All posts tagged "lesbians"
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Gay 'Bash'
America was a new country, with just 33 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, when Susanna Cox was condemned to hang for...
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History in the Unmaking
The good news is that nobody was hurt. The bad news for local lesbian activist Cheryl Spector and other members of metropolitan Washington's gay community...
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A Welcoming Home
Mara Levi jokes that during her early Capital Pride Mainstage set a couple years ago, she may have been seen as a bit of a...
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Hip Hop Girl Power
A little exposure goes a long way, particularly for the lesbian hip-hop duo God-Des & She. ''We've gotten a lot of Pride offers this year,...
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Marching Forward
There's something appropriate about all the uncertainty that surrounds this year's Dyke March. Just a few weeks ago, local folk singer Mara Levi found out...
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Tale of Two Mommies
Janet Jenkins has been fighting for visitation rights to her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, for more than three years now. Throughout her ongoing custody battle with...
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The Diva Next Door
Opera is like beets -- people love it or hate it. But regardless of one's taste for opera, Patricia Racette is one to watch --...
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A Family Affair
''Men have seeds, and women have eggs... and if two women fall in love and want to have a baby together, they need a seed.''...
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Hear 'Em Roar
''Come out and dance with us. Come out and dance with Men,'' JD Samson says, a bit playfully. Samson, a lesbian, is definitely not a...
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Departing Mautner
After nearly eight years heading the nation's largest lesbian health organization, Kathleen DeBold announced her resignation from the Mautner Project just four months after going...
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Tackling Tomorrow's Taxes
With the deadline for individual income-tax returns little more than two weeks away, storefronts are teeming with signs and banners touting ''instant'' tax refunds, some...
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Spreading the Word
Pam Grier enjoys being something you don't expect. She is, after all, the iconic star of such '70s blaxploitation action classics as Coffy and Foxy...
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Revealing struggles
Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...
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Cybill Rights
How can you not love Cybill Shepherd? From her stunning on-screen debut as the sexually manipulative Jacy Farrow in 1971's The Last Picture Show to...
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Break It Down
It's a sunny 80 degrees in Puerto Vallarta, where Mara Levi is celebrating her 30th birthday with family and working on her tan. She's also...
