A new TV series focusing on a group of lesbian and bisexual women in Glasgow is to be broadcast on BBC3. (more…)

Eva Sweeney is a 26-year-old queer gender studies graduate. She also has cerebral palsy, a condition which means she can’t walk, speak, or use her muscles in conventional ways.

Eva’s disability encourages complete strangers to act in strange and ridiculous ways – from the homeless man who offered her money, to the Jehova’s Witnesses who tried to cure her in a public toilet.

To document this bizarre treatment, Eva has mounted a discreet video camera to her wheelchair and she posts the funniest and most infuriating footage on her blog, The Deal with Disability. In this interview with Lesbilicious, Eva explains what it is she’s trying to do with her blog. (more…)

Far-right group the National Front will be attending Reading Pride 2009 in order to protest against the gay community’s ‘flamboyance’. (more…)

Tegan and Sara have released the artwork and track listing of their new album.

The 13-track album ‘Sainthood’ will be released on 27 October 2009 in the USA. An international release date has not yet been announced. (more…)

Jessica Simpson has outed her dog on Twitter. Simpson posted a picture of her dog ‘Daisy’ with another female dog called ‘Bella’, and wrote: (more…)

I’m at the doctor’s. Normally I really like these visits: the white coats, the smell of excellent hygiene and the fact that I know s/he is getting paid, by the government, just to listen to me whinge about my ailment for ten minutes. When I was kid, I would even get a sweet out of the deal.

Today, I don’t feel that same soul-quieting sense of security. Because today, I am going for a cervical smear and I hear it hurts. (more…)

The Human League will replace Kelly Rowland as the Sunday headliners of Manchester Pride, organisers have announced. (more…)

Openly gay comedian Zoe Lyons had the 4th-funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, according to a poll by comedy channel Dave. Comedian Dan Antopolski (pictured) won first prize. (more…)

BBC sports presenter Clare Balding’s thyroid cancer is in remission. Balding made the announcement on her website, adding that she was “hugely relieved” that the cancer treatment had been a success. (more…)

‘Unemployed’ is a scary word, and ‘unemployed in a recession’ is a scarier phrase.

So when you finally do get a job interview everyone knows you should dress smart, smile lots and don’t do anything that might stack the odds against you… like reveal that you’re gay. Right? Wrong wrong wrong, writes Rosie Kirk. (more…)

Stonewall’s anti-homophobia campaign ‘Some people are gay. Get over it!’ will return to schools in September 2009 to coincide with the start of the new school year. (more…)

Prima magazine and the Daily Mirror are looking for case studies of lesbian parents. (more…)

The winner of tonight’s (19 Aug 2009) women’s 800m race at the World Athletics Championship is under investigation amid rumours that she is biologically male. (more…)

Roman Catholic nuns in the US are to be questioned about their views on gay marriage and abortion as part of a Vatican investigation into liberalism in women’s religious communities. (more…)

I didn’t get round to tracking down any exes and going for coffee with them. They are hard to track down. I think they might be avoiding me. I realised on my hunt that they have all deleted me as their friend on Facebook. (more…)

Several major supermarkets are censoring the word ‘lesbian’ from the packaging of Lesbian Vampire Killers DVDs. (more…)

Contemporary fine art photographer Donna Black has an exhibition of her work at Manchester Pride. Here she talks through her work and explains why she focused on LGBT lives in two very different cities, Manchester and Belfast. (more…)

Brighton Pride must find £50,000 in four months to pay off unexpected debts, organisers have announced. If the debts are not paid there may not be a gay pride in Brighton in 2010. (more…)

Ellen Degeneres has been voted the most ‘heroic homo’ by visitors of Manchester’s Lesbian & Gay Foundation (LGF) website. (more…)

Lady Gaga has expressed her love of all things gay in a new interview with US gay men’s magazine Out. (more…)

The Football Association (FA) is facing fresh calls to tackle homophobia following a survey of fans and players which reveals that 70% of supporters have witnessed homophobic abuse. (more…)

The first time I mentioned my LGBT leanings to anyone, I had just ventured back from the village pub to eat pizza at my best friend’s house. The pub wasn’t Village in Soho, but my local in the tiny village I called home.

A tipsy teenage Jules and I were chatting away when I casually asked him how he knew he was gay, then blurted out how I thought I was too, but couldn’t be because I liked men, but… (more…)

The Conservative MEP at the centre of a homophobia scandal has been forced to defend his views after several national newspapers including the Guardian and the Independent picked up the story. (more…)

LGBT people in Scotland are being urged to develop their skills and knowledge on LGBT rights with a free course. (more…)

A national survey to determine the number of LGBT clergy in the Church of England will be launched in late 2009. (more…)

Homophobia is a ‘propoganda device’ used to ‘denigrate and stigamatise those holding conventional opinions’, according to a Conservative MEP. (more…)

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday for a rally in honour of last week’s shooting at a gay youth centre. (more…)

It’s the 1950s in a small northern town. Charlie’s family is everyone’s business – first his father for spending rent money on expensive drinks for a mystery blonde, then his mother for developing a suspiciously close friendship with the town’s unmarried bee-keeping lady doctor. (more…)

Just days after a shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT centre which killed two people, a survey of attitudes towards homosexuality has found that 46% of Israelis believe homosexuality is immoral. (more…)

Gay rights group Stonewall has produced a new guide for lesbians wanting to have children.

The free booklet, called Pregnant Pause, has practical advice and legal information on the current rights of lesbian parents in the UK. (more…)

‘Which team do you support, young man?’

‘Erm, Sheffield Wednesday.’

I hunch forward and hope that my hoodie covers my breasts. It’s too late to back out now… (more…)

The number of civil partnerships in the UK fell by almost a fifth in 2008. (more…)

The first promo shots have been released of Three Rivers, a new hospital-based drama starring Kate Moennig.

Moennig, aka Shane in The L Word, plays a rather more heterosexual-looking doctor called Miranda Foster. (more…)

Three gay priests – one of whom is a woman – are among the nominees to become assistant bishops in the US Episcopal church. (more…)

Former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland has cancelled her appearance at Manchester Pride, just two weeks after the line-up was announced. (more…)

The Quaker church has announced it will perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples.

The church plans to lobby the UK government to allow Quakers registrars to conduct legally-binding marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples. (more…)

I was an openly gay sailor who served under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, writes Robaire Watson. My command nor my commanders saw me as a threat or as a liability. I am proof that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is not needed and does not work.

I’m an exception to the rule and this is my story. (more…)

Two people have killed and at least 10 were injured at a shooting in an Israeli LGBT centre this weekend. (more…)