Congratulations to Lesley from Teesside, Emma from Gloucestershire and Amanda from Norfolk, who all win a copy of The L Word Season 4 DVD. (more…)

20% of lesbian and gay people in the UK have been victims of homophobic hate crimes at least once in the last three years, according to a YouGov survey of nearly 2,000 gay people.

Three quarters of those who have suffered hatecrimes – which range from harassment to serious physical and sexual assaults – don’t report the incidents to the police because they don’t think it will have any effect. (more…)

Female Agents, starring Sophie Marceau, follows a five women commando unit who are parachuted into occupied France during the second World War in order to protect the secret of the D-day landings.

To coincide with the release of the film on Friday 27 June, we have 5 copies of the novel to give away!

Enter the competition here. 5 winners will be picked at random a week from today, on Thursday 3 July 2008.

Female Agents, starring Sophie Marceau, follows a five women commando unit who are parachuted into occupied France during the second World War in order to protect the secret of the D-day landings.

To coincide with the release of the film on Friday 27 June, we have 5 copies of the novel to give away!

Enter the competition here. 5 winners will be picked at random a week from today, on Thursday 3 July 2008.

Like indie-folk? Live in London? Get down to the delightful new indie-folk night ‘Kick the Plug’, which next week has live music from Catriona Irving, Superman Revenge Squad and Moonshine-Moonshine.

Wednesday 2 July: Kick the Plug, Catch, 22 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, E2, London. From 8pm, £4 on the door. (more…)

Gay rights group Stonewall are urging a boycott of Heinz products after the food company withdrew a TV advert that featured a kiss between two men. (more…)

Gay rights group Stonewall are urging a boycott of Heinz products after the food company withdrew a TV advert that featured a kiss between two men. (more…)

The 22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) is touring the UK this summer with 8 films: (more…)

The GAYS have STRUCK AGAIN!

HOMOSEXUALS have been pushing mayonnaise to innocent CHILDREN, but after 200 complaints from morally robust Concerned Citizens, this affront to common decency has been BANNED. (more…)

Scotland is to have its first women’s archive. A £410,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will fund the scheme, which will include suffragette photos, family planning leaflets and a rare edition of the 1920s classic ‘Well of Loneliness‘, one of the first lesbian novels. (more…)

Scotland is to have its first women’s archive. A £410,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will fund the scheme, which will include suffragette photos, family planning leaflets and a rare edition of the 1920s classic ‘Well of Loneliness‘, one of the first lesbian novels. (more…)

LGBT asylum seekers can be safely deported to Iran as long as they live ‘discreetly’, believes Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. (more…)

LGBT asylum seekers can be safely deported to Iran as long as they live ‘discreetly’, believes Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. (more…)

It’s not a good week for the NHS. After last week’s news about the NHS failing lesbian and bisexual women, The Observer reports that many primary care trusts are discriminating against women who smoke by denying them fertility treatment. (more…)

Entered the L Word DVD competition yet? If not you have 24 hours left to do so. The competition ends today (Monday 23 June) at midnight London time.

Enter the competition here – all you have to do is tell us what you think should happen in Season 4. Good luck!

Are gay people really born and not made? Is this the end of the nature vs nurture debate? Lesbilicious spoke to some experts to find out more… (more…)

New brain-scan research published this week indicates that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait. (more…)

Veteran singer-songwriter kd lang is touring the UK this summer to promote her new album, Watershed.

Tickets at around £35, and some venues are already sold out, so be quick. (more…)

Lesbian and bisexual women are at a much greater risk of suicide, self-harm and heavy drug and alcohol use than straight women, according to the greatest ever health survey for queer women in the UK.

Many lesbian and bisexual women are also being refused treatment or given incorrect health information by the National Health Service (NHS). (more…)

Lesbian and bisexual women are at a much greater risk of suicide, self-harm and heavy drug and alcohol use than straight women, according to the greatest ever health survey for queer women in the UK.

Many lesbian and bisexual women are also being refused treatment or given incorrect health information by the National Health Service (NHS). (more…)

Queen Latifah apparently plans to make the most of California’s gay marriage laws to marry her longterm partner, personal trainer Jeannette Jenkins. (more…)

The producers of Wife Swap are looking for LGBT families to take part in the new series of the Channel 4 show. (more…)

There’s just one week left to enter the Lesbilicious competition to win The L Word Season 4 DVD boxset.

We’re giving away 3 DVD boxsets, worth £39.99 each, to celebrate the release of the Season 4 DVD in the UK. Have you entered yet? If not, you can enter the competition here.

Do you carry pink pounds in your pocket? No, me neither. I’ve just emptied the contents of my wallet on the desk and making up the grand total of £2.48 there are some brown-gold coins, some shiny silver coins and a few grubby copper coins, and they all look remarkably unhomosexual. (more…)

Do you carry pink pounds in your pocket? No, me neither. I’ve just emptied the contents of my wallet on the desk and making up the grand total of £2.48 there are some brown-gold coins, some shiny silver coins and a few grubby copper coins, and they all look remarkably unhomosexual. (more…)

Lesbian Vampire Killers: Two no-hopers. One cursed village. A bus full of foreign female students and an army of salacious lesbian vampires. It’s gonna be one hell of a night!

The film Lesbian Vampire Killers hasn’t been made yet, but it sounds like it’s going to be a load of predictable stereotyping trash. Should we all join a group calling themselves Angry Lesbians to campaign against it, or is it just a bit of harmless fun? (more…)

Tear-jerker Brokeback Mountain is set to become an opera. The film, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Glyyenhaal, focused on the lives of two cowboys who fall in love in rural 1950s America. It won several high profile awards, including three Academy Awards.

The New York City Opera has commissioned the work, which is based on both the film, directed by Ang Lee, and the short story by Annie Proulx that the film is based on. The opera will premiere in the Spring of 2013.

Today is the official launch of The L Word Season 4 DVD in the UK.

To celebrate we have 3 DVD boxsets to give away, worth £39.99 each! Enter the competition here.

The closing date for the competition is 23 June 2008.

We’re hiring new writers at Lesbilicious. Interested? Read on… (more…)

Remember AfterEllen’s Hot 100 poll? One month and 100,000 votes later, the winner has been decided by you, the great lesbian and bisexual public. And the winner is… (more…)

Tess Owen is sick of the gay scene. And here’s why… (more…)

Tess Owen is sick of the gay scene. And here’s why… (more…)

Garbage singer Shirley Manson is set to have a major role in the next season of ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’. (more…)

Garbage singer Shirley Manson is set to have a major role in the next season of ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’. (more…)

We’re used to casual LGBT discrimination from tabloid rubbish like The Sun and the Daily Mail, writes Milly Shaw, but who would expect it from the usually thoughtful, liberal Guardian newspaper? (more…)

We’re used to casual LGBT discrimination from tabloid rubbish like The Sun and the Daily Mail, writes Milly Shaw, but who would expect it from the usually thoughtful, liberal Guardian newspaper? (more…)

Summer’s pretty much here, which means it’s time for Pride! Below are the June Pride events taking place in the UK and Ireland. If we’ve missed any out, feel free to let us know with via the comment box. (more…)