“The further away I got, the clearer it became. She had been my first serious girlfriend after a succession of boyfriends, and I was more in love than I had ever been before. But the relationship stretched and accommodated behavior I likely would have never taken from a man.”

If you’re lucky enough to have an August Pride, it’s time to take to the streets and trade in your vuvuzelas!

This week on NSFW Sunday: lesbian love letters, sex and punishment, surveys, and cyclists.

“Since the nuances of personal responsibility seem to escape so many people, let’s go through it. Let’s figure out rape jokes.”

Ridiculously though, it was the best possible result for women.

Students in an allegedly ‘conservative’ rural county in California vote a lesbian couple as “cutest couple,” and it wasn’t a prank or anything.

Edie Windsor successfully had DOMA declared unconstitutional by a federal court.

“This little book… is to my mind the progenitor of all funny queer blogs written in the first-person. Yes, this is the story of the first queer blogger.”

It turns out that what you thought were women’s issues are actually just “shiny objects!”

Kristen Stewart cross-dresses for Elle Magazine, wants to make out with Charlize Theron, and I think has a movie coming out about Snow White, or something.

This week’s comment awards were brought to you by the letter “I” for “Incredible.” Which is what Community Managerette Carrie is.

The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.

In this photo released by The White House, President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC’s Good Morning America, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 9, 2012, in Washington. Obama declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, a historic announcement that gave the polarizing social […]

Lizz’s Team Pick: Sometimes the only thing that can really help is a calming manatee.

Yawning is the number one dance move for today.

Honey honey up in the trees/ Fields of flowers deep in his dreams/ Lead them out to sea by the east/ Honey honey food for the bees

This post is SO ten seconds ago.

“Some people view dogs as property. I don’t. Lily is part of my family.”

Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!

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