I first met Hawaiian artist Shannon McCarthy at an LGBT meeting at a conference in Honolulu in 2013. Over 25 years my junior, she offered to take me (and my giant rented surfboard) to her favorite surf spot and quickly won me over with her quirky sense of humor and artist/activist mentality. Last month, while […]
I caught up with Beth Shipp, LPAC Executive Director and this is what she had to say to our Epochalips community: “Building lesbian political power in any election cycle is important. Building lesbian political power in any election cycle is important. Building it this year to support Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the White House […]
Antigone Rising released a brand new music video for their song Everywhere is Home from the popular lesbian mob comedy feature film Alto, a quirky love story set in the midst of an unanticipated run-in with the NY mafia. It stars Diana DeGarmo, Natalie Knepp, David Valcin, Lou Martini, Jr., Melanie Minichino, and AR’s own […]
Debut author Vanda brings to you the hidden-in-plain-sight lives of gay men and lesbians in 1940s New York. It’s 1941 and Alice Huffman, “Al,” comes from the potato fields of Long Island with her childhood friends to make it on the Broadway stage, only to find she has no talent. On the kids’ first day […]
When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship that ends only […]
The Palm Springs, California-based all girl party and music festival will again take place over the span of 5-days (March 30 through April 3, 2016) at the Hilton Hotel, the PS Convention Center and Zelda’s Nightclub. Celebrating 26 years as the largest lesbian event in the world, Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend delivers yet again […]
In 1998, Jody Cole had a life-changing phone call. “I was whining to a friend about how hard my life was and how everything was wrong because I was wrong, and well you get the picture. But in my self-involved haze, I hadn’t taken the time to remember who the friend was on the end […]
Canadian Sarah Smith is somewhat speechless and emotional after watching the first edit of her new music video in December. “Wow, I’m blown away.†She says to local director Stacy Poulos (Playback.net Video Film Multimedia) over Skype. “That’s amazing — I’m kinda freaking out! I like how it all came together so beautifully. Your vision […]
I met Jeanne Cordova when she came to do a reading and discuss her memoir When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love and Revolution at the Claremont Women’s Cultural Center in 2012. She won many awards and gained recognition for Outlaws. As a role model, Chicana, feminist, community organizer, journalist, entrepreneur and author, Jeanne’s legacy […]
Do the right thing! Buy gifts from our lesbian sisters. Here are some GREAT GIFT IDEAS and places to SHOP for your loved ones! THE SHOP – Olema Uncommon Mercantile Motto: Let Curiosity Be Your Compass Shop owner Val Yandell and wife Jane Brooks are perhaps the most creative, welcoming merchants you’ll ever meet. The […]
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Robin
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