How fun does this this movie sound?

What a great way to relax after Easter dinner with your dysfunctional family (I refuse to believe mine is the only one).

Get times, theaters and buy tickets here.

What: Queer Window: The LGBTQ Film and Video Festival (brought to you by Brown University)

Where: Cable Car Cinema - 204 South Main Street

When: April 7-10, 2005

Cost: Tickets are $5 for general admission and $4 for student admission, with six-show festival passes at $24 general and $18 student admissions.

For more info visit www.provqueerfilm.com or call 401.272.3970.

Providence is one of my favorite cities.

Maybe it wasn’t so funny to Ruth Bastet, but I’m laughing.

A 38-year-old Levin woman convicted of stalking another woman over a period of three years claimed in court she knew her victim fancied her because she had a “gay” walk.

“The body-language books say that if a person looks at you longer than three seconds then they are attracted to you. And she used to stare longer than that at me,” testified Sheree Maria Cooley. “She would walk up to me all happy, in a way that I found out of the ordinary kind of flirting…She had a gay kind of a walk and flicked her hair up.”

The Dominion Post reports that Cooley carried out a marathon campaign of letters, e-mails and text messages despite her victim, Ruth Bastet, telling her she was not interested. The harassment continued till February last year, despite restraining orders and police visits.

Cooley, who has described herself as bisexual and “a heterosexual woman in love”, will be sentenced within the next fortnight.

GayNZ.com

Did you know the history behind lesbian bed death? I didn’t.

Felice Newman, author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book, explains it to Jennifer Vanasco of the Washington Blade here.

Lesbian bed death is something that a lot of us believe in. If it hasn’t happened to us, we figure that we’re the lucky exceptions.

But Newman says it’s just not true.

She tells me that lesbian bed death was a concept coined by writer JoAnn Loulan in the 1980s and 1990s. Loulan wanted to get lesbians to talk about sex, something they were uncomfortable with after the parched years of the 1970s.

“She was a bit of a comedian,” Newman says now. “She was trying to be funny so that lesbians would be comfortable, so they wouldn’t feel alone.”

The phrase was sticky. So sticky, it stuck. Instead of being a term that described a common condition that women should work to overcome, it became a mandate. Enter into a long-term relationship, and lesbian bed death was inevitable.

I think everyone suffers from bed death after a while, lesbian or not.

I’m not the only one who thinks they’re envious of us!

I don’t think queer finances always work out quite the way they seem to from this piece, but it’s still a great read.

I think they may be envious for… well… other reasons (if ya know what I mean).

Alabama, which already bans same-sex couples from adopting, may soon ban any gay person from adopting a minor.

What I’d like to know is how they know who’s gay? I bet I could pass as a straight woman interested in adopting a child. I could probably even make it though an investigation if I really wanted to. Watch out. We can be sneaky. Good thing I never got that queer tattoo on my forehead. That would have definitely given me away.

And what are they going to do if someone comes out after an adoption? Bet they haven’t thought about that one.

A new poll shows that nearly 70% (nearly 100% of the Orthodox Jewish segments surveyed) of the Israeli population are opposed to current plans for Jerusalem to host World Pride 2005.

Some say it seems Jerusalem was chosen to provoke a highly religious society. You can decide that for yourself.

Can’t we ever have the party without the politics? Really… lets just move it to Northampton.

Here’s a snippet from a 2005 World Pride brochure:

The struggle for acceptance and pride is particularly pointed in Jerusalem, a city that is home to three of the world’s great religions. The greatest traditions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism affirm the dignity of all human beings and our creation in the divine image. Yet these same faiths have often been sources of hostility and intolerance for LGBT people…
WorldPride 2005 will bring thousands of us to Jerusalem to confront preconception with reality, prejudice with an opportunity for understanding, in a way that will capture the attention of the world. Together we will proclaim that in this ancient religious city – and in this region – we, too, belong.

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Just let them watch the video and sign up as they leave. We’ve got the coolest free t-shirts, yanno.

If you haven’t yet heard about the L Word bus-shelter ad controversy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, you can read up on it here (and actually see what all the fuss is about too). These ads have been removed due to pressure from New York State Senator Marty Golden (R). He is quoted saying the ads should not be what local school children should be subjected to at this bus stop as they go to and from school.

In an article in the March 18, 2005 Home Reporter, a local Bay Ridge paper, several people were asked this question by a reporter:

What are your thoughts on State Senator Marty Golden asking for the removal of promotional posters in Bay Ridge for the Showtime series “The L Word?”

One person’s response was I thought it was an ad for a modeling show. Another person commented I think if anything, it would incite people to be more accepting of homosexuality. It sure does seem like not everyone had a problem with there ads. Marty, was this really your personal problem?

Below are pictures of the front and back of a flyer I picked up from a sidewalk nearby the 77th Street bus shelter which was adorned with an L Word ad not so long ago. There wasn’t only one flyer on the ground. They were all over the streets. The flyer is for the No ID Bash being held tonight at a neighborhood bar & grill. The flyer has a woman in lingerie touching herself covered by the words No School Next Day on it. I find it hard to believe the people in Bay Ridge who are so worried about sexually suggestive material being viewed by their children have had nothing to say about these flyers all over the streets. Maybe they just didn’t see them… because I’m sure they wouldn’t approve of a sexually suggestive flyer for a bash targeting children (it is the NO ID Bash and it does say No School Next Day on it).

What is it that makes the L Word ad indecent while the No ID Bash Flyer sneaks under the “child-protection” neighborhood radar? Now, don’t go thinking the answer to that has anything to do with lesbians. John Quaglione, the senator’s district manager and press secretary, assures us that this has nothing to do with homosexuality. Homosexuality is the furthest thing from this complaint.

Nevis authorities blocked a gay and nudist cruise organized by a Miami company from entering the Caribbean island earlier today.

A port authority official was quoted saying:

We do not want to allow people on the island who from what I’ve heard could be naked and carry a certain lifestyle and practices… We don’t want it to be a part of our culture … It’s not a practice society likes here.

Couldn’t they even try to hide the hate by saying we just don’t like nudists?