Jun

30

Get Your Girl-on-Girl Fix With These Lesbian Web Shows

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Update 2: We need to add Venice to this list. 

Update: B.J. Fletcher, Private Eye is a GREAT lesbian web series! I missed it in the original post. Watch the first 2 seasons here.

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If you were a huge L Word fan and you’re missing your weekly girl-on-girl action, check out one of these lesbian web series:

Apples, the first lesbian web series featuring Hispanic women, premiered in 2007. Even though the first season was met with much enthusiasm from its fans, the show’s producers haven’t released a second season.

The Lovers and Friends Show is a lesbian web series featuring Black and Hispanic lesbians. The show made its debut on January 1, 2008. Lovers and Friends focuses on six main characters and their life experiences as lesbians from various backgrounds.

We Have to Stop Now is a lesbian web series that follows a lesbian couple (both therapists) as they struggle to keep up the pretense of staying together while a documentary film crew watches their every move.

Seeking Simone is a lesbian web series filmed in Canada. The series follows lesbian actress Simone as she attempts to find love in her new home, Toronto.

Anyone But Me is a lesbian web series that introduces a new generation searching for love and belonging in the post 9/11 age.

None of these shows will provide the amount of nudity and sex you saw in The L Word; but, you won’t have to hear any horrible L Wordish theme songs either.

If I missed a web series, please add it to the comments section.

Update – July 9, 2009: SheWired has a list going as well.

Jun

30

Anti-Gay Religious Groups to Announce New Coalition

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Reuters reports:

Today at 1:30pm eastern time, The Freedom Federation, a group of anti-gay religious organizations will announce a new movement:

The Freedom Federation is a new and unique federation of some of the largest multi-ethnic and transgenerational faith-based organizations in the country committed to plan, strategize, and work together on common interests within the Judeo-Christian tradition to mobilize their grassroots constituencies and to communicate faith and values to the religious, social, cultural, and policymaking institutions.

(bold emphasis is mine)

Who’s involved?

— American Association of Christian Counselors
— American Family Association
— Americans for Prosperity
— Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND)
— Campaign for Working Families
— Catholic Online
— Concerned Women for America
— Conservative Action Project
— Eagle Forum
— Exodus International
— Faith and Action
— Family Research Council
— High Impact Leadership
— Liberty Alliance Action
— Liberty Counsel
— Liberty University
— Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN)
— Marc Nuttle
— Morning Star Ministries
— National Clergy Council
— National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
— Renewing American Leadership
— Strang Communications
— Teen Mania
— The Call to Action
— Traditional Values Coalition
— Vision America

This sounds a lot like a modern day Holy War – the Christians against the gays.

More details to come.

ht: Ex-Gay Watch

Jun

30

Wisconsin Gov. Signs Bill Enacting Domestic Partnerships

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Fair Wisconsin reports:

Wisconsin will become the first state in the nation with an existing constitutional amendment banning marriage equality and civil unions to enact domestic partnerships today when Governor Doyle signs the biennial state budget. The bill grants important and limited protections to same-sex couples in caring, committed relationships, including hospital visitation and the ability to take Family Medical Leave to care for a sick or injured partner. This makes Wisconsin the first state in the Midwest to legislatively enact protections for same-sex couples – putting the state whose motto is “Forward” back on a progressive track with this important step towards equality.

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Before gay Wisconsin residents jump for joy, remember that Wisconsin’s domestic partnerships “do not confer a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals.” To be eligible to register as domestic partners, “two individuals must be of the same sex, both be at least 18 years old, share a common residence, not be nearer of kin than second cousins, and neither party can be married or in another domestic partnership with anyone else.”

I guess this is a step in the right direction. But, if the rest of gay Wisconsin is anything like me, they’re turning their nose up at this pathetic attempt to make us feel like we’re being treated fairly, like heterosexual taxpaying Wisconsin residents.

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