At the heart of the music that DJ Rebecca and Fiona make is their friendship. It's this, more than anything, that makes the two DJs love what they're doing.

Melissa Ferrick's development as an artist has been long and challenging, but it's all been worth it with the release of her 12th self-titled album.

Jessy J is known for her mastery of the saxophone, but she's also a pianist, signer, and songwriter as she blends Latin rhythms and contemporary jazz.

What was the universal appeal of Marlene Dietrich? Here are some interesting facts about the screen goddess who was both manipulative and romantic.

An icon in the music scene, Nona Hendryx has been singing and making music for decades. See why Sweet Baby J'ai calls her the quintessential "Funk Mama."

Allowing consenting sperm donors: a man contacts his “willing to be known” sperm donor and has one of the most important conversations of his young life.

The Oxford English Dictionary has included the honorific Mx to staple titles such as Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms., for those who refuse to be defined by gender.

Here are five lesbian couples who have stayed together despite the pressures of their occupation, their popularity, and being out in the public.

The group Lesbians Who Tech held a summit in Berlin to give a voice to lesbians in the tech industry as well as to expand their community worldwide.

On Wednesday, cartoonist [and former LN cover] Alison Bechdel was named one of 21 new MacArthur Fellows. [caption id="attachment_1037" align="alignright" width="341"] Alison Bechdel via Lesbian News, September 2003[/caption] Bechdel’s name may be familiar to you from her graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?, or you may recognize her as the deviser of the Bechdel test, a metric she described in a 1985 comic strip that assesses whether movies have meaningful interactions between female characters. For decades, she’s been assembling a groundbreaking body of work that plays with what the cartoon form can do, through her graphic memoirs as well as through her comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For." Bechdel’s choice as a MacArthur Fellow made a splash, however, as it marks only the second time a cartoonist has been selected for the honor. The first, Ben Katchor, was awarded the fellowship in 2000. Graphic novels and cartoons have been catching more and more of the spotlight in

31 years ago today astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Almost two years ago, after Dr. Ride's death, it was revealed that she had been with her female partner, Tam O'Shaugnessy, for 27 years. Today we celebrate her life, her legacy and her love.  

It was July 1993. American geneticist Dean Hamer shocked the world when he released a study that suggested the existence of a “gay gene.” The gene, Hamer said, was on the X chromosome and passed on by the mother. Hamer’s findings were controversial because they offered scientific evidence that (gasp!) being gay wasn’t a choice. In the 20 years since the release of that groundbreaking study, others have been conducted that offer contradictory results. Bible thumpers and homophobes alike have often either denied Hamer’s research or mocked it. In 2011, Ann Coulter charmingly said, “As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?” Now, the Washington Post reports new research finds that, despite what some naysayers would like to believe, Dean Hamer was right all along. A gay gene does exist. In fact, there are two of them. Maybe — in fact, probably — even more than two. Researchers at the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research group that examines human DNA, conducted a study on several pairs of gay brothers. “Sexual orientation has nothing to do with choice,” Michael Bailey of Northwestern University, who carried out the research, said. “Our findings suggest

[caption id="attachment_1768" align="aligncenter" width="675"] Maya Angelou in 2008. Credit Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images[/caption] Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday in her home. She was 86 and lived in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her death was confirmed by her longtime literary agent, Helen Brann. No immediate cause of death had been determined, but Ms. Brann said Ms. Angelou had been in frail health for some time and had had heart problems. As well known as she was for her memoirs, which eventually filled six volumes, Ms. Angelou very likely received her widest exposure on a chilly January day in 1993, when she delivered the inaugural poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” at the swearing-in of Bill Clinton, the

The Trans 100 List, honoring transgender trailblazers, is out! The unranked list shines a positive light on underrepresented communities.

Vernita Gray, a pioneer of marriage equality and longtime LGBT rights activist, has passed away at 65. Her legacy will continue to inspire many.