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Jan 25, 2009 6:54 PM CST

What Gets Women Hot to Trot?

Scientists and psychologists study female desire

(Newser) - Nearly one in three women lack sexual desire, and sexologists are trying to help, Daniel Bergner writes in the New York Times. They've hooked up female sex organs to machines and run sexy movies, showing that unlike penises, vulva are excited by a wide range of stimuli—gay men, women,...

LiLo and Ronson
Duke It Out
in Miami Hotel

Jan 3, 2009 10:17 AM CST

LiLo and Ronson Duke It Out in Miami Hotel

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson kicked off the New Year with a blistering back-alley clash and a hotel brawl, the New York Post reports. A homeless man eating a sandwich watched them go nuclear behind a Miami club. "When I storm off, you are supposed to follow me!"...

4 Busted in 'Hate Crime' Rape
of Lesbian

Jan 2, 2009 3:30 AM CST

4 Busted in 'Hate Crime' Rape of Lesbian

Tips from outraged San Francisco area led to suspects

(Newser) - Police have arrested all four suspects in the Bay Area kidnapping and gang rape of a lesbian last month that police have deemed a hate crime, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The two adults and two teenagers face charges including felony kidnapping to commit a sex crime, carjacking and gang...

Cops: SF Bay Lesbian
Gang-Raped in Hate Crime

Dec 23, 2008 3:02 AM CST

Cops: SF Bay Lesbian Gang-Raped in Hate Crime

Attackers taunted victim over her sexual orientation

(Newser) - Bay Area police are treating the brutal gang rape of a lesbian as a hate crime, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The victim, who displayed a gay pride sticker on her license plate, was kidnapped, gang-raped and dumped naked by four men who taunted about her sexual orientation. A $10,...

Grey's Axes Lesbian Doc

Nov 4, 2008 12:09 PM CST

Grey's Axes Lesbian Doc

Brooke Smith's last show airs Thursday

(Newser) - ABC is ending Callie and Erica's lesbian romance on Grey's Anatomy—and Brooke Smith's role as Dr. Erica Hahn along with it. Though Grey's executive producer said Smith's firing was due to a lack of "magic and chemistry," not her character's sexual orientation, insiders told Entertainment Weekly that...

LiLo Hearts Sam,
Won't Rule Out Guys

Oct 26, 2008 11:28 AM CDT

LiLo Hearts Sam, Won't Rule Out Guys

Friends say Lohan insists her next date will be a dude

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan isn't taking back any confessions of love for Samantha Ronson, but she's also not restricting her options, friends of the star tell the New York Daily News. Lohan "would date a guy next" if things fizzled with her DJ girlfriend, and plans to make it clear in...

LiLo to 'Scary' Dad: I Love Sam

Sep 24, 2008 12:35 PM CDT

LiLo to 'Scary' Dad: I Love Sam

Actress defends Ronson after Michael Lohan's public attack

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan is choosing girlfriend Samantha Ronson over her dad, the New York Post reports, after Michael Lohan called the DJ a “dark, hideous and a disgusting representation of humanity” in a weekend email. “My father obviously needs to be on medication to control his moods,” the...

Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

Aug 18, 2008 4:29 PM CDT

Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

Doctors cannot avoid homosexual patients

(Newser) - California doctors must provide services to gays and lesbians in line with all other patients, even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The justices unanimously shot down an effort by a San Diego County fertility clinic's physicians to use religion as grounds...

Sexual Confusion
Drove LiLo to
Drugs, Men

Aug 18, 2008 12:02 PM CDT

Sexual Confusion Drove LiLo to Drugs, Men

Actress thought being a lesbian would ruin her career

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan bedded a string of men and took drugs to suppress her lesbian urges before she embraced her relationship with Samantha Ronson, a pal of the actress’ ex-girlfriend tells the tabloid News of the World. “From the start Lindsay was very confused about her feelings so did more...

Pals: LiLo
Back to
Eyeing Men

Aug 15, 2008 12:49 PM CDT

Pals: LiLo Back to Eyeing Men

'Faux-mosexual' rumors shadow starlet, girlfriend

(Newser) - Friends of Lindsay Lohan suspect her relationship with DJ girlfriend Samantha Ronson may be coming apart, OK! magazine reports. Sources close to Lohan claim she has been spotted flirting with guys while Ronson isn’t looking, and they say she will likely make a move on “the next guy...

Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

Aug 6, 2008 11:31 AM CDT

Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

Spears hopes next Tarantino film will turn her career around

(Newser) - Britney Spears will appear in Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1965 cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as a lesbian stripper with a penchant for murder, the Daily Telegraph reports. Spears' character will encounter a young couple in the desert, murder the boyfriend and kidnap the girlfriend—and make...

Mark Ronson 'Approves' of LiLo-Sam Love

Jul 17, 2008 11:23 AM CDT

Mark Ronson 'Approves' of LiLo-Sam Love

After double-date, big bro's girlfriend says they're a 'lovely couple'

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan and celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson’s lesbian relationship is all but out of the closet—and now Ronson’s Grammy-winning brother Mark Ronson gives their love two thumbs up.“Her and Sam make a lovely couple—they seem really happy,” Mark's girlfriend Daisy Lowe told the...

Mass. Senate Votes to Allow Out-of-State Gays to Wed

Jul 15, 2008 10:45 PM CDT

Mass. Senate Votes to Allow Out-of-State Gays to Wed

Bill shoots down 1913 marriage restriction

(Newser) - A 1913 law that blocks out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts could soon be history. The state Senate has passed a bill that would repeal the law, which former Gov. Mitt Romney used four years ago to stop gay non-residents from marrying in his state, the Boston Globe reports....

How'd We Miss Lesbian LiLo?

Jul 9, 2008 11:44 AM CDT

How'd We Miss Lesbian LiLo?

Why it took a year to read the Sapphic writing on the wall

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s a lesbian? When did that happen? Turns out Star magazine first reported LiLo’s girl-on-girl romance in summer 2007—centuries ago, in celebrity gossip. Gawker explains why it took us so long to catch on.

Because gay Hollywood couples try to hide it: Holding hands in public?

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'Laura Bush'
No Conservative
in New Novel

GLOSSIES

Jul 7, 2008 4:44 PM CDT

'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president

(Newser) - In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing...

Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna
in Tell-All

Jul 6, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna in Tell-All

Alleges Gwyneth smooch, pill-popping, fighting dirty with Guy

(Newser) - Amid rumors of a crumbling marriage and an A-Rod affair, Madonna’s juicy past is now bubbling to the surface in a new biography written by her brother. At a boozy Hollywood party, the mega-star was dancing on a table when she pulled a surprised Gwyneth Paltrow up onto the...

Lesbians Bear Brunt of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Jun 23, 2008 8:08 AM CDT

Lesbians Bear Brunt of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Women discharged more often than men for homosexuality

(Newser) - Debates about gays in the military have focused on men, but new information reveals that lesbians have faced much greater "don't ask, don't tell" challenges. Although women make up only 15% of Army and Air Force personnel, nearly half of the soldiers and airmen discharged for open homosexuality were...

Gay Couples Tie Knot
Across California

Jun 16, 2008 7:45 PM CDT

Gay Couples Tie Knot Across California

Dozens say 'I do' in Calif. as lesbian activists tie first knots

(Newser) - Dozens of gay couples legalized their love in California today as the state embraced same-sex marriage, the Los Angeles Times reports. While small groups demonstrated outside county clerk's offices, activist couples got first dibs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. "We just love each other," said Robin Tyler,...

Scientists
Honing Gaydar

Jun 16, 2008 2:57 AM CDT

Scientists Honing Gaydar

Studies seek innate differences between gays and straights

(Newser) - Scientists are examining how homosexuality may affect everything from penis sizes to how one navigates new cities, reports the Los Angeles Times. Innate differences between gays and straights rooted in biology could lead researchers to discover the biological origins of sexual orientation.

Gays, Like Everyone, Find Marriage a Mixed Blessing

Jun 15, 2008 6:50 AM CDT

Gays, Like Everyone, Find Marriage a Mixed Blessing

Massachusetts' lessons for California couples

(Newser) - It’s been four years since Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, and there are winners, losers—and everything in between, the New York Times reports. In what one gay married man calls “a mixed bag,” it appears that gays are more likely to rush into marriage, more likely to...