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  • August 2008

    • Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 18, 08 4:29 PM CDT

      Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

      (Newser) - California doctors must provide services to gays and lesbians in line with all other patients, even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The justices unanimously shot down an effort by a San Diego County fertility clinic's physicians to use religion as grounds for refusing artificial insemination to a lesbian couple, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      lesbians  • gays  • doctors

    • Sexual Confusion Drove LiLo to Drugs, Men

      News of the World (UK)  |  Aug 18, 08 12:02 PM CDT

      Sexual Confusion Drove LiLo to Drugs, Men

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan bedded a string of men and took drugs to suppress her lesbian urges before she embraced her relationship with Samantha Ronson, a pal of the actress’ ex-girlfriend tells the tabloid News of the World . “From the start Lindsay was very confused about her feelings so did more and more drugs to stifle the sexual attraction she was experiencing.” More »

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      celebrity  • Lindsay Lohan  • lesbians  • Samantha Ronson  • Terry Semel  • Courtenay Semel

    • Pals: LiLo Back to Eyeing Men

      OK!  |  Aug 15, 08 12:49 PM CDT

      Pals: LiLo Back to Eyeing Men

      (Newser) - Friends of Lindsay Lohan suspect her relationship with DJ girlfriend Samantha Ronson may be coming apart, OK! magazine reports. Sources close to Lohan claim she has been spotted flirting with guys while Ronson isn’t looking, and they say she will likely make a move on “the next guy who catches her eye.” More »

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      Lindsay Lohan  • lesbians  • love  • relationship  • Samantha Ronson  • flirting

    • Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Aug 6, 08 11:31 AM CDT

      Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

      (Newser) - Britney Spears will appear in Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1965 cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as a lesbian stripper with a penchant for murder, the Daily Telegraph reports. Spears' character will encounter a young couple in the desert, murder the boyfriend and kidnap the girlfriend—and make an appearance in a lesbian sex scene or two. No report on whether Madonna's signed on. More »

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      murder  • Britney Spears  • movies  • lesbians  • Quentin Tarantino  • stripper

  • July 2008

    • Mark Ronson 'Approves' of LiLo-Sam Love

      Daily Mirror (UK)  |  Jul 17, 08 11:23 AM CDT

      Mark Ronson 'Approves' of LiLo-Sam Love

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan and celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson’s lesbian relationship is all but out of the closet—and now Ronson’s Grammy-winning brother Mark Ronson gives their love two thumbs up.“Her and Sam make a lovely couple—they seem really happy,” Mark's girlfriend Daisy Lowe told the Daily Mirror . “Their relationship is totally genuine. And they're just so sweet together. Mark totally approves.” More »

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      celebrity  • Lindsay Lohan  • lesbians  • Samantha Ronson  • Mark Ronson

    • Mass. Senate Votes to Allow Out-of-State Gays to Wed

      Boston Globe  |  Jul 15, 08 10:45 PM CDT

      Mass. Senate Votes to Allow Out-of-State Gays to Wed

      (Newser) - A 1913 law that blocks out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts could soon be history. The state Senate has passed a bill that would repeal the law, which former Gov. Mitt Romney used four years ago to stop gay non-residents from marrying in his state, the Boston Globe reports. Supporters of the bill called the law discriminatory and archaic. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • gay marriage  • Massachusetts  • gay  • lesbians  • Deval Patrick

    • How'd We Miss Lesbian LiLo?

      Gawker  |  Jul 9, 08 11:44 AM CDT

      How'd We Miss Lesbian LiLo?

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s a lesbian? When did that happen? Turns out Star magazine first reported LiLo’s girl-on-girl romance in summer 2007—centuries ago, in celebrity gossip. Gawker explains why it took us so long to catch on. Because gay Hollywood couples try to hide it: Holding hands in public? Domestic errands as a duo? If starlets are getting hot and heavy, they also hide from the paparazzi, yet Lindsay and Sam flaunted their togetherness—genius!   More »

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      list  • celebrity  • Lindsay Lohan  • gossip  • romance  • lesbians  • Samantha Ronson  • gaydar

    • 'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      Radar  |  Jul 7, 08 4:44 PM CDT

      'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      (Newser) - In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing his crotch, undergoes an abortion, and has steamy sex with the brother of her high school sweetheart (who dies in a car crash she causes). More »

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      abortion  • sex  • literature  • lesbians  • Laura Bush  • Curtis Sittenfeld

    • Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna in Tell-All

      Sun (UK)  |  Jul 6, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna in Tell-All

      (Newser) - Amid rumors of a crumbling marriage and an A-Rod affair, Madonna’s juicy past is now bubbling to the surface in a new biography written by her brother. At a boozy Hollywood party, the mega-star was dancing on a table when she pulled a surprised Gwyneth Paltrow up onto the table and kissed her full on the mouth, writes estranged bro Christopher Ciconne in Life With My Sister Madonna. More »

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      music  • drugs  • Madonna  • lesbians  • biography  • celebrity tell-alls

  • June 2008

    • Lesbians Bear Brunt of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

      New York Times  |  Jun 23, 08 8:08 AM CDT

      Lesbians Bear Brunt of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

      (Newser) - Debates about gays in the military have focused on men, but new information reveals that lesbians have faced much greater "don't ask, don't tell" challenges. Although women make up only 15% of Army and Air Force personnel, nearly half of the soldiers and airmen discharged for open homosexuality were women. Both the military and gay rights groups are uncertain of what causes the disparity. More »

    • Gay Couples Tie Knot Across California

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 16, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      Gay Couples Tie Knot Across California

      (Newser) - Dozens of gay couples legalized their love in California today as the state embraced same-sex marriage, the Los Angeles Times reports. While small groups demonstrated outside county clerk's offices, activist couples got first dibs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. "We just love each other," said Robin Tyler, whose marriage to Diane Olson was the first gay marriage in Los Angeles County. More »

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      California  • San Francisco  • gay marriage  • lesbians  • Gavin Newsom

    • Scientists Honing Gaydar

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 16, 08 2:57 AM CDT

      Scientists Honing Gaydar

      (Newser) - Scientists are examining how homosexuality may affect everything from penis sizes to how one navigates new cities, reports the Los Angeles Times . Innate differences between gays and straights rooted in biology could lead researchers to discover the biological origins of sexual orientation. More »

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      homosexuality  • gay  • lesbians  • biology  • studies  • gaydar

    • Gays, Like Everyone, Find Marriage a Mixed Blessing

      New York Times  |  Jun 15, 08 6:50 AM CDT

      Gays, Like Everyone, Find Marriage a Mixed Blessing

      (Newser) - It’s been four years since Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, and there are winners, losers—and everything in between, the New York Times reports. In what one gay married man calls “a mixed bag,” it appears that gays are more likely to rush into marriage, more likely to marry older, and more likely to sign pre-nuptial agreements. Pay attention, California. More »

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      California  • gay marriage  • divorce  • Massachusetts  • gay  • lesbians

    • LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession

      New York Post  |  Jun 2, 08 11:01 AM CDT

      LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan turned down a $1 million offer from OK! to come out on the magazine's cover, the New York Post reports. Lohan and the gossip weekly were negotiating a story about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson. "Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money," said a source, but the starlet's flak says there's nothing in the works.  More »

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      Lindsay Lohan  • homosexuality  • lesbians  • Samantha Ronson  • gays  • OK! magazine

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Housewives Get Sweaty for 'Work Out' Star

      New York Times  |  Apr 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT

      Housewives Get Sweaty for 'Work Out' Star

      (Newser) - Jackie Warner seems unlikely to spark suburban housewife crushes. And yet the star of Bravo’s “Work Out,” about the lesbian trainer’s elite Los Angeles gym, is much-loved by straight ladies. “I have women that send me photos of themselves with their husbands and three teenage boys or whatever, with a love letter attached,” Warner tells the New York Times . More »

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      Los Angeles  • reality TV  • homosexuality  • lesbians  • fitness  • Bravo  • bisexual

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