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A Lesbian Holiday Tradition

Posted on December 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is the time of the year when Joe over at Joe.My.God posts his holiday classic, Dance of the Sugar Plum Lesbians. It’s up for the eighth year and it’s still one of my favorites. Wander over and check it out.

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Is PETA Exploiting Women to Save Animals?

Posted on February 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

The activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, gathered in downtown El Paso, Texas recently, and it had many people turning out to see what was going on.

However, instead of finding anything animal-related, Texans found two scantily-clad women making out on a blow-up mattress.

It had people snapping shots with their phones and cameras – after all, girl-on-girl action seems to be the guilty pleasure of the red states – but beyond the shock value, PETA promised there was a message.

“This weekend is Valentines Day, so it is a great time to get the point across that vegetarians have lower rates of impotence and this is also a great way to show off what a healthy vegetarian body looks like,” said Ashley Byrne of PETA.

I’m sorry, but PETA missed the mark here. Lesbians, not vegetarians, have the lowest rate of impotence… and now that sex toys can be legally sold in Texas, that rate has fallen even farther.

I love sexy girl action as much as the next big ol’ dyke, but with this – especially following the publicity around the sex-with-vegetables ad that didn’t make the Super Bowl – I’m thinking PETA feels that exploiting women to bring attention to animal-rights causes is okey-dokey.

I say they should cut it out, or feminists will be sporting fur coats.

(Now, don’t go making jokes about girls who don’t shave…)

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The Mormons and the Spaghetti Monster

Posted on October 10, 2008 | 8 Comments

Right now, as a lesbian in California, it’s hard not to feel religiously persecuted, or at least persecuted by religion.

After all, the group working hardest to repeal the marriage rights of same-sex couples in California is the Mormon Church.

Hello? Are religious extremists that work to remove the government-granted rights of individuals now tolerated in California? Isn’t this part of what we supposedly oppose, as a nation, all over the world?

One of my favorite responses to religious involvement in government, born in response to the idea of teaching “intelligent design” in public schools, is the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Followers of the FSM call themselves Pastafarians, and before you dismiss them as pure silliness, check out this story in the Arkansas Times about how they recently stood up, in protest, to one of Rev. Phelp’s deplorable demonstrations.

Rock on, Pastafarians!

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Who Took the Lesbians Out of the Mission?

Posted on September 15, 2008 | 10 Comments

WTF? Are we no longer trendy?

The New York Times travel section recently ran this piece called “36 Hours in San Francisco”. The writer, Chris Colin — who is a man — spent the whole 36 hours in the city’s Mission District and the article never once uses the L-word. He waxes poetic about the district’s ethic mix and clubs and restaurants, even mentions Delores Park, but apparently never noticed there were lots of girls with short hair and sensible shoes running around holding hands with each other.

Or maybe he just figured lesbians don’t read the the New York Times.

What’s next, a puff piece scrubbing the Castro clean of rainbow flags?

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Follow-up: I was surprised when a Google search showed that the writer also writes for SF Gate (the SF Chronicle’s website), so presumably he knows The Mission is to lesbians as The Castro is to gay men. (Or maybe he thinks we only gather there once a year for the Dyke March.) Drop him a line at his SF Gate email address — ccolin@sfgate.com — and remind him that there are lesbians in The Mission.

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