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Compiled By Jack Nichols Gender Lesson from W
Donald Cavanaugh-- editor of Brother, the non-sexist men's movement publication Some Ungrateful People have all the Luck A woman says she found her plumber wearing just his shoes and socks as he tried to unblock her sink. Dennis Myron Smith Jr. has been charged with lewdness after he undressed while working in the woman's New Jersey home. Police said the woman, 27, was embarrassed and ran upstairs. Smith was released pending an appearance in court. MX News, Australia, May 11 
The Demographic That Dares Not Speak its Name
A look around the crowds at the WNBA games reveals something else that has rarely, if ever, been acknowledged. The teams were developing a devoted following among gay women. For a fledgling sports league with a precious national broadcasting contract, with all those loaded but ultra-sensitive advertisers, this was the demographic that dare not speak its name. Gerald Wright—“LA Sparks first to embrace lesbian followers”—The Age, May 12 Erection Hopes A new drug might farther extend the sex lives of impotent men. Cialis, under development by Eli Lilly and Icos Corp, is claimed to allow men to have erections for 24 hours after taking the drug. The window of sexual opportunity is about 20 hours broader than Pfizer's anti-impotency pill, Viagra. Herald Sun—Melbourne Australia, May 10 Lesbians of Size
National Organization for Lesbians of Size: www.nolose.org. Crossdressed to Kill A Washington area fraud ring, which authorities say used stolen checks and credit cards to finance a lifestyle centered on cross-dressing and drag balls, is being investigated in connection with the killing of a D.C. youth home counselor last month. David A. Fahrenthold—“ Fraud Ring Probed in D.C. Counselor's Slaying”— Washington Post, May 11 Muslims and Human Cloning: Four Identical Wives? The endless possibilities become ludicrous when the debate touches on people choosing to clone themselves and conceive their own clones. What would be the relationship between the clone and its parent? Who would have rights over whom, and what sense of morality would the cloned individual have--presuming the individual to be healthy in mind and body? Hwaa Irfan—“Science without Ethics: The Human Genome and the Cloning of Humans”— www.islamonline.net Serial Monogamist
Ellen DeGeneres is single again. Her romance with actress Alexandra Hedison is over. The pair first stepped out together in October at the 'Women Rock! Girls & Guitars' breast cancer concert fundraiser in Los Angeles, two months after DeGeneres' very public break-up with Anne Heche…The former Ellen star quickly rebounded…She even talked about the relief she felt after living for three years under a media microscope as half of Hollywood's first openly gay female couple. Things were supposed to be different with Hedison, a TV actress best known for the Fox series 'L.A. Firefighters'.
MX News-- Southbank Australia, May 11 'Ex-Gay' Study is Politics & Religion, Not Science The truth is that just as no one knows what causes homosexuality -- or heterosexuality, for that matter -- so no one knows for certain whether or not reparative therapy works. Not a single published, peer-review scientific-outcome study, rigorously conducted with random sampling techniques and control groups, demonstrates either the success or the harm of conversion therapy…Until such studies undergo peer review, what we have are anecdotal reports from individuals claiming to have changed their sexual orientation and from people who say they were harmed in the process. Chuck Colbert—“This science isn't Straight”—Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11
You get a pretty clear pattern from these ballots. Most of these people went to the polls to vote for Gore. Anthony Salvanto-- University of California-Irvine-- quoted in USA Today, May 11 |
Did you hear about the Oval Office staff meeting where a Bush staffer said he'd
heard that Dick Cheney had acute angina. Apparently Bush exploded with the
admonition that "MEN DON'T HAVE ANGINAS!"
"Whether you are into politics, personal growth, activism, SM,
butch-femme, swimming, dancing, or just hanging out with other
fat dykes and their allies, you will find something for you here"
says Dot Nelson-Turnier, about the National Conference for Lesbians
of Size to be held at the Sheraton Parsippany, in Parsippany, NJ,
October 5 -8, 2001. In its third year running, this conference
promises to be most exciting yet!.. Keynote speakers, Marilyn Wann
and Sondra Solovay led a successful effort to make weight-based
discrimination illegal in San Francisco…The National Organization for
Lesbians of Size is a support, social and networking organization for
women who identify as lesbians and are fat or fat positive, their friends and allies.
Florida's Vote Recounts
