International gay rights: one step forward, two steps backward everyday.

I really hope there's a lesbian bar somewhere called 'American Sapphic.' The name makes me smile. And, okay, I sometimes wish I could refer to myself as Sapphically-inclined and people would know what I'm talking about.

About 10 minutes prior to reading this, I instant messaged one of my best friends and asked him where he bought the handcuffs that he uses in S&M play.

@Curlygurl: Ugh. That is terrible, but thanks for filling me in.

But what about lesbians in England who want to co-parent?

Over the weekend, there was a protest in front of a local Scientology temple. Apparently, people were angry and waved signs about Scientology being a cult. It seems really dumb to protest a religion, even if it is Scientology.

There's a lesbian musician named Bitch with crazily-dyed dreadlocks who I absolutely adore, although it's mostly because she's dating Daniela Sea from The L Word.

@haguenite: My rack is fairly small, but on one of the few occasions when I did try to cache something in there, I lost it. Thankfully, it was just a coat check stub, but I don't to think about losing my money in there.

@bloodflower: Poets: Maya Angelou, Philip Larkin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Adrienne Rich. Artists: Remedios Varo (my namesake), William Blake, Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Cezanne. Something incredible: check out the movie "Xiu Xiu: the Sent Down Girl." I watched it a few weeks ago for a cinema class; it's a heavy movie but it's…

Y'know those ubiquitous scarfs popular among hipsters and others of their ilk? Those scarves that look like Palestinian keffiyehs?

I sort of had a conversation about this with a friend who is taking a feminist philosophy class with me. I'll pose his question to me here: can a virgin genuinely participate in a discussion about sexual politics?

In my head, she just has a really short dress on over those tights.

@LaComtesse: Actually there is at least one school that I know of that is just for youth who are GLBT. I've heard glowing things about the school and its impact on the students who go there. Believe me, as a closet case in high school, I would have appreciated a place like that.

The only single-sex education I've experienced is four years at a Catholic high school for women. I loved my time there, but looking back, I'm not sure I really ever want to put up with a constantly female environment again.

Coincidentally, all of my worst dreams involve really terrible looking bathrooms. It makes sense, though, because I have an extreme fear to the point of paranoia of being walked in on while I'm going to the bathroom.

SJP looks like she should be wearing a black hat with a wide brim. And that she's from the 1940s. I hear ostrich feathers were big back then.

Oh boy, the "Guard Dogs," they are so neat. However, I've looked at their Web site before and a better translation for their group name is the Watch-Bitches (as in a female dog, but also a woman). It's definitely more sassy that way.

I'm a junior at a university in a rural Missouri town. The local Planned Parenthood, which serves a decently sized area, is constantly in danger of shutting down, and due of a serious lack of funding, it will probably close in a few years.

@Ratinski: Ha, yes.

Much like people being able to separate Christina Hendricks from Joan Holloway, I cannot separate Zachary Quinto from Skylar on Heroes. Thus, looking at these pictures, I was greatly worried for the safety of the others on the red carpet.