Every once in a while there is a special love story captured on film that really speaks to my heart. But, as a lesbian, 99% of the time I have to use my imagination to enjoy love scenes (with opposite sex lead actors) and find them sexy. Simply put, there are not enough lesbian love […]
My anger had nowhere to go. It was huge. The headline that enraged me? “50 chief executives in finance saw their pay rise by an average of 20.4 percent.†Huh? I scurried back into my dyke cave and plunged my brain into fiction. I really dislike the term man cave. It creeps me out with […]
Three Blocks from My House – A Lifetime! Jewelle Gomez: I was lesbian from my childhood. I always knew I was a lesbian and I couldn’t quite figure out what I was supposed to do with that. Margie Adam: What does that mean: “I always knew I was a lesbian?” Jewelle Gomez:Â I just knew I […]
AMO ERGO SUM I love, therefore I am. I awoke this day alone to a nameless longing so deep it took my breath away and drew tears. It was a thought of you so close and animal strong like a scent in the open wind, like a bold rhythmic straddle, like a swell, like a […]
You Latin III scholars have already worked out the translation, but for those who stopped at Latin I’s amo-amas-amat threesome, here you go: “The butler did it.†Remember, the verb always goes at the end of the sentence. Here’s what Pope Benedict’s butler did: he leaked confidential papal correspondence to a journalist who released a […]
LESBIAN’S WIFE FINDS THE BIKE SHE LOST IN 1970 A friend pointed me to an amazing story from CapeCodonline. It’s about a lesbian from Massachusetts whose wife stumbled upon her long lost banana seat bike tangled in the brambles of the woods near their home in Wellfleet. As the story goes, an 11 year old […]
In a rare appearance Saturday, celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and the NOH8 campaign set up at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel in an afternoon of photography, drinks and catching up. Symbolizing voices silenced by California’s Proposition 8 and similar legislation around the world Adam added the faces Hot Flash Inferno founder Pauline Miriam, Joyce Schiltz, Inferno […]
Hot Flash was founded by Pauline Miriam, a political organizer from the 70′s who found herself unexpectedly single at age 50. She realized her options for meeting women her own age were extremely limited, so she created Hot Flash Dance Parties. Now in its eighth year, Hot Flash Inferno has grown beyond the wildest dreams […]
Editor’s note: I am thrilled to have feminist icons Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez on Epochalips. These two have influenced our generation by paving the way as feminists and out lesbians in the early days to continuing to share their gifts with the world today. The following is the second of several excerpts from their […]
I’m not going to lie to you—I just bought a pair of workout shorts that promoted “tummy controlâ€. Cuz if I can wear shorts that have a “power mesh insert†that will help me discover the figure I never knew I had—I’m buying them. I’m buying seven. And besides, if you can shove your power […]
Hang on, it's going to be a wild ride!
Robin
Copyright ? 2016 - This Site - All rights reserved. Conforms to W3C Standard XHTML & CSS