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Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

Spears hopes next Tarantino film will turn her career around

Aug 6, 08 11:31 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Mark Ronson 'Approves' of LiLo-Sam Love

After double-date, big bro's girlfriend says they're a 'lovely couple'

Jul 17, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

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

Bill shoots down 1913 marriage restriction

Jul 15, 08 10:45 PM CDT
(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.... More »

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

 How'd We Miss Lesbian LiLo? 

Why it took a year to read the Sapphic writing on the wall

Jul 9, 08 11:44 AM CDT
(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.
  1. Because gay Hollywood couples try to hide it: Holding hands in
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lesbians • Lindsay Lohan • list • celebrity • gossip • romance • gaydar • Samantha Ronson

GLOSSIES

'Laura Bush'
No Conservative
in New Novel

Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president

Jul 7, 08 4:44 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna
in Tell-All

Alleges Gwyneth smooch, pill-popping, fighting dirty with Guy

Jul 6, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

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

Women discharged more often than men for homosexuality

Jun 23, 08 8:08 AM CDT
(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... More »

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lesbians • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • US military • gays in the military • female troops

 Gay Couples Tie Knot
 Across California 

Dozens say 'I do' in Calif. as lesbian activists tie first knots

Jun 16, 08 7:45 PM CDT
(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,... More »

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

Scientists
Honing Gaydar

Studies seek innate differences between gays and straights
 

Jun 16, 08 2:57 AM CDT
(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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lesbians • homosexuality • biology • gaydar • studies • gays

Gays, Like Everyone, Find Marriage a Mixed Blessing 

Massachusetts' lessons for California couples

Jun 15, 08 6:50 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 LiLo KOs 
 $1M Lesbian 
 Confession 

Starlet nixes mag's offer for tell-all about coming out

Jun 2, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Lesbian Liplock Sparks Stadium PDA Dispute

Mom complains to security after kiss at Mariners game

May 30, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Seattle Mariners' response to a fan complaint has set off a dispute about gay rights and public displays of affection. A Safeco Field employee told a lesbian couple they had to either stop kissing in the stands or leave the game, KOMO TV reports. One of the women says... More »

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Seattle Mariners • lesbians • kiss • public displays of affection • Safeco Field

 Dad (Oh, and Pics)
 'Out' LiLo, Sam 

After pics surface, Lohan says relationship 'evident'

May 28, 08 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Lohan says his never-a-dull-moment daughter's lesbian relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson "is evident to anyone with half a brain," reports Us magazine. Papa had his brainstorm after photos surfaced over the weekend of the gal-pals canoodling at Diddy's Cannes yacht party. More »

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lesbians • Lindsay Lohan • Cannes Film Festival • celebrity • Samantha Ronson • Michael Lohan

 Jodie Dumps
 15-Year
 Partner for
 New Gal 

Foster leaves lover she was raising kids with for younger screenwriter

May 27, 08 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jodie Foster has traded in Cydney Bernard—her slightly frumpy, older stay-at-home lesbian partner of 15 years—for a younger hotshot screenwriter, the Daily Mail reports. The 45-year-old Oscar-winner met Cynthia Mort two years ago on a movie set and their families became fast friends. More »

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lesbians • Los Angeles • celebrity • Jodie Foster • celebrity divorces • Cynthia Mort • Cydney Bernard

 Gays Jubilant Over Calif. Ruling 

Supporters, foes now await Nov. vote on a constitutional amendment

May 15, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - California gays are ecstatic about the state's supreme court striking down a ban on same-sex marriage, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “I'm feeling the joy all over,” one gay man, and father, said. In Fresno, a gay couple applied for a marriage license from a somewhat bewildered county... More »

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California • gay marriage • constitutional amendment • lesbians • ban • verdict • California Supreme Court • gays

Lesbos Islanders Sue
Gays on Name

We're the only Lesbians, Greeks
insist in lawsuit

May 2, 08 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have decided that lesbianism is the love that must change its name, the BBC reports. Islanders, fed up with the word being used to denote sexual orientation, are suing a Greek gay rights organization with "lesbian" in its name and say if... More »

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lesbians • homosexuality • lawsuit • Greece • civil lawsuits

Housewives
Get Sweaty for
'Work Out' Star

Women love lesbian trainer's savvy, abs,
and Bravo show

Apr 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT
(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... More »

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reality TV • lesbians • Los Angeles • homosexuality • fitness • Bravo • bisexual • Work Out • Jackie Warner

Australian Lesbians Get Life for Murder

Lovers, one with vampire fixation, kissed over dying 16-year-old

Mar 7, 08 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - In a case that has gripped Australia since 2006, two lesbian lovers—one with a vampire fixation—were sentenced to at least 24 years in prison today for murdering a teenage girl, the West Australian reports. They bludgeoned and strangled the girl and kissed over her body, taking video on... More »

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Australia • crime • lesbians • murder • vampire • Stacey Mitchell • Valerie Parashumti • Jessica Stasinowsky • Perth

Women Don't 'Outgrow' Bisexuality

Study finds females
are 'more fluid with
their sexuality'

Jan 17, 08 11:13 AM CST
(Newser) - A new study rejects the idea that women can be "bisexual until graduation," ABC News reports. Utah professor Lisa Diamond followed 79 women between 18 and 25 who identified as "lesbian, bisexual, or 'unlabeled'" for a decade. Throughout, she found that few changed their self-categorization. Diamond argues... More »

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lesbians • study • Utah • American Psychological Association • bisexual • homosexual • heterosexual • gays

Church Near Breaking Point over Gay Priests

World Anglicans frown on homosexuals among top US Episcopalians

Sep 20, 07 5:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - US Episcopal bishops are about to sit down to talk with leaders of the greater Anglican communion on the simmering issue of homosexuality within the church, but the fact that a lesbian is under serious consideration as a candidate for bishop of Chicago may be a signal that the Americans... More »

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gay marriage • Chicago • New Orleans • lesbians • New Hampshire • archbishop • Anglican • Episcopalian • Archbishop of Canterbury

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