Quiz time! { 1 }  Do you wake up each morning bemoaning the fact that Pi — the Valhalla of Twin Cities gay bars — unceremoniously closed last year? { 2 }  Are you beginning to seriously doubt the existence of sane, single lesbians? { 3 }  Do you like $3 liquor, fainting couches, Lady Gaga and free [...]

I write a lot about lesbians (as Google will attest) but I’ve never blogged so much as a sentence about transgendered individuals. Indeed, I often forget entirely about the “T” in “GLBT” — to my deep embarrassment. The truth is, I’ve had many transgendered people in my life — coworkers, classmates, friends. Their gender identification always [...]

Gay ladies don’t have a plethora of relationship role models in popular culture — aside from Ellen + Portia, the First Couple of the United States of Lesbonia. Thus, we turn to works of fiction to affirm our feelings and mirror our desires. Happily, there’s a hearty supply of (fictional) Super Awesome Lesbian Couples to contemplate [...]

Kids, every now and then I stumble upon a sparkly jewel of girlie gayness. Strawberry Panic! is more than a single jewel … it’s the whole effin’ crown. Let me break it down for you: Setting: A triumvirate of palatial all-girl boarding schools set atop the mythical Astraea Hill. Characters: Uniform-wearing, parfait-eating, poetry-writing schoolgirls. Many with blue, pink [...]