinking of me,” she laughs. Abby McEnany: 'When guys dream of lesbians, they're not thinking of me' 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

And that’s before the all-inclusive parade of characters that follows: the scholarship girl, the legacy, the lesbian, the ex-ballet dancer, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, the granddaughter of Indian immigrants, the gold cross-wearer . Review | In ‘All Girls,’ a decades-old sexual assault at a boarding school prompts a vigilante to take action 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

For the sake of starting an honest friendship, Ms. Baxter wanted to tell her she was a lesbian, something she hadn’t yet revealed publicly. Nancy Locke and Meredith Baxter: A Finish Worthy of Hollywood 2013-12-15T14:19:52Z

One friend of mine thought that the show's characters were a big step back for lesbian representation on TV -- Jill and Nikki in particular. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

Isn't that why we New Yorkers were so jubilant this week, when gay and lesbian couples were able for the first time to exchange vows? She's the one 2011-07-29T18:30:00Z

Ms. Samson, 32, a lesbian who proudly sports a mustache, was shocked by the level of attention her appearance drew onstage. Music: A Feminist Riot That Still Inspires 2011-06-03T17:48:59Z

The legal consequences of this are varied and generally terrible for the estimated tens of thousands of binational gay and lesbian couples in the U.S., many of whom are married. My gay green card marriage 2013-04-17T00:00:00Z

At Cooper Union, I didn’t know any students who were queer, though I did run into my sculpture professor at the lesbian club the Cubbyhole almost every weekend. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Writer Stephen Beresford joked at the awards: "It took 20 years to convince anyone that a film about vegan lesbian activists was a sure-fire hit." Gay banner removed from Pride DVD 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

“It sounded defensive to protest that I thought myself bisexual, like I wouldn’t admit that I was a lesbian,” she said. Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bergeron had also begun work as a motivational speaker, giving talks at gay and lesbian centers in Los Angeles and Chicago. The Life and Death of the Therapist Bob Bergeron 2012-03-30T22:47:13Z

Sian and Sophie weren't sure they were lesbians for ages, but six weeks arguing about teen hunk Ryan made things clearer. World of lather 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z

At least 185 athletes at the Tokyo games publicly identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or nonbinary, which is more than at any of the previous summer Olympics combined, according to Outsports. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Male MCs have brought me on to the stage by telling sleazy stories about spying on lesbians in toilets, or telling a table of men that they're all "gay", as a kind of blokey insult. It's hard for comics to come out 2011-08-03T14:00:54Z

"Small presses, large presses. Children's book presses told me to try lesbian presses. Lesbian presses told me to try children's book presses. Nobody was really interested." Heather's two mommies get married 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

She also referred to homosexuality as “sexual dysfunction,” and has stated that public school students were at risk of being taught that gay and lesbian lifestyles were normal. Michele Bachmann and the Making of an Acolyte 2011-09-23T21:25:59Z

A. Well, I think it was important to her that I was a bona fide older lesbian. A Word With Cherry Jones: ‘I’m Having the Kind of Year Actors Live For’ 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

"She was a bit of a one," O'Hooley hams before Gentleman Jack, a song about a 19th-century lesbian landowner; the crowd sing along lustily. Cambridge folk festival 2012-07-31T17:33:57Z

Stewart also both endeared and irked the gay community by starring in Hulu's "Happiest Season," a gay Christmas film which unfortunately, is not very happy, although it does feature Stewart as a leading lesbian. In defense of the overlooked Kristen Stewart 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

But lesbian sex can at times feel labour-intensive in a way that sex with men doesn’t. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Evans, came in 1996 in response to Amendment 2, a Colorado constitutional amendment that prohibited the passage of laws specifically protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination. Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor. Who Cares? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

So far, so This Life, but this Glasgow series is almost entirely about lesbians rather than lawyers. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-11T23:05:00Z

“To go back and receive the generosity and mentorship of younger colleagues who embrace queer and lesbian studies makes me think you just have to live long enough,” she said. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

She photographed Dobkin wearing one for an article she was writing about lesbian fashion. ‘Head lesbian,’ singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

This Adler shows up Sherlock's naked, occasionally lesbian, dominatrix incarnation for the malformed adolescent fantasy it is. Why Elementary is far more than a Sherlock Holmes pastiche 2013-05-28T11:03:38Z

Film nominees include the lesbian family drama "The Kids Are All Right," the musical "Burlesque," high-school romp "Easy A," crime thriller "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and the video-game-inspired "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." `Glee,' `30 Rock,' `Howl' among GLAAD nominees 2011-01-20T07:16:06Z

Gay and lesbian groups may be largely left alone now, but their members tend to remain closeted with family and friends, a good portion of them in heterosexual marriages. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Today the couple share views on many social issues, especially when it comes to school choice and rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, but the Clinton-Trump contest has reopened old wounds. He Likes Trump. She Doesn’t. Can This Marriage Be Saved? 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

Married gay men have the most spending power, with a median household income that is more than $25,000 higher than their straight and lesbian counterparts. Being Gay Is Illegal in Many Countries. L.G.B.T.Q. Travelers Are Going Anyway. 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Admitting publicly that one was gay or lesbian could result in ridicule, harassment, assault, isolation from one’s family, the loss of a job, or worse. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Lambert’s hourlong movie follows a group of lesbians who scheme to destroy the data held by a multinational company, U.T.E.R.O., which they suspect is performing illegal reproductive experiments on women. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

In recent decades, lesbian relationships on television have become more complex, even if the tropes aren’t entirely gone. After Decades of Hints, Scooby-Doo’s Velma Is Depicted as Lesbian 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

“Try and smile,” said a woman who went by the name Blue Star, the tart-tongued lesbian host of the burlesque fundraiser, to her Friday night audience. Gay Orlando grapples with first Saturday after Pulse: ‘I feel like I have to be out’ 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Proceeds also benefit the Bea Arthur Residence for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth; resiliency programs; tenant counseling; and more. Around Town for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

With Brooklyn a “sea of lesbians,” she’s in just the right spot to find the right partner. Review: In ‘MotherStruck!’ Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Quest to Become Pregnant 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

And she was a gay woman living in a 1950s heterosexual marriage, and she started to write these pulp fiction lesbian novels with an avatar in the book that was her lesbian self. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The reason, Dr. Gartrell and her co-authors theorize, is that families raised by lesbian mothers are more likely to be deliberately planned. Motherlode: Let My Parents Marry 2011-06-16T19:30:24Z

Days before, we had encountered another black lesbian couple. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Of lesbian characters no longer on television, 31 percent have bitten the dust. Stop killing off TV’s lesbians: This depressing trope limits storytelling about queer women 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

After nine years of work, the setup, about a lesbian and a transgender man who tour as a duo called Queer Malady, was working just fine. Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

The dialogue is uttered in a scene of lesbian lovemaking that has been cited by both male and female, gay and heterosexual commentators as one of the sexiest encounters in literature. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

"She was amazing. She was this supercrotchety, high fem, old-school lesbian. She was a thrift store dressing person, and had a dog, and drove a Jeep, and chain-smoked, and she had no filter." The queering of friendship: Rethinking platonic relationships, guided by LGBTQ models 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

She writes of heroic Black and lesbian history and activism but also of shame, of the ignobility of the years when her friends were dying, when she felt incapable, when she would run away. ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

I learned from reading pornographic magazines with a high lesbian sex content when I was a teenager. My life in sex: the man who always gives an orgasm 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Around the turn of the millennium, “lesbian bars couldn’t afford to pay the rent,” said Jen Jack Gieseking, who is writing a book on the history of lesbian bars, in a phone interview. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

He provides vivid descriptions of the alliances and fractures among lesbian and gay male activists and of the movement’s pitched battles over tactics and the politics of respectability. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

This French romance film made a splash first at the Cannes Film Festival and then in theaters for its explicit lesbian sex scenes between two teenage girls. These Are the Most Sexually Provocative Movies of All Time 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The phenomenon of straight women being attracted to lesbian culture is something I’ve been kicking around in my mind for at least twenty years. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mangels cited issue No. 23 of The Hulk Magazine, from 1980, as the first mainstream comic to include gays or lesbians, though the depiction was hardly positive. Gay Parties in New York Attract the Superhero Crowd 2010-04-17T03:47:00Z

An older lesbian woman returns from a brief, joyful sojourn to a life of staleness. LGBT cinema still needs more happy endings | Benjamin Lee 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But as full service has resumed at bars and nightlife has made a comeback, new pop-up sites have sought to fill the void and reimagine what lesbian spaces are for. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

TV Land’s Heathers will center on three former outcasts, now popular: a black lesbian Heather, an overweight Heather and a gender-queer Heath. Cult Classic 'Heathers' Will Be Rebooted as a TV Land Series 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

You once said that in the 1970s you felt like “the only lesbian in America.” Rita Mae Brown, awarded as pioneer of lesbian literature, scoffs at the term 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Last year she released the prophetically titled memoir "The Naked Truth," had the inevitable sex tape scandal, left "Real Housewives," and briefly reinvented herself as a quasi lesbian chanteuse. "Real Housewife" gives up stripping, but not the spotlight 2011-05-19T15:37:00Z

Thus did Mills, 27, mark a milestone — the day America's ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military ended. Gay military members come out, celebrate 2011-09-21T01:57:00Z

Boston was an epicenter of gay and lesbian activism, whose own epicenter was the weekly Gay Community News, the only national gay newsweekly. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Blaming Hurricane Sandy on gays and lesbians turned out to be a popular response. 6 most absurd things the Christian right has blamed on gays 2014-04-11T12:15:00Z

They also are lesbians and are among the stars of the first lesbian-themed TV reality show on a mainstream U.S. cable channel. Lesbians get real on TV's "Real L Word" 2010-06-18T18:34:00Z

More than any film of 30 years ago, there was nothing like a movie about vampires to normalize healthy lesbian desire.  ArtsBeat: The Gay Film That Changed Your Life 2012-03-16T15:00:11Z

On Saturday Ms. Lauper will return with the annual benefit concert for her True Colors Fund charity, which aims to end homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Is that what you’re saying? ‘I’m not discriminating, I have nothing against gay people; I’m just saying, for some Christians, catering an elderly lesbian wedding is like making a Jew slow-dance with Hitler.’” Jon Stewart goes nuclear on Indiana homophobia: “Do you see how f**ked up that is?!” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Although lesbians and feminists have often been closely allied they have been bitter enemies of the sexual purveyors. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z

One woman remembered how hard it was to find out about lesbian life, and how she acted on any scraps of information. A week in radio: Your Story on Gaydio 2012-08-09T19:00:09Z

She remembers being in a lesbian bar in the late 90s, being called Pat. Abby McEnany: 'When guys dream of lesbians, they're not thinking of me' 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

One is Banshee, a boisterous restaurant inside a former lesbian bar in the charmingly scruffy East Atlanta neighborhood. A Game Plan for Eating Well in Atlanta 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

For the philanthropist on a budget, an equally engaging cause that night is the 2010 Fierce Gay-la Extravaganza, in support of Fierce, an organization focused on empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z

The couple met in 2012 at a masked gala for the Center, a community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in New York, where they were introduced by a mutual friend. Jordan Newman, Dustin Blank 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

Comparisons between “Summertime” and “Blue Is the Warmest Color” — Abdellatif Kechiche’s controversial and acclaimed tale of lesbian love — are inevitable and instructive. Review: Warm Burst of Romantic Bliss in ‘Summertime’ 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Much of the film was set in Flushing, Queens, and not even the neighborhood’s prettiest parts; and the story itself focused on a budding lesbian relationship between two Chinese-American overachievers. Alice Wu’s Lesbian Rom-Com Was Influential, but Her Follow-Up Wasn’t Easy 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

In 2011, "The Kids Are All Right" became one of the first movies to do so with its portrayal of a lesbian couple raising two children born from a surrogate father. Daddy left Mommy for Tommy, or what to do when a parent comes out as gay 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Though Piper’s sexuality remains fluid, lots of other characters on the show are actual lesbians. Why Men Should Watch Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Discrimination against gays and lesbians was an important driver of Opie's work in the early 1990s, when she was emerging on the art scene. Supreme Court's gay marriage decision sparks art world jubilation 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

But his is from an asexual white male perspective and mine is from a lesbian perspective. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

When writing the graphic novel, said Maroh, she didn't set out to "make a book in order to preach to the choir, nor only for lesbians". Blue is the Warmest Colour translation hurried into print after Cannes victory 2013-05-30T13:45:01Z

Saturday night at Henrietta Hudson, one of New York’s remaining lesbian bars, the person managing the long line at the door wore a “Bans Off Our Bodies” T-shirt. At New York’s Pride weekend, a noticeable cloud from the Supreme Court 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

That is the local label for the attacks on lesbians that have erupted in recent years in predominantly poor and black South African neighborhoods. 'Vagina Monolgues' writer debuts work in SAfrica 2011-07-15T13:24:09Z

She heard that lesbians like country music: "I ran out and bought a fringed jacket and a Stetson and became a massive Patsy Cline fan because that's what I thought you were supposed to do." A week in radio: Your Story on Gaydio 2012-08-09T19:00:09Z

“We both cried like lesbians,” she said, and we laughed the way only those who know each other so well could. I used to love the bride 2013-04-09T23:50:00Z

Some parents posting on a nanny message board were adamant that a lesbian would be a non-starter for them. Civilities: ‘I wouldn’t want a lesbian taking care of my children.’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

When Wainwright tried to introduce a lesbian character to Coronation Street, her proposal was shot down. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Reverend Rob Shank says that she had to end her lesbian relationship and declare she was no longer a homosexual. "AKA Jane Roe" filmmaker on Norma McCorvey's authenticity and getting to that "deathbed confession" 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Viv’s many friends cast a slightly suspicious eye on Jean, as a jumpy newcomer to the lesbian club. ‘Blue Jean’ Review: No Privacy in the Girls’ Locker Room 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I thought I saw a heroic era in gay and lesbian history and an absolutely shining moment in gay writing, something truly worth remembering.” Michael Denneny, 80, Dies; Editor Created Outlets for Gay Literature 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

But I would soon learn that it is one thing to be black and lesbian in this urban utopia and another thing to act on it. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Last week, the woman often referred to as the “first modern lesbian” was honoured with a blue plaque at Holy Trinity church in Goodramgate, York. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

And in Carlo, the bruised heart of the story, it offers the actor Mary Wiseman, with her curly red mop piled high like a lesbian Lucy, a brilliant showcase for her split-level comic genius. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

See yokels discover she is single and assume she is a lesbian! Accidental Farmer and Oz and Hugh Raise the Bar 2010-12-22T08:00:04Z

One of the other elements missing in Vance's book is that it is such a male-focused story that it hides, denies and limits the experiences of women, gays and lesbians, and other marginalized groups. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

In another scene, a devoted employee has a lesbian sexual encounter. Perspective | Can ‘Bombshell’ be a feminist movie if the characters hate being called feminists? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

His musical persona was very much connected with my ability to come out as a lesbian, proudly and happily, as a 19-year-old in the early 1980s. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

In other words, I'm sorry you feel that way, gay and lesbian communities. The NBA's anti-gay slur problem 2011-05-23T15:01:00Z

During her concert, the American singer called for solidarity with gays and lesbians. Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gays 2012-08-19T11:54:11Z

Morgan Rogers's "Honey Girl" and Adiba Jaigirdar's "The Henna Wars" both depict interracial lesbian relationships where neither character in the partnership is white⁠. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

“Before that, lesbians tended to die in suicide in the river,” she said. Heaving bosoms and joyous endings conquer Capitol Hill 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

One does not need a psychology degree to surmise that my own family’s disapproval of my lesbian desire fueled this indecorous behavior on my part. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Besides the power of womanly solidarity, some readings find an expressly lesbian eroticism. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z

Followers of the drama called it the “lesbian breakup apocalypse,” and NBC News reported on it in August. The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

She even went so far as to accuse them of “luring young girls on the tour to parties to turn them into lesbians.” Martina Navratilova responds to Margaret Court’s bigotry in open letter 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Gays and lesbians lived in the closet lest they fall prey to any of these life-crushing prohibitions. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z

It was the first show with an all-female writing team to win the best musical Tony, and the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist, according to the producers. ‘Fun Home’ to Close in September 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

There are young people and older ones, interracial couples and one lesbian pair. Review | The perils and pleasures of inter-abled romance 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

In October 2019, both had attended the same party at Public Records, a bar in Brooklyn, organized by Ellis Presents, which hosts events for lesbian and queer women. When Age Is Nothing but a Favorite Number 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The stand-up comic — who as an awkward, gender-nonconforming child dreamed of becoming a priest — relates her hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age as a Catholic, closeted lesbian. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

“I’d like to say there’s less likely to be pressure to wax in lesbian relationships, but that’s not really the case,” wrote Hoffman. Does waxing make me a bad feminist? 2014-02-17T22:00:00Z

“Beliefs that lesbian and gay adults are not fit parents … have no empirical foundation,” concludes a recent publication from the organization. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z

The white lesbian rapper Invincible has developed a following in Detroit. Frank Ocean Draws Praise for Declaring His Homosexuality 2012-07-06T23:47:45Z

She won two Tony Awards in 2015 for writing the book and lyrics of “Fun Home,” a Broadway hit about a lesbian cartoonist dealing with her father’s suicide. Lisa Kron Awarded Kleban Prize for Musical Theater 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

“All I was really trying to do was imagine a world where the coolest lesbians in L.A. decided to start a place for all of us,” Ryan said. Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Here we review 9 of the most pivotal gay and lesbian sex scenes in cinematic history. Cinema's most pivotal gay sex scenes 2010-07-11T15:01:00Z

The blurb was heavily tweaked for the DVD, with the group instead referred to as “London-based activists” and an accompanying image was doctored to remove a banner using the words “lesbian and gays”. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The controversial comedian previously came under fire for his transphobic and homophobic jokes and rhetoric when he proudly said he's a member of "team TERF" and once boasted of beating up a lesbian woman. Dave Chappelle was attacked during standup. Is this an echo of The Slap? 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

The adopted black daughter of white Jewish lesbians struggles with her identity after writing to her birth mother. TV Picks: The new 'Covert Affairs' on USA 2010-09-03T20:34:00Z

Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with Mr. Tanzella on how lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual travelers can figure out what places and companies are truly gay friendly. Q&A: Gay-Friendly Vacation Spots — Q&A 2013-04-30T18:00:02Z

Colombia is a largely Catholic and socially conservative country, and even in relatively progressive Bogotá, which elected a lesbian mayor in 2019, anecdotes of verbal and physical aggression are commonplace. Ballroom Takes Root in Colombia. But Who Is It For? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

They might not have expected to deal with these situations as parents — as one mother says, “If someone has said to me, ‘Betty, how’d you like to give birth to a lesbian dwarf?,’ Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z

And this more complicated sense of identity, incorporating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer consciousness, had gone global. Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’ 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

She has kept a toe in the business, popping up on shows like “Glee,” in which she played one half of a lesbian couple with former TV staple Meredith Baxter. Patty Duke doesn’t do auditions anymore 2014-02-26T22:17:16Z

She said she also liked writing dialogue for Violet’s two mothers, who are among the few lesbian couples in children’s television. ‘Firebuds’ Gives a Face to Emergency Workers, and Their Vehicles 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

And then the cameras turn off and they hit on the lesbian: that happens a lot. Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

It does seem unlikely that she would say so to Zoe, given who Janine believes herself to be: a good, liberal, lesbian, feminist intellectual who grew up working-class. Review: At This Professor’s Office Hour, No Time for ‘The Niceties’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Do lesbians have better sex than heterosexual women? Do lesbians have better sex than straight women? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

But Team “Fun Home” — championing a show about a young lesbian whose father kills himself after acknowledging that he, too, is gay — was not interested. The Tony Awards Broadcast: Broadway’s Chance to Woo America 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Back then, “River of Grass” was overshadowed by the festival’s two great crowd-pleasers, Rose Troche’s lesbian romance “Go Fish” and Kevin Smith’s slacker comedy “Clerks.” Roads to Nowhere and Anywhere, With Kelly Reichardt and Wim Wenders 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The vanished world of midcentury upper-class lesbians is portrayed as beguiling, its inhabitants members of a stylish club. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

When was the last time any mainstream commentator suggested that a rural, white Christian conservative Sunday School teacher escape her bubble and befriend a group of black lesbians? Sorry to burst your bubble, but don’t all Americans live in their own little worlds? 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

On Aug. 1, 2009, a masked gunman opened fire at the Barnoar, a center for largely closeted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths in Tel Aviv, killing two and wounding many others. A Crime Against Gay Israelis Is a Symbol, but of What? 2013-07-26T17:36:52Z

Five years earlier, Mercury, who has an ex-husband and two children, came out as a lesbian when she wed Malu Verçosa, a journalist. Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

She is certainly considered a heartthrob by many lesbians, but we didn’t mean to imply that she herself is a lesbian since we don’t know how she identifies. Against sexist Olympic advertising 2012-07-24T16:05:00Z

This week, Mr. Handy booked his first lesbian wedding, a fete for 80 on Sept. Free to Say, ?I Do,? but Where? 2011-07-01T20:53:28Z

But despite that progress and the success of shows centering lesbian and bisexual women, like “Vida” and “Batwoman,” an ensemble drama like “The L Word” never surfaced in America. ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The idea of a transsexual lesbian was novel, and Bornstein’s new friends asked a lot of questions. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Dollywood has also become a magnet for gays and lesbians who work in the entertainment field or simply love the culture that surrounds Ms. Parton. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Homosexuality in the larger culture was draped in code words, and onscreen depictions either disguised gays and lesbians or treated them as objects of ridicule or scorn. Years before court ruling, pop culture shaped same-sex marriage debate 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Concussion” has pride of place in NewFest, indicating the dearth of lesbian movies in the marketplace. Critic’s Notebook: NewFest of Gay Films Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-09-05T21:36:08Z

An emergent lesbian in 1960, she has enraged her father, Nic, by chopping her hair into a patchy helmet; he calls her “disgusting.” Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

You were a doctor in "Not Another Teen Movie" for three seconds, and Miranda's co-worker who thought she was a lesbian on "Sex And the City." Comedian Jon Benjamin has a van...and a voice 2011-06-28T12:45:00Z

During his time there, he introduced the first lecture course on U.S. lesbian and gay history, for which he was awarded Yale’s teaching prize in 2012. The Historian George Chauncey Wins the Kluge Humanities Prize 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

A Yorkshire industrialist, land-owner and traveller, she was also a lesbian and lived with her lover, long before lesbians officially existed. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z

Wearing glasses and baggy clothes — she encapsulated her style to The Hollywood Reporter as “tool belt lesbian” — she got behind the wheel of not a Volvo but a red Prius. For Sandra Tsing Loh, Change is Good 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the skit, Page is accused of being "a primo lesbian": "Gay, no way!" 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z

What travel concerns do they face that gay men and lesbians don't--trans people particularly? The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

With everything she does under such close scrutiny, Gaga knows that releasing a gay-friendly single will bind in her gay, "lesbian, transgendered" target audience, who find their preoccupations reflected in her songs. Lady Gaga's new gay anthem 2011-02-14T06:01:00Z

She was rebooted in 2006 as a lesbian who had been discharged from the military. Batman Is Turning 80. Fighting Crime Must Pay. 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features "You don't look like a lesbian," a confused audience member once said to me. It's hard for comics to come out 2011-08-03T14:00:54Z

She also called for the hashtag #OscarsSoStraight to start trending, following the surprising best picture and best director snubs for Carol, a lesbian romance. 'There’s an elephant in the room': Oscar nominees weigh in on lack of diversity 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

“It’s not necessarily for a lesbian,” she said. Dressing Two Grooms for a Same-Sex Wedding 2011-10-19T22:07:04Z

According to an April report in Uproxx, the hope was that making Manheim’s character a lesbian would deflect any criticisms about its decision to reshape the role. CBS gets grilled on diversity by reporters, but there may be hope for it yet 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

I remember meeting lesbians there for the first time, which sent my internalized homophobia into overdrive. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

While a white lesbian couple could walk holding hands or even tongue kiss in the middle of the street, lesbians of color, particularly black lesbians, have a hard time doing the same. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Directed by the Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan, the opera is the story of two lesbian lovers in ancient times. ?The Peony Pavilion? Gets Modern Touches in China 2010-08-17T22:56:00Z

“Once I understood the feminist doctrines, a lesbian separatist position seemed the commonsensical position, especially since, conveniently, I was an L-person,” she told The Gay and Lesbian Review in 2006. Jill Johnston, Critic Who Wrote ?Lesbian Nation,? Dies at 81 2010-09-21T04:16:00Z

Ditto homosexuality; for years, official lore held that China had no gay or lesbian people. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

As many reviewers observed, Ms. Garden’s book was particularly noteworthy for its happy ending, believed to be the first in a lesbian novel. Nancy Garden Dies at 76; Wrote Young-Adult Novel of Lesbians 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

“My mom’s queen of the lesbians!” the son responded, and they went off to skateboard with no further conversation needed. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Kameny also took on the Defense Department for denying security clearances to gays and lesbians, and in 1975 it, too, abandoned that practice. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

But for some gays and lesbians in tech, there are still obstacles. Silicon Valley’s Embrace of the Gay and Lesbian Community 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The rise of lesbian characters on television was a slow process, marked often by gimmicks and blatant plays for ratings. After Decades of Hints, Scooby-Doo’s Velma Is Depicted as Lesbian 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s female-led. It’s a lesbian romance. There’s a huge wave of expectation.” Salma Hayek Opens Up About Sexism in Hollywood 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

But talking about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans is just un-American! 10 weirdest things the Christian right thinks will turn your kids gay 2014-03-29T12:00:00Z

Gay and lesbian community centers, bars, and bathhouses all served this function. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Toksvig — who is a lesbian, founded her own political party and has written more than 20 books — is also his go-to source off the air if there’s something in politics that he needs explained. How Noel Fielding Went From a Hedonist to a Host of ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

But Robertson still hasn’t forgiven the mayor for the incident, nor, it would seem, for being a lesbian. Pat Robertson blames mayor’s lesbian “predilections” for Houston LGBT equality law 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

So far, the grove has engaged consultants, some with a history of fund-raising for museums, to begin gauging the interest of wealthy donors, especially those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. An AIDS Museum: The Challenges Are Huge, but the Timing Is Right 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

One mother wrote: “Personally, I wouldn’t want a lesbian taking care of my child/children.” Civilities: ‘I wouldn’t want a lesbian taking care of my children.’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

But “Jenny’s Wedding” isn’t really about a lesbian romance; it’s about secrets and lies and entrenched bigotry. Review: ‘Jenny’s Wedding,’ a Lecture on Tolerance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

In her Date Lab profile, she lightly roasted herself for sharing multitudes of lesbian stereotypes, including owning the Indigo Girls’ entire catalogue and being owned by a cat. Date Lab: They talked about cats, Gettysburg and Pussy Riot 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the long history of horror, lesbian relationships have been something of a fixation for directors. ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

His neighbors, a lesbian couple, Mack and Rena, run an organic farm that loses one of its best customers — a fancy Pittsburgh eatery — because of the proprietor’s concerns over fracking. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Useful things, like her being in a live-in lesbian relationship with her ex-husband. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fishing for feedback about a partner 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps most surprising was that while many Americans see the country marching inexorably toward greater equality for gays and lesbians, RuPaul does not. ArtsBeat: Video: Another Side of RuPaul 2013-05-06T20:57:11Z

She was a lesbian who quoted Eliot and was terribly knowing about the use of commas. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z

Disney has long been a supporter of gay and lesbian families, encouraging “Gay Days” at their theme parks, and including gay characters in recent films “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Frozen.” Death threats against a five-year-old: Our terrifying troll culture 2014-02-06T20:31:00Z

I wonder if Mr. Gergiev has seen a short video, produced by Human Rights Watch, that shows public harassment and violent attacks fueled by discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Russians. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z

One daring undated photo between the two world wars shows women — some of them elegantly dressed as men — socializing in a popular lesbian nightclub. | Paris in Pictures 2012-03-02T19:00:53Z

In my early 30s I lived in Chicago and did my best to s**t on and take for granted what would end up being the closest circle of lesbian friends I would ever have. The "Queer as Folk" reboot does a kindness to New Orleans' imperfect real-life queer scene 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

So off she went to live with some nice lesbians, whom she teased with her possible Sapphism before finally recoiling in horror when it actually came to touching any of them. What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011-08-05T23:12:01Z

They have been sponsoring lesbian cruises and other travel for more than 20 years. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The death of Clementi, along with a harrowing string of other suicides by gay and lesbian youth, stunned the world and helped inspire the radically beautiful It Gets Better Project. Dharun Ravi says he’s sorry 2012-05-30T15:30:00Z

A lesbian in love with a man Topics: , Lesbian, , I’m 24, a lesbian and in love with a man.  A lesbian in love with a man 2012-08-29T00:00:00Z

Just consider the rise of religious freedom legislation — most notoriously in Indiana — that seeks to allow people to discriminate against gays and lesbians in the name of some amorphous faith. Why I didn't sign the Charlie Hebdo protest letter 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The lesbian Jessica is mostly an accessory to Martin’s gay baby steps, and is rewarded with a brief, wordless scene with a girlfriend, which is worse than no scene at all. Review: In ‘Día y Noche,’ Opposites Intertwine 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

So publishers made sure she and other lesbian writers gave their stories unhappy endings. Marijane Meaker, 95, Who Helped Launch Genre of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

This reboot of the “The L Word,” the pioneering series about lesbian life in Los Angeles, wraps up its first season. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ and the Grammys 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

These days, gays and lesbians have their own heroes to admire. Gay Parties in New York Attract the Superhero Crowd 2010-04-17T03:47:00Z

Homosexual and lesbian activities are sinful and an abomination to the Lord. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z

At the time, Mr. Gill said, two-thirds of Coloradans said they didn’t know anyone who was gay or lesbian. Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor. Who Cares? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

But the wider world of the late 20th century was not much more hospitable to ambitious female musicians — let alone lesbians — than seventh grade had been. Review: Retracing the Path From Middle School Nerd to Rock Goddess 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Why would you show a lesbian wedding commercial on the Hallmark Channel? Hallmark movies are family friendly, and you ruined it with the commercial,” one viewer said, according to the conservative group. Hallmark pulls Zola commercial of brides kissing after conservative group calls for boycott 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

To the contrary, the association states, the “development, adjustment, and well-being of children with lesbian and gay parents do not differ markedly from that of children with heterosexual parents.” HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z

Its two men and four women got to dance duets both homo- and heterosexual; one woman, facing the audience, licked her lips lasciviously before embarking on a lesbian duet. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival and Battery Dance Company 2012-08-12T22:01:26Z

There was a “lesbian book” in the lieutenant’s office so they could monitor “known couples.” “The most ludicrous scenes of ‘Orange is the New Black’ are the most realistic”: My time in federal prison 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

"Fun Home," Eustis believes, has the potential to do for lesbians what "Angels in America" did for gay men: "Take a marginalized group and say, 'No, you are actually center stage.'" Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It was the winter of 2002, she was a recent college graduate, and Shakedown, which was part of a scene that catered to black lesbians, offered a tantalizing new community. How Do You Make a Film for a Museum and Pornhub? Ask Leilah Weinraub 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

The Stonewall Book Awards, which recognize books with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes, went to “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” and “Too Bright to See.” Donna Barba Higuera Wins Newbery Medal for ‘The Last Cuentista’ 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Adams says the succubus spirit that used to attack her confused her so much that she contemplated becoming a lesbian. Christian group says demon sex makes you gay 2012-11-26T19:10:00Z

Investigators speculate that lesbians and queer women enjoy greater satisfaction because of anatomical familiarity, longer sexual duration and not revering penetration as the apex of erotic mingling. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

She sent the collection inventory list to dozens of other New York artists engaged by the lesbian feminist movement, asking them to makes drawings in response to items on the list. The Week Ahead: Sept. 2 — 7 2012-09-02T07:40:05Z

The health issues of the elderly are compounded when the care providers are not used to, or uncomfortable with, helping gay, lesbian or transgender patients. T Magazine: Out at Sea 2012-11-15T22:34:18Z

Renounce being a lesbian, her mother tells her, “and I promise I won’t ever ask you to do anything for me ever again”. If you're missing Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, try these instead 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Don’t be put off by the harsh title of “Pariah,” the stirring coming-out story of a virginal 17-year-old African-American lesbian living in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. | 'Pariah': ?Pariah,? With Adepero Oduye as a Young Lesbian - Review 2011-12-27T23:41:52Z

The San Francisco Symphony announced on Monday that it had canceled a pair of April concerts in North Carolina to protest the new state law curbing anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. San Francisco Symphony Cancels North Carolina Concerts, Citing Anti-Gay-Rights Law 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Does that mean that being a lesbian means that one wants to be partners with ALL women?  On bisexuality: An apology 2013-04-19T00:00:00Z

In the United Kingdom, London’s Gay Liberation Front called for lesbians and gays to “rid society of the gender-role system which is at the root of our oppression.” Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

To entertain herself on her daily commute to work, she read everything from steamy historical romances involving lascivious dukes and earls to lesbian bondage fiction. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Everywhere you look, lesbians are smiling, drinking, dancing, kissing. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

At this year’s Miss America pageant, the first openly lesbian contestant, Erin O’Flaherty, will compete for the crown in Atlantic City. Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged on Atlantic City 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

One is about a lesbian's coming-to-terms with her closeted father's suspected suicide, the other is a multicultural version of the Founding Fathers story told in rap. The best theater of 2015 highlights transformation and enduring power from L.A. to Broadway 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Bing, a prolific journal writer, questioned where she belonged: “I, being a woman, Asian and lesbian in a white male system — Where do I start to recover my reality?” Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

In a charismatic and funny turn, Kristen Stewart stars as Abby, an amiable lesbian who hopes to propose to her girlfriend on a Christmas trip to meet the parents. ‘Happiest Season’ Review: Make the Yuletide Gay 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Gay and lesbian moviegoers have gone through a similar hunger to see themselves portrayed on film, even in movies that were insulting or badly made. Why are so many films for Latinos bad? 2011-01-28T15:01:00Z

A lesbian friend from his postwar Paris days wasn’t just “gay,” she was “gay as a goose.” Ben Bradlee: His sense of Style brought a new sensibility to features

In those letters, she wrestled with issues she faced as a lesbian in a heterosexual marriage and the pressure on some lesbians to conform to a more feminine dress code. Lorraine Hansberry Statue to Be Unveiled in Times Square 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Ali is jumping into her relationship with Syd with gusto and is being drawn deeper into Leslie’s charismatic web, attending a lesbian blood moon ceremony in which Leslie holds court like a high priestess. ‘Transparent’ Season 2, Episodes 4 and 5: Raffles and Mee-Maw 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

And Curve, a magazine geared toward lesbians, has some great travel features and ideas, too. Q&A: Gay-Friendly Vacation Spots — Q&A 2013-04-30T18:00:02Z

But, yes, there was also the curiosity factor, because for decades people have insisted that I’m lesbian and in denial about it. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

Is Charlie a tortured lover or just another textbook lesbian psycho? ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Raised in East Los Angeles, Rosales cut ties at 19 and moved to New York City, only returning to Los Angeles 15 years later after coming out as lesbian and embracing her artistry. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

I asked a number of lesbian writers about their experiences for the piece. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

Did lesbians of the past “hurl inkwells and figurines?” ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Roiling with jealousy, suicide and latent lesbian urges, “The Moth Diaries” dances on the border between hallucination and reality without fully committing to either. | 'The Moth Diaries': ?The Moth Diaries,? Directed by Mary Harron 2012-04-19T23:25:02Z

Mr. Kagan is also the president of Out of Bounds, a nonprofit group that supports a variety of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teams. Urban Athlete: Camaraderie on Ice 2010-10-14T20:31:00Z

In fact the two themes, of Ms. Gomez trying to cure her supposed celibacy, and her personalized history of lesbian cinema, collide about halfway through the 90-minute show with a leap into surrealism. Review: Marga Gomez’s ‘Pound’ Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

But when the need for a label came up, I chose “lesbian,” or more often, “gay,” since it seemed broader. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

The report concludes by saying that 'lesbian, gay and bisexual people are at significantly higher risk of mental disorder, suicide ideation, substance abuse and deliberate self-harm than heterosexual people.' Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

I danced in a circle of lesbians, swaying to the beat.  “Are you a boy or a girl?”: Our trans-bisexual love story 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, she had been working on a series devoted to Latina lesbians — but the women she had worked with had been largely educated and professional: activists, artists and lawyers. Stories of the Plush Pony: Vincent Price Art Museum pays tribute to a working-class lesbian bar 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

To the closeted adults in my childhood, to the lesbians at church, and to my little kid self, I see you and I admire you. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

It’s rare to see “such open and visible representation in local mainstream media,” said Leow Yangfa, executive director of Oogachaga, a support organization in Singapore for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Paris Jackson Apologizes for Harper’s Bazaar Cover in Singapore, Where Gay Rights Lag 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Flash forward to me very *cough* briefly serving on the Nola Pride board as the token lesbian for a racially problematic, closeted to family, and Trump-leaning board of directors. The "Queer as Folk" reboot does a kindness to New Orleans' imperfect real-life queer scene 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Or feigned interest in the indie movie about lesbian mothers in Greenland. Modern Love: A World Away, a Wish Answered - Modern Love 2012-03-02T22:02:46Z

It is hard to imagine anyone else getting the green light for a period drama about a lesbian industrialist in Halifax in 1832, where much of the action involves day-to-day business of the local coalmines. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Here, she discusses the process of writing the book, as well as “ugly babies,” her “lesbian roommate” and the delicate art of comedy. | Around the World with Chelsea Handler 2014-02-28T17:16:36Z

It's the first Broadway show with a lesbian protagonist. Broadway's 'Fun Home' cast to perform show in Orlando 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The book highlights feminist complacency regarding women of color; immigrant women; lesbian, bisexual or transgender women; sex workers and others. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The problem was, I didn’t think I was a lesbian, anyway. Me and my penis: 100 men reveal all 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

And that nurse with the short hair who is getting married in a trouser suit while pouting at the female registrar – a lesbian? Casualty and Wonders of the Solar System | TV Review 2010-03-29T05:45:00Z

“I think I played the first black lesbian on television. The Wire ushered in a new interest in African American stories.” The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gibbard had expressed his support of marriage equality in a 2012 essay for The Daily Beast, inspired by his sister, a lesbian. Bob Dylan Sings About Gay Love 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

At best, the film may offer a criticism of a vengeful Christian god — at worst, it paints its lesbian protagonist as a contemptible sinner who was always destined for punishment. ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

His radical preachings and views, such as his claim that gay and lesbian individuals were to blame for the 9/11 attacks, were both revered and criticized by many. The 6 most shocking Jerry Falwell Jr. sex scandal moments from Hulu's "God Forbid" documentary 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Clinton folk flit through the air-conditioned downtown convention center between gender-neutral restrooms and lesbian political-action committees and coffee mugs emblazoned with Hillary’s signature in gold script that go for $25. This is what it feels like at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

You think that she is this cold, calculating, ruthless woman who’s sort of snooty and sits there with all her left-wing, lesbian friends. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Thus, it shouldn’t be surprising that women who don’t identify as either straight or as a lesbian experience an increased risk of mental health issues. Amber Heard’s “bisexual past”: Lurid coverage of Johnny Depp abuse allegations shows how deep bisexual backlash can go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t have the power to end it, although his recent work tends toward elegiac pronouncements about “dying Christian America” and the end of Western culture, swamped by lesbians and Muslims and free government marijuana. Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war 2012-11-10T20:00:00Z

They hunted down gay men and lesbians and transgender soldiers and sailors and airmen and women. Trump’s latest desperate gamble: Damaged president tries to save himself by persecuting transgender Americans 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Lives” also includes a lesbian couple, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, who enact a common dynamic seen in the book — one partner who insists on suppressing the other’s ambition. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

“There was little open animosity, and some bystanders applauded when a tall, pretty girl carrying a sign, ‘I am a lesbian,’ walked by.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

"They got a huge shock when they discovered that lesbians, gays and people of good conscience around the country are speaking out and protesting their bigotry." “Bigotry was the blue plate special”: How Cracker Barrel went from anti-gay to angering the GOP 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

It turns out to be a lot of long meetings: of immigrants’-rights groups; of older gays and lesbians, of weary workers and patient politicians. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The first female poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, 55, was first touted for the job in 1999, but was reluctant because of her status as a mother in a lesbian relationship. Carol Ann Duffy 2011-03-08T00:05:21Z

Ms. Anspaugh states in her press material that she is a lesbian with a young son and that the Trump administration leads her to “research and critique male masculinities.” Still Reforming Postmodern Dance, California Roots Intact 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I end up getting a lot of women who identify as part of the lesbian community when it comes to these trips, because they feel like it’s a safer space for them,” she says. Why the often-parodied girls’ weekend is needed now more than ever 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

In June, he mugged in a photo with Michelle Obama at a White House reception for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement

The latest study of BBC programming showed that lesbians were given only two minutes of airtime in a random selection of 39 hours of programming. Lip Service is groundbreaking ? whatever its star says 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

The car turned out to belong to two lesbians in their 60s. 'Gloria's Cause' looks at the forgotten figures of 1776 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

In other words, "Fun Home" — subtitled "a family tragicomic" — probed a very particular set of circumstances, including the author's own coming out as a lesbian. 'Are You My Mother?': Alison Bechdel's take on the mother-daughter bond 2012-05-10T20:25:04Z

Today, there are tours spanning the globe not only for gay men, but also for lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers and their children. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

"The Real L Word" represents a different swath of lesbian life -- it's less of a party show. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

Sure, that lesbian lover line was a joke, one of Oliver's many, many quippy asides. Is Meryl Streep an "Only Murders in the Building" love interest? It's Oliver's time 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

And when you're seemingly completely oblivious to the real violence gay and lesbian youth face, to the epidemic of bullying that's killing kids, it just makes you seem like a crass bigot. Tracy Morgan goes on an anti-gay rant 2011-06-10T19:01:00Z

Last September, two women were caned for “attempting lesbian sex” in the east coast state of Terengganu. Transgender guitarist strikes a different note in conservative... 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

I was like this weird kid who loved lesbian comics. "Visible": The impact of TV on queer identity, before and after Ellen 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

"The lesbian community is often mischaracterised as man-haters, when many of us actually feel a high regard for masculinity," says Truffle. How 'drag kings' are taking the standup world by storm 2012-08-26T19:00:07Z

Gays and lesbians, especially those in drag, were routinely persecuted by police and condemned from the pulpits of neighborhood churches. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

I think there is, absolutely, the same kind of appetite to see lesbians on TV. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

“You’ve got me and my wife, two black lesbians, and when we first moved in, we fought every day over all these little things: ‘Why is this over there? Get Out producer to make horror film about black lesbians in rural America 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

She moved to London, found a room in a “lesbian group house,” wrote for lesbian publications and was swept up in an exciting, activist political movement. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

When a friend suggested he might be a lesbian, he thought, “Why not?” Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

And so they were, for the conservative Christian bakers were approached last month by a lesbian couple looking for a wedding cake. Beware, homophobes: Yelp commenters are watching you 2013-02-06T16:26:00Z

That acceptance — and the joy characteristic of the place — foretold the flourishing of gay and lesbian life in New York City and beyond, she said. Cherry Grove, Where Gay New Yorkers Became ‘Their Real Selves’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

But now many gay men and lesbians are on the defensive, struggling to address the sordid allegations, while some right-wing politicians accuse the community of crying wolf. A Crime Against Gay Israelis Is a Symbol, but of What? 2013-07-26T17:36:52Z

Today, sex remains the focal point of the lesbian film, and they seldom make lesbian sex appear passive or easy. Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

The rationale is that white people who fight against racism wouldn’t call themselves “black,” just as straight people who rally for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights wouldn’t call themselves “transgender.” ‘Faux’ Male Feminists Draw Ire in Hollywood 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

The opera singer publicly came out as a lesbian more than a decade ago. For Broadway's Audra McDonald and others, same-sex marriage ruling is a 'no-brainer' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

If you think there’s something inherently pervy in a movie about a lesbian relationship made by a guy, you might have a point. “The Duke of Burgundy”: A tender tale of lesbian bondage 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Both traveled in the same tightly knit lesbian circles in pre-World War II Paris; Parsons would be instrumental in getting Abstract Expressionism off the ground in New York. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z

But the girls’ odd new friendship is severely tested when Amy publicly accuses the latently lesbian Ester of being in love with her. Echo Theater's 'Dry Land' pulls no punches in tale of an unwanted pregnancy 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The civilization that remains is both lesbian utopia and police state. Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

She came out as a lesbian in 1993, and released the biggest album of her career later that year, "Yes I Am," whose hit singles included "I'm The Only One" and "Come to My Window." Melissa Etheridge in "Fearless" mode after split 2010-04-27T22:29:00Z

“Jack” is based on the real Lister, a 19th century English lesbian who detailed her feelings in voluminous diaries — often in code, which was later cracked. The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

With women still making significantly less money than men, the lesbian market is rarely targeted by the film industry. Beefcakes are the new cheesecakes 2013-12-22T20:00:00Z

When she met someone online who said she was a 19-year-old out lesbian in Syria, who wanted to write a personal and political blog using her real name and face, there was an immediate spark. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Many of the tours are grouped by theme, like lesbian activism and transgender history. Pride Is Coming Back to New York. Check Out These Events. 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Here are some book suggestions for parents, kids and teens on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning gender experience. Books for parents, kids, teens on LGBTQ experience 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

If you could give advice to other kids who have a gay/lesbian/ bisexual/transgender parent or relative, what would it be? What it’s like growing up with an LGBT parent, in their kids’ own words 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Characters blur together; only one, Paula, a jaded lesbian who falls in and out of love, stands out. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

If you didn’t catch the sneaky suggestion of infidelity, the National Enquirer is happy to clear it up any confusion: “Johnny was surrounded by women who kept him fretting about his bisexual bride’s lesbian past!” Amber Heard’s “bisexual past”: Lurid coverage of Johnny Depp abuse allegations shows how deep bisexual backlash can go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

What follows is an agonizing conversation between a newly queer woman in 2020, and a slightly older woman, who was outed as a lesbian in the '90s when homophobia was significantly more overt. On “The Morning Show,” bisexuality is ground zero for the “identity politics” debate 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

The writer and director Jacquie Lawrence – whose first novel Different for Girls follows a group of lesbian and bisexual women through their lives – thinks this is a key difference. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

In The Night Watch, due soon though still unscheduled, she plays Kay, a lesbian ambulance worker who sifts through bombed houses for bodies. Anna Maxwell Martin: 'I don't like playing saps' 2011-02-16T22:00:00Z

And when you say that “Redefining marriage serves no one’s rights, least of all those of children,” you’ve revealing a stunning amount of ignorance about gay and lesbian families, their offspring and their rights. Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z

Wouldn’t it be funny if, having spent 30 years identifying mostly as a lesbian, I ended up with the boy next door? Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

People didn't want to watch a lesbian once a week in primetime, she said. Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

She’d come up in the industry in the 2000s, when places in Los Angeles like the Palms and the Normandy Room were the epicenter of lesbian life. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

There have been criticisms that the Emergent Church isn’t diverse enough — it isn’t open to women or gays and lesbians. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z

Dunn is excellent on the lesbian 1920s and 30s in London, with delicious detail – Lena Ramsden, for example, insisted that the perfect present for young women she was courting was a trouser press. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z

“The Revenant” beat several hotly tipped awards contenders, including Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies” and Todd Haynes’ lesbian romance “Carol.” 'The Revenant' and Leonardo DiCaprio Win Big at BAFTA Awards 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

One of the challenges in doing "The Real L Word" was that I knew we had to provide fun partying, bad behavior, and some kind of excess while telling stories about real lesbians. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

It was only then that ugly and sad stories about Henrietta began to emerge: of toxic family dynamics, lesbian love affairs, addiction, depression, reckless caprice and self-destruction. Henrietta Bingham’s Jazz Age Life 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was a combination of gay men, lesbians and friends and families and allies who came forward. “Am I being punished for being gay?” 2012-06-05T16:37:00Z

Then not only that, I get to write the solo series for their first lesbian Latina character, America Chavez. Inside Gabby Rivera's joyful, queer Marvel revolution 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

In other interviews, Cholodenko has joked that she's more interested in drawing in straight male viewers than in placating every possible segment of lesbian opinion. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z

They all believe that I am a lesbian. Everybody thinks I’m lesbian! 2012-11-27T01:00:00Z

These feelings lead Sylvia to declare herself a lesbian in what may be the show’s most winning number, “I Feel Romantic.” ‘Fabulous!,’ a Musical Sendup in Drag 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Lorde was a black lesbian feminist poet, all of which, she said, “meant being really invisible”. Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

She was a radical lesbian separatist who didn’t want men at her readings and would not respond to their questions. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Light pushed to be part of “Transparent” as an outgrowth of her commitment to gay and lesbian equality. Between ‘Transparent’ Seasons, Judith Light Isn’t Playing Nice 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The atmosphere was all the more stifling because so many gay men and lesbians made their living in the classical-music business. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

She’s mortified that her fellow liberal-minded New York mothers of gay men and lesbians are crowing about their offsprings’ lavish wedding celebrations and perfect partners. | 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays': ?Standing on Ceremony? at Minetta Lane Theater - Review 2011-11-14T03:01:01Z

This meant she played the first lesbian protagonist on a network comedy. How even Ellen got bored of The Ellen Degeneres Show 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

You’ve said that you heard the word “lesbian” for the first time at the age of thirty. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

There is a quick moment of feminine solidarity, a carefully focus-grouped lesbian kiss. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

TV isn’t just killing off lesbian characters—it’s killing off everyone. Thanks, “Game of Thrones”: It’s not your imagination—TV shows are killing off your favorites to stand out from the crowd 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

But when I was asked to be on the judging panel for the second year and the shortage of lesbian writers was even more noticeable, it really seemed as though something was up. Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

"The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls": Combine the words "yodeling lesbian twins" with "from New Zealand," and you may start thinking of satire on par with "Flight of the Conchords." May 31 at SIFF: A free screening of 3 Minute Masterpieces 2010-05-31T04:01:00Z

Appearing in a vacuum of lesbian representation, it became, in the course of six seasons, a touchstone and a conversation starter. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Am I going to be some old lesbian sitting on the porch scratching her balls? Eileen Myles, the Poet Muse of ‘Transparent’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

There’s definitely people who are lesbians or bisexuals in the street, and obviously if they come to prison, are still lesbians or bisexual. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

The movies were like snapshots of the road to acceptance traveled by many gays and lesbians; they went a long way toward strengthening the group's bond. T Magazine: All Aboard 2012-11-15T22:22:03Z

Elizabeth goes home, the marriage unconsummated, and is found after the war in a lesbian relationship with Jolanth Szatmary, short-haired and hostile, who makes hideous arts and crafts objects in yellow and orange. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z

In a video posted to the "Late Show's" YouTube account over the weekend, Colbert broke out the rainbow flags and congratulated gays and lesbians for gaining the right to marry in all 50 states. Stephen Colbert cheers the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, Ithaca was the centre of silent movie production – the Hollywood of the East – and since 1985 it has been home to the pioneering lesbian publishing press Firebrand Books. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

In the past four years, church leaders in California have been doing damage control on Prop 8, reaching out to gay and lesbian Mormons who abandoned the Church in the wake of the initiative. Gay Mormons challenge church 2012-06-11T19:45:00Z

The young lesbian, Jess, whose story line included a reunion with an estranged sister? Perspective | Jonathan Van Ness and Tan France explain how ‘Queer Eye’ is making over our perceptions of gender 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

If you’re looking for a movie to help close out Pride month, look no further: The Spanish filmmaker Zaida Carmona’s lesbian comedy is a colorful celebration of queer joy, queer heartbreak and queer mess. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Last year, the French entry Blue Is The Warmest Color, depicting a lesbian affair between a restless teenager and her older lover, received the Palme d’Or from a jury headed by Steven Spielberg. Sex and Death at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

There’s not a huge stigma around the way lesbians speak. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

“It was important at the time to publish things for lesbians, so lesbians would know that lesbians were out there who loved them and cared about them.” Elana Dykewomon, Author Who Explored Lesbian Lives, Dies at 72 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

When Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona faced pressure to veto a bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian customers, Mr. Limbaugh cited the work of the “homosexual lobby.” Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

In one study with heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples, one woman gives care to her wife around the clock, taking time off to cry while on the subway. The men who give up on their spouses when they have cancer 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m sorry to mislead you to think I was only in a lesbian relationship because there was a shortage of good, suitable men in Hong Kong,” she says. Money won’t turn people straight: One billionaire’s bad idea 2014-01-30T15:35:00Z

And lesbians and gays remained barred from joining the military. Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

I hope we can have interesting gay and lesbian and transgender characters without them being stereotypes. Lesbians get real on TV's "Real L Word" 2010-06-18T18:34:00Z

“Her politics — her activism as a feminist, as a lesbian — are major forces driving the work.” How a Rembrandt Masterpiece Evolved 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

And she adds that “The expectation that women must worry about being pretty first, and everything else second, can feel constrictive to all kinds of women, not just to lesbians.” “Hillary’s look is a practical one”: Can we stop talking about Clinton’s clothes now? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Hewitt, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her partner Rachel, says she cannot be sure that if she had been born two decades later she would have identified as lesbian from the start. The pansexual revolution: how sexual fluidity became mainstream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“It was two other Jewish lesbian moms with a child of the same name,” Ms. Goldstein said. Cultural Studies: Google Searches Help Parents Narrow Down Baby Names 2011-11-25T21:53:11Z

No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track, baby... Lady Gaga 'gay anthem' censored in Malaysia 2011-03-18T14:10:02Z

But it sounds like it was a very joyful discovery—you’ve said that you were a lesbian adolescent in your thirties. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

As gays and lesbians gain cultural capital, helped along by equality victories like the one just handed down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too. Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This pattern would be repeated ad nauseam throughout the years—of lesbian characters routinely punished for coming to terms with their sexuality or pursuing their desires. Stop killing off TV’s lesbians: This depressing trope limits storytelling about queer women 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Now, for the most part, everyone’s new favourite topic is how much they all love gays and lesbians, and transgender people are the trend.” Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Lucky lesbians and gay men find each other and enter into sham marriages together. First Comes Love, Then Comes What Exactly? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Sofia Black-D’Elia, 19, who plays a lesbian cheerleader named Tea, said she and her cast mates quickly bonded while filming the series in Toronto last year. ?Skins? Will Arrive Soon on MTV, Baring All That It Can 2011-01-04T01:07:07Z

A lesbian, Severson writes about her struggles with her identity and with alcohol. 'Spoon Fed': Kim Severson's memoir of food writing and recovery 2010-04-21T23:46:00Z

Ms. Dykewomon never achieved widespread commercial success, but her three novels found an ardent following among lesbian readers. Elana Dykewomon, Author Who Explored Lesbian Lives, Dies at 72 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t feel like a “real” lesbian. I married my sorority sister 2013-01-23T01:00:00Z

By the end, McNees has consigned Hick to the familiar role of the lonely lesbian, thwarted and excluded by the straight world. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Life, as Fodder for Fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Fraud” and “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” received Lambda Literary Awards, an annual honor for lesbian and gay-themed books. David Rakoff, Award-Winning Humorist, Dies at 47 2012-08-10T15:50:38Z

Lexington Club, the only remaining lesbian bar in San Francisco, closed its doors in 2014, a product of shifting demographics in the Mission District. AfterEllen and the digital media bust: Queer spaces for women are disappearing, even on the Internet 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

On the surface, the story looked like a standard-issue lesbian trajectory, starting with a deep attachment to a music teacher, Mary Tucker, who helped McCullers attend Julliard in classical piano. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Directed by Jade King Carroll, it twins Voyager 1’s journey toward interstellar space with a lesbian couple’s attempt to fertilize an egg. Review: In Search of Intelligent Life and a Willing Sperm Donor 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

For years, people have mourned the slow death of the lesbian bar. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

This has all the makings of a gripping story, so it’s a shame that Moira hasn’t gotten an episode that explores her perspective as a black lesbian. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 8: Profit and Pleasure 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

I’d had a relationship with a woman in my early 20s, so living as a lesbian was agreeable enough, though I mourned the societal ease we would lose. Modern Love: My Husband Is Now My Wife 2011-08-18T19:50:50Z

The Sochi Olympics were tainted by Russia’s repressive restrictions on gay and lesbian rights. Taking a stand against St. Patrick’s Day homophobia: Mayors sit out the parades 2014-02-28T20:39:00Z

Lady Sovereign confirmed what a lot of people already suspected with an interview in lesbian magazine Diva this month, and she's not the only gay musician who doesn't really care about disclosing their sexuality. Lady Sovereign comes out - but does anyone care? 2010-05-14T12:02:00Z

“Maybe she was part of a kind of sexual fluidity before it was known as that; maybe she enjoyed physical affection with women without feeling the need to say, ‘I’m a lesbian.’” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

In other news, Polly has been hanging out drinking and reading philosophy with a lesbian couple, and is on the way to Cyprus, where she will make out a bit with a married man. In Y.A., Where Has All the Good Sex Gone? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

“I am a lesbian and I have been approached by men in straight bars,” she said. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

In her four years at the State Department, she prioritized international gay rights, including a 2011 speech in Geneva in which she urged countries to accept gays and lesbians. Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Violet is a great character: she eats too much, shows off about her psychic abilities and somehow manages to stumble into a lesbian relationship without meaning to. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld – review 2013-06-02T07:30:01Z

“Bachelors arrive sick and frightened,” sings Dr. Charlotte, Whizzer’s internist and half of the lesbian couple. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Since Ms. Kaufman and Ms. Miles put up their blog, a number of other children from gay and lesbian homes have come forward saying that marriage would not have helped their families. 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z

My friends asked me questions about my sexuality, and their brothers made lesbian jokes. I married my sorority sister 2013-01-23T01:00:00Z

For decades, gays and lesbians were almost invisible in film and television. Years before court ruling, pop culture shaped same-sex marriage debate 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

The show embraces acceptance and tolerance, things long championed by Lauper, whose True Colors Fund has called for an end to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness. Cyndi Lauper just wants to have fun on Broadway 2013-03-15T12:43:08Z

The character made a big splash in 2006 when she was re-introduced as a new crime fighter in the Batman universe, who also happened to be a lesbian. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Batwoman,' 'Demon Knights' and More 2011-09-15T20:32:58Z

Button is emphatic that anyone can direct a lesbian film with the right attitude. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Gay and lesbian couples in general want exactly that. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

And while we can ostensibly agree that Cosmo’s acknowledgement of the existence of lesbian sex is a kind of progress, its suggestions for great lesbian sex are just as laughable as ever. I tried Cosmo’s 28 lesbian sex tips 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

“When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the ’50s, I looked in vain for books about my people,” she told the young-adult author Cynthia Leitich Smith in an interview. Nancy Garden, young-adult writer who explored gay romance, dies at 76

Of course we had heard of the phenomenon of lesbians, but it was always somebody's cousin who had actually seen one. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

“This is supposed to be one of those things you do this summer if you’re a lesbian in Philly,” she said. Summer Concert Ticket Sales Decline 2010-07-30T22:10:00Z

Being a lesbian had felt like part of who I was, so it was strange to grapple with the idea that it wasn’t really true any more. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

“He’s empowering a lot of invisible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender folks just by the fact that he’s being who he is.” Lil Nas X and rap’s reckoning over Black manhood 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

The metaphoric implications of the spectacle presented in “Grey Gardens” were not lost among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of the time, who made the movie an instant classic. Review: ‘That Summer’ Sheds Light on the Beales Before ‘Grey Gardens’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

For Daphne du Maurier, "Venetian" was her private word for lesbian, and she herself had a lifelong struggle to come to terms with her own homosexuality, never far from the surface. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z

In the early 1980s, Melissa Etheridge was “just a singer in a lesbian bar,” she said, before a Capitol Records executive set her up with a studio session to make a demo. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The ensuing scenes helped solidify the Dinah as a lesbian mecca. Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

A representative of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said that there were four lesbian characters — none of them leads — on broadcast television this past season. ?The L Word? Creator Moves to ?The Real L Word? 2010-06-05T02:20:00Z

Photograph: Channel 4 Nearly one in five people are unhappy about the depiction of gay, lesbian and bisexual people on TV and radio, according to a report commissioned by the . Homosexuality on TV: viewers react 2010-09-29T23:36:00Z

The statement made no mention of the film’s plot or the lesbian relationship between its main characters, which would be a taboo subject in the conservative Muslim world. ArtsBeat: Tunisian Official Congratulates Director for Winning at Cannes 2013-05-27T17:49:54Z

The series also depicts a closeted young lesbian as one of Kitty's schoolmates, who eventually comes out to her conservative Gen X mother. Gen Z's coming out still faces hurdles, according to TV and movies 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

And “Welcome to Chechnya,” a documentary released last year about anti-gay and lesbian purges in Chechnya, used the technology to shield the identity of at-risk Chechens. Your Loved Ones, and Eerie Tom Cruise Videos, Reanimate Unease With Deepfakes 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

And then in the third book, when the murderer was a lesbian, I got a lot of stick for 'giving succour to our enemies'. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

Based on her own life, that book, “The Last One,” follows a young, lesbian Muslim woman in a tough Paris suburb who struggles to reconcile her conflicting identities. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Hammer is a pioneering visual artist known primarily for her films, most of which deal with lesbians, personal histories, and the body. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

My mother tells me she didn’t have any openly gay friends until she was in her 30s, and hadn’t even met a lesbian before me. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

A&E called itself a supporter of the lesbian and gay community. Patriarch off 'Duck Dynasty' after gay comments 2013-12-19T13:55:31Z

Any need to hang out with a lesbian couple for the vibe? Q&A: Julianne Moore of 'The Kids Are All Right' 2010-07-08T09:05:00Z

If you want better images, he argued, you need to support gay and lesbian filmmakers working outside the establishment. Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

One quiz took my lack of interest in driving a pickup truck as definitive evidence that I was not, in fact, a lesbian. Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

One new song, Ms. Maricich said, was inspired by a conversation between Ms. Lohan and her mother about her recent lesbian relationships. Music Review: The Blow, Channeling a Tabloid Star at Joe?s Pub 2010-07-11T22:15:00Z

“What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours.” The 21 Best Jokes from the Roast of Justin Bieber 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Gay hotels began opening in Key West, Fla. And destinations like Provincetown, Mass., were creating some of the first marketing to gay and lesbian travelers. The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

She falls in love with her — though Eileen is careful to emphasize she is not a lesbian. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The second act, in 1993, takes place in a lesbian club. Katy Pyle and Her ‘Misfits of Ballet’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Partially enlightened by her high school gym teacher, Peggy sets her heart on attending Stillwater College, a reconstituted plantation near Petersburg, Va., that has become “a mecca for lesbians.” ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Business book stores or gay and lesbian bookstores. From PR to profits: the problems with publishing 2012-07-13T14:20:48Z

In West Hollywood, black party promoters are taking up Thais-Williams' fight from the early '70s: creating spaces for black gays and lesbians. Jewel's Catch One disco's demise marks era's end for L.A.'s gay blacks 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perfetti is a delight as the more extroverted, sardonic Charles, who berates his brother for dressing “like a lesbian.” | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

The senator, who is an ordained minister with a lesbian daughter, said he would "look at it" if the House passes the bill. Illinois push begins for gay marriage, amid much skepticism 2012-02-21T13:27:00Z

He impersonates Diana to woo Calisto in what appears to be a lesbian fling; the real Diana enjoys courtiers of her own, most notably the humble shepherd Endimione, who wins her. Review: ‘La Calisto’ by the Juilliard Opera 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

New Queer Cinema depicted what it was like to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual. Bad times make great art: The AIDS crisis and the New Queer Cinema 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

When she became an activist, her biggest concern was getting to keep her kids—at the time, many women lost custody once they came out as lesbians. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mark Jones Jess's lesbian friends announce they are having a baby, causing her to freak out over her own biological clock. TV highlights 21/05/2013 2013-05-21T05:59:01Z

Yeah, I play a lesbian krav maga instructor, which is a really different part for me — the reason why I did that movie. Aubrey Plaza on Life After 'Parks' and Hating the Word 'Deadpan' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

And is this the fate that awaits Della, given the shadowy figure who trailed her to the lesbian nightclub last week? ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission published a report, How Fair is Britain?, which found two-thirds of lesbian, gay and transgender students had suffered homophobic bullying, and 17% had received death threats. Lessons on gay history cut homophobic bullying in north London school 2010-10-25T23:01:00Z

Concerned she might be a lesbian and wanting to prove she was “normal,” she propositioned a young man who lived up the street. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

Sometimes it’s just to shake up the narrative, as when Marge’s sister Patty came out as a lesbian or when Ned Flanders was widowed. A Coming-Out on 'The Simpsons' Shows How Toothless the Show Is 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

I was particularly intrigued by the idea of slash fic – there are just not enough lesbian and gay relationships in popular culture to forego the chance of adding more informally. Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Joss Whedon? That's been going on for years 2010-11-24T14:02:00Z

Balancing these small errors, however, Fitzsimons neatly sums up Wilde’s lesbian niece Dolly as — wait for it — “an incorrigible womanizer.” ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, just as gay liberation movements swept cities around the world, some lesbians began to leave them. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

Emma is a lesbian with a high-powered corporate job in Chicago but is working to come to terms with her family’s history — a rare character on television. Mexican American sisters of ‘Vida’ back amid gentrification 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

We're not the only ones, said Ellen Kahn, the director of the Family Project for the Human Rights Campaign, a leading advocacy group for gays and lesbians. Motherlode Blog: 'Coming Out' as a Boy Scout Has a Price 2012-10-06T18:33:23Z

Ms. Wright is not the first country artist to announce herself as a lesbian. Music: Chely Wright Comes Out, Testing Nashville?s Tolerance 2010-05-05T23:41:00Z

As a woman he was a confirmed lesbian. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z

If this allegory is taken to its logical end it is seeking to make the lesbian lovers not the other but the norm, which is a noble goal. Mother May I Sleep with Danger?: James Franco's lesbian vampire flick lacks bite 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

The challenges of coming out in an intolerant society, and the struggles encountered by black township lesbians, are explored in dance, monologue and song. Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women calls shame on South Africa 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

In 1975, after many more battles with Kameny, the Civil Service Commission reversed its policy of categorically disqualifying gay and lesbian applicants. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Even among gay and lesbian couples there is some discomfort with the idea of same-sex kissing in public, whether it’s because of fear of violence or internalized homophobia. Civilities: What’s so upsetting about a gay couple kissing in public? 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

Now, he calls me — a self-identified lesbian dominatrix — and pays me to kick him in the balls. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

On the other side of the same wall is a timeline of other hate crimes against gays and lesbians in South Africa since 2009. Review: Zanele Muholi, a Visual Activist, Presents ‘Isibonelo/Evidence’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Last year was a remarkable time when it came to the representation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer regular characters on television, according to the latest Glaad report monitoring diversity on the small screen. 14 TV Shows That Broke Ground With Gay and Transgender Characters 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Johannic studies” is big business in academia—where she has been described as a transvestite or a lesbian or even a feminist. Heaven’s Tomboy: A Rock Musical About Joan of Arc 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

I may have been tortured by certain classmates at Billings Senior High School, but my mother, now a teacher there, recently helped start its first gay and lesbian student group. Personal Journeys: Would a Gay Man Be Welcomed Home in Montana? 2013-08-21T16:14:33Z

Wendy MacLeod’s “This Flight Tonight” makes a similar observation about the country’s odd checkerboard of same-sex-marriage rights in depicting two lesbians from Los Angeles preparing to board a flight to Iowa. | 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays': ?Standing on Ceremony? at Minetta Lane Theater - Review 2011-11-14T03:01:01Z

In my first relationship with another girl, I wanted to be the perfect lesbian, so I lied a lot. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

The white couple’s story serves as the surface pretense to allow an unprecedented interracial lesbian romance to be visible, briefly, in a mainstream film. Ghostbusters reboot: who you gonna call for slimy sex with a spectre? 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, as well as "snogging" quite a few boys she has a lesbian relationship with another "beautiful" girl called Sula. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

So, where is lesbian sex going right for women where heterosexual sex is going wrong? Do lesbians have better sex than straight women? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

But it may be Ms. Bening’s portrayal of a well-meaning but overbearing lesbian doctor and frazzled mother of teenagers in Lisa Cholodenko’s “Kids Are All Right” that finally earns her an Oscar for best actress. Hedda Gabler to Medea to Frazzled Mom 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

Yan would qualify as an ally, but there are characters with significant roles in the story who are gay and lesbian. Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Find out the advantages and disadvantages of rutting in a railway siding, why lesbians and OAPs are the same thing, how to spot a wig and why bras are bad. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z

Mickalene Thomas explores lesbian desire in her 12-monitor video grid, “Me as Muse,” presenting herself reclining naked on a couch and focusing the gaze on different parts of her body. Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

For some gays and lesbians, the exchange opened old wounds. Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Hart: “I would just love – as a lesbian – to be a really hot commodity to other women. I’m happy to serve an underrepresented community.” YouTubers Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart smash superhero stereotypes 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

The show, which premiered last summer, features a biracial lesbian couple with a household of foster children. ABC Family show grateful for negative attention 2014-01-18T04:13:14Z

While there have been a healthy number of gay male roles on recent television, there's still a dearth of lesbian ones. Lip Service and Tom Daley: the Diver and his Dad 2010-10-13T07:00:00Z

And in her writing for the show, she has fearlessly tackled once-taboo TV topics like female pleasure, anal douching, abortion and lesbian love. Pondering ‘Sex Education’ When Touching Is Off-Limits 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Last year, the gay and lesbian magazine Out named him "stylemaker of the year" and put him on its cover wearing a bridal veil and flowers in his hair. Gender-bending model pushes limits of the runway 2012-02-09T07:48:09Z

One is devoted to relics of L.G.B.T.Q. night life, from the 1950s lesbian bar called the Sea Colony to gay male sex clubs like the Anvil and the Ramrod that sizzled in the 1970s. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Each sister gets a romance — including a matter-of-factly lesbian one — and the shenanigans are entirely adult and nice, which is rather refreshing. A Very Streaming Christmas 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Gay rights groups fought for legal protections that would make it more likely that gay men and lesbians might feel sufficiently comfortable to identify themselves publicly. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

In 1992, there were protests over Basic Instinct’s treatment of lesbian characters and the explicit content of Showgirls saw many label Verhoeven a misogynist. Paul Verhoeven on Elle: 'It is not a rape comedy' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

This is a story about the self-annihilation queer people face when they mold themselves to straight expectations, told by a lesbian filmmaker working in maybe the most stereotypically heterosexual genre — the Christmas romantic comedy. ‘Happiest Season’ Review: Make the Yuletide Gay 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“I think I’m a lesbian,” a character says in Caryl Churchill’s lively 1979 “Cloud 9,” and the line still stands as one of the funniest and most memorable of its era. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

In its broad outlines, the story — a show-people lark wed to a morality tale about a teenage lesbian’s triumph — seems unchanged. ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Last year, I answered a question from a lesbian whose girlfriend wanted to introduce her as a “friend” to her family, because she’s closeted to them. Civilities: Gay couple wonders whether ‘husbands’ is right label for them 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

“True” representation of the most literal, unattainable kind would mean a lesbian Jewish actor playing a lesbian Jewish superhero. Ruby Rose’s Batwoman casting prompted celebration, but the backlash tells us a lot about our era 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Earlier research suggests this could be because lesbians are more reciprocal in taking care of a spouse’s emotional needs and also have a greater appreciation for doing so. Gay Couples Can Teach Straight People a Thing or Two About Arguing 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

The film includes a wealth of home movies, news clips and footage shot in 1999 for a PBS documentary, “Our House,” about children of gay and lesbian parents — including a precocious, 16-year-old Russo-Young. Filmmaker revisits case that challenged her and her 2 moms 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The result is often beautiful and poignant, but being in lesbian relationships aren't always tragic and to depict them as such repeatedly feels like a judgment. TV's first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Also featured in The Wright Way, Elton's new sitcom, which aired on BBC1 this week: lesbians with saucy knickers and council officers talking about their latest erections. Do comedians lose their edge as they get older? 2013-04-27T16:59:01Z

There weren’t many customers yet but by nightfall there would be — mostly lesbians, sure, but more and more straight folks as well. Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Playing a lesbian isn’t about turning her into a stereotype in bulky jeans,” Ms. Mazar said. Debi Mazar’s Talent for Glamour 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

By then, Lister had experienced at least four serious lesbian love affairs. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

The new employee is particularly taken aback by Cleo, an outspoken Black lesbian who is a cousin of one of the original characters, Anthony Bouvier. Review: ‘Designing Women,’ With 30 Years of Pent-up Angst to Air 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

I genuinely can’t think why I got into this show which has a lesbian media type as one of the lead characters. From Gentleman Jack to Killing Eve: who are TV's greatest lesbian icons? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Sick of unrealistic sex scenes, Lawrence created Lesbian Box Office, Europe’s first channel wholly dedicated to lesbian/bi content, which features a webseries adaptation of Different for Girls. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Are lesbians not even writing books any more? Where are the new UK lesbian writers? 2012-06-07T10:29:01Z

When the news broke, it was not the lesbian connotations that outraged Hindle's fans but the conviction that they had been victims of a deception and that she had really been a he all along. Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z

Aimed at older teenagers, it is the story of a has-it-all high school girl who finds herself falling for an openly lesbian transfer student. Julie Anne Peters, Whose Young-Adult Books Caused a Stir, Dies at 71 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

When a lesbian couple participates in one of the workshops, Heath interviews the other participants about them. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z

"As flawed as the characters in the film are, they are people first and lesbians second," Johns said. "Kids" breaks new ground for lesbians on film 2010-12-03T20:14:00Z

At the conference, the lesbian caucus was suddenly told that someone could address the UN for five minutes. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Largely absent in those first episodes are incidents where Tig is made to contend with outward prejudice and other unpleasant truths that are part of life for a lesbian living in a conservative Southern town. Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

She introduced me to the east London lesbian scene when I first moved to London. Love me Tinder – tales from the frontline of modern dating 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Others will follow an immigrant student acclimating to their new country, while a young lesbian finds a balance between her Christianity and her authentic self. Stars to honor students at GLSEN’s reimagined 30th awards 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Sarah Schmidt, the group’s chairwoman and treasurer of LPAC, a new lesbian political action committee, said she thought that Wisconsin’s seeming nonchalance about Ms. Baldwin’s sexuality “is another milestone.” Tammy Baldwin, on the Edge of Making History 2012-11-05T18:31:35Z

“Scruples” alerted me to the international lesbian cabal. Good Paperback Vibrations 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

No, gentlemen, I'm not including the numerous films where allegedly lesbian characters are introduced as salacious male-fantasy side dishes. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z

"The King's Speech" triumphed over "Black Swan," "The Fighter," the Facebook drama "The Social Network" and the lesbian family comedy "The Kids Are All Right." Hollywood actors honor "King's Speech" 2011-02-01T00:02:05Z

The joyous discovery of sensual pleasure with her first lesbian lover leads to a manifesto of self-determination: “I know the truth now,” she writes. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z

Silver says lesbian couples rarely visit her for counselling relating to sexual issues, but rather for general relationship queries, as with any couple. Do lesbians have better sex than straight women? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

In 2017, Vogue ran countless photo stories celebrating Hollywood stars and cultural figures, but it also published visual essays on Latinas in Los Angeles, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters, lesbian models and black servicewomen. Perspective | Fashion is finally figuring out diversity — in ways that actually matter 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

I’m not spoiling anything by revealing that eventually a scene in her drama about Iranian lesbians casting off “their chadors to reveal rugby shirts was compared with the nude scene in Equus.” ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

I had a hunch that, despite being a Jewish lesbian, I might not be a Pfefferman, but rather one who falls into the path of Pfeffermans. The true triumph of “Transparent”: The Pfeffermans are all of us 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

They were respiratory-therapy students from Kerala, and I was tempted to announce to them: “If your daughter is a lesbian, please do not ever move her to New York.” A Forbidden Relationship, From the Other Side of the World 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

They were committed to issues around women and children, especially the rights of lesbian mothers in divorce cases involving custody. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Another is for a lesbian romantic comedy that, in Mr. Shapiro’s words, boils down to “nice Jewish girl meets nice Jewish girl.” A Bronx Film School Tale 2010-09-05T22:40:00Z

“They’ll body check you on the dance floor. You’re waiting forever for a drink. They bully lesbians. It’s so disheartening to expect allies and get that treatment from them.” In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The director of a play she acted in was appalled to find out she was neither a heroin addict nor a lesbian. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

Bening was nominated for best actress as a lesbian mom whose family is thrown into turmoil after her teenage children seek out their sperm-donor father in "The Kids Are All Right." 'The King's Speech' gets 12 Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T14:00:55Z

The lesbian feminist sasquatches conspire in a far corner of the room. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

After more than a decade of stand-up, she developed a following in Europe and Australia with self-deprecating comedy about her family, her weight and coming out as a lesbian in a homophobic community. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

While the book is primarily a retelling of her experience as a lesbian journalist and activist, paired with a series of interviews with American L.G.B.T. journalists, a section is devoted to “men’s war” on women. With ‘I Hate Men,’ a French Feminist Touches a Nerve 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

I am a 45-year-old married lesbian who teeters on reclusiveness, so my current nightlife scene primarily consists of watching old episodes of "The Real World" and singing songs to my dog. The "Queer as Folk" reboot does a kindness to New Orleans' imperfect real-life queer scene 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Marriage for gay or lesbian couples is not an undoing of the meaning and purpose of marriage but rather its natural and appropriate evolution. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

In bigger cities, there is often a disconnect between between the gay and lesbian communities. After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

This was found to be true not just in straight marriages, but also in cohabitating couples, and lesbian and gay relationships. 6 fascinating things you never knew about sexual satisfaction 2014-05-07T11:00:00Z

Penney to drop her as a spokeswoman because she is a lesbian and said they would boycott the store. Ellen breaks silence on furor over J.C. Penney gig 2012-02-08T03:14:26Z

They go to parties at which hip lesbians say things like: “I played ‘Wedding Presence’ so often, I wore out the track. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

But then she falls in love with “Alice” and, with this first proper lesbian relationship, “I felt like I was being shown new possibilities for what my life could look like.” Karley Sciortino: the sex blogger and Slutever presenter redefining sexuality 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

The dreaded “bed death,” or the notion that lesbians in committed relationships stop having sex with each other, is a touchy topic. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

When I finally tried to walk in, the door lady stopped me and asked: “Do you know where you are? This is a lesbian bar.” ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The point is, why can’t a Jewish lesbian identify as a Jewish lesbian with a flag when Jewish star tattoos were ostensibly okay? The Sound of Silence: what it means to be LGBTQ and a Zionist in today’s America 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Obama put two women on the Supreme Court and helped break down barriers for gay and lesbian Americans, even as racial minorities remained far behind in education and income.” Remembering President Obama 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

In Jordan Harrison’s new comedy, set in 2015, a group of happily married gays and lesbians debate rights and wrongs. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The lesbians look like regular women because – shock horror – they actually are. Satin v cheesecloth: how 70s style defines the warring women of Mrs America 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

She carved out a career for herself in film after her 1994 feature debut, the lesbian romantic comedy “Go Fish,” became a cult hit. Watch a nightclub shooting in virtual reality? For Rose Troche, painful subjects make for powerful art 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Yet this fresh perspective did not lead Hollywood to greenlight more films about Black lesbians. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Expressions of support have mitigated the effect of the abuse, and Coffin pointed to the “exhilaration” of publishing her experiences as a woman and a lesbian: “Language is so important to free the mind.” With ‘I Hate Men,’ a French Feminist Touches a Nerve 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

Joe, a fictional character, joins a group of gays and lesbians who, in events based on real life, supported the bitter and hard-fought 1984-85 miners' strike in the much-less-gay-friendly Britain of Margaret Thatcher. Britain's hard-working, soulful MacKay keeps films coming 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

I do remember the first time she met an obvious lesbian – one of my students came to the house for a meeting, and Diana was 14 and she was transfixed. Stitching together Cid's manhood: in the operating room for a female-to-male surgery 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

But it’s an odd existence in which one’s personal life is sometimes lived in the shadows — a reflection of life for many gay and lesbian residents in the rural South. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

It feels so good that for some women, in this case lesbians, they can’t get enough. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

While the photographers behind the images remain mostly unknown, many were likely the gay white men who first began to infiltrate the island in the late 1940s and 1950s, followed by lesbians. Cherry Grove, Where Gay New Yorkers Became ‘Their Real Selves’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

She joked about viewers saying to themselves, "Oh, if I could only be Rosie O'Donnell: an overweight lesbian who yells too much," then added, "My job is mostly to entertain and be funny." Winfrey to host series recycling her old show 2011-07-29T20:13:17Z

Muna Mire, a writer and producer, also weighed in, tweeting: “Stanley Tucci is hot. as a lesbian I could not affirm this more deeply.” Why is Stanley Tucci making a negroni so hot? I decided to investigate 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the work of Black lesbian filmmakers has almost exclusively been made outside the Hollywood system and often not seen outside the film festival circuit, academia or grassroots distribution networks. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Burn tells of a lesbian couple asking a high street travel agent for reassurance before booking and being told: “We just won’t tell them.” New gay travel firm increases holiday choice for LGBT travellers 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Taxidermy is queering,” Arnett, who identifies as a lesbian, wrote, in Hazlitt. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sarnak was 25 when she came out as a lesbian. A Playwright and a Songwriter, Finding the Right Words 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Jessi chafes against the fact that her mother is having a hot lesbian affair with Dina, their temple’s cantor, and developes a platonic romance with Matthew, the only out gay kid in the school. The Refreshing Frankness of the “Big Mouth” Valentine’s Day Special 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

From the very beginning, the mainstream media and the public labeled women activists as “lesbians.” Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

“I also read a French lesbian novel called ‘The Illusionist’ by Françoise Mallet-Joris about a girl who has a love affair with her dad’s older mistress. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

“I have a homosexual in my staff, I have a homosexual in my family, I have a lesbian in my family, my lawyer is gay with a husband,” he said. Two Bronx politicians, father and son, find themselves at odds in the 2016 race 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

He booked her on NBC’s “Today,” where she told the world she was a lesbian. Howard Bragman, Publicist Who Helped Clients Come Out, Dies at 66 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Crazy Nanny’s advertised itself as “a place for women, biological or otherwise,” meaning it welcomed trans women, at a time when that was controversial in lesbian circles. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

The move prompted fury from campaigners and fans of Matthew Warchus’s film, which tells how gay and lesbian activists threw their support behind a Welsh mining community during the strike of 1984. US censors accused of homophobia over restrictive Pride rating 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

She imagined what 5th District constituents could say if she wins: “It took two lesbians to break the curse.” Everyone who’s won this seat in Congress has gotten divorced afterward 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

In its five years on air, “The L Word” brought lesbian romances, drama and many, many sex scenes to the small screen. Jillian Mercado on ‘Generation Q’ and the Importance of Joyful Stories 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

“I’m a normal, hard-working full-time employee,” she said, ”but I’m a lesbian and I want to be around others who are similar to me.” For Arab Lesbians, a Place to Dance Freely 2012-05-20T04:00:05Z

It could change what families look like, because you could see a situation where a gay couple or a lesbian couple for the first time ever in history has a child that’s genetically their own. The future of sex 2012-09-19T19:20:00Z

Ms. Etheridge has been openly lesbian for most of her career, but the songs on “Fearless Love” where she addresses sexuality are some of her most potent. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z

The emotionally charged song reflects Lambert’s experiences growing up lesbian in an abusive household. Jingle Ball to light up Moore Theatre | Concert preview 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The fact that there were gay and lesbian characters, the fact that it was racially diverse. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Gets Another Life 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

"Pride," a drama set in 1984 about gay and lesbian activists raising funds for striking British miners, was named best film of the year Sunday night at the Moet British Independent Film Awards in London. 'Pride' named best film of 2014 at British Independent Film Awards 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Simply having lesbian characters who enjoy sex and don’t get punished for it makes Bound a rarity in mainstream movies. The Guardian profile: Lilly Wachowski 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Beth Buchanan, a lesbian Christian in Miami, Okla., recently showed the video to her mother. Matthew Vines Won’t Rest in Defending Gay Christians 2012-09-14T22:53:06Z

“Gay and lesbian people have been traveling for all time, and in fact they were some of the first travelers because they were people who didn’t feel accepted in their own communities.” The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Often it means that people see lesbian not me, or that men see woman not me, or that middle class students see waitress, not me. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Bette toes the party line, be it lesbian, artistic or political, but she often does not put her money where her mouth is. ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ Review: New Vision, Old Blind Spots 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

They both identified as “late in life” lesbians, coming out mid-adulthood, and had longed to attend the event. Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

There is also a group ensuring that minorities and gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people are heard. Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Action Plan 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

“As the daughter of lesbian moms, I know that children are affected by this decision,” said Ms. Connolly-Ingram, a student at City College of San Francisco and an intern at Colage. 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z

Ms. Madden noted “that we both were in relationships at the time. But right after that lesson I texted my friend, ‘This lesbian in breeches is so hot!’ Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

And I can be a lesbian with several lesbian lovers or one, or I could be bisexual with several lesbian lovers and male lovers. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Sophie has become UK soap’s most iconic lesbian – as well as Corrie’s first. From Gentleman Jack to Killing Eve: who are TV's greatest lesbian icons? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

I have realized that this is simply how I feel most comfortable as a woman and an out lesbian. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Keep in mind that gay men and lesbians make up a relatively small minority of the general population. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z

When Black lesbian stories, and the filmmakers with the lived experience to tell them, are shut out of the larger film world, the result is systemic erasure that is by definition hard to measure. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Gays and lesbians before us fought for this, and we would too. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Interest in the salon surged, lesbians were invited, and other patrons offered their homes. Rhyme or Reason: Alex Dimitrov?s Wilde Boys Salon, for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date 2011-11-02T23:03:56Z

The plaque, which celebrates a “gender-nonconforming entrepreneur”, is the first in the UK to be bordered with rainbow colours in recognition of lesbian, gay and trangender history. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Marga Gomez spins a comic fantasia on depictions of lesbians in the movies in her new solo show, “Pound,” presented at Dixon Place as part of the theater’s annual “celebration of queer culture.” Review: Marga Gomez’s ‘Pound’ Mocks Depictions of Lesbians on Film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Their teacher is forcing them to be here, because a community organization has sent me to talk to them about what it means to be a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. “She wanted to be normal. We both did”: Why gender, sexuality, and desire matter 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Nichols likens it to “that thing that happens to lesbians in high school,” when they become best friends with a straight girl and convince themselves that that’s enough – until she gets a boyfriend. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

If websites are using Amber Heard’s “bisexual/lesbian past” as clickbait, this overt victim-blaming only reinforces the very real intimate partner abuse that bisexual women often face. Amber Heard’s “bisexual past”: Lurid coverage of Johnny Depp abuse allegations shows how deep bisexual backlash can go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

If you don’t know her as the author of “Chelsea Girls” or “Inferno,” you might be familiar with her as the model for the lesbian poet played by Cherry Jones on Jill Soloway’s “Transparent.” Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

All include characters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Q: You’ve said you lost readers when you created Lucy, a lesbian character. Book Talk: Patricia Cornwell on writing about darkness, loss 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The lesbian couple in the second is suffering from an imbalance of affection; one partner feels neglected by the other, who focusses all her energy on their two small children. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Like its English ancestor, it provided millions of young lesbians and gays with their first notions about how they might become comfortable with, or even celebrate their queerness. ‘It’s a Sin’: Sex, Adventure and Loss in 1980s London 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The headlines garnered huge ratings for ABC, drawing 42 million viewers, but the show’s audience rapidly eroded after Ellen Morgan’s lesbian epiphany. Don’t revive “Will & Grace”: We don’t need its limited portrayal of gay life anymore 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Kevins are initially reluctant to reveal their couplehood and become nervous when one spills the information, before they are pleasantly surprised by locals casually speaking of gay, lesbian, and bisexual family members. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

What is most telling about substituting it for gay or lesbian are the images that homosexual tends to activate in the brain, he said. Cultural Studies: For Manys Gays and Lesbians, the Term ‘Homosexual’ is Flinch-Worthy 2014-03-21T21:20:09Z

Barrera said she finds it empowering how both sisters control their sexuality and that the show refuses to shy away from lesbian love. Mexican American sisters of ‘Vida’ back amid gentrification 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

In 2011, Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, found that gays and lesbians were eight times more likely than straight Americans to be violently attacked. After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

“It’s as if you were trying to talk a gay man into dating a woman, or a lesbian into a relationship with a man.” Do You Take This Robot … 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

She's a somewhat timid lesbian, he's a brash Scot who has a zero tolerance attitude to things he doesn't like. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

“It was spacey looking in there, like a pod. So we decided we were going to make a lesbian experimental space movie.” Two Animal Lovers Meet at a Tiki Bar 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Adding complexity to the matter, Glaad, which aggressively monitors Hollywood’s depictions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters, has taken a more nuanced stance. Who Gets to Play the Transgender Part in Hollywood? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

About two years ago, Mya Taylor was hanging out at a community center for gay, lesbian and transgender people in Hollywood, when she noticed the filmmaker Sean Baker. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

One dug into some straight men's fetish with women who love other women: "Boy math is being homophobic but loving lesbians." Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

Over the decades, as gays and lesbians in popular culture look less like monsters and more like actual humans, Bert and Ernie have mostly stayed the same. Opinion: Bert and Ernie, You’re the One… 2013-06-28T18:56:25Z

In other words, she spent years working to convince men and women that they could stop being gay, lesbian, or bisexual through suppression and therapy. 9 Ex-Leaders of the Gay Conversion Therapy Movement Apologize 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

I’m massively supportive of gay and lesbian equal rights, and so many of my really young fans go through bullying at school and online and through social media.” Music: Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ 2012-11-25T00:10:06Z

Harry is an easy kid, and Ruby, the novel’s most wonderfully imagined character, is seemingly unfazed by her life as the biracial daughter of lesbian parents. Review: Emma Straub’s delightful new novel, ‘Modern Lovers’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

I’m having an impossible time seeing this as anything but a fabulous tale of lesbian discovery. NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Their goal is to help a lesbian student fulfill her dream of taking her girlfriend to that hoariest and most sacred of teenage social rituals, the prom. Broadway on Race: Still More Likely to Comfort Than Confront 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

“Billy’s Boy” can be read as a stand-alone book; it is about a teenager’s search to learn more about his dead gay father and his lesbian mother’s past, as he experiences his own sexual awakening. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Spiegel said that about half of Quinn’s users are men, and that the site’s most frequent search term is “lesbian.” What If Porn Had No Pictures? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Long gets laughs from her over-the-top enthusiasm, from how volcanically she loves things – the French, lesbians and social justice – and hates things. Josie Long – review 2012-11-08T17:26:53Z

"All My Children," which premiered in 1970 and tackled once-taboo social topics, including racism, AIDS, lesbian relationships and teenage alcoholism, will finish its run in September. ABC ending soaps 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' 2011-04-15T15:15:00Z

They begin with their first and most famous harmonious Twin Flames pair, a married lesbian couple Jeff begins to harass openly when one refuses to change her gender identity and name at Jeff’s insistence. What "Escaping Twin Flames" teaches us about the anti-trans nature of a supposedly loving cult 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

One of the problems in showing lesbian culture on television is that it doesn't have the same kind of highly visible sex and party lifestyle that gay male culture has. "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

The film will be seen for the first time in a generation at the BFI's 27th London lesbian and gay film festival on Saturday and Sunday. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z

And when I play a lesbian character, it means that she’s on her own ride. Natasha Lyonne, So Much More Than ‘the Girl’ 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, “The Favourite” makes much of these lesbian rumors, and some scenes depict sexual activity between women. The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

As Lawrence says: “If the director is not a lesbian or a bisexual woman, then there have to be lesbian sex consultants on set.” 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

For some distributors that focus on L.G.B.T. audiences, the movie was also perceived as not being gay enough despite a Black lesbian main character. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. Up Close: Azealia Banks, a Young Rapper Taking Cues From the Street 2012-02-01T23:53:01Z

The politics of nearly all its characters, with respect to feminism, interracial marriage, and gay and lesbian tendencies, are anachronistically progressive. Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

She fell in with the downtown counterculture, worked as an assistant to Pat Steir, and also published one of the first bibliographies of lesbian artists, for a 1977 issue of the feminist journal Heresies. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Abby McEnany created and stars in this perceptive comedy about a middle-aged lesbian who is planning on killing herself in 180 days if her life doesn’t improve. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Early on, she quit the Runaways in part because she was freaked out that other members were lesbians. Lita Ford kisses, rocks and tells in her long-awaited memoir 'Living Like a Runaway' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Fun Home,” the story of a lesbian cartoonist and her memories of childhood and her father, who committed suicide, also won the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding Off Broadway musical on Sunday night. ArtsBeat: Critics’ Circle Names ‘Fun Home’ Best Musical 2014-05-05T22:28:10Z

It has been continuously reinvented as an opera, a ballet, a musical, a lesbian love story, a geriatric love story and even an ice show. Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment 2010-04-12T12:36:00Z

He frequently posts his black-and-white images of night-life ingénues and young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists on his Instagram account. Ethan James Green, an Ex-Model Who Turns His Lens on the Underground 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Coming out as a lesbian had been relatively simple, Britt said, “since people know what that is.” Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

How would you compare the current state of lesbian representation on TV to that of gay men? "The Real L Word": Will TV ever get lesbianism right? 2010-07-16T17:40:00Z

In “Tender Fictions,” you repeatedly quote a phrase: “ ‘I’ as a lesbian couple.” Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

For decades, Foster and her team rightly feared that her coming out as a lesbian would hurt her career. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

“The difference on these ‘control’ related emotions suggests that fairness and power-sharing between the partners is more important and more common in gay and lesbian relationships than in straight ones,” Gottman explained. Bed death, U-Hauling, processing: Lesbian stereotypes abound — here’s the story on 7 of them 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

It was Boy Bar on St. Marks Place, and I clung to someone I knew named Debbie who was temporarily lesbian. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ask the actresses from last year’s equally explicit lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color” about that. ‘Nymphomaniac’ actresses talk of love, lust, Lars Von Trier 2014-03-20T18:21:42Z

But one thing is we don’t want to forget the lesbian, and we don’t want her to be lost. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

A Russian national targeted in Chechnya for his sexual orientation, "Grisha" was detained in a facility where countless other gay men and lesbians were being imprisoned and tortured. HBO's chilling "Welcome to Chechnya" depicts the heroism of ordinary people caught in an LGBTQ purge 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

So far, all of his clients have been gay or lesbian, but he said he works with couples of all identities. A Concierge for Same-Sex Weddings in Florida 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Smith recalls growing up with the kind of quiet suffering many gay and lesbian teenagers still endure in small Southern towns. Art Smith, Chef to Stars, Turns to His Neglected Hometown 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

What they found was that lesbian and gay people were up to two-and-a-half times more likely to become alcohol or drug dependent, over two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from anxiety or depression disorders. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

And laws in some states regarding gay and lesbian surrogacy and foster home placement are still ambiguous enough to discriminate. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z

Over and over, we have heard from these military friends, the ones who have never knowingly met gays and lesbians, “I have so many questions.” Get to know the lesbians! 2013-01-27T22:00:00Z

“A woman who defines herself clearly as lesbian and a Muslim, who writes, and therefore who has a voice, exists,” Amari said. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

He says the historian Simon Schama looks like “a male lesbian.” T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z

As the gay film historian Vito Russo noted in his landmark book, “The Celluloid Closet,” “The history of the portrayal of lesbians and gay men in mainstream cinema is politically indefensible and aesthetically revolting.” Gaysploitation Upends the Stereotypes That Make Us Wince 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Courageously original and lovingly honest, Fun Home is a coming-of-age story – a story of lesbian self-discovery – which also outs the father posthumously as a closeted gay man and a possible suicide. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

Rest assured, I'll be back to pondering the greater meaning of lesbian vampire epics and rock 'n' roll werewolf programmers soon enough. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z

“No. 1 rule for a lesbian,” Ms. Louise said, “Never fall for a straight girl.” With Their First Kiss, ‘Life Turned to Technicolor’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

His official station biography said that he “made a proud name for himself by insulting lesbians.” The making of Sean Hannity: How a Long Island kid learned to channel red-state rage 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Twenty-five years ago, they canceled my sitcom, because they didn’t want a lesbian to be in prime time once a week,” she continued. Ellen DeGeneres, a Signature Star of the Obama Era, Says Goodbye 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Then he chatted with a woman holding a sign that said “Lesbians 4 Bono” and assured her that “Bono is for lesbians.” U2 at the Forum: 5 thoughts on the band's final show 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z