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Gay Marriage: The Financial Impact on California

2008-06-16T05:47:11Z

Okay, surely I and my friends are not the only people who have thought about this. California is going to be one of a very few number of states in the US where a gay couple can get married, AND we do not have a residency requirement. I foresee a lot of money flowing into our state, as people from all over the country come here to get married. They are going to spend money on transportation, lodging, food, and all kinds of things. Some people are going to have the wedding they've always wanted, and will be inviting friends and family members to the wedding. A lot of people are going to combine this with a vacation, and spend even more money here.

I am completely in favor of gay marriage because I support equality, but for people who don't, have you thought about the financial possibilities? Gay people's money is just as green as everyone else's!

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Cuban government backs calls to combat homophobia

2008-05-18T17:43:47Z

Cuban government backs calls to combat homophobia
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, May 17, 2008

PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness — and high-ranking political alliances — with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.

The meeting at a convention center in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists ever on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities, presided.

"This is a very important moment for us, the men and women of Cuba, because for the first time we can gather in this way and speak profoundly and with scientific basis about these topics," said Castro, director of Cuba's Center for Sexual Education.

Mariela Castro joined government leaders and hundreds of activists at the one-day conference for the International Day Against Homophobia that featured shows, lectures, panel discussions and book presentations. A station also offered blood-tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

Cuban state television gave prime-time play Friday to the U.S. film "Brokeback Mountain," which tells the story of two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair.

Prejudice against homosexuals remains deeply rooted in Cuban society, but the government has steadily moved away from the Puritanism of the 1960s and 1970s, when homosexuals hid their sexuality for fear of being ridiculed, fired from work or even imprisoned.

Now Cuba's parliament is studying proposals to legalize same-sex unions and give gay couples the benefits that people in traditional marriages enjoy.

Parliament head Ricardo Alarcon said the government needs to do more to promote gay rights, but said many Cubans still need to be convinced.

Things "are advancing, but must continue advancing, and I think we should do that in a coherent, appropriate and precise way because these are topics that have been taboo and continue to be for many," Alarcon told reporters.

Some at the conference spoke of streaming out into the streets for a spontaneous gay-pride parade, but others urged caution.

The gay rights movement should be careful not to "flood" Cuban society with a message that many are not ready to hear, physician and gay activist Alberto Roque cautioned.

And Mariela Castro said gay activists should opt for more subtle ways to chip away at deep-seated homophobic attitudes.

Defending equal rights for Cubans, of all sexual orientations, is a key principal of the Cuban revolution led by her uncle Fidel Castro, who overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, she said.

"The freedom of sexual choice and gender identity (are) exercises in equality and social justice," she said.

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California Supreme Court Overturns Gay/Lesbian Marriage Ban

2008-05-16T16:14:24Z

[This is a major victory! Thankfully, public pressure has made the California Supreme Court take the right stand. This decision that "domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage" is to the left of Obama and Clinton, both of whom oppose Gay/Lesbian marriage. -Steven Argue]

May 15, 2008

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:05 p.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.

The cases were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's month-long same-sex wedding march that took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction.

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Lesbian opinion on Bisexuals

2008-03-07T06:03:41Z

What do lesbians think about bisexuals?

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No To Homophobe Ron Paul, How We Can Really End the War

2008-01-12T07:45:48Z

"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in Congress, the act that gave Blacks the right to vote, quote from his “Ron Paul Newsletter”.

No to NYC Indymedia Censorship, How We Can Really End the War

By STEVEN ARGUE

Claiming that only an alliance with Ron Paul conservatives can end the war, New York City Indymedia volunteers have allowed blatant slander against Liberation News and have censored attempts to respond to those lies. Among the slanders posted were accusations that Liberation News is opposed to Ron Paul because we support Hillary Clinton and her healthcare program. I tried posting the following response, but it was censored on the site:

Ron Paul supporter: “it's pointed out that yes Ron Paul is a racist but Stevies candidate Hillary is even worse.”

Steven Argue: “I don’t support Hillary Clinton. Never have, but you don’t listen. This is pure slander.”

They then repeat their slander that I support Hillary Clinton for her healthcare plan saying, “It's pointed out that Stevie is willing to sacrifice liberty for a bogus health care plan”

Steven Argue: “Hillary Clinton opposes both socialized medicine and single payer healthcare. She supports insurance company healthcare, the kind that is killing untold millions in the United States. This is one of many reasons I oppose her.”

“And no, I don't see Clinton as a first step towards socialized medicine. Her promise to force people to buy insurance has nothing in common with socialized medicine, nor partially socialized medicine (i.e. single payer). I’m clear about this in my article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It, By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

“As for Ron Paul, he wants to privatize everything, including public education, Social Security, and Medicare, eliminate the Voting Rights Act and Roe V Wade in the name of "states rights", signed on to the "Marriage Protection Act", would eliminate every environmental and labor protection, etc. etc. etc. This is a prescription for the slavery of the majority to protect the “liberty” of a tiny handful of capitalists to exploit.

“I oppose both Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul. But I’ve already made that clear as being my position. These accusations are slanderous.”

Ron Paul supporter: “Then Stevie moves the goal posts again. Waaa. He's being censored.”

Steven Argue: “I repeatedly posted a response to the slander that I support Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan, and the response is censored every time. I have no motive to make that up. I mentioned it because I wanted people to see my response. Frankly, I’m quite surprised it is happening. Let’s see if this one goes up.”

That response, as I feared, was also censored. Revealing the reasons behind the Ron Paul censorship at the site, the Ron Paul backers posted the following:

“Get off your sectarianism.

“What you don’t get is that there are only two ways we're going to end the occupation of Iraq:

“1.) A recession, and a bad one.

“2.) Convincing the vast majority of conservative Americans it's wrong. Ron Paul reaches these people. The guy with the Free Mumia shirt selling the "Socialist Worker" doesn't.

“To get anything done in a democracy you're going to have to work with people you don't agree with and people you might not even like. People in grown up countries do this all the time. They're called "coalitions".

“The Labor Party in Israel, for example, makes alliances with the ultra orthodox. The Liberal Democrats have made common cause with the Tories in the UK. The left made common cause with Vicente Fox to get the PRI out of power in Mexico.

“It's only in the puritan USA where everybody thinks you have to like all your political allies and agree with them on everything.”

Besides the fact that the majority of Americans already oppose the war; and besides the fact that these points show a total lack of understanding of the bourgeois nature of the coalitions in the countries mentioned; and besides showing a total lack of understanding of what it will take to end the war (I discuss this at the end of the article); New York City Indymedia’s lack of confidence in the ability of people to change has caused them to build a coalition with a capitalist politician who is a racist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-environmental, bible thumping, sexist, anti-labor, anti-poor, free-market privatization fanatic. On top of that, they censor the left in order to achieve that coalition.

While a Ron Paul presidency would likely end the war, at what price would this come?

Ron Paul uses the term liberty a lot, so let’s take a look at what he means by liberty.

The liberty Ron Paul demands is:

The liberty of the capitalists to exploit without labor laws and environmental protections;

The "state’s right” to prevent Blacks from voting without the interference of the Voting Rights Act (voted against its renewal in Congress);

The "states right" to ban abortions without the interference of Roe v Wade;

The freedom of the government to deny same-sex rights (was an original sponsor of the "Marriage Protection Act");

The freedom of children not to attend schools (would abolish public education);

The freedom of the elderly and disabled to starve (would abolish Social Security);

The freedom of the sick to die (would abolish Medicare);

The freedom of the U.S. to destroy the planet without even the most basic limits on carbon emissions (opposes signing on to Kyoto and all other carbon limitations);

This is, in short, the liberty of a wealthy minority to make their money from the exploitation of labor and the environment with zero interference from labor laws, environmental laws, and the IRS. While his program is liberty for a minority of rich white heterosexual males, it is slavery for the majority.

Simply put, Ron Paul’s promises to end the war are not enough when one looks at the fact that he would eliminate two centuries of hard fought social progress in the United States.

Some of the anti-war backers of Ron Paul argue that we don’t have to worry about these things because Ron Paul will never be elected. They think that backing his campaign is a way to win over his supporters. What is clear is that such arguments could only come from people who are utterly lost and rudderless, which leaves unclear the question of what they are winning Ron Paul supporters over to. They are supporting a candidate whose program is George Wallace on crack cocaine! Yet, the ultimate absurdity is the fact that they are backing a candidate whose most reassuring feature is that he won’t get elected! Is this point lost on these people? And is the chance that their support may help him get elected a chance they really want to take? Nobody thought that third party candidate Jesse (the body) Ventura would get elected in Minnesota either, but he was, and as soon as he was elected he discarded his libertarian values on drug legalization and prostitution and instead proceeded to carrying out attacks on labor and carrying out disastrous cuts in education and other social spending.

Others argue that if Ron Paul is elected, he will easily be able to pull the troops out of Iraq, but congress will block him on the other issues. There is no doubt that they would block parts of Ron Paul’s program in order to prevent the social unrest such measures would cause, but with the ruling class’s desire to step up the exploitation of labor and the environment through eliminating regulation and through privatization, there can be little doubt that if he is able to maintain his presidency without being shot, aspects of Ron Paul’s domestic program would be implemented.

Today, in the United States we have two rightwing capitalist parties that rule. The activists who run New York Indymedia are floating around utterly lost and rudderless. On the one hand, their anarchist philosophy prohibits them from putting forward their own leadership or supporting socialist candidates; and on the other hand, they are stuck in the “real politic” of supporting “lesser evil” capitalist politicians. It is these characteristics that made them susceptible to being swept up on the Ron Paul band wagon. Despite their “libertarian” values of “freedom”, they have now taken this to the point where they are even willing to censor critics of Ron Paul on their website.

While Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate opposed to the war, is not worth supporting, the front running Democrats are also very bad. Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, are all pro-war. Both Edwards and Clinton voted for the war. Obama supporters claim that Obama never supported the war. While Obama was not yet in the Senate at the time of the Iraq war vote, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton have all voted for war appropriations. This puts them all in the position of having supported the war. Over a million Iraqis are dead due to the U.S. invasion and occupation, and billions of dollars have been squandered. Obama, by helping pay for the war, has his hands in this mass murder just as Clinton and Edwards do.

Obama’s Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 supposedly would have begun troop withdrawal in May 2007. Yet, it didn't call for full nor immediate withdrawal. In addition, under the bill, the withdrawal could be halted if the Iraqi government met a number of criteria laid out by the Bush administration. These included a broad number of things such as changes in the use of oil revenue, government reforms, an end to sectarian violence, and other economic and reconstruction criteria. In Obama’s bill we have a crystal ball into the future. The excuses laid out in the bill will be heard once again as Obama, Clinton, or Edwards explain why they are keeping the troops in Iraq for their entire presidency; that is unless other actions are taken by the people to stop the war.

This brings us to the fundamental question of how to stop the war. If we are to listen to the Ron Paul censors / supporters at NYC Indymedia the only thing we can do to stop the war is support Ron Paul or hope for (pray for?) economic collapse. Yet, this ignores other less damaging possibilities. These include the troops refusing to fight, a general strike, strikes against the movement of war materials, or socialist revolution.

1. The troops refusing to fight. This worked in the struggle to end the U.S. aggression against Vietnam. It was the socialist movement who were the primary organizers of the anti-Vietnam War movement. That movement, immediately after the government’s murders at Kent State in May 1970 had 8 million students out on strike, and some Universities, such a Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. Refusal to fight was widespread, and the fragging of pro-war officers was common. Nixon could not continue to wage a war with soldiers who refused to fight. This, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, brought an end to the war in Vietnam.

Troops refusing to fight also helped bring an end to Russian involvement in the First World War, and helped bring down two pro-war governments in 1917.

2. A general strike or strikes against the movement of war materials. Strikes with such political demands have a long history of success. France has many good social programs because the workers there were willing to shut down their country to achieve them; and they are still willing to do the same to protect those hard fought gains.

3. Socialist revolution. The October Russian Revolution achieved an end to Russian involvement in the First World War. This was a good thing, despite the undemocratic nature of the revolution. Learning from those lessons, Liberation News opposes the dictatorial system of one party rule and raises the banner of revolutionary democratic socialism, while at the same time learning from many of the revolutionary strategies of Lenin and Trotsky.

Protests, pickets, information distribution, building a socialist movement, and answering pro-Ron Paul and pro-Obama-Clinton-Edwards propaganda all help towards building the momentum needed in achieving the kinds of actions that can end the war. Putting support behind Ron Paul only helps an extreme rightwing movement achieve the mantel of leadership for an anti-war sentiment that already represents majority public opinion. In addition, backing a guy like Ron Paul who just crossed a picket line to appear on Jay Lenno’s “Tonight Show” destroys the anti-war strategy of reaching out to the working class, as does backing a racist candidate like Ron Paul hurt the ability to reach out to the multi-racial working class.

No to the Democrats and Republicans!

U.S. Out of Iraq Now!

No to Insurance Company Healthcare, For Socialized Medicine!

Save the Planet, Curb Carbon Emissions Now!

Vote Socialist, Build the Labor Movement, Build the Anti-War Movement, Build the Socialist Movement.

[Note, small changes were made to the response that was censored at NYC Indymedia to make it more readable within the format of this article. Those wishing to see the original version will be given it upon request. Likewise, anyone wishing further sources will be provided them upon request]

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The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat

2008-01-10T00:06:53Z

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat

By STEVEN ARGUE

For the most part the Iowa caucuses were business as usual for the Democrat and Republican Parties. Among the Democrats, “Anti-war” and “pro-single payer health care” Democrat Dennis Kucinich put his support behind pro-war anti--single payer health care, Barrack Obama. Yet on the far right, anti-war Libertarian and Republican Ron Paul gained a stunning 10% of the vote.

Seeing the failure of the Democrats to deliver a candidate worth supporting; some left leaning individuals have been suggesting support to Ron Paul. One is anti-war Vietnam veteran Stan Goff, who suggested in his January 4, 2008 article ”Monkey Wrenching the System, Ron Paul’s Revolution” that people vote in the primaries for Ron Paul, switching party registration right away if they live in a state where such a move is necessary to vote in the Republican primaries.

At the root of the Ron Paul "revolution" is the dismantling of Social Security and the Department of Education as well as other basic social programs, and the elimination of worker and environmental protections. Advances like single payer health care? No way. Ron Paul's message is that you need to take care of yourself, and that there shouldn't be such government programs, nor such interference with private profit. While he puts forward reasons for not supporting going to war abroad, his domestic policies would ignite civil war at home.

In addition to pretending he's against all government, he's for outlawing abortion and supports the continued ban on same-sex marriage. He was one of the original co-sponsors of the "Marriage Protection Act".

He's also a religious extremist who thinks that creationism should be taught in the schools.

On race, Ron Paul was one of 33 Congress members to vote against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, an act that was first passed to give Blacks in the south the right to vote. On a similar note, he says the Civil Rights Act violates the Constitution and impedes on individual liberties. Speaking of Blacks in Washington DC he states in campaign literature, "95 percent of African Americans in are semi-criminal or entirely criminal".

No wonder the American Nazi Party has close relations with him (see letter from Nazi Commander Bill White below). In addition, Ron Paul has the support of other white supremacists such as David Duke, and has knowingly taken donations from former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black.

Hell would freeze over before I'd support Ron Paul. And being an atheist; that will be a long time.

There are plenty of candidates to the left of the Democrats worth considering supporting who oppose the war, would preserve public education and Social Security, who would provide single payer or socialized medicine, and who aren’t raving racist, homophobic, and sexist “Libertarian” fanatics. Why not look at them rather than someone from the loony right?

I discuss some of the campaigns that may be worth supporting in the following article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
And the Struggle to Achieve It
By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

Or here is a different version of the same article:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/93820.html

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American Nazi Party Chief says Ron Paul is one of us

Bill White, commander of the American National Socialist Worker’s Party, aka The American Nazi Party, wrote the following on the Nazi Vanguard News Network:

Comrades:

I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn’t see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul’s extensive involvement in white nationalism.

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.

I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

For his spokesman to call white racialism a “small ideology” and claim white activists are “wasting their money” trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.

I don’t know that it is necessarily good for Paul to “expose” this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous — and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.

Bill White, Commander
American National Socialist Workers Party

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Poor Bill White. He’s having trouble with his brand of racism, anti-Semitism, mass extermination, and genocide not being "in fashion". But hey, you've got to thank the knuckleheaded Nazi for confirming our suspicions on Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan! -Steven Argue

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Black Lesbian Feature & Oakland Film Co.

2007-12-24T18:23:29Z

Griot Soul Films, an Oakland-based non-profit film company dedicated to producing complex film images of Black and Black Connected communities, and providing community members tools and training to do the same. We're currently working to produce the 1st Black Same Gender Loving Woman's Romantic Dramedy "She Wasn't Last Night."

It's community funded and we've gotten a lot of positive press both nationally and internationally. We need more community involvement and the Winter Holidays are a great time to connect! We need YOUR support...

Please check out our website at www.griotsoulfilms.org and our trailer at www.afterellen.com/blwe/12-14-07

....and consider making a holiday donation of any size. Join our social network for the film at shewasntlastnight.ning.com

Thanks for taking the time!!!!

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Naughty Gifts for Naughty Girls

2007-11-24T01:12:35Z

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When did you first know?

2007-08-03T16:50:36Z

When did you first realize that you were a lesbian, and how did it come about?

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Lesbians sentenced for self-defense. FREE THEM NOW!

2007-06-23T02:41:53Z

FREE THEM NOW!
Lesbians sentenced for self-defense
All-white jury convicts Black women

By Imani Henry
New York

Published Jun 21, 2007 2:58 AM
On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children.

Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians.

The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-called U.S. justice system truly is.

The description of the events, reported below, is based on written statements by a community organization (FIERCE) that has made a call to action to defend the four women, verbal accounts from court observers and evidence from a surveillance camera.

The attack

On Aug. 16, 2006, seven young, African-American, lesbian-identified friends were walking in the West Village. The Village is a historic center for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) communities, and is seen as a safe haven for working-class LGBT youth, especially youth of color.

As they passed the Independent Film Cinema, 29-year-old Dwayne Buckle, an African-American vendor selling DVDs, sexually propositioned one of the women. They rebuffed his advances and kept walking.

“I’ll f— you straight, sweetheart!” Buckle shouted. A video camera from a nearby store shows the women walking away. He followed them, all the while hurling anti-lesbian slurs, grabbing his genitals and making explicitly obscene remarks. The women finally stopped and confronted him. A heated argument ensued. Buckle spat in the face of one of the women and threw his lit cigarette at them, escalating the verbal attack into a physical one.

Buckle is seen on the video grabbing and pulling out large patches of hair from one of the young women. When Buckle ended up on top of one of the women, choking her, Johnson pulled a small steak knife out of her purse. She aimed for his arm to stop him from killing her friend.

The video captures two men finally running over to help the women and beating Buckle. At some point he was stabbed in the abdomen. The women were already walking away across the street by the time the police arrived.

Buckle was hospitalized for five days after surgery for a lacerated liver and stomach. When asked at the hospital, he responded at least twice that men had attacked him.

There was no evidence that Johnson’s kitchen knife was the weapon that penetrated his abdomen, nor was there any blood visible on it. In fact, there was never any forensics testing done on her knife. On the night they were arrested, the police told the women that there would be a search by the New York Police Department for the two men—which to date has not happened.

After almost a year of trial, four of the seven were convicted in April. Johnson was sentenced to 11 years on June 14.

Even with Buckle’s admission and the video footage proving that he instigated this anti-gay attack, the women were relentlessly demonized in the press, had trumped-up felony charges levied against them, and were subsequently given long sentences in order to send a clear resounding message—that self-defense is a crime and no one should dare to fight back.

Political backdrop of the case

Why were these young women used as an example? At stake are the billions of dollars in tourism and real estate development involved in the continued gentrification of the West Village. This particular incident happened near the Washington Square area—home of New York University, one of most expensive private colleges in the country and one of the biggest employers and landlords in New York City. The New York Times reported that Justice Edward J. McLaughlin used his sentencing speech to comment on “how New York welcomes tourists.” (June 17)

The Village is also the home of the Stonewall Rebellion, the three-day street battle against the NYPD that, along with the Compton Cafeteria “Riots” in California, helped launch the modern-day LGBT liberation movement in 1969. The Manhattan LGBT Pride march, one of the biggest demonstrations of LGBT peoples in the world, ends near the Christopher Street Piers in the Village, which have been the historical “hangout” and home for working-class trans and LGBT youth in New York City for decades.

Because of growing gentrification in recent years, young people of color, homeless and transgender communities, LGBT and straight, have faced curfews and brutality by police sanctioned by the West Village community board and politicians. On Oct. 31, 2006, police officers from the NYPD’s 6th Precinct indiscriminately beat and arrested several people of color in sweeps on Christopher Street after the Halloween parade.

Since the 1980s there has been a steady increase in anti-LGBT violence in the area, with bashers going there with that purpose in mind.

For trans people and LGBT youth of color, who statistically experience higher amounts of bigoted violence, the impact of the gentrification has been severe. As their once-safe haven is encroached on by real estate developers, the new white and majority heterosexual residents of the West Village then call in the state to brutalize them.

For the last six years the political LGBT youth group FIERCE has been at the forefront of mobilizing young people “to counter the displacement and criminalization of LGBTSTQ [lesbian, gay, bi, two spirit, trans, and queer] youth of color and homeless youth at the Christopher Street Pier and in Manhattan’s West Village.” (www.fiercenyc.org) FIERCE has also been the lead organization supporting the Jersey Seven and their families.

The trial and the media

Deemed a so-called “hate crime” against a straight man, every possible racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBT and anti-youth tactic was used by the entire state apparatus and media. Everything from the fact that they lived outside of New York, in the working-class majority Black city of Newark, N.J., to their gender expressions and body structures were twisted and dehumanized in the public eye and to the jury.

According to court observers, McLaughlin stated throughout the trial that he had no sympathy for these women. The jury, although they were all women, were all white. All witnesses for the district attorney were white men, except for one Black male who had several felony charges.

Court observers report that the defense attorneys had to put enormous effort into simply convincing the jury that they were “average women” who had planned to just hang out together that night. Some jurists asked why they were in the Village if they were from New Jersey. The DA brought up whether they could afford to hang out there—raising the issue of who has the right to be there in the first place.

The Daily News reporting was relentless in its racist anti-lesbian misogyny, portraying Buckle as a “filmmaker” and “sound engineer” preyed upon by a “lesbian wolf pack” (April 19) and a “gang of angry lesbians.” (April 13)

Everyone has been socialized by cultural archetypes of what it means to be a “man” or “masculine” and “woman” or “feminine.” Gender identity/expression is the way each indivdual chooses or not to express gender in their everyday lives, including how they dress, walk, talk, etc. Transgender people and other gender non-conforming people face oppression based on their gender expression/identity.

The only pictures shown in the Daily News were of the more masculine-appearing women. One of the most despiciable headlines in the Daily News, “‘I’m a man!’ lesbian growled during fight,” (April 13) was targeted against Renata Hill, who was taunted by Buckle because of her masculinity.

Ironically, Johnson, who was singled out by the judge as the “ringleader,” is the more feminine of the four. According to the New York Times, in his sentencing remarks, “Justice McLaughlin scoffed at the assertion made by ... Johnson, that she carried a knife because she was just 4-foot-11 and 95 pounds, worked nights and lived in a dangerous neighborhood.” He quoted the nursery rhyme, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” (June 15)

All of the seven women knew and went to school with Sakia Gunn, a 19-year-old butch lesbian who was stabbed to death in Newark, N.J., in May 2003. Paralleling the present case, Gunn was out with three of her friends when a man made sexual advances to one of the women. When she replied that she was a lesbian and not interested, he attacked them. Gunn fought back and was stabbed to death.

“You can’t help but wonder that if Sakia Gunn had a weapon, would she be in jail right now?” Bran Fenner, a founding member and co-executive director of FIERCE, told Workers World. “If we don’t have the right to self-defense, how are we supposed to survive?”

National call to action

While racist killer cops continue to go without indictment and anti-immigrant paramilitary groups like the Minutemen are on the rise in the U.S., The Jersey Four sit behind bars for simply defending themselves against a bigot who attacked them in the Village.

Capitalism at its very core is a racist, sexist, anti-LGBT system, sanctioning state violence through cops, courts and its so-called laws. The case of the Jersey Four gives more legal precedence for bigoted violence to go unchallenged. The ruling class saw this case as a political one; FIERCE and other groups believe the entire progressive movement should as well.

Fenner said, “We are organizing in the hope that this wakes up all oppressed people and sparks a huge, broad campaign to demand freedom for the Jersey Four.”

FIERCE is asking for assistance for these young women, including pro-bono legal support, media contacts and writers, pen pals, financial support, and diverse organizational support. For details, visit www.fiercenyc.org.

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Articles copyright 1995-2007 Workers World. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved.

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I mean no offense...

2007-06-06T07:18:51Z

If you read my posting and are offended I am sorry. I am trying to find the best people to represent lesbians/bisexuals on TV and am a lesbian myself- I want to show the younger generation cool positive women who are comfortable with their sexuality. This for a real high profile network that is supporting the gay culture. This is a real opportunity to represent women as intelligent loving people. I appologize if anyone is offended,
I have nothing but love.....

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Boston lesbians

2007-04-23T22:28:22Z

Hey guys! I was just wondering if there were any groups on here that were specifically for Boston lesbians? I looked, but couldn't quite find one, but I'm being lazy because I'm very sick right now. Thanks!

PS - if there are any Boston area lesbians on here, we should chat!

PS part II - is there a group for people who want to be in contact with Asian lesbians? I know there is an Asian lesbian group, but it's for Asians only.

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New to tribe

2007-03-26T02:05:52Z

My name is Ami and I started a new tribe for us who love diffrent. No judgements. Just come and talk about anything.
http://tribes.tribe.net/diffrentkindoflove

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loneliness

2007-03-11T11:48:00Z

okay ladies. i have to vent here for just a second and please don't feel any pressure to respond only if you want to. i just had no where else to turn as my lesbian supports are very limited.

i'm just alone and trying to cope with that. i'm trying to find new places to go to meet new people...not necessarily for romance or relationship purposes initially, just for connections and maybe companionship. i know that it is much more difficult for lesbians to meet women versus heterosexuals who seem to have a much broader network of people and places to choose from.

i just had to communicate these feelings in a safe place and i appreciate this tribe being here for that type of support.

peace.

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hare krishna lesbians need love too

2007-02-07T22:44:43Z

new tribe... http://tribes.tribe.net/lesbians-krishna

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Lesi love, leaving me lonely :(

2006-12-24T19:17:56Z

That was a tounge twister!
Hello all, I'm new to this tribe. Anyone else on here from Eugene? I'm having trouble finding the queer community here, I've got a few queer friends but it seems we are few and far between here! I'm also a new Mom(so I can't really be lonely;) to baby Anaya so that makes it even harder to find the queer women around here, everyone assumes that you're straight when you've got a baby. She was born 2 1/2 months early so I am spending abot all of my time in the NICU too. Well, wherther you're in Eugene or not, hello to all you beautiful women, I'm happy to get to chat with some other queer folks and as i read from the question about how you feel about bi's, I'm also happy to talk to women who aren't biased against them, makes me happy ladies:D It's sometimes hard to find lesi girls who feel the same way i do about that.

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May 1st Immigrant Rights Actions

2006-11-04T12:06:52Z

Sisters, those right wing zelots who usually bash LGBT people are now bashing our undocumented sisters and brothers. This dyke is standing up to support amnesty, anyone wishing to join can get information at www.nohr4437.org/

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Getting harder to cope with things each day....

2006-10-31T18:42:21Z

It's really so hard... For quite a long time we've been so used being together... then it's going to be almost a year since we saw each other... My partner doesn't have the convenience of having a computer so that we could talk more often and even see each other through the webcam... It's so hard... I have been trying to find work just to be able to be with her... There were a lot of interested employers who really said they would hire me.... but upon telling them my situation of needing a visa... Things become a lot different...
I'll give up anything... I'll work really hard... The only thing that's keeping me from going there is the visa thing... Actually... I'm crying right now... This is one of those moments when I can just feel my heart becoming so heavy... Sometimes... I feel like falling apart from missing her... It's even harder because my parents are very homophobic... I told them the truth about me and my partner already but all I got was digust and bashing... It's really hard coping with all of these... All at the same time... It's like I'm being held as a prisoner... One day... I'll just go away... I need to keep my sanity... As depression seems to set in...

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Getting to know you

2006-09-12T20:22:34Z

NEW USER here...looking for fellow lesbian mates! im 19 and in seattle...just getting aquainted to tribe through a friend...my blog is an exuse to all blogs currently, as i only have one post. but give me a chance and say hi!! :-)

-cerial

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Gay Marriage: A question of Civil Rights

2006-09-10T06:37:36Z

Gay Marriage: A question of Civil Rights

Statement of Peace and Freedom Party Senate Candidate Marsha Feinland:

In the United States, the institution of marriage controls our right to such matters as child custody, hospital visitation, and retirement income. It is also the most common and socially accepted form of a committed relationship between two adults. To deprive any couple of the right to marry is discrimination. We cannot allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, just as we no longer allow "miscegenation" laws to prohibit interracial marriage.

As the U.S. Senate takes up a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in time for preelection posturing by the right wing, we should study the poses assumed by the two senators from California. Both Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were opposed to gay marriages in San Francisco when they were briefly legalized. This time, we will probably see them pointing out that the proposed amendment is "unnecessary," "inappropriate," or "not the business of the federal government."

My position is that a constitutional amendment or any law banning gay marriage is unjust, discriminatory and absolutely wrong. As long as the institution exists, everyone has the right to marry.

Also see:

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/28/18302034.php?show_comments=1#18307388

Marsha Feinland for United States Senate
http://feinlandforsenate.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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Queers over 40 tribe

2006-08-18T20:36:40Z

Hey all , just wanted to put this out there.
I have a queers over 40 tribe. for me Its for men, women, trans etc.
I am trying to get more women in the tribe, to make it more balanced.

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Ovum donation

2006-08-16T23:20:52Z

I don't believe I will ever have children of my own, but I would like to become an ovum donor. I know there are responsible families who cannot concieve but would be willing to consider using an ovum donor. Have you been a donor? Do you know someone who has? Please help me build a support community for this topic by spreading the word!

http://tribes.tribe.net/ovumdonors

Thanks~
MJ

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ISO Everlasting Love and Companionship

2006-08-16T21:11:20Z

...with a hearty dose of joy!

Particularly interested in women over 45, professional, responsibly out, respecting my out, knows how to share without keeping count, appreciates easy laughter and forgiveness, says what she means and means what she says... you know, act like a grown up (even if you have to go to CoDA to give your inner child some air).

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Lisa King (RIP: 1960-2006) Memorial, 5/28/06

2006-07-31T14:05:12Z

LISA KING: Memorial for a Poet Warrior
Produced by Friends Of Lisa King

Sunday May 28, 2006 2pm-8pm
FREE Memorial and Celebration @
The Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave. Central Square, Cambridge MA
Spoken Word, Video, Music, Photographs, Slide Shows, Open Mic time & Surprises.

Lisa King 1960 — 2006:
Poet, writer, spoken word artist, National Poetry Slam champion and Amazon Super Slam repeat champion, Lisa produced and hosted the first National Queer Slam for the 1995 OUTWRITE conference in Boston MA. A trailblazer of the slam poetry/spoken word movement of the early 90's, Lisa was a punk renegade, activist, rabble rouser, butch dyke, creative, passionate & an inspirational force.

Over 40 people & acts will perfrom Sunday May 28th, including:
Thalia Zedek (Boston MA)
Lucky 57 (Providence RI)
Nancy Asch and Beth Heinberg/Red River Valley (Ashville, NC)
Jaclyn Freidman (Boston)
Emanuel Xavier (NYC)
Cheryl B (NYC)
Felice Shays (NYC)
Ren Jender (Cambridge MA)
Aliza Shapiro (Boston)
Morris Stegosaurus (Cambridge)
Amatul Hannan (Cambridge)
Michael Brown (Cambridge)
Patricia Smith (Boston)
Richard Cambridge (Cambridge)
Gary Hicks (Boston)
Yvette Leaphart
Jessica Rose
Sara Seinberg
Gunner Scott
Eve Stern
Adam Stone
Zilla McCue
Ryk Mcintyre
Deb McKee

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* Info: www.truthserum.org/lisaking
* Audio of Lisa King: users.rcn.com/ngender/lisaking

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is there

2006-07-04T02:35:36Z

was wondering if there is any one from roseville or sacramento who is single and would like to hang out ? i've had some bad luck on the dating internet so im being brave let me know

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hi there im amber

2006-07-02T22:25:07Z

hi im fairly new to tribe and just wanted to say hi to everyone ...

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to all the women out here...........

2006-07-02T22:24:20Z

where do you meet nice sain women ? i know thats probally a strange question but i have been getting on some dating sites yes im scared but thought what the yek ill try it i have so far meet some really shady women either they want to have a 3 some or they or bi which is fine by me but im not into that i dont like sharing if you know what i mean....and some say they like to meet but never do .....can anyone help? id be more than willing to take some advice.....and another thing i am a big woman when i mean big i mean as in 230 pds big..do you think that scares some women off? please be honest? amber

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i have an important question

2006-06-09T03:47:46Z

would you go to someones house that you meet on a dating site? for a one night stand?

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Woman/girl opens this Friday in Seattle

2006-04-17T16:40:19Z

Woman/Girl
Written by Roxanne Ray
Directed by Kerry Christianson

15-year-old Sabrina has a new girlfriend: 33-year-old Kate. What can Sabrina's mother do? Police? Counseling? Secrecy against a backdrop of rules...

When authority meets love, watch who comes out on top...

When: April 21st - May 6th - Fridays @ 8pm and Saturdays @ 3pm and 8pm

Where: Richard Hugo House - 1634 11th Avenue on Capitol Hill

Tickets: $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door
(800) 838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com
Special Offers - $9 early bird special online for April 22nd / TPS members are 2-for-1 at Saturday matinees

Cast: Cherilynn Brooks, Eileen Fix, Linnet Blumenthal, Danielle Reierson and Christine White

Special 'talk backs' with the cast & crew on Sats the 22nd & 29th at Hugo House ... let us hear your thoughts & Q's!

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Your first time..

2006-04-02T16:55:54Z

Was your first time planned or did it just happen?

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valentines day

2006-02-05T00:38:46Z

Roses are red and violets are blue,
A gift thats picked out just from you.
Uniqe and lovely some are hand made.
Come and visit my website today!
www.fullcirclecreation.com
Happy Valentines day Tribe!!
xoxox

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Obscenity Prosecutions

2005-12-08T15:55:35Z

Alberto Gonzales has a long list of people he's going to censor.

And this is why TRIBE is now censoring your civil rights....

Wave of Obscenity Prosecutions Leads to Closure and Self-Censorship of Websites

Contact:
Susan Wright, NCSF Spokesperson
(917) 848-6544

October 20, 2005
October 20, 2005 - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced that his office will specifically target "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions. The Department of Justice began recruiting in late July for a new anti-obscenity squad to pursue obscenity prosecutions, and the FBI announced in September that it was forming an anti-obscenity task force to crack down on pornography.

Any website that has content containing "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" should be forewarned that prosecution is possible. Additionally, Federal sentencing guidelines state that any obscenity- related punishment should be "enhanced for sadomasochistic material."

Forty people and businesses have been convicted of obscenity since 2001, and 20 additional indictments are pending according to Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. There were only four obscenity prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration.

Though adult content is, in theory, protected by the First Amendment, only a jury can determine if a work is obscene or not under the subjective set of standards that vary from one community to the next established in the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Miller v. California.

Text is not inherently more protected than images when it comes to obscenity charges. The erotic fiction website Red Rose Stories is facing obscenity charges after federal agents raided the owner's home on October 3rd, taking computer equipment and diskettes that contained all of their files and site information.

The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution. The owner of three SM websites, known as GrandPa DeSade, removed his websites from the Internet. SuicideGirls.com also announced they are self-censoring their materials over concerns about a possible obscenity crackdown.

Recent prosecutions of obscenity on websites include: A former police officer in Lakeland, Florida, was arrested on October 7th on over 300 obscenity-related charges for the sexual content posted on his website. The same day, webmaster Chris Wilson, owner of amateur website NowThatsFuckedUp.com, was raided on charges of obscenity by a local Sheriff s office.

"I think it's crucial for us to stand up for consensual sadomasochism and other alternative sexual practices," says Barbara Nitke, fetish photographer. "This is a battle worth fighting, and I hope everyone who can will just censor out the most provocative material from their websites, but keep them up. I also appeal to the lawyers in our community to help us find ways to keep people's websites up."

Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) have proactively challenged federal obscenity laws as applied to the Internet, arguing that obscenity laws based on "local community standards" are too vague and their existence burdens protected speech, resulting in self-censorship due to the fear of prosecution. A district court three-judge panel in New York ruled that while Nitke and the NCSF members were at risk, more proof was needed that obscenity laws cause otherwise protected speech to be restrained through acts of self-censorship. The case is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

"The effect of silencing alternative lifestyle speech was exactly why we brought the lawsuit," says attorney John Wirenius, lead counsel for NCSF. "The self- censorship we are seeing underscores the importance of supporting our ongoing obscenity challenge."

To contribute to the appeal of the CDA lawsuit, go to: www.ncsfreedom.org/donations.htm

Barbara Nitke - www.barbaranitke.com

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A project of NCSF and the NCSF Foundation

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
410-539-4824
media@ncsfreedom.org
www.ncsfreedom.org

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Anything going on this weekend?

2005-12-06T21:23:08Z

I'd like to do something special with other "like minded" people and was wondering if anything was going on?

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the longest you've been on a relationship?

2005-11-30T18:51:14Z

was she bisexual? or gay? who ended the relationship? why?...lol.....tha's a lotta questions.....answer whichever or all whatever you'd like

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PUBLIC AFFECTION~

2005-11-29T08:57:07Z

@aol.com

Inside of a perfect moment,I imagine a delicious
dream.
For an instant things are not all,as they now
apairantly seem.
For this moment time,,life stands still,people,ocean
and air.
YET,I am allowed to kiss you and hold you with but one
care.
As if time stands still for us,so we might share our
embrace.
Not hidden in the dark but out in this glorious light
of day.
As frozen,silent society,cannot see our loves true
voice.
To love another woman,with full heart and souls
choice.
You might not be so very nervous,to show your own
love.
To the woman you promise your heart to,given Godddess
from above.
I imagine that time stands still,for this moment we
can share.
More than ever an embrace,to remind me how much we
care.
This fantasy warms my blood,to dream we might feel
found.
A time a space where we ,are not afraid to make
passions sounds.
I can touch you where ever we are,unihibited,sensual
sweet.
To hold their true loves hand,while walking down the
street.
You would not stop or worry,if anyone would notice or
see.
All of time would stand still,if you wrap your arms
around me.
In this moment I realise,I would kiss you here,now and
forever.
If you could feel at peace with me ,my lover,my friend
together.
In public,private,in light or dark,I love you!With all
my heart!
In ocean on land in air you see,
with you,,
time for me .......starts!

Yours,
Luna

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Happy happy thanksgiving ya'll!

2005-11-24T06:04:50Z

yall have a fun day with lots of luv & food....

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please help, this will only take 30 seconds

2005-11-22T10:39:33Z

This seriously only takes 30 seconds and will make a fucking difference. PLEASE call and repost as well!

CA is so close to the passage of a same-sex marriage bill. All we need now is the Governor's signature. Though he's threatened to veto it, he HASN'T yet. We need to tell him that the people of CA are for legalizing same-sex marriage. So please call him! It only takes a few seconds.

Call his office at (916) 445-2841 and follow these simple steps. (You don't even have to talk to anyone!)

1. Press "2" to comment on legislation

2. Press "1" to comment on AB 849 (AB 849 is the gender neutral bill hat will allow same-sex couples to marry)

3. Press "1" to support it

That's all there is to it!
Please forward to friends and family who might lend their support.

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Cross roads

2005-07-18T14:33:07Z

i will ost this here i am new to tribes so i will post in the all the tribes i am in
I am at a cross roads of my life all my life I have always found my self interested in women. Sneaking to take my brothers playboys cuddling my friends wanting to be with them when I reached the teen year I had sex with boys knowing the norm was to be with men finding that sex with men was no more mechanical than dancing at 18 I married and because I wanted to have children in my life and at 18 I did not know there were other options. I found myself in an abusive relationship with a man who resented the fact I was so unhappy with him he would destroy all friendships I developed with other out of fear that they may bloom into something else. Now I am divorcing him and very confused by my life I cannot find a woman to become involved with because they seem to assume that I am bi and they are my walk on the wild side and that I am just exploring. I love my children very much and would never trade them to have a new relationship even if it would make me happy. Even if it is the only thing I have been thinking about for years, the only thing to make it through long nights lying next to a man who hurt me and never understood me. To have someone else control every aspect of you is torture to watch women walk past holding hands while someone digs their fingers into your shoulder is agony and to die like that and they be shut out of a community that you have longed to be a part of is death. Why do people presume to know my sexuality my ex did it and now total strangers do to.

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New to the tribe....

2005-07-07T01:44:08Z

Hi all, I just wanted to say hi to everyone, I'm new to this tribe and have recently become more at peace with my sexual prefrence.

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womens music festival in california

2005-06-15T19:11:10Z

not an ad, i am just excited about this festival!
campbettycampout.com
July 22-24, 2005
Camp Betty is a music festival and campout celebrating the music, arts and creativity of women.
This first annual event is open to all and features three days of music, comedy, arts, film, vendors and workshops in an amazing outdoor environment at Black Oak Ranch, three hours north of San Francisco in Laytonville, CA.
please join my tribe so more people can find out about this festival! it is going to be awesome! campbetty.tribe.net/

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Fu*k Buddies

2005-05-24T20:45:35Z

B.U.S.H. Magazine is on the web. Read it are weekly for parties and events. Comment on the monthly articles that are posted by women like you. This months topic is "Fuck Buddies" can Lesbians have them? What are the politics involved? Whats your opinion. We all want to know.

*Add your voice to the community. Look for us in coffee house near you we will be going to print real soon.
Bushmama~

Come by and share: http://bushmagazine.blogs.friendster.com/bush_magazine

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Relationships suck sock fuzz!

2005-04-22T04:46:22Z

Why do lesbian and drama have to go together? I suppose there's drama everywhere..but more so in the gay communnity. Why can't we all just get along and laugh....:0P
Ya..in a perfect world eh...?

Oh sole ol meio...Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.....

Ok, sorry folks my girl just took me for a major ride just to dump me...Soooo..I'm a little loupy.

Any kind words of wisdom? Or just tell me to suck it up and get over it? *pout* :0( *sniffle*

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a little slice of love

2005-04-18T19:18:07Z

i wrote this poem for an ex of mine. but it describes perfectly the idea that love can exist for two people and then it changes or evolves into something else. you can admire qualities in a person. But those qualities can change, disappear, or maybe that person doesn't show you that side of themselves anymore. that doesn't dissuade from the fact that it existed at one point. the hard part is accepting that life is constantly changing and sometimes we don't keep up with the change.

Magnetic Poetry

you and me in the sun
drunk with the dream of love
promised passion under a blood red moon
we must have died that day
eternally entwined soulmates
whisper our magnificent rise
a burn of sacred depths
i lay in your arms
and laugh at our crazy life
thinking i know your strong love for me please,
let me escape the dark
another sad heart
open to romantic fantasy
too hard flying over blue paradise
between feverish sex
we remember pleasure only
ache for hungry looks
we always linger together
though she never says i love you

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Marriage amendment reintroduced

2005-01-26T00:34:04Z

Take action with just a few clicks at http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/actioncenter/advocacy/b_margay-137168

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long distance

2005-01-22T22:51:05Z

My girlfriend and I are in a long distance relationship. I was just wondering if anyone else out there has been part of anything like it and wondering how they cope. I was also wondering what kind of things you do (other than phone calls) that let them know you miss and care about them.

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Strange but true tales from a Cowgirl

2004-11-12T08:14:32Z

Howdy!

I'm a Cowgirl-Renaissance Woman-Jane-of-all-Trades-Lesbian who lives with her husband in Texas. Yeah, I know... "How the hell are you a lesbian married to a man...Especially a STRAIT man???!!!" I don't control these things guys. I just am living my life. I met a soul who captured my heart and I cannot live without. I AM a little pissed God chose to put that soul in a male body but I'm not the kind to turn away love that is real.

I am a true Jane-of-all-Trades in that I have held or done practicaly every job I have ever wanted or been intereested in at some point in my young life. Yep, 29 is still considered young, but I'm just getting started. Just wait till I pass 30!!! I'm gonna shock your socks off.

*laughs*

I'm a dreamer with a realists keen intelect, a giving person who remembers to keep enought to pay her bills before going to save someone, and finnaly a Religious woman with room in my heart for more then one bloody answer. There is more to me then this but I'll let ya'll figure it out. Mysteries are more fun that way.

So I'm going to contenue in my life looking for my future wife to add to my simi-sexless marrage to my husband as we forge a good life and nest for whatever happens next.

Chao!

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new to tribe

2004-10-24T08:16:56Z

Hey all you cuties out there...........I am new to the tribe and wanted to say Hi...........so any words of wisdom for me?

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hello everyone!

2004-08-29T00:44:29Z

Hi y'all,
I'm new to this tribe so I thought that I'd drop a line and say hello. I'm a single 26yo white lesbian Jew trying to meet new people both in San Francisco and all over the place. I would love to talk to others about all sorts of things.

I'm especially interested in learning how others (or their friends) meet lovers-to-be who are monogamously-oriented and, at the same time, independent. I'm not a big drinker, so bars are not so much fun for me. I'm usually more of a coffeehouse going grrl, into folk music, vegetarian cooking, and sex-positivity, including, but not limited to, kink-friendly sexin' and butch/butchy-appreciation Do y'all have any suggestions on types o'places that I should be checking out or websites or other (fabulous) tribes that make you especially happy?

Hope to catch up with you soon and thanks for reading!
Peace.

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My HRC Page

2004-06-30T20:20:20Z

Please visit my HRC page to defend marriage equality:

www.hrcactioncenter.org/actioncenter/advocacy/b_margay-137168

While you're there, you will see seven different actions you can take to make an important difference (for free) with just a few clicks.

Thank you so much for checking it out!

Bright blessings,

Bonnie

"It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem." ~ Coretta Scott King

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NYC Pride

2004-06-21T20:00:36Z

Hey, this weekend is pride in NYC. Just curious if anyone in here is going. I'm going with some friends, it'll be my first pride experiance. If anyone is interested in hangin out give me a hawler. Plus, if anyone knows the city well and could offer some advice or a tour guide for the lesbian scene that would be sweet since I don't know my way around too well.

Thanks

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Explanation of Main Photo

2004-06-07T12:44:29Z

The Labrys, or double-bladed ax comes from the goddess Demeter (Artemis). It was originally used in battle by Scythian Amazon warriors. The Amazons ruled with a dual-queen system, and were known to be ferocious and merciless in battle, but just and fair once victorious.
Rites associated with the worship of Demeter are believed to have involved lesbian sex.
Today, the labrys has become a symbol of lesbian and feminist strength and self-sufficiency.

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Hello

2004-05-19T21:14:05Z

Hi all, I'm new here and I'm pretty quiet until you get to know me or there is something I'm really passionate about, so I thought I'd plug my two favorite tribes...
LGBT in Illinois
This is a place where all lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans, allies, queer, questioning, etc people can meet and converse.

I Blame Laura
Something goes wrong and of course it's never you're fault.... blame Laura! Everyone needs someone to blame, the gays, the blacks and everyone else have been blamed too much! Blame Laura!

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Lovers

2004-05-12T21:23:12Z

Lets talk about lovers..how do you feel about your girl? Where did you meet? What would you change about them if you could?

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