A man has been arrested after throwing fireworks at athletes during the World Outgames in Copenhagen. (more…)

Middle class gay men and lesbians in the UK are attempting to portray themselves as ‘super parents’ in an effort to counteract inequality and discrimination, according to latest research. (more…)

Sarah Waters’ newest novel The Little Strangeris amongst the 13 books chosen for the 2009 Man Booker prize longlist.

Waters’ book is the bookies second favourite to win the prize, after JM Coetzee’s Summertime. (more…)

I’m sitting at the smallest airport waiting for a delayed flight with a thousand other post ski-holiday travellers. Between their goggle tans and sporting of the latest trend in footwear by design team Nasa/Abba, ‘moon boots’, they really are a hideous bunch. (more…)

Lesbians in China are petitioning the government to remove a rule banning gay men and women from giving blood. (more…)

Lesbians smoke more than straight women, gay men or straight men, according to a new study. (more…)

The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken has confirmed that The L Word is to become a feature-length film. (more…)

Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of Stonewall, quit the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over the weekend – making him the fourth commissioner to walk out on the EHRC  in a week.
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Fundamentalist Christian churches in Britain are performing exorcisms to purge gay people of demons, it has been revealed. (more…)

An Australian company specialising in dances for lesbians and bisexual women has won a legal battle to ban men from its parties.

The organisers claimed that some men were attending in order to solicit threesomes from the lesbian and bisexual women patrons. (more…)

Glamour model/author/business woman/professional celebrity Katie Price, aka Jordan, has revealed that she wouldn’t rule out dating a woman. (more…)

A lesbian couple have won the right to have IVF treatment on the NHS.

The couple, who have remained anonymous, were initially refused IVF by their primary care trust because they were a same-sex couple. (more…)

A Church-funded charity has spoken in support of gay adoption, provoking anger from the Catholic Church. (more…)

One difficult thing about being a serial monogamer is the limited space between relationships to do stupid things. Connected to this is the limited capacity of girlfriends to allow you to do do stupid things whilst in the relationship.

Stupid things like getting a lap dance from a stranger. (more…)

Pakistan’s transgender and eunuch community is to  be officially surveyed and registered, following a Supreme Court ruling. (more…)

It’s a rainy day and I am watching TV with my girlfriend when she makes a remarkable discovery: “Lesbians on TV are always ginger”.

Ever since she said it, I’ve realised it’s strangely true, writes Jessie McLaughlin. The more onscreen lesbians I can think of, the more turn out to be flaming redheads. It gets me thinking, what could possibly be behind it? (more…)

More than a thousand homophobic hate crimes were reported to the police in London in 2008 – 2009, an increase of 13.5% from the previous year. (more…)

Gay women feel under less pressure to have ‘the perfect body’ than heterosexual or bisexual women, according to a new study presented yesterday (15 July 2009) at the British Psychological Society Psychology of Women’s Section annual conference. (more…)

We’re pleased to announce that Lesbilicious.co.uk is back online! Apologies for the delay, and we hope you didn’t miss us too much.

Let’s face it, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film was never going to be highbrow, writes Jo York. Bruno pushes the boundaries of comfortable viewing even further than Cohen’s his last creation, Borat. (more…)

The recent high court decision to decriminalise homosexuality in India has been formerly challenged by a yoga guru, who claims homosexuality is a disease which can be cured with yoga. (more…)

Anti-homophobia campaigners were disappointed today, as the House of Lords voted to keep a controversial amendment to a bill designed to criminalise incitement of homophobic hatred. (more…)

LGBT Iraqis face far worse violence and victimisation now compared to when Saddam Hussein was in power, according to a new BBC documentary. (more…)

70% of gay and lesbian people in the USA identify themselves as Christians, compared to 85% of heterosexuals, according to a new study of over 9,000 adults. (more…)

What a weekend. How I managed to bump into people I know at London Pride is beyond me. Like accidentally coming across needles in a haystack. Yet when I needed to find someone…impossible. There were “hundreds of thousands” of people in London this weekend for the controversially themed ‘Come Out and Play’. Rosie Kirk shares some Lesbilicious highlights of London Pride 2009.

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The Queen has sent “supportive” letters to an anti-gay faction of the Church of England.

Her Majesty wrote twice to the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), offering her support, expressing her understanding and wishing them success. (more…)

Cambridge’s Pink Festival, planned for 22 August 2009, has been called off due to financial difficulties.

Organisers are blaming the economy for the problems in raising the necessary sponsorship for the free event. (more…)

From next week we’re starting a feature on Lesbilicious. As well as the daily news and weekly in-depth articles, we’ll also be publishing weekly columns from 4 writers.

As a taster of what to expect, here are introductions to each of the columns, as told by the columnists themselves: (more…)

Britain has sent it’s strongest message to date in support of LGBT rights around the world.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, who is openly gay, has started writing personal letters of congratulations to British diplomats overseas who show public support for LGBT rights. (more…)

A while back, we told you about our plans to interview former Dresden Doll (and now solo punk-cabaret queen) Amanda Palmer, writes Jane Bradley.

We asked you what you wanted to know, and you obliged with an assortment of penetrating questions on topics from holidays and haircuts to time travel, shaving and Jessica Simpson. Read on for Amanda’s answers… (more…)

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the law against consensual gay sex between adults is a violation of India’s constitution. (more…)

Dear Sappho. I’ve been in a committed relationship a woman for almost 2 years now. We’re very happy together and in that typical lesbian fashion, can’t imagine our lives independent of each other. For some reason though, we have this cyclical pattern of LBD! (more…)

A gay bar in Texas was raided by police on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the beginning of the gay rights movement. (more…)