Claire of the Moon is the butt of many a lesbian joke. Why? Well it’s crap for a start – awful clothes, stilted dialogue and dodgy acting by people who seem to think they’re in the lesbian equivalent of Citizen Kane. Also, it reminds those of us of a certain age, just how desperate we were for lesbian characters; so desperate that we paid out enough money for Claire of the Moon to be seen as a hit.

On Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the judge who will decide whether or not to uphold California’s Proposition 8 , which banned same-sex marriage, is gay. The article itself points out that the story is a little bit of a non-story and that everyone knew Judge Vaughn Walker is gay anyway.
Why did the Chronicle out Judge Walker? Why do we out anyone? And is it ok?

It’s that time of the year again, when most colleges go gay during their Rainbow Weeks or days. They serve to raise the visibility of LGBT students on college campuses, and thereby help LGBT students know that they’re not the “only gay in the village”. This is especially true for the smaller colleges throughout the country, where some students can genuinely feel that they are alone.

The first time you looked at the cover of one of Ann Bannon’s books, you probably laughed, or groaned, or just put it back. On the cover of Ann Bannon’s book, Odd Girl Out, the blurb reads,

Suddenly they were alone on an island of forbidden desires.

Right. Next?

WAR is, without a doubt, the most mental night I have ever been to. WAR is described on the Spybar website as a “Friday night for people who love glitter, gold and glamour!” In my opinion, this is the understatement of the century. There seems to be no rules in WAR, and it’s certain that anything goes. People dance on the couches, the seats, the stage, the windowsills, the speakers and the mantelpieces.

Today I reported on LezGetReal that Tullow Oil, an international but Irish-founded oil company, has invested USD 1.35 billion in Uganda’s oil interests.
Billion dollar investments in African fossil fuels are not the kind of news that we normally cover here at Gaelick, but bear with me. Remember back in October, when Gooner reported on the [...]

January 27th, 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops.

There are still plenty of people who are disappointed with the push for civil unions and same sex marriage. They see it as buying into a middle-class, religious, heterosexual ideal that really has nothing to do with gay people and how we live our lives.

Lucille Frances Ryan was born back in 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand, the fifth of seven children. With five brothers, she was always going to be a bot of a tom-boy and Lucy was always up to her neck in it with them; riding horses, climbing trees and enjoying the Kiwi outdoors.

Here it is: The final season of The L Word has begun airing in the US. And if past seasons have taught us anything, we sure as hell don’t know what to expect. Particularly as the timeline for this season begins three months after the end of season 5, when one of the main characters has been found dead in Bette’s swimming pool.