In case you missed the NYC Dyke March, watch it now.

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Is there a difference between lesbians who have slept with men and those who haven’t? Is being a “gold star” the only way to achieve true or “pure” lesbian identity? Are gold stars more invested in and protective of their identities as lesbians than lesbians who have slept with or continue to sleep with guys?

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When I first came out as a young fierce dyke, I did fierce dyke things. I wore fierce dyke clothing and wrote fierce dyke poems and said fierce dyke things like, “If men were smarter beings, they would let women rule the world.”

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Being a giant vagina is exactly how you’d imagine: hot, wet, sticky and everyone wants a piece of you. It was the Gay Pride Parade and I was walking with Chicago Women’s Health Center who, of course, had a giant vagina costume on hand. Technically, it was a vulva, as several of CWHC’s Health Workers gently reminded me. But “giant vulva” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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What force of history are you most aware of as you plan your life?

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This afternoon the President and the First Lady hosted LGBT leaders in the East Room of the White House. Full transcript after the jump. 

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This week Elizabeth and Julia harken back to yesterqueer and memorable Prides past.

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I searched for my girlfriend’s boobs on Flickr from this weekend’s Pride events. While searching through a tome of images, my real-life memories were confirmed: people were on the phone a lot this weekend. I mean, a lot.

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Despite having been a food activist for years, Michael Pollan’s star has recently been on the rise thanks to catching the big ears of the man in the big house – Barack Obama. Last October, Pollan wrote an open letter in The New York Times Magazine to the would-be President explaining how he could sublimate the nation’s food paradigm, shifting it away from the current, untenable system. Obama, in turn, quoted Pollan at length in an interview he did with Time magazine.

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What do you do on the “morning after”?

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Stephen Colbert sums up the actions of POTUS on the anniversary of Stonewall.

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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to cross one of the items off my life “to-do” list.  I attended a Peaches show.  The shock-rocker played a sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, filled with all sorts of vulgarity and glitter.

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It’s unbelievable he’s dead. Like, Huh? I read the news on my laptop in my favorite patisserie after apartment scouting in San Francisco, and it just seemed unreal. There I was, eating the house quiche, a sublime concoction with cardboard thin slices of “featured vegetable” yellow squash, in the words of the statuesque, almond-eyed cashier, whose flashing eyes are with me still.

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Happy Pride! How are you celebrating this weekend?

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As the world mourns the loss of the King of Pop, the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office is reporting that it could take six to eight weeks for toxicology reports to come in with possible answers to Michael Jackson’s sudden death. The police have confiscated a car belonging to one of Jackson’s doctors to search for medications or other clues.

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