Former Uber driver and male-to-female transsexual Barbara Ann Berwick is making headlines after winning a potentially game-changing employment case against the tech firm. But former employees of a phone-sex company run by Berwick in the 1990s claim she is guilty of the same violations of employment law of which she is now accusing Uber.
Greek yogurt brand Chobani debuted the latest television spot for its Simply 100 yogurt on Monday, with a surprise twist at the end–in the closing seconds of the ad, the couple eating yogurt in bed are revealed to be lesbians.
Actress Tatum O’Neal revealed to People magazine this week that since her relationship with John McEnroe, she has been dating mostly women.
On Friday, Judge Alan McCullough, an administrative law judge in Oregon, doubled down on his January ruling that the bakery Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against a lesbian couple by refusing to bake them a wedding cake, and he added
The award will reportedly bankrupt the seven-member Klein family and force Sweet Cakes by Melissa Bakery to shut down. The Kleins’ lawyer, Anna Harmon, said that the damages awarded was not limited to the sale of business assets, but would be taken out of their personal funds.
The musical Fun Home debuted on Sunday, and with it, the first lesbian lead character to appear in a Broadway production.
Hollywood’s major studios warmed to the idea of demonstrating white lesbian, gay, and bisexual characters on film last year, but completely ignored the transgender community in 2014, according to GLAAD’s third annual Studio Responsibility Index.
Comedienne and on–again, off–again TV show host Rosie O’Donnell has declared that “God gave us” HBO actress Lena Dunham to be the “embodiment” of feminist activist Gloria Steinem–despite the fact that Steinem is still very much with us.
By a vote of 861 to 293, the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trangender (LGBT) Republicans, were approved as a charter organization of the California Republican Party Sunday at the close of the weekend convention in Sacramento.
Lesbians earn 12 percent more than their straight counterparts, according to a global study. Researchers have said that the result is “puzzling”, but postulated that lesbian women may be more willing to take on jobs traditionally associated with masculine traits.
