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On Knowing the Donor
by By Gloria Fortún / Hester Prynne
June 2011
Lesbians who are not crazy murderers or tormented writers finally made it to Hollywood. The Kids are All Right, directed by lesbian director Lisa Cholodenko and starring the popular actresses Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a couple with two kids, has been a smash hit this winter. However, not all lesbians are happy with the movie.Get out!
May 2011
By Gloria Fortún / Hester Prynne
Kate Brown, Oregon Secretary of State. Kate Clinton, stand-up comedienne. Ellen DeGeneres, actress and television host. Melissa Etheridge, rock singer. Rosie Jones, golfer. Martina Navratilova, tennis player. Cynthia Nixon, actress. Rosie O’Donnell, television host. Suze Orman, financial advisor and motivational speaker. Guinevere Turner, producer. Cat Cora, chef. Annie Leibowitz, photographer. Denise Simmons, former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sheryil Swoopes, basketball player. Linda Villarosa, journalist. Alice Walker, writer. These are just a few names of lesbians who are out and proud in the USA and other parts of the world.
What They Won’t Do
April 2011
By Gloria Fortún / Hester Prynne
Us lesbians, we are used to watching movies or TV shows, or to reading books and magazines which feature only straight people, with the random gay man appearing from time to time. We have been doing so forever, and our enthusiasm when some woman loving is suggested is so great that we immediately become the biggest fans of the film or novel in question. Years of experience have trained us well to read between the lines, finding Sapphic clues everywhere. Sometimes we are right, like when many of us fell in love with Idgie, the tomboy on Fried Green Tomatoes, brilliantly played by Mary Stuart Masterson, and then the book (which we all bought and gave to our girlfriends on their birthdays) confirmed that what is only an insinuation in the film, is a beautiful love story between two women in the novel by Fannie Flagg. Sometimes we are wrong, like when we were convinced that Ani DiFranco was into girls and then she got married to that guy from her band and had a baby with him. Ah, why didn’t we stick to the reliable Indigo Girls?
Polyamory: Shared girlfriends
March 2011
by María Jesús Méndez
Is it posible to love two or more women at the same time and maintain a relationship with each of them? Polyamory refers to the ability to simultaneously keep loving relationships without lies and with the knowledge and agreement of the parties involved. Below, Silvia and Susana tell us their experience of living love beyond the limits of monogamy.
Ladies who leave their husbands because they fall in love with other ladies
October 2010
by Maria Jesus Mendez
They marry a man knowing that it’s a mistake or simply because they think that it’s the right thing to do. They live a calm life as mothers and wives until they fall in love with a woman or decide to end up everything and defy the environment to search for what they never dared before. Marta, Silvia and Helena, ladies with children who have left their husbands and now live as lesbians, tell us their stories.
My First Time
October 2010
by María Jesús Méndez
Horrible, funny, romantic, disastrous. At the age fifteen or at fourties. The First time takes a significant place in the scale of memories no matter the final result or the age you experienced it. Up next, different girls share us their memories and tell us about their first sexual experiences with women.
Lesbians during Francoism
May 2010
by María Jesús Méndez
Dangerous, drunk and pathological, these were a few of the names lesbians received during Franco’s dictatorship, a time in which homosexuality was punished by law and the only roles supported by the state, society and church which women could possibly play were the devoted mother and dutiful wife. Encarnación Granjo y Paulina Blanco have been toghether for 38 years. They both come from countryside and lived through Franco’s dictatorship, therefore they spent long years locked inside a sweltering closet. They’re active catholics, they know the church rejects them but want to change things from the inside, from the parish in which they participate. Today, free and married, they tell us their story:
Sexual Fantasies: To close your eyes and open something else
April 2010
by María Jesús Méndez
Every morning Maria arrives at work at 9 o’clock. She hates getting up early, so she prepares herself a strong coffee for fully waking up, talks to her fellow workers and checks her email. Ten past ten Blanca arrives, Maria’s boss, and gathers everyone in her office for planning the day. Maria sits just in front of Blanca with her notebook and pen to write down every detail. Blanca gives out orders and at the end of the meeting asks Maria to stay for an extra task. Blanca closes the door, moves away folders and her smiling children and husband’s pictures from the desk and sits there with her legs slightly spread.
Physical and Psychological Abuse in Lesbian Couples
April 2010
by María Jesús Méndez
«It was a Thursday, it was summer, it was hot and the day ended very late. Carlos, one of my friends from the office, suggested that we should go for a drink to celebrate the birthday of one of the interns. I hesitated, as usual. Carlos convenced me, he was right to say I never went out with them, I sent a message to Silvia, my girlfriend, I had one year and eight months of relationship and 10 months sharing an appartment with her. Her text message back was a sad face. Silvia had always been jealous, but since we lived together the situation was out of normal. The things she liked once, she hated them afterwards. I have very beautiful breasts, big, rounded. When I met her she used to say she loved my cleavage, but afterwards, when we moved in toghether, she got so angry if I wore a cleavage. “Cleavage is for whores. Do you think I can’t see that you only wear that to attract girls attention, and certainly boys attention too?
Lesbians in the working environment
March 2010
by Neko To Tachi
Internacional Working Woman’s day will be celebrated next march 8th, it’s rather obvious that we all work to make a living, but, is it possible that, even today, the range of situations and conditions that involve the development of our professional life is affected, directly or indirectly, by our sexual orientation? The logical answer to this question should be a negative response, but the social and working reality do not show such clear data.
Women. Brunettes. Blondes. Gingers. Auburns. Shy. Outgoing. Free. Guilty. Happy. Brave. Resigned. Proud. Blind. Sensitive. Awake. Women who are just what society allowed them to be. Women who make themselves every day. Women who change the world and women who don’t believe they are strong. Women who love women. Women who love men. Women who can’t even love themselves.
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