This is the sweetest bit of news I have heard all week! Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono, is undergoing gender reassignment! That to me is incredible, and he is so out about the whole transgendering, like it's not a big deal... and guess what it's NOT! It's such an astounding accomplishment if you ask me. That takes courage and the Lion found it!
Even though I have always known that Bono deep down was indeed a dude, he was a smokin hot BUTCH lesbian!
Anyhow, Chaz, I congradulate you on your redefining moment, and to a new happy life with your girlfriend! There are already rumors spreading of a marriage proposal!! Guess we'll have to wait and watch Chaz propose himself!
One of Tee Corinnes most popular pieces of work was that of the Cunt Coloring Book! All the drawings were done by Corinne which portray personality and an obscured vision on the beauty of a woman! Before Corinne became a famous activ-art(activist through art), she spent 7 years as a married heterosexual until the '60s when she broke out and delivered the world an amazing feminist artist who had skills-to-kill! She was co-facilitator of the Feminist Photography Ovulars, and co-founder of The Blatant Image, A Magazine of Feminist Photography around 1983. Corinne was the author of one novel, three collections of short stories, two photo books, as well as four books of poetry and numerous artists books with small edition publications. Corinne wrote about art for a variety of publications and, from 1987, was the art books columnist for Feminist Bookstore News. A co-founder and past co-chair of the Gay & Lesbian Caucus (an affiliated society of the College Art Association), she also co-founded the Women's Caucus for Art Lesbian & Bisexual Caucus. In 1991, she was chosen by Lambda Book Report as one of the fifty most influential lesbians and gay men of the decade, and in 1997 she received the Women's Caucus for Art President's Award for service to women in the arts.
Corinne passed away at the age of 62 at her house in Oregon where she had been battling cancer.Her partner Beverly of 16 years then passed on as well. Corinne was at most an awesome educational and intelligent lesbian (as the majority of us are)!! I highly recommend checking out Tee Corinnes publications, as well as her photos, and don't forget the Cunt Coloring Book! It's just one of those things that you must have on your bookshelf if you are a true lesbian, just like the Vagina Monologues or the Lesbian Kama Sutra! Lesbians just own shit like that, that's why we are the true humdingers in this world!! I leave you with a train of Tee Corinne... (Thanks to Wikipedia and Queer-Arts.org for info and photos)
Cynthia Nixon, a woman of power, sex appeal and words! I'm taken back every time I listen to this woman speak. Its as if she is picking the shit out of my brain and belching it about for me!
On May 17th in the streets of New York City, thousands of people gathered for the Broadway Impacts Equality Rally. Nixon not only announced her engagement to lawful partner Christine Marinoni, but she managed to hit every aspect of marriage equality, freedom, civil rights, financial issues and the unlikeliness of any LGBT couple leaving their own state to seek marriage!
She then went on to chew at the opposing crowd on why we (LGBT family) are just as much human beings as they are:
Now the main argument I hear against legalizing same-sex marriage is that in some way this will forever alter and mar traditional marriage, and what I want to know is: How? How will my girlfriend and I getting married have any affect on you and your wife, or you and your husband sitting at home? I also hear that the right to legal same-sex marriage is seen as an attack on traditional marriage, and I want to say that you are not the ones being attacked, we are.
And please believe I'm not being flippant when I say this: The right to marry is about us, it is not about you, any more than the fight for integration was about white people, or a women's right to vote was about men. It is only about you to the extent that you have to live with yourself knowing that you are depriving a significant portion of the population their basic civil rights.
So "HELLO CITIZENS" time to wake up and grow up! Nixon is not only there defending herself but a family, a larger family than that of her fiance and kids, our LGBT family who sits everyday wondering if they too will ever be heard, looked at and accepted for love!
I have to emphasis the fact that WE ARE NOT INTERRUPTING YOUR FAULTLESS STRAIGHT LIVES! In a Liz Lemon tone "Blerg"!
The out and proud lesbian singer/songwriter Doria Roberts stands by some of the most exalted music artists including: Melissa Etheridge, Natalie Merchant, Alanis Moresette, and Melissa Ferrick with her inspirational and fluid beats that run through the soul of the listener. She lives a life of simplicity and truth being an influential lesbian activist with her support and belief in the lesbian community and woman with talent! Roberts has ran Queer Stock since 1996 which is an event to not only support and mingle with talented lesbians, but a place to relax and wind down with great people and entertainment.
Doria Roberts has listed upcoming events that she will be attending including many pride affairs! Feel free to stop on over to her MySpace page for album and song download options!
Here's a live performance from Roberts singing "Perfect" off of her album "Woman Dangerous".
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