The information on this page is provided by Montreal-based Girlports Lesbian Travel Guide. According to Girlports:
Girlports was launched by Tanya Churchmuch, a longtime broadcast and print journalist and public relations veteran, as a result of her own frustration with the lack of resources available to lesbian travelers. “It’s so annoying for lesbians looking for easily accessible, up-to-date travel information written just for them, especially free travel information,” said Churchmuch. “Many websites sell themselves as providing resources for the LGBT traveler, but unfortunately, the “G” always seems to win out. I figured if nobody else was going to create the resource I wanted, I’d have to do it myself.”
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Jodie Foster has kind of shocked Hollywood by publicly acknowledging her same-sex lover of almost 20 years for the first time ever. Here’s a link to the story in the Daily Telegraph (Australia)
The Skin Beneath by Nairne Holze, Insomniac Press 2007
Reviewed by Jeanette Nelson.
The Skin beneath is like Agatha Christie gone conspiracy theorist. We are all searching for the answers in life. The answers to the question; why we are here? Who will notice if we are gone?
Sam’s sister dies. Five years after her death Sam receives an anonymous postcard that sets in motion a journey into the answers to her sister’s questions. Sam in turn finds answers to her own questions, questions she didn’t even know she had. Would Chloe have loved her if she knew her sister was gay?
Sam had never come out to her sister Chloe, but when she starts following the threads of Chloe’s life she meets and falls in love with Chloe’s ex-roomate it changes her perspective on being lesbian. Sam goes from one night stands to wanting the dream - a real relationship; someone to come home to every night.
Set for the most part in Montreal, Sam tries to unravel the conspiracy theory that her sister was working on. It takes her to the fringes, where exist some hard core conspiracy theorists and into a world she knows nothing about how to survive in. Is this what killed her sister?
The author webs a stream of mystery and colorful characters that tell her story and answers her questions. While technically a murder mystery, the book focusses a lot on Sam’s personal journey and history with her sister, which makes for a slower pace that might appeal less to mystery genre readers looking for a more action focussed book.
The Skin Beneath by Nairne Holze, Insomniac Press 2007. Insomniac Press is a Canadian independent book publisher.
Nairne Holze is a fiction writer who lives in Montreal with her lover and miniature dogs. She co-edited No Margins: writing canadian fiction in lesbian (Insomniac, 2006), which has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. This is her first novel.
Loudon Wainwright III is not (to my knowledge) a lesbian, but this song, and especially the video, is very funny. It’s created out of anime cartoons and the choices are hilarious. Here’s the link: I wish I was a lesbian or just click on the image from the video at left.
Reviews of books by lesbians and about lesbians from Kimiko Koopman’s blog “Kimiko’s LesFic Reviews”
The following list is syndicated from Kimiko’s blog. If you click on the links below you go to her site, so she’s the one responsible for the content there. This page will update itself at Kamiko adds new entries so you can revisit for her latest.
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Here’s another online blog-based list of lesbian book reviews. Again this is a separate site and the author there is responsible for the content.
http://alexwolfe.wordpress.com/list-of-reviews/
The following links are excerpts from a blog I found a lesbian advice columnist with some dating advice. By the time you click these links the content may have changed. Clicking on the links below will take you away from LQ, and About.com is responsible for the content there.
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THURSDAY MAY 31
PO’GIRL
“HOME TO YOU” WEST COAST CD RELEASE
with special guest … LEELA GILDAY
The Red Room … 398 Richards St.
doors: 8pm show: 9pm
tix: $15 advance @
Little Sisters … 1238 Davie St. … 604 669 1753
Kokopelli’s 2052 … Commercial Dr. … 604 253 6950
Highlife Records … 1317 Commercial Dr. … 604 251 6964
$20 @ door
PO’GIRL
A sold-out crowd waits in semi-darkness. Outside, a van pulls up and five beautiful rag-tag misfits carrying all manner of instruments saunter through the back door. They head unapologetically, past the frantic promoter, and onto the stage.
Po’Girl starts the show. In typical Po’Girl fashion. On time…and at the last minute.
Po’Girl is made up of Allie, Awna, Trish, John and Diona. Their strength is in the power of gentle. This is very compelling.
Po’Girl started innocently enough back in 2002 when Allie and Trish, then flophouse room-mates in East Vancouver, formed a duo. Their sole intent: singing ‘creaky old jazz songs’.
Two years later, the duo found they had become, among other things, a five piece band of multi-instrumentalists. Signed to Nettwerk Records (their first album Vagabond Lullabies came out in 2004), these folk festival darlings soon were headlining venues of enviable size and sharing stages with the likes of David Byrne, Richie Havens, Ani DiFranco, Michael Franti, Utah Philips and Penny Lang.
Home to You, Po’Girl’s new record has captured the breezy, summer night feeling that their live show evokes. And thematically, it seems that the last two years of solid touring have had an effect. Most of the new material is about travel, longing and the notion of ‘home’. All self-confessed former ‘teen-age runaways’, it appears that Po’ Girl has found their new ‘home’- together, driving down a winding road in Shaggy the Love Van. The songs have become gorgeous documentations of this feeling.
Truly a collective effort, Home to You features songs written and delivered by each band member. Po’ Girl boasts no official ‘front man’. Everyone gets a turn. And as the band expands in size, (Diona joined in ‘03, Awna in ‘05 and studio engineer John became the official tour drummer in ‘04) it does the same in proficiency. The result is that many more musical styles weave their way into this fellowship known as Po’ Girl.
Po’ Girl finds devout fans wherever they go. And the word is spreading. Anyone who is attracted to the age-old universal story of a ‘rag-tag down-on-their-luck group of misfits who bands together to take over the world’ will surely find a home here. And who doesn’t like that story? www.pogirl.net www.myspace.com/pogirls
LEELA GILDAY
Born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Leela has come to appreciate the heartbeat of life, and how it resonates through our experiences. Her songwriting reflects all those things. “I love to sing- I feel like the voice is a human birthright and it should be used often-I think people respond to my voice the way they respond to any instrument- with powerful feelings.” Leela has a lot of family and friend-style support and has won a remarkable number of awards for an independent Dene artist from the north.
Leela recently released her second full-length album, “SEDZE” and It’s no surprise to her loyal fans and friends, “SEDZE” won the 2007 JUNO for Aboriginal Recording of the Year. Contgratulations LEELA!
JUNO WIN…..
What Leela had to say …
Holy smokes.
I won the Juno for Aboriginal Recording of the Year. It’s weird to think about winning something in this way- all the other nominees in the category (Northern Cree, Digging Roots, Susan Aglukark, and Jason Burnstick) are super musicians and super people. So in a way, we’re all winners. After thanking my folks and my friends, and Teppei and the Canada Council, I accepted the award on all of our behalf, practically bawling my eyes out. I know- *puke* – how cheesy.
The thing is, I meant it. From the bottom of my shocked and overwhelmed heart.
Respect & Love
Leela
www.leelagilday.com
