Word: lesbian
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Among her colleagues on the board, Kuehl has one of the more colorful histories. After a stint as a cast member on the televisions series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," Kuehl later ran for public office and became the first openly gay or lesbian member to be elected to the California Legislature. She has sponsored bills on topics ranging from domestic violence to scams in the talent agency business...
Several fellows are working on projects relating to race, religion and gender, including a study of lesbian literature in France and another focused on United States Latino narratives...
LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: PORTRAITS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES Photographs by Gigi Kaeser, edited by Peggy Gillespie (University of Massachusetts Press) In most respects, these are ordinary families. "Our family life is a very traditional American one," says Doug Robinson, a member of one of the families, "--early-morning getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed, making sure everyone has matching socks, getting the boys off to school and then going to work." But these families face a unique daily challenge: the intolerance of colleagues, relatives, neighbors and classmates. In this remarkable family album...
...World Wrestling Federation's women's champion, a leather-clad SABLE subdued opponents in front of lusty fans and posed for Playboy. But the real-life wife and mother balked at what she claims were the league's requests for her to expose her breasts and participate in lesbian story lines. Sable alleges that her resistance led to her scripted defeat in the ring earlier this month. Now she has sued the WWF for $110 million, saying the sport has become "obscene, titillating, vulgar and unsafe." A WWF lawyer says Sable's suit is a "smear job" and will...
After Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet, thousands of astounded people wrote to him. "I thank God," wrote a 68-year-old lesbian, "I have lived long enough to see my kind emerge from the shadows and join the human race." Sputtered another writer: "Maybe, just maybe, some of the more hostile in the district may take some potshots at you--we hope...