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Top 10 Lesbian/Queer Businesses to Buy Gifts!
Do the right thing! Buy gifts from our queer and lesbian sisters. Here are EPOCHALIPS’ TOP TEN PICKS (OK, 11!) of lesbian and queer owned businesses where you can find that special gift online for your pals and lovers! OLIVIA TRAVEL If you are looking for the ultimate escape with your partner or your best friends, […]
The True Queer Spirit of Halloween
Why do Gays and Lesbians love Halloween so? Celebrating Halloween was a longstanding tradition in my family growing up in Northern California. As a child I was allowed to run free—dressed as a monster or in some sort of boy-themed costume. Candy was like money, a commodity that involved trading and counting. The joy lasted […]
Sweden’s Queer ‘Girl King’
I have always gravitated to the films that pull us back in time to the grandeur or spectacle of royalty and those who attend them in the 15th, 16th and 17th century. In The Girl King, Director Mika Kaurismaki thrusts us into the world of Sweden with his brilliant view of a queen that shall […]
Oscar Highlights from the Queer Señorita
Patricia Arquette winning for Best Supporting Actress and her equality for women, speech and watching Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez who were sitting side by side responding enthusiastically to her. Common and John Legend’s powerful performance of their song Glory and then their potent acceptance speech “we live in the most incarcerated country in the […]
Kate Johnston, the Woman Behind ‘Tru Love’
New Series! The Women behind the Lesbian Films We Love: We watch their films. We watch their films many times. If we love their current film, we want more. And we want to know these writers, directors and producers who labor to bring poignant, dramatic, comedic or documentary films to us. This is the first […]
Leslie Feinberg and LGBTQ Allyship
I had lunch with Leslie in the early 1990s as she was preparing Stone Butch Blues for publication. Leslie was still formulating her ideas about personal pronouns, about writing, about movements and we discussed her book and the main character from a lesbian feminist perspective. (Please see her partner MinnieBruce Pratt’s discussion of Leslie’s pronoun […]
My Top 5 Lesbian Halloween Costumes
I’ve always been a HUGE fan of Halloween. As a child I loved it even more than Christmas. At 6 years old I fought hard to get my parents to let me wear the ‘boys’ monster costume I coveted. So, what is it about lesbians (and all queers!) and Halloween? We love to dress up. […]
Alexis, Julia & The Mobile Homecoming Project
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” That quote from June Jordan introduces folks to the website for Mobile Homing http://www.mobilehomecoming.org an amazing project developed by two young women, Alexis and Julia. They describe themselves as responding to “a deep craving for intergenerational connection.” When we met this week end we affectionately called it […]
My Jersey Shore
My first ‘long term’ college relationship lasted almost three years. Annie was a sailor born and raised on the Jersey shore. Her last name was Italian, but her world was in a universe very different from the popular cable TV show. Her Sicilian American father held the highest civilian security clearance in the local military […]
Genderqueer is Not Transgendered
When I say I hate labels, and I prefer not to wear them, most people have a tendency to turn up their nose. I have never truly understood why my not needing to identify as ‘something’ makes me an outcast. The only thing I truly identify as is genderqueer, but not as a label, more […]
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