A pair of female skeletons, who buried holding hands around 1,5000 years ago, has been unearthed by workers renovating a palace in Modena, Italy.

The women, who are probably nobles, are buried in a joint tomb within the palace walls.

Observers say that hey seem to be positioned as though they are lovingly looking at each other.

“It is a very touching scene and very rare,” said one observer.

What’s strange is that all the news sources for this bury the fact they were lesbians deeper than the actual grave.

Graeme the cat goes to the train station everyday and waits for his owner, who, based on the rainbow collar Graeme sports, is probably a lesbian.

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In 2010, Gossip was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for “Outstanding Music Artist” for their album Music for Men during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.[11]

In 2010, Gossip was nominated for an ECHO Award, alongside groups such as Depeche Mode and U2.[12]
Fausto and Marc should definitely interview the lead singer or the whole group from “Gossip” on the Feast of Fun.

Oprah has been really generous lately by giving us a lot to chew on the Feast of Fun. Dios mio!

Gayle and Oprah go camping. LESBIAN RUMORS!!!!!

Oprah screamed “lesbian rumors” in her trademark voice just as she’s about to get in what appears to be the same bed in the same camper with her gal pal Gayle King.

Are flannel pajamas code for something?

Oprah and Gayle made quite a few lesbian jokes and flannel pajama puns during her camping show at Yosemite National Park. Thank you Oprah!

Ellen DeGeneres and Jane Lynch! Watch two of the most celebrated (and funny) lesbians on television, hanging out reflecting about coming out as entertainers in Hollywood.

Always classy, bold and fabulous Jane Lynch tells ellen: “Because of people like you, you were at the height of your fame and came out, and that blazed the trail for me. It made it that much easier for people like me. I say it all the time.”

That’s how you do it.

And then right after that, they out Julia Roberts!

“I wish when I was 19, a 42 year old woman had approached me.”

Nikolai Alekseev, principal organizer of Moscow Pride, described the court proceedings as “a funny circus. Even the judge was laughing.”  A lawyer for city insisted that the march permit wasn’t being rejecting for “the gay issue,” but because there were too many other activities going on in the city that same day.

Moscow Pride organizers applied for their permits on May 17th, the first day possible under the Russian federal permit law.  Yet the reason given for the rejection of one of the proposed rally sites, the City said, was because there was another event scheduled for that same location – a 9 AM to 9 PM rally celebrating the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin!  This is what prompted the outburst of laughter from Judge Marina Chernova, who upheld the ban anyway.

“Often I am not pleased with how I speak in court,” said Alekseev, who was acting as his own attorney, “but today I was very satisfied with how I did, but it didn’t matter because it was a political decision.”

Defeated in court, Alekseev was still defiant. “We’re not going to surrender to the illegal decisions of the Russian authorities, and threats of violence against our peaceful public manifestation.”

Russian gays’ courage – who besides arrests and violence, risk losing jobs, housing and family connections for being out – stands in sharp contrast to the cowardice on display by Western embassies in Moscow.

When Pride events elsewhere in Eastern Europe have faced government bans and/or neo-Nazi violence, Western ambassadors have stepped in to support lesbians and gays. When the government of Lithuania initially rescinded a Pride permit for the capital Vilnius, “they made joint statements of the embassies that they’re supporting Pride, and they took part.”

In Belgrade, Serbia when the authorities banned Pride, the Swedish embassy defied the local authorities by hosting a Pride event for local and international gays and lesbians on the embassy grounds.

But it’s one thing to support despised minorities in poor countries whose governments don’t exercise much power on the international stage. It’s another to protest the policies of governments which exercise enormous economic and political power.

“In Bucharest and in Bratislava you have ambassadors participating in pride marches, but not here,” said Alekseev.  “For here they just sold our human rights in Russia for economic interests.”  During each of the past few winters Russian authorities have shut off natural gas exports to West due to ostensible trade disputes with countries between the West and Russia.  And in an attempt to assert American dominance over the government of Iran with new international sanctions, the Obama administration has been on a charm offensive with the offensively anti-civil rights governments of Russia and China, cutting a nuclear weapons deal with Russia just a few weeks ago.

The contrast between Western official attitudes towards Pride in most of Eastern Europe versus that in Russia and Belarus, a country tightly allied with Russia, could not be starker.  When the dictatorship which governs Belarus banned the May 15th gay pride in its capital, Minsk, Western diplomats were nowhere to be found, despite direct appeals by gays for their support.

“In Minsk they disappeared.  The Europeans, the British, the Germans, the French [diplomats] they just disappeared for the Pride.  We invited all of them but no one came.”

Belorussian and Russian gay activists ended up conducting the city’s Pride protest as a running game of cat and mouse with the Belorussian riot police, literally running down city streets with a huge Pride banner as police chased them, arresting some of them as they attempted to fade into cafes and other businesses after the police broke up the event.

After nearly five years’ experience organizing Pride events despite government bans and unofficial threats of violence, Moscow Pride activists run a very tight ship.  They made direct appeals to the ambassadors of the United States, Canada, France, Denmark, Germany, Britain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and the European Union. “All responded negatively,” said Alekseev.

Of course none of them said the rejections came because of the economic power that Russia wields.  “We already organized everything with the Danish,” said Alekseev. “It was just a question of who was going to cook during the party, and then they sent us an email” revoking the invitation.

The French said “’Our embassy is the house of human rights. You can find yourselves welcome here,’ but as soon as I asked them about hosting a pride reception in the grounds of the embassy, they said, ‘No, no, we cannot do it for a particular organization.’ Almost the same reply came from the ambassador of the European Union.”

So here we are less than 24 hours before Moscow Pride, the Western embassies’ cowardice on full display in contrast to the courage of Russian and Belorussian gay activists.  When Moscow Pride occurs tomorrow, it will be no thanks to the “freedom loving” Western governments.

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Read previous articles about Moscow Gay Pride at:

U.S. Activist Joins Moscow News Conference Denouncing Mayor’s 5th Ban of Gay Pride Parade

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/90573/index.php

While Russian Gov’t Bigots Seem Steadfast, the Ground is Shifting Beneath Them

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/90561/index.php

Gay Liberation Network activist en route to Russia

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/90547/index.php

There’s a lot of hot science fiction movies coming this month. One highly anticipated film is Terminator Four: Salvation.

Did you know that the terminator movies are very popular with Lesbians?

On today’s show America’s Lesbian Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito,is here to explain why our lavender sisters are fascinated with killer sexy robots from the future.

Cameron is performing on May 12th at the Center on Halsted for “Gayla 2.0″ a benefit for Parents and Friends of Gays and Lesbians. [Thanks to JasonSmith.com for taking such great photos of us!]

Listen as we talk about the hot topics and news that matter to you–

Carrie Prejean – can she reinvent herself as a closeted lesbian sex icon?

Say hello to Chanel, the world’s oldest and most glamorous dog.

Marie Osmond loves her lezzie daughter and is gay for marriage equality

And Trans Rights on the Isle of Man.

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Gay travel writer Michael Luongo joins us to expand on some of the ideas from his last appearance on our show about the gay experience in the Muslim world. Just what lies beneath the surface of all that same-sex affection? Is there sex involved?

Just to entice your appetite, here is an awesome Flickr group “Male Beauty of the Middle East”- it’s very hot.

I highly recommend Michael’s book “Gay Travels in the Muslim World” which is a collection of short non-fiction stories about a variety of men’s perspectives on places like Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan on what it means to be sexually attracted to other men.

The tell-all stories make a great bedtime or summer beach vacation read. They are an enticing hybrid of the romantic “Lawrence of Arabia” and the gritty intensity of a 1960s pulp fiction novel.

Honestly, these day’s I just don’t know what’s real anymore. We’ve been busy helping to tape a special reality TV show project which we aren’t ready to talk about, but it’s a whole lot of fun and joyful to be a part of the process.

But the show edits make Marc out to be the “good” guy and me out to be the “bad” guy. Just because I look like Jeffrey Sebela on Project Runway doesn’t mean I’m a jerk!

For crying out loud, Marc is the one who keeps a twitter blog on INSULTS. Subscribe via text message and you can get it on your phone!

Speaking of gritty celebrities, did you hear? Lin Lo said OK-go to being a lesbo.

I’m not sure just what I wrote out. OK, this means Lindsay Lohan just officially came out and used the word LESBIAN to describe herself, as in “lesbian relationship.” You go Lin-Lo! FYI, it may be a Hollywood first, as most famous entertainer Daughters of Bilitis prefer to use the word “gay” or “omnisexual” to describe their passion for ladies.

I’ve heard of bats in your belfry, but a young women found a bat in her padded bra. She thought it was her mobile phone vibrating when she took it out and it was tinny little bat. She let it go and go and felt terrible that she may have frightened the poor thing.

Kuwait a minute, yes, it’s the podcast that is rarely Syrian but will always Afghanistan by your man- Feast of Fools.

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