Examining whether or not gay rights supporters are protesting in a positive way is tricky. In some cases protests are well thought out and executed, and in others they just don’t work out. There have been some very successful protests…
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I have to admit when I was younger I was all about not just what was cool, but what was lesbian cool. It seemed like one of the single most important things in the world. If I didn’t know what…
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One of the happiest days of many peoples lives is the birth of their child. It’s not long before they realize that parenting like the old Army recruitment slogan says is “The toughest job you’ll ever love.” Being a good…
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What is a girl to do? You’re out of the closet, you’re ready to date or try to make new friends within our wonderful lesbian community yet have no idea where to start. Where have all the good girls (Or…
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The L-Word was not only a groundbreaking and wildly successful television show, it was a show that shed light on the lesbian community. As with real life, some was good, some was bad, and hardly everyone in the lesbian community…
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I will be the first to admit that I say “I am non judgmental” all the time, but the reality is that I am. We all are to some degree no matter how hard we try not to be. When…
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The White Night Riot began sometime on the evening of May 21, 1979 as a reaction to the verdict handed down to the assassin of San Francisco Mayor Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. While they were gunned down…
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The top online lesbian dating sites are actually few and far between, just like dating sites of any genre there’s a lot of garbage out there designed to do little more than cull your information for sale to other companies…
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The concept that a person can treat another in such a manner as to change their sexual orientation is absurd. Sure people comment about it all the time in a joking manner, but it isn’t really true. The attitudes of…
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The White Night Riot began sometime on the evening of May 21, 1979 as a reaction to the verdict handed down to the assassin of San Francisco Mayor Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. While they were gunned down…
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The top online lesbian dating sites are actually few and far between, just like dating sites of any genre there’s a lot of garbage out there designed to do little more than cull your information for sale to other companies…
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The concept that a person can treat another in such a manner as to change their sexual orientation is absurd. Sure people comment about it all the time in a joking manner, but it isn’t really true. The attitudes of…
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January 12, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
When it comes to how to make love to your husband there is no right or wrong answer. Making love is an experience that is slightly different between every couple. Even with a couple that has been married for years,…
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January 8, 2014 Crisis Support
Self-injury (SI) is a behavior that is riddled with myths that tend put a false spin on not just the people who turn to this as a coping mechanism, but also what self-injury itself is. Self-injury may also be known…
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January 8, 2014 Crisis Support
Learning how to personally cope with the cycle self-injury is no easy task and it certainly isn’t something that happens over night. Self-injury is a behavior of addiction, no addiction is easy to leave behind, nor is there every a…
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January 7, 2014 Crisis Support
Whether you are a parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, or grandparent, dealing with the issue of self-harm when it comes to a family member is a great challenge. In large part the challenge is compounded by the fact the dealing with…
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You have been dating awhile and everything is going so good you decide it’s time to move in together, that’s the hard part right? Not so fast Shirley, that is actually the easy part. before you set up a home…
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December 29, 2013 Communication
Getting your man to open up to you and tell you what’s really on his mind is no easy task. Just think of how many times you have said, or heard someone else say. “I just wish he would talk…
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December 29, 2013 Communication
While people will often say that all lies are bad, sometimes a little lie here and there is not only a humane thing, but it can help maintain your relationship. When we talk about how lying can help a relationship…
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The feeling of alienation is something we all deall with during some point of our lives, it’s no exclusive to the LGBT or the straight community, it hits us all. In the LGBT community it is seemingly more pronounced. Even…
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The keys to establishing a healthy lesbian relationship are for the most part the same as those needed to establish a healthy relationship between two men or a man and a woman. It goes without saying there are some things…
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On September 22, 1958, Joan Jett was born in a Waynewood, PA. hospital as Joan Marie Larkin. By the time she was 12, her family moved to Los Angeles, and by the time she was 15 she had formed her…
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Drag queens and transvetities appear quite similar on the surface, but the underlying motivations for their cross gender appearance are quite different. It is not uncommon for these two categories of people to be confused with each other and the…
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The Benjamin Standards of Care (BSOC) have served as a long standing safety net for transsexual persons either male to female (MTF) or female to male (FTM) to help make sure that a person is truly suited to gender reassignment…
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Raising any child is difficult, but raising a child dealing with GID (Gender Identity Disorder) presents a unique set of challenges for not just the parents but the entire family. A child with GID (For the purposes of this article…
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While defining transsexualism is actually a very easy thing to do, helping someone understand the transitional process, especially someone that will never go through it, is not quite as simple. For starters transsexualism is more accurately described as GID (Gender…
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It is paramount to the health of a transgender child as well as to their physical safety that their parents be educated on all the issues that surround the life of their trans child. The first cardinal rule of parenting…
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Transsexualism is a condition which is greatly misunderstood by people everywhere, it isn’t just one country or region of the earth, but a universal phenomena. Transsexualism is defined as one of two things in most mainstream dictionaries which is either:…
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The term transgender is tossed about quite a bit these days with few people really understanding what it means. Like many words, it once had a very specific meaning that over time grew to cover more and more ground, While…
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Transsexuality is something most people don’t really understand which has created a swarm of myths around these people which is both irresponsible, often hurtful, and leads to easier marginalization. In most cases people accept many of these myths because at…
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