An all-queer calendar featuring lesbian and bisexual models is now on sale.

The ‘I Love Kissing Girls 2010’ calendar features 12 sets of couples – and trios – kissing in scenarios ranging from lifts and beaches to football changing rooms, graveyards and even supermarket carparks. (more…)

Spain’s leading gay magazine has been the latest LGBT publication to become a victim of the global recession. (more…)

A straight couple hoping to be the first heterosexuals in the UK to have a civil partnership have been refused by their local registry office. (more…)

Ireland’s only lesbian resource centre is calling for book donations for a fundraising Books ‘n’ Buns Day. (more…)

Students at a London university are protesting the planned visit of an extremist Islamist preacher who encourages violence against gay people. (more…)

UK laws which allow religious groups to refuse employment to LGBT staff contravene European legislation, the European Commission (EC) has announced. (more…)

Everyone has heard jokes that negatively stereotype lesbians, writes Eddie Acorn Edmondson. Lesbians move in on the first date. Lesbians are dungareed fashion disasters. Lesbians – despite being sport crazy – are overweight. Lesbians like nothing better than styling their hair like that ‘lady off of the horse racing’ (Claire Balding). And, my favourite: Lesbians hate men. (more…)

Research has shown that children raised by lesbian couples outperform those raised in a heterosexual environment.

Believed to be based on research carried out both in the UK, at Birkbeck University, and in America, the issue was raised by Professor Stephen Scott, Director of Research for the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, the government’s main agency for parenting. He also stated that daughters with lesbian mothers were more likely to go into professions viewed as traditionally ‘male’, such as medicine or law, and that their children were in general more likely to be aspirational. They are more likely to fight against social injustice, however they are no more likely to be gay or bisexual than the offspring of straight parents.

The findings were revealed at an event run by think tank Demos, a group believed to have had considerable impact on Labour Party policy in the past.

Gay rights campaign group Stonewall has revealed plans to lobby the Government to allow civil partnerships to take place in religious buildings. (more…)

The USA’s largest LGBT publishing company has shut down, causing the immediate close of five LGBT newspapers and magazines. (more…)

The 2009 series of ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!’ has launched – with 3 openly gay contestants. (more…)

A bill preventing the incitement to homophobic attacks has been watered-down after an amendment to protect ‘free speech’ was added. (more…)

An Alabama high school who cancelled their prom after a lesbian member of the planning committee asked to bring her girlfriend has reconsidered – and 17 year old Cynthia Stewart will be allowed to bring her date. (more…)

A heterosexual couple who don’t believe in the institution of marriage are fighting for the right to have a civil partnership. (more…)

A ten-year legal battle has ended in victory for a French lesbian couple trying to a adopt a child. (more…)

Discrimination against LGBT people is worse in Europe’s Mediterranean countries, with more people in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and France believing that discrimination against LGBT people is widespread in their country. (more…)

Lesbilicious.co.uk publishes news relevant to lesbian/bisexual women every day Monday-Friday, and we are looking to expand our team of news writers. (more…)

Crime writer Anne Perry is the subject of a new documentary currently doing the rounds at film festivals. But this isn’t the first time Perry will have appeared on film – she was the inspiration behind Kate Winslet’s matricidal character in lesbian cult classic Heavenly Creatures (more…)

Sweden’s first openly lesbian bishop has been ordained after narrowly winning the election in May. (more…)

Jan Moir has been named Bigot of the Year at the 2009 Stonewall Awards thanks to her vicious article about Stephen Gately two weeks ago in the Daily Mail.

Moir was a late entrant to the category and shares the award with Father John Owen, who was voted Bigot of the Year by thousands of Stonewall supporters for claiming that the majority of child abuse was carried out by gay men. (more…)

So you’re Out, writes Kathryn Schneider. You summoned all your courage and you kicked the closet door open with your Converse-clad foot. Mum knows, Dad knows, your hair stylist knows, even the neighbour’s dog knows. So why do you still leave the ‘Interested In’ category on your Facebook profile blank? (more…)

From September 2011 all 15-year-olds must receive at least one year of sex and relationship lessons and parents will no longer have the right to withdraw students from sex education lessons, Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, announced yesterday. (more…)

Androgynous beauty Kristen Stewart hit the headlines today when she uttered the immortal word “I’m a lesbian” in an interview with magazine Entertaintment Weekly. Unfortunately for her legions of lesbian fans, she had her tongue planted firmly in (her own) cheek. (more…)

Researchers from Newcastle University are looking for people based in the North East of England to talk about their experiences of the local gay scene. (more…)

Voters in the US state of Maine have repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. (more…)

A 37-year-old Israeli man has been arrested in connected with the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT centre in August 2009. (more…)

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night in Trafalgar Square, London, in a vigil for the victims of homophobic attacks. (more…)

What does it take to make a lesbian icon? What is that particular quality in an entertainer that renders them dear to the heart of gay girls and boys everywhere? These are questions I’ve been pondering in preparation for my new show A Brief History of Divas, which is coming up in London in November, writes Terry Sanderson. (more…)