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unusual facts about Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco


Jon Reed Sims

Sims later founded the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco in 1980, Lambda Pro Musica orchestra (a now-defunct strings section), David Kelsey & Pure Trash, Varsity Drag, the FLAG Corps, and encouraged the formation of the Big Apple Corps GLBT band in New York by Nancy Corporon and The Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles by Wayne Love.


1982, Janine

His cast of characters includes: Janine, based on a childhood memory of Jane Russell in The Outlaw; Superb (short for Superbitch); and Big Momma, an obese lesbian.

A Gathering of Spirit

It was first published in 1983 as a special issue of the lesbian literary magazine Sinister Wisdom.

American Veterans for Equal Rights

It was founded by several lgbt veterans including St. Sgt. (Army Reserve-Rtd.) Miriam Ben-Shalom in 1990 as the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America, the oldest organization of LGBT veterans.

Anna Jullienne

Jullienne's on screen lesbian relationship with Jay Copeland (Jaime Passier-Armstrong) has been controversial, although the overall response has been positive.

Anton Enus

Enus was a founding member of South Africa's gay and lesbian sports movement in the early 1980s and was on the organising team that guided the country into the Gay Games for the first time in 1994.

Baldwin v Brighton City Council

Andrea Baldwin underwent gender reassignment while working in a temporary post as Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Community Safety Development Officer with Brighton and Hove City Council.

Bali White

"Letters to the Editors RE: Butch/Femme, F2M, Pregnant Man, TrannyBoi: Gender Issues in the Lesbian Community." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 14.3 (2010): 257-58.

Cheryl Dunye

Taking a turn from self-written lesbian-focused films, she directed My Baby's Daddy starring Eddie Griffin, Michael Imperioli, and Anthony Anderson in 2004, although a character in the film turns out to be lesbian.

Children of the Day

Marsha Stevens founded her own ministry, BALM (Born Again Lesbian Music), in the mid-1980s and continues to write and record.

Christine Nixon

As Chief Commissioner, Nixon marched in uniform during Melbourne's gay and lesbian 'Pride March', run as part of the Midsumma Festival.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

The treatment has also raised concerns in the LGBT community following an essay posted to the forum of the Hastings Center, a think tank devoted to bioethics, which quoted published research that suggested that pre-natal treatment of female fetuses could prevent those fetuses from becoming lesbians after birth, may make them more likely to engage in "traditionally" female-identified behaviour and careers, and more interested in bearing and raising children.

Dorothy Bussy

Bussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school.

Edwin Cameron

Cameron has co-authored a number of books, including Defiant Desire – Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (with Mark Gevisser) and Honoré's South African Law of Trusts.

Elana Dykewomon

Changing the World in Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 5, Number 3, edited by Nanette Gartrell, M.D. and Ester Rothblum, PhD, Harrington Park Press, December, 2001

Eve, the Apple of My Eye

Sunday Tribune journalists Neil Dunphy and Una Mullally named it number 46 in their 2008 "ultimate playlist representing the top-50 Irish songs of all time", reminding readers that it was "chiefly known in the States as the soundtrack to that lesbian kiss in The OC".

Francesconi

Judy Francesconi (1957), US-American photographer with lesbian women as main subject

Gilles Marchildon

He later lived in Paris and Toronto before moving to Winnipeg, where he established his own communications and marketing firm, People and Ideas, and served on the boards of several community organizations for both the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Franco-Manitoban communities in Winnipeg, including the Reel Pride film festival and the Festival du Voyageur.

Hotaru Akane

At the 2007 AV Open, Akane's June 2007 video Anal Splash Thick Lesbian United! for Cross with Chihiro Hara and Sakura Sakurada won First Place in the "Challenge Stage" section and also took the Lily Franky Honorary President Prize.

I Can't Think Straight

The two actresses star in another movie with lesbian characters, namely The World Unseen, released in 2008.

It's in the Water

Alex develops some curiosity about her possible lesbianism and rents a number of classic lesbian-themed films: Desert Hearts; Lianna; Personal Best; Heavenly Creatures; Bar Girls; Claire of the Moon; The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love; an unnamed, presumably pornographic video; and, inexplicably, The Godfather, Part III.

Juba Kalamka

He has been a speaker, panelist, and curator for numerous organizations and conferences, among them the San Francisco Black Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, GLAAD, Hip Hop as a Movement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Burning Closets/Working Our Way Home at Oberlin College.

Lesbian Harem

Director Hosoyama made Lesbian Harem on a similarly low budget, and designed the film as a tribute to these films, and particularly as an homage to John Waters' Desperate Living (1977).

Lesbian utopia

More contemporary examples of lesbian utopian fiction include John Wyndham's Consider Her Ways (1956); Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet (1959); Cordwainer Smith's story "The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal"; Joanna Russ's The Female Man (1975); Nicola Griffith's Ammonite (1993); and John Varley's story "The Manikins".

LGBT clergy in Judaism

Also in 2006, Chaya Gusfield and Rabbi Lori Klein became the two first openly lesbian rabbis ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement.

Lipstick lesbian

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D.C.–based social group of "feminine lesbians" that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

Lisa Edelstein

Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister on ABC's Relativity (1996); a high-priced call girl turned Rob Lowe's date on The West Wing (1999); an assigned male at birth (AMAB) transgender woman on Ally McBeal (2000); and Ben Covington's (Scott Speedman) girlfriend on Felicity (2001).

Liz Feldman

All guests were either involved in or sympathetic to lesbian culture, and Feldman had hosted several of the actors from The L Word, as well as bands and solo artists with an LGBT connection, such as Uh Huh Her and Tegan and Sara.

Louise and Liza

"Louise and Liza" is a 7" single by NOFX. The songs are sequels of sorts to "Liza and Louise" from White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean with the lyrics "Louise" being about the lesbian characters engaging in sado-masochistic activity. The songs are sexually explicit, and lead singer Fat Mike has remarked that the lyrics make him "get embarrassed whenever I see them.

Louise DeSalvo

She has edited editions of Woolf's first novel Melymbrosia, as well as The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists.

Mabel Hampton

In addition to her financial contributions to gay and lesbian organizations, Hampton marched in the first National Gay and Lesbian March on Washington, and she appeared in the films Silent Pioneers and Before Stonewall.

Michelle Paradise

Paradise wrote, produced and starred in the short film The Ten Rules: The Lesbian Survival Guide, which debuted in 2002 and subsequently played at gay and lesbian film festivals, both in the United States and in Europe (specifically Copenhagen, Paris and Reykjavík).

Now It's My Turn

As openly lesbian, she considered leaving the campaign; she only stayed because she believed George W. Bush to be the best commander-in-chief during the War on Terror.

OMG

OMG! Magazine, a news, entertainment and lifestyle magazine serving gay, lesbian and trans-gender audiences in print and online.

Oscar Wilde Bookshop

The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors.

QT: QueerTelevision

Focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, the series was hosted by Irshad Manji.

R Family Vacations

In January 2008, Pink Pea, a production company, announced that "Dottie", "the star of Dottie's Magic Pockets — the first children's program for kids in gay and lesbian families" will be part of the entertainment.

Rain Is a Good Thing

The winner of the challenge was Cyndi Lauper, whose charity (The True Colors Fund, which advocates for gay and lesbian rights) received 20% of all sales of the single.

Robert C. Morlino

In 2004 he publicly expressed a traditional conservative religious criticism of the city's apparent lack of a moral compass, claiming that it existed below a religious "moral minimum" and that the city had "virtually no public morality." He specifically cited the popularity of the city's acclaimed StageQ community theater company, a gay and lesbian theater troupe, as evidence of this view.

Sally Timms

She participated in Vito Acconci’s Theater Project for a Rock Band as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1995 and also performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate operetta Pussy, King of the Pirates at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere.

Sex Station

Porn Star Diaries was a one-off 30-minute documentary made by Sex Stations producers in 2006, featuring interviews with three female porn stars including Nina Roberts and Bobbi Eden, who then did a lesbian softcore photoshoot together.

Student Christian Movement of Canada

Since its founding, SCM Canada has taken stands on pressing social issues of its time, including support for the ordination of women, opposing internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II; anti-war activities since the 1960s; and facing controversy for its solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified Christians.

Tamsin Wilton

Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952 – April 30, 2006) was an English academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human Sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England.

The Baby Formula

Directed by Alison Reid, the film stars Angela Vint and Megan Fahlenbock as Athena and Lilith, a lesbian couple each pregnant with the other's baby through an experimental stem cell procedure that created artificial sperm from their DNA.

The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary

When Dick covers up a slip-up by saying that Sally is a lesbian, it led to the aliens wildly "revealing" embarrassing secrets about each other.

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition (RHC) is a group of students, faculty, and staff who promote health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people at Touro University California, a Jewish-sponsored university in Vallejo, California founded by Dr. Bernard Lander.

Unsterblich

# "Lesbische, schwarze Behinderte" (Lesbian, black, disabled people) (van Dannen/van Dannen) − 2:28 (Funny van Dannen cover)

When Night Is Falling

When a carnival subsequently comes to town, Camille is confused by her unexpected lesbian attraction to Petra (Rachael Crawford), a sexy, free-spirited circus performer.

Witeck Communications, Inc.

Witeck-Combs Communications helped openly gay (and lesbian) actors Amanda Bearse and Dan Butler to communicate honestly to celebrate and promote National Coming Out Day by serving as the first celebrity spokespersons for the Human Rights Campaign Fund (since renamed the Human Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org).


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