‘Boyfriend’, the new song by Gaypop favourites Alphabeat, was probably inspired by Swedish lesbian film ‘Show Me Love’. (more…)

‘Boyfriend’, the new song by Gaypop favourites Alphabeat, was probably inspired by Swedish lesbian film ‘Show Me Love’. (more…)

Same-sex partners of police officers killed or injured on duty are to receive the same benefits as heterosexual partners, the Home Office has announced. (more…)

Leisha Hailey (cough-AliceFromTheLWord-cough) has a band, called Uh Huh Her. But you knew that, right? In any case they have a new video for the single Not A Love Song, and it features rather a lovely unicorn-pony. Here’s the video: (more…)

Over half of Californians want gay marriage to remain legal in their state, according to the latest poll. (more…)

Gay and lesbian civil rights activist Del Martin died yesterday. 87-year-old Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon were the first same-sex couple to be legally married in California earlier this year. (more…)

Gay and lesbian civil rights activist Del Martin died yesterday. 87-year-old Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon were the first same-sex couple to be legally married in California earlier this year. (more…)

A few weeks ago we held a competition with women-owned erotic emporium Sh! to give away 10 bullet vibrator kits as part of National Orgasm Day.

We had a great response to the competition, and it was a tough job for the Sh! ladies picked out their 10 favourite 4-line poems. Here are the winning poems, in all their orgasmic glory: (more…)

The credit crunch is forcing gay people working in London’s financial district back into the closet, according to a survey of almost 1,450 job applicants. (more…)

Nothing screams ‘hypocrite’ like making homophobic legislation in the office and making homosexual love in the bedroom (or in airport toilets).

Now you can celebrate the glorious lies of anti-gay Republicans with your very own gay really straight Republican Hypocrites playing cards. (more…)

Just days after the announcement that Hallmark is to sell gay marriage cards, the backlash has begun. Conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America has spoken against the company for ‘pushing homosexual messages’. (more…)

Just days after the announcement that Hallmark is to sell gay marriage cards, the backlash has begun. Conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America has spoken against the company for ‘pushing homosexual messages’. (more…)

If you were at Manchester Pride this weekend, chances are you had your picture taken by the Lesbilicious crew. If you’re wondering where that picture is, then sit tight!

All the photos will be appearing in the next couple of weeks in our new Gallery area. The Gallery will show photos from events from across the country, and you’ll also be able to upload pictures yourself.

Once the Gallery is ready we’ll announce it here and on Facebook. Hope you had a good Pride, we certainly had an amazing time!

A woman was forced to leave a government building in California because she was wearing a ‘lesbian.com’ tshirt. (more…)

It takes just one twentieth of a second to decide if someone is gay or straight, scientists have discovered. (more…)

Friendship, love, sexual desire – the laws of attraction are complicated and confusing. How do you know what feelings to trust, and which to ignore? Kia Momtazi looks at the issue from a bi perspective… (more…)

Consider every gay equality battle over and won. Hallmark, the conservative and global greetings card company, has brought out a range of same-sex marriage greetings cards, signalling gay people’s full submersion into mainstream, mundane society. (more…)

You have just three days left to enter a tshirt and mug set from lesbian tshirt company Little Ms Tees.

To win a shirt that tells the world something like ‘I’d go AWOL for ALice’ ‘Not femme… just pretty’ or ‘my other t-shirt is a Bench’, just answer one simple question on the competitions page.

The closing date for entries is Monday 25 August at midnight GMT.

Click here to enter the competition

300 police officers will be taking part in Manchester’s Gay Pride Parade this Saturday. This is the largest ever number of police officers marching in a gay pride parade to demonstrate their support for the LGBT community. (more…)

Dear Sappho. I fancy my friend. Worst thing about it is that she is going out with another one of my friends. I think that things could have been different and that we should have ended up together – I am not a stalker either – there is something there and I think she knows it too. I hate myself for this. What should I do? Anon, 24, London
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The London Transgender Film Festival has a fundraising event this Sunday. The event is a transgender community event for trans people and their allies, partners and friends, and will feature film shorts, an exhibition, a zine sale and drinks and nibbles. (more…)

Olivia, the lesbian-focused travel company has launched its new project: a large-scale lesbian housing project. (more…)

Tough sport, tough love… (more…)

The L Word writer Rose Troche and fertility treatment campaigner Natalie Gamble will be among the nominees at the third annual Stonewall Awards ceremony this November. (more…)

Berlin’s memorial to the LGBT victims of World War II has been vandalised. (more…)

Katy Perry’s song I kissed a girl is “shameful and disgusting”, according to the singer’s mother. (more…)

Katy Perry’s song I kissed a girl is “shameful and disgusting”, according to the singer’s mother. (more…)

Fed up with stag party carnage, tourist authorities in the medieval Polish city of Krakow are starting to target gay tourists instead, reports The Observer. (more…)

How important is music in The L Word? Bianca Camminga investigates… (more…)

How important is music in The L Word? Bianca Camminga investigates… (more…)

Lesbian tshirt company Little Ms Tees are giving away three tshirt and mug sets from their range of 150+ lesbian/bi tshirts.

To win a shirt that tells the world something like ‘I’d go AWOL for ALice’ ‘Not femme… just pretty’ or ‘my other t-shirt is a Bench’, just answer one simple question on the competitions page.

The closing date for entries is Monday 25 August at midnight GMT.

Click here to enter the competition

The UK National LGBT Health Summit will be taking place next month in Bristol. (more…)

Ellen and Portia are getting married this weekend, according to Usmagazine. The couple are having a small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family. (more…)

Queer Ink has launched a short story/poetry contest with a first place prize of £200.

Fifteen special commendations will also be awarded, and all the winners will be published in the First Queer Ink Anthology. (more…)

“I want my hair cut my hair short and spiky, but i don’t wanna come out to my hairdresser cos shes my mums mate! I dont want to say give me lesbian hair but i dont want to come out looking like a bloke either. what can I say??? Also can you recommend any good hair products.” Hanna, 18, South Yorkshire
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Everyone’s favourite girl-crush Angelina Jolie has replaced Tom Cruise as the star of new spy film Edwin A Salt. (more…)

Andrea is a 35-year-old pregnant, neurotic single lesbian. She wets herself when she sneezes, she pukes at the roadside and pretends that she’s praying, and she worries about getting a girlfriend. (more…)

Olivia Cruises, Apple computers, Chevrolet, Curve Magazine, Mini Cooper, Hugo Boss: there’s a lot of product placement on The L Word. And you can expect even more in Season 6. (more…)

London Mayor Boris Johnson has slashed £10,000 from Soho Pride, just over a week before the event is due to take place. (more…)

Are you involved in the drag king scene? If so, a TV production company want to hear from you. (more…)

Rapper Kanye West spoke out against homophobia at his Madison Square Garden concert last week. (more…)

When you can buy nipple pasties on the high street and burlesque-esque pop bands are gyrating on MTV, has burlesque become boring?

Jane Bradley interviewed some queer-friendly burlesque stars to see what they thought… (more…)

Facebook is being used to help support gay refugee’s claims to asylum in Canada, according to the Canadian Press. (more…)

Darlington has its own Gay Pride tonight (Monday 11 August). (more…)

The world’s favourite celebrity lesbian couple, Lohan and Ronson are now officially married. Well, not ‘officially’ officially, but lesbi-officially. They’ve done a Sharmen (Shane and Carmen – keep up!) and got matching tattoos. (more…)

“I met a girl for the first time last night and she asked me to ‘define the relationship’. What the fxxx!? I would have told her to get lost but she’s hot. Is that bad? Thanks.” Anon, Durham
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The Metro newspaper certainly thinks so, and its gossip writers have reached this conclusion after careful examination of the following evidence: (more…)

The Metro newspaper certainly thinks so, and its gossip writers have reached this conclusion after careful examination of the following evidence: (more…)

If you think ‘credit crunch’ is a new kind of biscuit, you might want to check out Queercents’ new weekly feature on how to stretch your food dollar (or pound, or euro, presumably).

This week’s tip will have all the vegan/veggie girls feeling smug, as it explains the economic and environmental reasons not to eat meat. There’s also a recipe for vegetarian chilli with cornbread to make you feel better about moooving on from cow. (sorry, couldn’t resist…)

Britney Spears will play a murderous stripper in a remake of the 1965 cult film Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, according to the Telegraph. (more…)

We heart Cyndi Lauper. And she hearts us.

In a recent interview for the Times, Cyndi couldn’t stop talking about how much she loved the gay community, and how much she didn’t appreciate George Bush’s homophobia: (more…)

We heart Cyndi Lauper. And she hearts us.

In a recent interview for the Times, Cyndi couldn’t stop talking about how much she loved the gay community, and how much she didn’t appreciate George Bush’s homophobia: (more…)

The SuperGay Weekend is returning to Middlesbrough in September after a massive success in 2007. (more…)

German policewomen are to have special police bras, reports the BBC. The bras are designed to be worn with bullet-proof vests, as they don’t have metal or plastic features that could be pushed in the body by the force of a bullet. They also have ‘POLIZEI’ (police) running along the elastic.

Just look at it: could this be the dykeiest bras the world has ever known? (more…)

Ani DiFranco’s seemingly everlasting tour schedule reaches Europe this Autumn. (more…)

Do you really need lesbian hair to be a lesbian? Faith Bosworth investigates…

As much as I love Cher, she was wrong about one thing: it might not be in his kiss, but it’s most definitely in her hair. You may think you’ve got the most finely tuned gaydar out there, but you can’t deny that your little antenna starts wagging and beeping all the more excitedly when the lady you’ve spied has a short hairdo… (more…)

Liberal North American churches are to blame for the current turmoil in the Anglican church by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy, according to The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. (more…)

Liberal North American churches are to blame for the current turmoil in the Anglican church by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy, according to The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. (more…)

Hello lovely readers! As you no doubt realise, Lesbilicious publishes L/bi news stories every day from Monday to Friday. We also have opinion pieces, reviews, interviews and in-depth articles, which appear once a week, more or less.

Well there’s more… we’ve proud to announce that we have a new team of writers, who will each be writing a new in-depth article every Monday.

To help you keep track of these articles, we’ve created a new category, called Exclusives, which also hold all our past features, such as How to: fine-tune your gaydar, 12 things that could only ever happen in The L Word or Gladiators! You will flex your unfeasibly large muscles on my first whistle.

So without further ado, may we introduce the first of our Monday exclusives: Lesbian hair: the secrets untangled, by Faith Bosworth.

A new poll of 517 Protestant Christians in Britain has found that the majority believe homosexuality to be a sin, and that practicing gay men should not be ordained, reports the Times Online. (more…)