Hook-Up Blog
Notes from the Scene
Dodging the Urge to U-Haul
I’m broke, busted, have no dinero. My fulltime day job, turned part time job, just got cut. I’m thinking about alternatives, including getting into a roommate situation to lower my rent even though I’ve never had a roommate in my life. I’ve lived with girlfriends, but... Comments: 1
Posted 11/18/09 @ 09:54 AM
Lofty Life
All about the good life
Capture the Kiwi Culture and Cuisine
New Zealand has quickly become a can’t miss trip for globetrotting lesbians. Those hobnobbing in the international vintner circles can easily rattle off New Zealand’s premium regions, just as American oenophiles whip out Napa and Sonoma at the drop of a cork. Here are a few Kiwi...
Posted 11/16/09 @ 03:15 PM
Queerie Bradshaw
Lesbian sex and dating
Two Dates or Not Two Dates, That is the Question
When is a date a date? Is meeting for coffee ever a date? Or has “getting coffee” become a whole event separate from dates themselves? Is a sexual escapade always a date? Or can activities that lead to sex be separated also? I once had a girl I’d been sleeping with for two...
Posted 11/17/09 @ 10:32 AM
The Red Carpet
Lesbian Entertainment blog
Gay Hollywood Gets in Touch with it's "Roots"
For 10 years I worked in The Times building Downtown, a block away from the historic Los Angeles gay district. Harold’s Bar, the Waldorf and the Dover were all hot spots in the 1950s, around 5th and Main. “The Dover was the site of a murder of a gay man in 1969, a few months before...
Posted 11/18/09 @ 10:33 AM
She's Electric
Alternative Music blog
Running with Nicole Atkins
Some voices elevate. Some voices resonate. And still others can make unwitting concert attendees break out into a cold sweat by sheer magnitude. Nicole Atkins has one such Richter-defying voice. It flexes the same strength-through-heartbreak muscle that made Patsy Cline go walking after... Comments: 1
Posted 11/17/09 @ 10:59 AM
Playing for our Team
Lesbian Sports blog
“Training Rules” Addresses Homophobia in College Athletics
If you haven’t heard about the film Training Rules , it’s probably because it hasn’t gotten much publicity—yet. This eye-opening documentary focuses on a variety of Penn State college basketball players who were coached by Renee Portland. Portland served as head coach of...
Posted 11/19/09 @ 10:44 AM
Gayby Boom
Lesbian parenting blog
Lesbian Moms Get Laughs
Last night I got to take the stage at a comedy night at Portland’s Q Center. It was one of a series of comedy nights hosted by TIME OUT: The Mother of All Comedy Shows and comic Jacki Kane. I’ve done it three times before, talking about dropping my thong on the second grade classroom...
Posted 11/16/09 @ 12:01 PM
Swim Float or Drown
Because it's not cute to flounder
Doing Time in Howard Beach
For two years after I returned to New York I lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in: Howard Beach. When I left I had sworn that I would never go back to the place that I spent my late teens running from, but rent was astronomical and with the realization that I wanted to be an artist came...
Posted 11/19/09 @ 10:55 AM
