A new study conducted by Boise State University found that women are naturally bi-curious in nature and, surprisingly, become more attracted to other women as they progress in age. The study consisted of 484 heterosexual women where 60% of them were sexually-attracted to other women; 45% had kissed another woman, and 50% had developed fantasies [...]

The Seattle Lesbian is posting information on this new study regarding the sexual practices and preferences of gay men because we are all one large community – and we need to support each other. A new study by researchers at Indiana University and George Mason University found the sexual repertoire of gay men surprisingly diverse, [...]

The Seattle Lesbian is a proud media sponsor of the last Queerly Classed Discussion of 2011 called “A Case for Queer Medicine.” The event will take place Wednesday, October 5, 2011 from 6:30 – 8:30pm at Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Annex Room, 1002 E. Seneca. Learn from the LGBTQ community on the most pressing LGBTQ health [...]

Late yesterday, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of itself and 16 other LGBT, HIV and health advocacy organizations urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling finding that the federal Privacy Act protects against illegal disclosures that result in suffering unrelated to financial losses. “The language of the statute [...]

Ongoing stigma and social inequality can increase stress and reduce well-being for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people, even in the absence of major traumatic events such as hate violence, abuse, and discrimination, according to a new study co-authored by Dr. Ilan H. Meyer, Williams Sr. Scholar at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute. [...]

Revised “Standards of Care” (SOC) for transgender, transsexual and other gender noncomforming individuals has been released. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released a newly-revised edition of the SOC for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, on September 25, 2011 at the WPATH conference in Atlanta, GA. The SOC is considered [...]

A settlement was announced today in the case of Vanessa Adams, a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate at FMC Butner in North Carolina, who has gender identity disorder (GID). Adams sued BOP in order to receive appropriate treatment for her GID. Adam’s challenge to BOP’s treatment of transgender prisoners has resulted in BOP ending [...]

Members of the Positive Justice Project (PJP), a national coalition dedicated to ending the targeting of people with HIV for unreasonable criminal prosecution, voiced their support for the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act that Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced. The bill calls for review of all federal and state laws, policies and regulations regarding the criminal [...]

Close to 100 openly HIV-positive gay and bisexual men from across the United States and around the world have signed a new letter calling for an open discussion, “based on facts rather than on fear or misinformation,” of the challenges and opportunities presented by pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in gay and bisexual men [...]

Recent statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), show that suicide rates are up slightly for 2008 (the most recent year available).  The current rate is 11.84, up from 11.7 in 2007.  Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for nearly 100 deaths per day. [...]