All posts tagged "lesbians"
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Chatty Cathy
It's a rainy Friday afternoon, and Cathy McElrath Renna is sitting on the floor -- the chairs have yet to arrive -- of what will...
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Healing Humor
Karen Williams has been a Buddhist for 36 years and a comic for 25. She's a mother, a grandmother and queer. And if you don't...
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Diva in a Dress
Tackle football is usually synonymous with fall weather and rough guys. That's old school. Today, tackle football can mean daffodil season and kick-ass women like...
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Breaking Barriers
Breaking down barriers is old hat for Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton. After all, she's been breaking them since she was a little girl in Montreal. The...
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Wicked Win
Wicked Jezabel Forget the Grammy Awards. In D.C., it's all about the Wammies, the Washington Area Music Awards (WAMA), which...
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Writing Lessons
Michelle Burleson didn't choose to become a songwriter. It chose her. She can't explain why it happened, but it was sometime in between admiring the...
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Gold Rush
''Oh, goddammit, fuckhead ass!'' Judy Gold's phone won't stop making loud bleeping noises. And it's getting on her nerves. And the one thing you don't...
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Exorcizing Demons
Singer-songwriter Nicole Reynolds had her heart broken recently, and as history has shown, heartbreak can be a powerful artistic muse. Reynolds translated her tumultuous experience...
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Mautner Project Appoints New E.D.
As the newly appointed executive director of the Mautner Project, Leslie J. Calman is hoping to double the health organization's budget, currently nearing $1 million,...
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Label Free
Mindy Chateauvert doesn't do too well with labels. The 49-year-old identifies as a ''leather dyke'' when asked about her BDSM orientation. But Chateauvert's involvement among...
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Farm Fresh
There was a time when Nicole Reynolds didn't know she could sing. The 24-year-old native of Pittsburgh worked behind the scenes of the music industry,...
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Survey Says: Lesbians are Sadder
Lesbians are more likely to experience higher levels of stress and depression than straight women around the winter-holiday season, according to a new study conducted...
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For the Children
December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...
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Avenging Angel
Fred Phelps will never go away. That's the harsh reality Romaine Patterson has come to realize about Phelps, leader of the infamously homophobic Westboro Baptist...
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Courting Greatness
In a world where gay professional sports icons are few and far between, Martina Navratilova definitely stands out. But even if the pro playing fields...
