Word: lesbians
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...final vote count of the city assembly was announced - 39 in favor to 20 against - the crowd of gay and lesbian activists in Mexico City exploded into cheers, hugs and kisses. With a resounding majority, the Mexican capital had become the first city in Latin America to allow same-sex couples to marry and to have the same rights as heterosexual unions. A separate motion confirmed that the couples would be able to adopt children. "This is a huge triumph that has followed so many years of struggle," said campaigner Kin Castañeda, who stood next to her partner...
...news that a lesbian had been elected mayor of Houston, deep in the heart of the conservative South, was greeted with surprise this week. After defeats on gay marriage in places deemed far more gay-friendly than Texas, like Maine and New York, the victory of Annise Parker, who is in a committed relationship with two children, was a welcome, if puzzling, achievement for advocates of gay rights. The mayor-elect's photograph, showing her smiling sweetly and looking like Barbara Bush, was plastered everywhere from the Drudge Report to China's Xinhua news service, shattering all manner of clich...
...Houston, it is now harder for a lawyer to be elected mayor than a lesbian." - Rick Casey, political columnist (Houston Chronicle...
After coming to Harvard as openly lesbian, Smith came out as transgender his junior year and has recently taken steps to further the transition. His refreshingly candid approach to talking about transgender, queer, and feminist issues has gained appreciation around Harvard’s campus among friends and strangers alike...
While working with the former Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (now the QSA), the Women’s Center, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), and the Trans Task Force, Smith has lent his own unique perspective to issues of queer and feminist activism relating to what he identifies as “sex-positive activism...