Sappho Speaks: What If the World Were Oprah and Gayle ...

That hot young Senator from the great state of Illinois was now a serious contender for President of the United States and the entire gay community felt the electricity of change weighing heavy in the air. ... Introductions are tricky in a lesbian relationship. It's a word game. To my friends she's my lover, to strangers and family members in denial she's my roommate, to Jehovah's Witnesses at the door she's my lesbian sex slave, and to my mother ...

joziu: Every gay bar in a 30 mile radius ...

I entered the dimly lit beige bar and showed my Illinois driver's license to the bear guarding the door. As I slide my wallet out, a shrill cackle echoed throughout the bar. I look up in time to see a table full of college boys turn their heads .... Abba saved the day, as my roommate jokingly said he'd even thrown in some Abba for the gay crowd (all 5 of us) and I responded, "Ah, our national anthem". It was then Dan practically lept out his chair and started talking. ...

Wonkette : A Wonderful New Voting Opportunity For Select Arizonans

Smoke Filled Roommate: Even as we speak, some underling at AZhole Venture Capital has been dispatched to buy an old shitkicker truck for Quayle to ride around in. ONe of US! One of us!1! ttommyunger says at 4:12 pm, February 12th, 2010 ... One of the Illinois GOP candidates for governor (maybe Brady, not sure) touts his ties to Quayle as a staffer as evidence he's a “true conservative.” Now this. It's like watching the beginning of Soviet nostalgia in Russia - within a ...

Dooley Noted: Places I Have Lived

Tenth Avenue, a haunted, scary house, with the campus gay and lesbian group. We rented the downstairs and every drag queen on campus lived upstairs. They were control freaks and we were miserable. Something kept locking and unlocking doors and ... She was the perfect roommate and I miss her like crazy. This was the first rental in a long time that I don't regret. And, finally, 42. A basement apartment that is half apartment, half dank, creepy, unfinished basement. ...

Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Dance for Your Rights | Our Town ...

A few months after Stonewall—the 1969 riots in New York incited by a police raid on a gay bar—an ad for a gay roommate appeared in the University of Chicago Maroon. The man who'd placed it was former student Henry Weimhoff—and the responses he .... The five Lesbian Writers Conferences held in Hyde Park (with attendees from all over the country, Canada "and even Chicago's North side"), were remembered in "Women Loving, Women Writing : A Brief Look at the Lesbian Writers ...