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Kathy's Lesbian Life Blog June 2006 Archive

By Kathy Belge, About.com Guide to Lesbian Life since 2003

I've Got a Secret: The Gayest Show on TV

Thursday June 29, 2006
Who would guess the gayest show on TV would be on the Game Show Network? I'd heard about the new show that Suzanne Westenhoefer was appearing on and decided ... Read More

How to Talk About Gay Issues with Your Friends

Tuesday June 27, 2006
I've been out and proud as a lesbian for more than 20 years now, but I acutely remember the first time I told a non-gay friend that I was gay. ... Read More

Gay Chicago

Monday June 26, 2006
In just a few weeks, Chicago will host the Gay Games. Once every four years gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes from around the world gather for competition and ... Read More

History of Gay Pride

Saturday June 24, 2006
I'm in San Francisco attending one of the biggest gay pride celebrations in the world. Heck, the San Francisco Dyke March is bigger than most cities' whole gay pride ... Read More

Lesbian Separatism

Friday June 23, 2006
The other day I was hanging out with a friend and I mentioned that I had lived for a short time with a lesbian separatist in the 1980s. This ... Read More

Alix Dobkin: Head Lesbian

Thursday June 22, 2006
There's a reason Alix Dobkin is known as the Head Lesbian. She is truly a trailblazer for lesbians. Back in the 1970s, Alix along with Kay Gardner, ... Read More

How do you respond to a bigot?

Tuesday June 20, 2006
Here is a letter I received this morning. Kathy, I have a problem with gay pride week. I am a heterosexual, white, male, atheist, American. Over the years I have ... Read More

My First Gay Pride!

Tuesday June 20, 2006
Whew, what a long weekend. I'm still tired for this weekend's pride events. I love gay pride. It's my favorite time of the year. I'll never forget my ... Read More

History of the Dyke March

Saturday June 17, 2006
Yippee! It's gay pride weekend. Tonight I'm going to a drag show, but there's so many other things happening, it's hard to choose what to attend. Gay ... Read More

Lesbian Life Forum Discussions

Friday June 16, 2006
The Lesbian Life Forum is a place where you can get support for issues you're dealing with, share stories or just meet other lesbians from around the world. Is there ... Read More

Strap-On Safely

Thursday June 15, 2006
I think Showtime's The L Word has done a lot for lesbian sex lives. I heard from more and more people who are interested in trying sex toys after ... Read More

Gay Books Burned

Thursday June 15, 2006
Was it a hate crime? A Chicago library is reporting gay, lesbian and African American literature books were burned at the library yesterday. Police are looking for a ... Read More

Pics of Boise Gay Pride

Tuesday June 13, 2006
I just returned from Boise Gay Pride. For a small city, Boise sure puts on a fantastic event. The citizens of Idaho have a reputation as being some ... Read More

The Struggle for Gay Rights in Wisconsin

Tuesday June 13, 2006
Last week I told you about the battle in Idaho for gay rights. Wisconsin is facing a similar constitutional amendment. On the surface the proposed amendment bans gay ... Read More

Lesbian Domestic Violence: Are you an Abuser?

Sunday June 11, 2006
Domestic violence is something that we don't like to talk about a lot in our community. Sometimes it's easy to believe that only heterosexual couples experience domestic violence or ... Read More

Lesbian Life Polls

Saturday June 10, 2006
There's something about polls. Whenever I see one on a website, I just have to vote and see how my answer stacks up against every one else's. So, ... Read More

Famous Lesbians and Bisexual Celebrities

Friday June 9, 2006
You might be surprised to learn which famous people identify as lesbian or bisexual. Did you know that Drew Barrymore admitted that she's bisexual? Sara Gilbert who played Darlene on ... Read More

The Gay/Lesbian Week in Review: Some Victories, Some Losses

Thursday June 8, 2006
Yesterday the United States Senate voted not to pass an amendment to the Constitution to ban gay marriage. Also, anti-gay activists in Washington State failed to get enough signatures ... Read More

Recent Lesbian Life Discussions

Thursday June 8, 2006
Stop by the forum and check out these conversations: A young bisexual woman wants to know why the girls run the other way when she says she's bi: Bisexual Blues ... Read More

Lesbian Teens More likely to Attempt Suicide

Wednesday June 7, 2006
A new study out of Canada says that lesbian teenagers are more likely to attempt suicide than young gay men or heterosexual teens. Fully 38% of the teen lesbians ... Read More

Alison Bechdel: Lesbian Author & Artist

Tuesday June 6, 2006
I'm a huge fan of Dykes to Watch Out For, the bi-monthly comic strip Alison Bechdel has been writing for more than 20 years. Long before there was The ... Read More

Best Places to Live for Lesbians

Monday June 5, 2006
Dear Kathy My name is Erika and my partner and I are ready to start a family. We currently reside in a homophobic area and we want to move desperately. But we don't ... Read More

Don't Write Discrimination into the Constitution

Monday June 5, 2006
President Bush is expected to hold a press conference in which he will urge the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. Although many people believe a ... Read More

Idaho's Gay Rights Battle

Sunday June 4, 2006
This Friday I head to Boise for their Gay Pride Celebration. I am not sure how much of a celebration it will be because the citizens of Idaho have ... Read More

Four Reasons to Support Gay Marriage

Saturday June 3, 2006
Personally, I'm sick of all those arguments about why gays and lesbians shouldn't be allowed to marry. We'll hurt the institution of marriage, it's bad for kids, blah, blah, ... Read More

Your First Gay Pride

Friday June 2, 2006
I remember my first gay pride parade. It was the early 1980s in a medium sized city in upstate New York. I had just come out and had ... Read More

Batwoman's Back and She's a Dyke

Thursday June 1, 2006
Perhaps DC Comics is attempting to attract more women readers. Or maybe, they're just trying to titillate a straight male fantasy. Whatever reason DC Comics is bringing Batwoman ... Read More

God-dess Interview

Thursday June 1, 2006
All of you L Word fans know who God-dess and SHE are. They're the hip-hop duo who performed their ode to oral sex "Lick it" for Shane at her ... Read More
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