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Top Organizations for Lesbians

PFLAG Portland Oregon Parents Friends and Family of Gays and Lesbians

Summer is a great time to start volunteering for your community. Here are my picks for organizations that are doing great things for lesbians.

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Top Lesbian Wedding Songs

Thursday July 24, 2008
Picking a good lesbian wedding song is harder than it looks. It seems like our community’s best voices have more of a knack for being bitter and angry, or at least wistful and introspective, rather than sweet and sappy. You also want something that you can play in front of your parents without outing yourself as a freak. Here are a few that fit the bill.

Did you get married? What song did you play at your wedding? Add to comments below.
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Knight in Shining Armor?

Wednesday July 23, 2008

From the Lesbian Life Forum:

Common disagreement among my female friends...should the Knight in shining armor role retire? I'm old fashioned, I open doors for other women, I pay for meals unless it makes them uncomfortable, and then I ask if I can pay for coffee or whatever afterwards, I also try to listen and be attentive to a woman's needs, like if she says she's having a bad day, I'll cancel dinner out and bring it over to her house to just relax or if she sees something in the window to surprise her with it. I'll defend her if necessary.

Well according to my friends this make me not only a softie, but someone of my grandfather's generation... The thing is, this is just who I am, I mean I respect a woman's need to be an individual and do things for herself, but I also feel that doing things like opening doors and pulling out her seat are also signs of my respect for her. I've always been for lack of a better term "a perfect gentleman" when out with a woman, but my friends think that it can be off-putting to women of today, and to their credit, I DO feel uncomfortable when men open doors for me or offer to pay for lunch when I'm at my office. Is this role outdated?

What do you think? Give your opinion in the Lesbian Life Forum.

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