We heard tell of this new ladies party kicking off tonight at Mixx Lounge (84 7th Ave. So. b/t Bleeker and Grove). Doors open at 8 p.m. with no cover, and open bar well drinks from 10-11 p.m. Come early for a couch!

Through the continuing wonders of YouTube.com comes this clip of a local newscaster with too much gay on the brain.

Hothouse fave Terry Castle has another excellent essay up, this time on Slate, about her all-time favorite lesbian pulp novel, Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. Read as Castle breaks down the standard lesbo dimestore plot, then dissects how Highsmith turned it on its ear with this 1950s tale of a young shop girl in […]

We’ve been really enjoying the good gay knight as he embarks on press tours for both The Da Vinci Code and X-Men 3, putting all his American costars to shame with his pithy pronouncements. In regards to the controversy over The Da Vinci Code, he told a crowd at Cannes that he thought the Catholic […]

We were pleased as punch to learn that, first, a zoo in the Dutch town of Overloon keeps both a gay and a lesbian stork couple. And second, when zoo administrators gave the couples their own eggs to hatch and tend to, both the boy couple and the girl couple did just fine. Said the […]

In an effort to counteract the attack of the conservative religious leaders opposed to gay marriage, a new group called Clergy for Fairness is now lobbying senators to reject the proposed amendment to the constitution. Among the participants: Protestant, Jewish, and Sikh leaders. And of course the Unitarians. Good ol’ Unitarians.
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Funny letter in the Times today regarding the ever-confusing Swedish study on lesbians and which hormones they like to sniff. It’s from a fragrance artist in Alabama who said that in 10 years of perfume research, she’s had cause to study the scent-preferences of over 100 lesbians. She writes, “What I have noted is a […]

We’re still not sure why Mary Cheney got a tougher interview with David Letterman than she did with Diane Sawyer. Dave asks of the gay marriage debate: “Maybe, I’m wondering if people would rather you had talked about it during the campaign as opposed to after the campaigns waiting to put it in a book. […]

Check out the latest issue of Time magazine to see Alison Bechdel’s forthcoming Fun Home named as one of the “5 Memoirs That Are Worth Your Time.” They toss around words like “brilliant” and “hilarious,” which seems about par for the raves she’s been picking up. Pre-order your copy here.

(Via Queerty) We’re all for continued research into the biological basis for sexuality, so we were pleased to see this study announced on GayHealth.com that will look at gay siblings for any genetic link. The first sentence of the piece says: “Do very feminine boys and/or very masculine girls inevitably become gay adults?” We’ve often […]