Sentences with phrase «openly as lesbians»

Even though more women are living their lives openly as lesbians, it's still a task to find viable candidates for... (read more)

Even though more women are living their lives openly as lesbians, it's still a task to find viable candidates for successful relationships.

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As an openly lesbian woman working for a men's professional basketball team, I'm humbled to share a unique coming out story right here in the pages of this magazine so aptly titled «Clarity.»

Brunne is described as the «first openly lesbian bishop in the world,» living «in a registered homosexual partnership» — with another lesbian priest — and «has received a church blessing» for it.

I have several gay family members, but I have no problem with people who's beliefs are different (as long as they are not discriminating against others) I also know several openly gay / lesbians that work for Chick - fil - A and have felt very comfortable there, at least until others started causing an uproar.

Another surprising thing «S» told me was that, as a lesbian, she has been unable to speak openly about it in the LGBT community.

Former NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly gay supporter of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who has been mentioned as a potential LG candidate, called Nixon an «unqualified lesbian» a day after the actress announced she's going to challenge the governor in a primary.

In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama vowed to end the policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military — commonly referred to as «Don't Ask, Don't Tell.»

As to other key achievements of the Obama White House, she cited the Supreme Court decision to legalize same - sex marriage and the repeal of the ban to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military.

Jared Polis, a web entrepreneur who launched his bid for a Colorado U.S. House seat last May and has received the endorsements of openly gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin as well as the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, was bypassed by top gay fundraisers and activists in his home state in favor of Joan Fitz - Gerald, a former Colorado Senate President.

Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun control.

Caballero, who is openly gay, says he believes «lesbians are favored for apartments» — as more than half of the building's 12 known female residents are gay.

Glick was first elected in 1990 as a trailblazer — the first openly lesbian candidate elected to the state Legislature.

The first openly gay Council speaker also had the entire gay political establishment behind her, including the Empire State Pride Agenda, the Stonewall Democratic Club, Lambda Independent Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and the Human Rights Campaign, along with women's organizations such as Emily's List and the National Organization for Women - NYC.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Crafting fellatio aids seems a tad irrelevant for the lesbians in the room, though Ku emphasises that the LGBT community are more openly interested in body modification as a whole.

85 per cent of UK participants (including those describing themselves as heterosexual) believe an openly gay, lesbian or bisexual person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sporting event.

As more and more lesbians live openly, more studies are being done to determine what, if any, affect being raised by a...

Even in gay bars, lesbian girls are not able to flirt openly, as there is rejection since there are many straight girls too.

This completely shows that EliteSingles openly welcomes lesbians and gays as well.

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.

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