The Gay Pride parade in Bucharest, Romania was disrupted by nearly a thousand protestors, some of whom threw bottles and eggs. Police had to use tear gas to maintain order and ended up arresting 50 people.
After you mull that over, head on over to Manhattan Offender and their collection of photos and videos […]

CNN has a piece up about the huge online reaction to recent news of a lesbo Batwoman. We’re sure it has nothing to do with the outfit.

You don’t have to wait until Brooklyn Pride next weekend. This Saturday is Staten Island’s second Pride Parade and Festival. It’s actually accessible by public transportation, so you really don’t have a great excuse—take the Staten Island Ferry over and then hop on the S51 bus to the boardwalk. The parade steps off at noon, […]

Check out the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (the one with The Break-Up on the cover): Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is the lead book review. She gets a total rave and an ‘A’ for her efforts. (Though somehow they locate Dykes to Watch Out For in Vermont, which just ain’t right.) She accidentally posted about […]

Don’t forget the 18th annual NewFest kicks off tomorrow with a gala screening of Amy Sedaris’ new movie Strangers With Candy, though it looks like those $50 tickets are already gone (at least online). Might as well watch it when it hits theaters on June 28 and save your money for some of the movies […]

DC Comics is looking to diversify their superhero ranks, so in that spirit, they’re reintroducing the Batwoman character as…a red-and-black latex clad “wealthy, buxom lipstick lesbian.” She’ll appear in the July issue of “52.”
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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 […]

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.

We learned two interesting tidbits in this press release touting the booming $76.5 billion gay and lesbian travel market. First, we’re poor. Second, 80 percent of gays and lesbians have up-to-date passports, while only 20 percent of the general population does. We think that’s because the gays are just much more prepared to flee the […]

We learned on Marga Gomez’s new blog that both Los Big Names and Lisa Kron’s Well are closing this coming Sunday, so you better act fast before the lesbians leave Midtown. Tickets for both are available through Telecharge here and here.