Arthur, Remembered
2007-12-01 19:34:00
Please enjoy this vintage Hahn at Home in honor of Arthur
and all those who have died before or since and for all of those surviving with HIV/AIDS. World AIDS/HIV Awareness Day is today. I’ve seen some pretty eloquent blogs on the topic and felt a little inadequate to post anything particularly insightful. Every single person afflicted has a story. Today, that would make over 40 million stories. But, I just want to tell you about one. Arthur was a long, lithe, sexy, beautiful, graceful Black man about my age. He was witty, bright, sardonic, seductive, charming, and though he could occasionally be a Miss Thang, he was mostly just kind. I met him in the last two years of his life. He had been infected very early in the epidemic, probably during his travels with the theater company he sang and danced in—he never really knew for sure. When I first got to Omaha, he was at “the bar” (read: social hub for almost all Omaha over-30 queers). That night I decided I neede
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Top 10 things lesbians need to quit
2007-11-28 10:06:00
10. Quit wearing ties. They are over. Avril stopped, now you can too!(This also goes for popping up your collars, wearing "mom" jeans, and flannel anything!)9. Stop buying pets. My theory is that after you bring the second pet into your home they are no longer pets and just animals. 2 is the magic number here. If you start bringing home shit like rabbits and hamsters (and you don't have kids) you have a problem.8. Communicate in the bedroom. We are both women, talking is what we do. Yes, I too have a lady town, but it doesn't mean our post office is located on the same street. Give a girl some direction.7. Limit your Ani Difanco consumption.6. Quit keeping your sex life a secret. It's about time the world knows our tricks of the trade. Adopt a straight man and let him know how it's done. Tis your civic duty.5. Quit hibernating once in a relationship. It's good to have friends. Remember, they will be there when she's gone!4. Quit smoking. You may think it looks cool at the bars, b
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Guest Post: From Jan
2007-12-08 16:37:00
Fourteen years ago when I hit a wall of fatigue that was diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction, I made a commitment to purchase organic foods as much as possible. This commitment is for my health AND for the health of the environment. I pay more for groceries, but I feel I am doing something wonderful for this and future generations. Jan
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A Little Something for a Snowy Saturday
2007-12-08 15:48:00
Seeking the SacredIt comes to this: Knowing the warmth of your hand Upon my touch-starved desert flesh, The soft caress, palm to palm, Fingers twining one to one, Tracing each knuckle bend, each milky nail. I wake remembering a kiss Never given nor received, Yet always offered: My sacrificial lips swollen with the rush Of amorous blood clamoring release. The salty fruit of your skin Lingers upon my tongue's memory. I know the musky tastings Of your dark and secret places, Revealed in frantic tactile urges Pressing, wordless, forward. I will never hold you, But you are mine: Closer than twins Born one atop the other. You have sealed your sacred self Whole within my skin; The profane becomes Holy, and I worship Needing no other church.
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Introduction
2007-12-08 00:10:00
Hi everyone!My name is Jen, and I just just happened to stumble across this website last week through one of those serendipitous series of clicks that sometimes happens in cyberspace. I'm excited to join the amazing group of contributing authors and thought I would start by sharing the introduction I wrote on my own blog, to tell you a bit about myself.Who am I? That was a far easier question to answer a few months ago, before I started down this journey of exploration and self-acceptance. Now, my sense of self is both more solid and far more confused than it ever was.Let’s start with the basics. I am married, to an incredible man who loves me more than I feel I come close to deserving. I am also a mother of two precious little girls. I’ve lived my life up till this point as a happily married, heterosexual woman. I had acknowledged in the past, both personally and to my husband and my inner circle of friends, an attraction to women that dates back at least to my late teens. I was
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Eureka!
2007-12-06 22:20:00
Though I try to keep up with music, I find myself constantly falling behind for a variety of reasons. Like because I play the same three songs from the radio over and over until I’m so sick of them I never want to hear them again so have no time to find “new” artists. But, one day, I got a note from someone on Facebook, so I went to check her out. I ♥ her bigtime. Trish Monaco is mixing her latest CD and is taking preorders. There are several good reasons to spontaneously go buy your girlfriend a CD by a “new” artist—all of which may lead to you ending up naked due to your incredible thoughtfulness. I dig her blog too, where you can actually make an order. Love her lyrics, love her edge. Did I mention I ♥ her?Visit Lori at Hahn at Home
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My Big Fat Christmas Nightmare
2007-12-04 10:40:00
About Christmas
as such I do not have any reservations. There's only one negative thought I connect with Christmas and this is the burial of my grandfather, nine years ago shortly before the Christmas of 1996. He had died very suddenly of a condition later described as heart insufficiency (I don't know if that's the correct term in English). His funeral was very sombre. It was a cold dreary December day. The priest, who had visited us at home, was very friendly. I had prepared a little piece about my grandfather but wasn't sure if I would be able to say something that day. She said she'd give me a sign when it would be time for me to speak and then I could see if I would feel up to it. Of course I didn't. Being sentimental by nature I nearly drowned in my own tears...This is the connection to the present Christmas time. Again I am flooding the house in tears, the reason being that this year's Christmas is heavily overshadowed by the possibility that my girlfriend might go back t
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erase hate
2007-12-20 13:17:00
Like so many others, I was so deeply disappointed last week to learn that the Matthew Shepard Act had been dropped from the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill.I clearly remember learning about the brutal hate crime that resulted in Matthew’s death. I was a year out of college, planning my wedding, and was feeling as if I had the world at my feet. I was still deeply in denial about my own sexuality, but can recall following the news reports with a sense of horror and grief. Reading the details of what this kind-eyed boy, just a year younger than me, had gone through…it was, and is, beyond my ability to comprehend.If it had passed, “The Matthew Shepard Act would have expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.”* Seems pretty straightforward right?It has been nine years since Matthew’s death. Nine years, and despite the efforts of Matth
The GLBT version of DIGG and Genia's back!
2007-12-13 16:42:00
So I'm all about blog love lately. Us little blogs have to stick together after all. So before this blog gets huge and TLL is just a little twinkle in it's eye I would love for all of you to check out TopOutNews!!Brent, the blog admin, contacted me to check it out. I get a lot of emails to check a lot of things out. Most of the time I end up learning how to grow a larger penis, (Why do I always want to spell this word "Penice") or corresponding with someone in Nigeria. With that said it was nice to find a great GLBT blog that reminded me of the ever infamous Digg.Here's a blurb about what this blog has to offer:This site is for the LGBT community to post their favorite LGBT blog news and website news content links to be voted on each day. It is sort of like Digg.com but just for the LGBT community. So, submit a link to some news on the web, look through the other submitted news stories, and vote on your favorite news each day. Help us fan the flames by letting others know ab
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Coming Soon! The New TLL!
2007-12-13 12:18:00
Readers!I am very excited to announce that TLL will be launching from a brand new url soon! We are currently working on making the new site look nice and pretty. Keep an eye out for the new launch date, and while you're at it start thinking about blogs you would like to nominate for the TLL Lesbian Blog of the Year. We will start asking for submission in mid January.If there is something you would like to see on the new blog that we don't have on this one drop us a comment and we'll see what we can do.
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personal
2007-12-12 11:31:00
This is the first post I wrote for my own blog. The first piece of writing of my own coming out story, the first time I acknowledged in print that this was my new reality. It was written a few months ago, and a lot has happened since then, but it still means a great deal to me because of what a huge step it was at the time, so I wanted to share it today._______________________________Today I happened across the story of Sean William Kennedy, a 20 year old gay man who was killed in a brutal hate crime last spring. I’ve read far too many of these stories before. I’ve always reacted strongly; with sadness, confusion and anger that such hatred exists in this world. I’ve reacted strongly, and then gone about my day in the way that we are all able to do after reading of tragedy – with the blissful notion that it will never touch us.This time it was different.This time I had not even gotten through the first paragraph when my body began to shake, and tears came to my eyes. I felt dizz
inevitable
2007-12-24 15:35:00
and I came across a slice of wisdom that said"you were never not going to be here'and it was rightthis was as inevitable as the tidesas the shift of seasonsas the cycle of life and deathmy whole life I have been spiralingtoward this pointand I no more had a choice about reaching thisthan I did about being born into this bodyor craving the taste of dark chocolate melting liquid on my tongueor having azure eyes that see morethan I can ever comprehend.it seems so clear now.i wonder how I didn't always know.but of course I always knew.didn't I?i knew it somewherein my deepest depthsand hidden thoughtsand ignored dreams.i knew that I would belong herein the arms of a womansoftness against softnessnestled curve against curvewarmth against warmthbreath against breathflowing endlessly together into the long, long night.Yes.it was as inevitable as night following dayas letters forming wordsas the rising of the sun.as the heady free fall of loveas the force of change itselfit was as if t
DIGG, the Technological Version of the Patriot Act
2007-12-22 14:59:00
One of the things I love about my Community, whether it be the blogging community, the GLBTI community, or the community in which I live, is experiencing our diversity. We are of all colors, religions, ages, sexual orientations or gender identifications, socio-economic levels, or any of the other differences that make us human, different, and special in our own special way. But, watch out—danger lurks in these here blogging waters, and it's not the bloggers you need worry about! It's Digg. Who Are These Guys?From Wikipedia:"Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical
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This is Hard
2007-12-22 13:53:00
This is a hard post to write, and I'm not even sure how to do it, but I'm going to try. In summer, 2006, my mom passed away. I, being the oldest of her 4 children, got to handle her estate, and for that, I was very glad to have been a paralegal for the previous 4 years. Long story short, each of the siblings received a decent sum of money; nothing huge, but for me it was the opportunity to be able to leave said dreaded paralegal job, and take some time to assess my life as it was and how I wanted it to be, and to pursue working from home part time as a medical transcriptionist, AND to take my dream trip to Spain as a celebration of my 50th birthday, which I had been planning for the past 7 years. Okay, all of that happened. As of November 15, I had officially been working from home for a year, did my travels, etc., etc. It was a great year, and as frugal as I tried to be with the money, it's about gone....so....I now find myself still up in the air about "what I want to be when
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