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First-Ever Wife-Wife Teammates Compete At The Gayest Olympics Ever
Wife team Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh might have had their eyes on diamonds when they married in 2013, but now they have their eye on the gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
This is their fourth Olympics together, but their first as a married couple walking out onto the field to compete for the United Kingdom.
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Grand Canyon Names First Female Superintendent
The Grand Canyon will get its first female superintendent following a sexual harassment scandal that has rocked the world renowned park in Arizona.
Christine “Chris” Lehnertz, the superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will take the lead at the Grand Canyon National Park, announced National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis on July 19.
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One Black Mom & Her Kids On An Outdoor Adventure Of A Lifetime
It’s officially camping season. We are dead heat in the middle of summer fun camping, hiking, and splashing around in lakes, which includes a tour of the United States’ National Parks. After all, the National Park system is celebrating its 100 year anniversary.
To beat the summer crowds, one adventurous mom, Christina Benton, packed up her three kids: Joshua, 13, Averie, 10, and Nathaniel, 6, on a 64-day, 5,704 cross-country winter adventure of the National Parks. Her goal was not only educate her children, but to promote diversity in the U.S.’s natural wonders.
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Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch
Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.
“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”
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Green & Free Is The Fashion During Rainbow Fashion Week
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.
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LPAC Hosts Night of Celebrities and Comedy at Levity & Justice For All
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.
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Madison Paige Makes a Big Splash with Debut
Madison Paige Delivers Pop With Soul At The Dinah Debut & Hits The Summer Girl Party Circuit by Nicole Clausing When the Goddess of Music takes something away, she often gives something back. The Dinah 2016 marks the end of a career for one longtime lesbian favorite act: Canadian band Hunter Valentine are calling it […]
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Girls Rule Tel Aviv Pride 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.
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Girl On Girl Kiss & Arrest In Paradise Delivers $80,000 Payout
Was this Hawaii 5-0? The danger: Two women holding hands and kissing in a grocery store in Honolulu, Hawaii.
They will receive an $80,000 settlement the federal court in Honolulu announced May 20.
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Dana Goldberg Will Fill The Emerald City With Women’s Laughter At Seattle Women’s Pride
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.
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Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
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.
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Doing the Dinah: An Epic Party To Remember
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.
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