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U.S. actress and musician Leisha Hailey is set to reprise her role of Alice in the pilot for a spinoff of the TV drama "The L Word," Showtime announced Friday. The pilot is slated to begin shooting in December. Ilene Chaiken, creator and executive producer of "The L Word," is to write and produce it, the cable network said. "The L Word" is to premiere its sixth and final season in January 2009, "marking the end of an era chronicling the lives of these iconic characters that have played a...

ONE of the North's top writers explores the history of lesbian novels in a two-part series. Val McDermid is best known for the books which inspired the TV show Wire in the Blood starring Robson Green. Now the writer, who lives in Northumberland, traces the development of literature by and about lesbians. In the first programme she explores how such novels have gone from being banned to nominated for the Booker Prize. A spokesman for the BBC said: "Crime writer Val McDermid tells how...

By Harknett, Kristen Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associated with lower relationship quality for unmarried parents. Male shortages are...

A Swedish city is being sued for denying a lesbian artificial insemination because her partner had already tried and failed to become pregnant, officials say. Uppsala's health service rejected the woman for the procedure after her partner was denied a fourth attempt at insemination because she had passed the maximum age allowed by the city health authority, The Local reported Saturday. Her younger partner had decided that she would try to become pregnant in place of the older partner. As...

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- There are many reasons for the wedding industry to celebrate California state Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn a ban on gay marriage. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080714/NYM118 ) The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law estimates that same-sex weddings could generate up to $683.6 million in additional revenue for the industry over the next three years. With the current state...

By Tirdad Derakhshani, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul. 11--Sure, you can check out the deadly adventures of the stunning, devilishly feral lesbian vampire in Vampire Diary; or watch clips from the films of gay porn director Chi Chi LaRue (Dragging Out Chi Chi LaRue: A Showcase of Smut). But this year's Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, now through July 22, also offers a look at the life and times of 11-year-old Scot, the title character in the sweet, family-friendly...

Hide and Seek: Coming Out Stories, a docudrama based on interviews with gay Rhode Islanders, premieres at the University of Rhode Island's Providence campus tonight and tomorrow. The show, written by URI student and Cranston resident Michael Miele, takes its inspiration from the work of Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler. During the course of the play, the actors share stories of actual twentysomething gay, lesbian and transgendered Rhode Islanders and their experiences before, during and...

A new Swedish study has found that gay men and women share some of the brain characteristics of heterosexual people of the opposite sex.The research compared the size of the brain's halves in 90 adults, and found that gay men and heterosexual women had halves of a similar size, while the right side was bigger in both lesbian women and heterosexual men.The scientists also discovered that gay men and straight women show similarities in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, anxiety and...

Bisexuality in women could be a lifelong sexual orientation, not a phase, a new study suggests. The finding runs counter to the idea that bisexuality is an experimental or transitional period for women who, for instance, are uncertain or have fear of commitment. In addition to debunking stereotypes about bisexuality, the research sheds light on the complex nature of sexual orientation in women. "These findings demonstrate that the distinction between lesbianism and...

By Peter GraffLONDON -- Italian designer Domenico Dolce appears in a magazine ad, one hand perched affectionately on the shoulder of his design partner and former lover Stefano Gabbana, the other holding his stylish new Motorola phone.Whether it's U.S. firm John Hancock featuring a lesbian couple in an ad for insurance or Altoids pitching two flavors of its "curiously strong mints" by asking readers if they are "bi-curious," big advertisers are storming out of the...