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Green & Free Is The Fashion During Rainbow Fashion Week
- Heather Cassell
- June 17, 2016
Fashionistas of all stripes will delight this week with a dazzling platter of colors, patterns, prints and styles that will set the tone for the fall looks at the third annual Rainbow Fashion Week, June 17-24.
Upward of more than 25,000 fashion-forward enthusiasts will enjoy designs from celebrity couturiers to emerging designers.
Read MoreLPAC Hosts Night of Celebrities and Comedy at Levity & Justice For All
- Heather Cassell
- June 16, 2016
Tonight a powerhouse of lesbian entertainers are coming out are packing a powerful political punch to this election season at LPAC’s first-ever celebrity comedian gala benefit, Levity & Justice For All, in New York.
Rosie O’Donnell, Lea DeLaria, Kate Clinton, and Cameron Esposito and friends tennis legend Billie Jean King and special musical guest BETTY are headlining the special event, June 16.
Read MoreGirls Rule Tel Aviv Pride 2016
- Heather Cassell
- May 29, 2016
This week Tel Aviv is going to be filled with pride as “The City that Never Stops” gets down for Tel Aviv Pride, May 29 – June 4.
The Pride Parade is Saturday, June 3.
This year’s event’s theme is Women For A Change, celebrating queer women and their role in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Read MoreA Woman’s Spin Launches SPiN San Francisco
- Heather Cassell
- May 25, 2016
A hip social club that aims to bring San Franciscans of all stripes together has opened in the heart of San Francisco with a woman leading the way.
Priya Sen is SPiN Global’s first woman to head up the launch of the new pingpong social club, SPiN San Francisco (690 Folsom Street, 415-636-5995, SanFrancisco.WeAreSPiN.com) across from the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens.
Read MoreDana Goldberg Will Fill The Emerald City With Women’s Laughter At Seattle Women’s Pride
- Heather Cassell
- May 24, 2016
Comedian Dana Goldberg is going to get the women all riled up with laugher headlining the third annual Seattle Women’s Pride on June 18.
The sellout all-girl party is the event of the year bringing out more than 500 women to Capitol Hill to kick off the Emerald City’s Pride Week.
Read MoreCelebrating Women: San Francisco’s Women’s Building Hosts 45th Anniversary Gala
- Heather Cassell
- May 17, 2016
Walking into the Women’s Building in San Francisco earlier this month Girls That Roam felt like we were taken back in time to the politically awakened and turbulent 1970s of the civil rights, gay rights, and women’s movements.
Read MoreLove & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
- Heather Cassell
- May 2, 2016
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.
Read MoreOff the Beaten Path in the Dominican Republic
- Heather Cassell
- May 1, 2016
As I dig my toes into warm Caribbean sand and take another sip from the straw sticking out of the fresh coconut in my hand, I review my trip so far: In three days in the Dominican Republic, I’ve sipped rum, eaten gourmet food, splashed in the Caribbean Sea, strolled a World Heritage site, frolicked at a rainforest waterfall, and had the chance to gamble at a casino. I take another sweet swig, lie back, and let a smug thought momentarily take over:
Good thing I’m not acting like a typical tourist.
Read MoreDoing the Dinah: An Epic Party To Remember
- Heather Cassell
- April 29, 2016
Full disclosure…no, “disclosure” isn’t even the word. This is an actual confession: 2016 marks my first Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend ever.
There’s no shame in that if you’re one of the baby dykes frolicking around the pool. In fact there’s a brisk trade at this year’s festival in “Dinah Virgin” t-shirts proudly worn by dozens of party girls.
Read MoreFrench Women Soldiers Scale Mt. Kilimanjaro For Victims Of War
- Heather Cassell
- April 10, 2016
Five French women soldiers and one survivor of war scaled Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money to support victims of war.
The women who climbed in their uniforms, except for Cecile Trompette, who was a victim of war, made it to the mountain’s summit following a seven day trek April 10.
Read MoreAnnie Continues The Story Of ‘Women’
- Heather Cassell
- April 3, 2016
Famed Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Women’ Return With A New Generation On A Global Tour by Heather Cassell A line had already been formed long before Mel and I arrived at 649 Old Mason Street in San Francisco’s Presidio to take in Annie Leibovitz’s “Women: New Portraits” exhibit on April 3. The exhibit is a continuation […]
Read MoreModel Rocker Madison Paige Debuts Girl Love Ode At The Dinah
- Heather Cassell
- April 2, 2016
Androgynous Model Madison Paige Explores Her Musical Side And Love Of Adventure by Heather Cassell Sunday is a big day for Madison Paige. It’s her coming out, so to speak, as a musician when she takes the stage with her band to close out The Dinah in Palm Springs. “I’m nervous. I can’t even play […]
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