The Republican bill differs from the Senate’s version in protections for many battered women, including lesbians, American Indians and illegal immigrants, Democrats say.

More here:
House Passes Domestic Violence Bill

Lesbian Seeking Marriage Arrested In North Carolina.

Originally posted here:
Lesbian Seeking Marriage Arrested in North Carolina.

Adrienne Rich, one of the country’s most honored and influential poets, whose finely tuned verse explored her identity as a feminist, a lesbian and an agent for political change, died March 27 at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82. Read full article > >

More:
Adrienne Rich, feminist poet who wrote of politics and lesbian identity, dies at 82

The moment was fleeting. Barbara Johnson reached out to receive Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral Mass last month at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg. The Rev. Marcel Guarnizo, standing before her, placed his hand over the offering bowl, denying her the sacrament . Read full article > >

Link:
Denying Communion: A priest and a lesbian set off a Catholic culture clash

“Pariah” is Dee Rees’s stirring coming-out story of a virginal 17-year-old African-American lesbian in a pious household in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

More here:
Movie Review | ‘Pariah’: ‘Pariah,’ With Adepero Oduye as a Young Lesbian – Review

Lesbian half-sibling disagrees with Gingrich on gay rights.

Read more:
Newt’s Sister: Vote for Obama

Gay and lesbian service members and veterans plan to file suit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the federal ban on gay marriage and federal policy that define a spouse as a person of the opposite sex. The suit comes five weeks after the Pentagon ended its ban on gays in the military. Lawyers plan to sue in federal district court in Boston, the same court that ruled last year that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it interferes with a state’s right to define marriage. That decision is being appealed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. Read full article > >

Originally posted here:
Gay troops to file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act

A video featuring Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo made its debut Friday, becoming the second in a Web campaign that seeks to build support for same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland. “I support marriage for gay and lesbian couples who want to make a lifetime commitment to each other,” Ayanbadejo says in the video sponsored by Marylanders for Marriage Equality. “It’s the right thing to do.” Read full article > >

Follow this link:
Ravens star Brendon Ayanbadejo appears in same-sex marriage campaign

At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, 1st Lt. Josh Seefried, who founded an undercover group of 4,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender active-duty service members, dropped his pseudonym.

Read the original:
After Toiling in Shadows to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ 1st Lt. Josh Seefried Greets a New Era

Diana Son’s “Stop Kiss” plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a brutal hate crime, the piece sensitively chronicles the sexual awakening of two appealing young women as they tiptoe around mutual desire. Read full article > >

More here:
‘Stop Kiss’: The harsh realities of romance

It isn’t exactly a movement — more of a blogosphere hubbub. In solidarity with his gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, one well-known evangelical pastor in Minneapolis is taking a stand. As long as his state won’t confer upon homosexuals the legal right to marry, Tony Jones won’t sign a marriage license. He will officiate at a Christian ceremony, what he calls the “sacramental” part of marriage. But he refuses to act as an agent of the state. Read full article > >

Read more:
Separation of church and state in marriage?

CAIRO — Pop star Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” was playing on speakers set around the dimly lit dance floor. Kholoud Bidak, a 33-year-old lesbian, leaned against an old piano, scanning the entrance warily as guests paid $6 to get into one of Cairo’s increasingly common underground gay parties. Just months ago, a raid by Egypt’s vice police would have been a concern at gatherings such as this fete for a man in red shorts who was turning 26. But on the recent sweltering Thursday night, as men in pastel-colored, V-neck T-shirts streamed in, a crackdown was the last thing on Bidak’s mind. She worried whether a certain woman might walk through the door. Read full article > >

Follow this link:
Egypt’s gays hope for change in culture after revolt

Rep. Anthony Weiner isn’t the only man behaving badly online these days: The author of a popular lesbian blog was revealed to be a man Monday, just days after the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blog was also found to have been written by a man. “Paula Brooks,”…

See the article here:
Another ‘Lesbian’ Editor Is Actually Man

The killing of South African lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza is condemned as a hate crime, with the police urged to do more to find those responsible.

Continued here:
SA lesbian killing ‘hate crime’

Advocates hope that teaching about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in schools would prevent bullying and shatter stereotypes.

Read more from the original source:
California May Require Teaching of Gay History