YELLOWKNIFE – The city of Yellowknife rescinded its proclamation of Heterosexual Day at a special meeting Monday.

Councillor Alan Woytuik introduced the proclamation last week in response to a request for the city to proclaim Gay Pride Day.

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We really do need more celebrations of straight culture. Don’t ya think?

Not if I keep getting sucked into other blogs. Okay, I’m actually going to be productive now. While I’m going that, take a look at Struggling (blog of a gay Mormon) and imamessiguess (gender identity blog).

Are they sure these two didn’t faint from orgasms? I’ve come pretty close to it.

In a surprising incident at one of the colleges in Lahore, two college girls were caught half-naked in a washroom in an unconscious state after they had lesbian sex. They had reportedly taken pills before having sex, and later fainted.

A fellow student at the college found the two girls in a compromising situation after which she raised alarm and informed the college authorities, the Daily Times reported on Sunday.

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What else ya got for me? This:

*Rare sexually transmitted disease reported in Boston
*Record turnout at gay parade
*Pope Meets Gay Elected Official
*Anglican Church of England Will Allow Gay Clergy to “Marry”
*Homosexuality: A constitutional question

Whole Lesbian Sex, Felice Newman’s new column, will be distributed to the LGBTQ press by Q Syndicate starting in June.

Witty, accessible, and enthusiastically nonjudgmental, “Whole Lesbian Sex,” written by Felice Newman, is a column for all women who desire women - lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, transgendered, young and old, sexually experienced and new to sex with women. Like Felice’s comprehensive, best-selling sex guide, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us, the column offers readers “information, suggestions, tips and techniques, and support for discovering a sexuality that works for you.”

Excerpt from sample column What Do Butches Want?:

Butches, bois, stone butches. A sexy brew of masculinity in a female body. Do they, well, you know, get done ? Heels in the air or on their knees, do butches give it up? And if they don’t, what do they like?

That was the question a femme, newly smitten with her first butch partner, asked me recently: “What do butches want?”

Many butches like strap-on sex. Some like clitoral stimulation and some like cunnilingus. Others like rimming and anal penetration. And yes, some butches like vaginal penetration.

If getting a partner off is central to lesbian sex, it’s paramount to butch sex. Often what a butch wants most is to drive a silicone dildo - or fingers or a hand - into the place that will please a partner most. When your butch is bringing you to orgasm, her body becomes a conduit for sexual energy.

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Cute.

Roy and Silo weren’t like the other penguins at the Central Park Zoo. The two males paired off and raised a hatchling chick, becoming a same-sex penguin family and media darlings. Justin Richardson, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia and Cornell, collaborated with playwright Peter Parnell, his partner, and illustrator Henry Cole to put together a children’s book about the animals’ story, And Tango Makes Three ($15, ages 4–8).

How did you first hear about this story?

It was over breakfast on a Saturday morning. I came across this story in the New York Times, and since we only had one copy, I read it to Peter. And it just sounded like a children’s book with these sweet, adorable characters wanting something so badly.

What was your aim in writing this book?

We very much wanted to write a book that treated the subject of same-sex couples that kids will adore. Tango is so cuddly. We’re hoping kids will love it and beg their parents to read it again and again, since children are bumping into children from these same-sex families at school and at birthday parties. This [book] makes it comfortable for parents to talk about these families.

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What else ya got for me? This:

*‘Queer Pages’ boost gay firms
*Mayor to face trial for gay weddings
*Soni Razdan to make film on homosexuality
*Gay Oregon College Students Receive Death Threats

I’m so disappointed. Justin Timberlake is NOT going to be on Will & Grace next season. Glad I replaced him with Adam Brody as my bio-boy crush months ago.

So Justin Timberlake is playing a gay gigolo who swindles cash from Jack (Sean Hayes) in a three-episode stint in next season’s “Will & Grace,” right? That must be true: It was reported everywhere.

Nope. The truth is a lot harsher: The 2005-2006 season will be the last for Will, Grace, Jack and Karen, say the people at NBC — and Justin won’t be in it.

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From Law.com:

A lesbian couple who have been together 11 years left the California Supreme Court on Thursday confident that they may soon share full membership rights at their San Diego country club — rights currently granted only to married couples.

The court’s justices gave all indications that they would prohibit private businesses from denying same-sex couples marriage privileges as long as they are registered with the state as domestic partners.

B. Birgit Koebke and Kendall French, who had sued San Diego’s Bernardo Heights Country Club for refusing to grant them the rights accorded to heterosexual couples, called the court’s apparent intention a “step in the right direction.”

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Gay and lesbian business?

Zanzibar, Tanzania - Youth homosexuality is on the rise along east Africa’s Indian Ocean coast and must be stopped, a Muslims clerics’ meeting in Tanzanian’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar said on Thursday.

Dozens of influential imams from around Tanzania said the trend which they said had been observed in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar was increasingly worrying.

“The youths involved in gay and lesbian business have been increasing in coastal areas such as Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar,” said cleric Maalim Mziwanda Ahmed.

“Although we don’t have statistics, the government in collaboration with the Mufti’s office must do something to help those already in the business,” he said.

On Zanzibar, lawmakers last April amended the penal code to specifically outlaw sexual acts between men and to impose lengthy jail terms for men convicted of seducing boys under the age of 18.

They prescribed a maximum of 25 years in prison for male partners found having sex and seven years for lesbian sexual acts.

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What else ya got for me? This:

*The missing queer agenda
*Police investigate Tampa links to 3 missing gay men
*Romanian gays booed as they march through capital
*‘Homosexuality is not an illness’

Excerpt:

Do you think that “Queer as Folk” could have premiered at this point in time?

You know, no. I think that for some reason we came on board at just the right time. I think the winds of change were blowing, and we came in and caught a good draft. We all helped each other, I think, in that way.

But if someone came to Showtime or HBO or any cable network right now with “Queer as Folk,” I don’t know if they would take it, to tell you the truth. Maybe they would. Maybe they would feel it’s even more necessary now than before.

Do you think “The L Word” will be able to pick up the slack for “Queer as Folk”?

I think so. “The L Word,” from a cursory point of view on my part, isn’t as “dangerous” as “Queer as Folk” was. “Queer as Folk” had a real element of danger to it. The fact that it had “Queer” in the title, the fact that we helped kind of take that word back and empower it.

You know, “The L Word” doesn’t even spell anything out, it’s kind of careful in that way, I think. Even in its title, it’s not a very bold statement. I don’t think it’s interested in being groundbreaking as much as “Queer as Folk” was. I think it’s interested in being a really terrific drama, which it is, but I don’t think it’s as much about being provocative as “Queer as Folk” was.

Read the full interview here.

So you are a butchy, dykie looking lesbian, and I am a very femme dyke with two kids. That doesn’t make you any more lesbian than I am?

From BITCH SESSION @ Washington Blade Online