Tag: lesbian
Lesbian heiress tells father: I’ll marry a man when you do
The daughter of a billionaire property tycoon who doubled a marriage bounty on her head has published an open letter asking her father to accept her for who she is.
Ellen DeGeneres Brings Lesbian Sitcom Pilot To NBC
A year out from the cancellation of Ryan Murphy’s gay-themed The New Normal after one season, NBC is teaming with Ellen DeGeneres for a lesbian-themed comedy pilot.
New HRC Report Highlights Trend between Pres. Obama’s Use of ‘Gay’ and Growing Support for Equality
A new report from the Human Rights Campaign shows that President Obama’s unprecedented usage of words including “lesbian,” “gay,” “bisexual” and “transgender” in his public statements is contributing immensely to the political mainstreaming of LGBT people and marriage equality within American society.
Nigeria: Halt homophobic witch-hunt under oppressive new law
Nigeria must immediately release the more than 10 people already arrested under a deeply oppressive new law that runs roughshod over a range of human rights and discriminates based on real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity, Amnesty International said.
Gay Vet Publishes First African-American Iraq War Memoir
In “Closets, Combat and Coming Out,” the first gay Iraq war memoir published post-DADT repeal – and the first Iraq war memoir written by an African-American, period – author and activist* Rob Smith comes to terms with his sexuality against the backdrop of the hyper-masculine and hyper-homophobic U.S. Army.