Despite the security detail of 4,000 police and army commandos Benazir Bhutto was killed today after delivering a speech in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The former prime minister was attempting a political comeback after having lead Pakistan as PM twice before, once in 1988 and again in 1993. She was the first female prime minister of a [...]

“I feel like an anime character,” Diana grins, addressing the dozen or so women in the room and the small camera crew from HereTV. She’s standing on a mattress in the middle of the floor, naked. Well, not exactly naked– she’s got a marbled black-and-white strap-on harnessed between her legs, and another one, vivid purple, [...]

Our favorite leading and loving ladies of lesbian a cappella, Treasure and Terry Tone, of The Lesbian Overtones, sat down with their friends at Velvetpark to discuss their favorite things about the Holidays. On the cusp of closing night for their wildly popular a cappella musical “The Lesbian Overtones’ (Interfaith!) Holiday Spectacular” they were primed [...]

There is a clamorous cacophony erupting from the contemporary art world. The market has grown so exponentially in the last few years that the amount of art and the amount of money being spent on it is mind-boggling. During my trip to Art Basel Miami Beach, what I learned from dealers is that in the [...]

In honor of the portrayal by Erin Daniels and Leshia Hailey during the breast cancer storyline in Season 3 of The L Word, an anonymous donor has given one million dollars to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.
The anonymous donation will establish The Erin Daniels and Leisha Hailey Fund for Breast Cancer. In addition [...]

If you’re anything like me, you probably spent most of the 90’s ignoring all music that wasn’t girls with acoustic guitars, and worshipped blissfully at the altars of Ani, Dar, and the Indigo Girls. Newport Folk Festival? I manned the recycling booth the summer after 9th grade, thank you, and saw all 3 of [...]

GO MAGAZINE 5TH ANNIVERSARY BASH!
Let it be said that GO Magazine really knows how to throw a party. Did you guys have fun or what? I’ve never been great with estimations, but there are only so many dykes in NYC, and I think all of them (well, okay, maybe 80%) were there. Plus some from [...]

“And so this is Solstice, and what have you done? Another year over, a newone just begun”
-Happy Christas (War is Over) by John Lennon
Tex Tone, here. Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday. Whatever you celebrate. A little about myself, I hail from Northhampton, MA and I’m a member of the Lesbian Overtones. [...]

I attended Anima Rising, an art exhibit exploring androgyny and gender roles. Photographs and paintings were by Andrew Printer, Eleni Diamantopoulos, Julia Schwartz, Leta Evaskus, and Wolfgang Bauer.

This is a week for one of the biggest art events in the country, when the entire international art world converges on Miami. I’m currently here in Miami for Art Basel and 23 other art fairs that are taking place in the next few days. Whoa, 23 art fairs simultaiously in one fair city. I [...]