Hey y'all :)

Imma lesbian, and the princess (old fogey too) LOL
:princess:

cross posted
 

Western press largely overlooks heroism of lesbian couple in Norway massacre
By Laura Rozen | The Envoy - 22 hrs ago

As Norway continues to grapple with the attacks by a home-grown extremist that killed 77 people last month, one couple, who moved to help young people fleeing from gunman Anders Breivik, is getting a bit of belated recognition.

Hege Dalen and her wife, Toril Hansen, were eating dinner on July 22nd on the other shore from Utoya island when they heard screaming, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sannomat reported.<<disallowed word>> After bombing government buildings in Oslo, Breivik had come to the island dressed as a policeman and went on to shoot more than 100 young people attending a Labour party camp there.

"We were eating," Dalen told the newspaper. "Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake."

The couple took off in their boat for the island, picking up shocked victims from the water and transporting them to the mainland. They made four runs in all, helping rescue some 40 of Breivik's victims, the paper reported.

"Between runs they saw that the bullets had hit the right side of the boat," the paper wrote.

Some lesbian-gay news sites and blogs have picked up the account in recent days, noting the same-sex married heroes of the story haven't gotten much attention in the Western press.

Good morning Dykes, Lesbians and Friends!

Thank you OS Butch and Snow for keeping us informed.

I am happy the Lesbian Zone is more active these days and we are all sharing our thoughts, frustrations, culture and news. :)

I hope everyone's summer day is splendid.

Good Mid Morning!!!!

hey OS..........I need to ask if you would please make your font larger. I have to go find my reading glasses to read any of your posts. I've been meaning to ask this for a long time now

thanks

laughin...........I have no idea what font size I use........probably the default.....

however whatever size you used for the above post is great.........I don't have to find my reading glasses or squint and create more forehead wrinkles.......laughin....

:glasses:Okie dokie, LOL! I guess size does matter . But this font looks even bigger than your font.

Yup, size matters. And your's is bigger.

Ummmmm....that would not be my first choice :)

Digging up an old thread just to say that I've always thought of myself as a dyke, regardless of who I'm with. It's an attitude, a way of looking at the world, and it's a badge of honour for me regardless of who I'm having sex with at the moment.

But mostly I like the word because it flips a finger at normalcy.

LettertoDaddy, welcome to the thread! I agree with you- to me Dyke is definitely all about attitude and a badge of honor and flippin the bird to normalcy. Very well said!

Good morning Dykes, Lesbians and Friends!

Good Morning!!!!!

I love the sight of biceps in the morning. :D

Thanks for posting this Daywalker!

Good morning fellow dykes and lez sisters!
 

I not only love biceps but abs and that "V" that most of us never get.

That V-shape on the lower abdomen that very lean body mass folks get that points down to the golden triangle of love...

Pink had it for a while before she had her baby.

:)

wake up!
 

I'm a dyke. Here's two other dykes:

the word dyke to me is just empowering and sexy at the same time.

I am a leaky Dyke .. well when i dream that is :)

Some of us leak when we're not dreaming :eyebat:

I claim lesbian been one all my life. Most of my life I been attracted to stone butches,butches, i even had mad crushes on femmes when I was younger. I'm just me. As I get older I appreciate all people. But I would have to say proudly Iam a LESBIAN. :koolaid:

I love this thread.

It was over a year ago that I posted in here and not many have posted since.

Thanks Kat for reviving it. Have a great day:)

For me:

I am a Lesbian.

I am not stone.

:cheerleader:

Representin'
 

Thanks OS,

I remember how many publications there were when I first came out that are now defunct. Lesbian Tide, Lesbian News, On Our Backs (one of my personal favorites, ahem...)

I made a contribution to the Connection.

Thanks for the reminder.

Great! I just visited the website for the 1st time. I see they take Paypal! I always look for the plain envelope. I don't know how they have made it, I am glad they have and that they still will send it free to anyone unable to afford the donation....Anywhere in the world, I think. Now that is a community service.

parker mentions melissa etheridge. what a trail she has left, and still kickin' it. we are fortunate to have her.

i don't know what it is with me, but so many times i've not liked people in my life when first meeting or seeing. and wouldn't like them for a long time after lol. but then somewhere down the line i fall for them. they become a major influence. i've done this with quite a few folks, ... etheridge is one. a butch friend had a huge admiration for her and i followed.

i remember as a teenager searching for songs with she and her, pronouns. or no pronouns. etheridge gave that to me. the lesbian community owes a lot to her. she will influence for years to come. think of all those that will search for someone like me and find etheridge.

This post made me teary!

I too, remember those days- not the baby dyke days, well, other than making my heart beat faster, looking at the baby and older dykes; but the days when it was all so new and exciting.

Those were really the best days of first coming out. Finding that missing piece of me, that I could finally feel like there was a place for me and that I was not strange or weird.

Being held in another woman's arms and feeling not only the heat that I had never felt with bio men but the true joy that bubbled up inside myself.

The clubs were where I really felt, for the first time, that I was home.

My people. My tribe. My women.

Reminds me of when I first started going to the monthly dances in Wellington - DOODs dykes out of debt. There was a committee and they would decide who to allocate funds to. I don't think it's going anymore :bigcry:

I remember, maybe the first one I attended, standing there looking around me and thinking, "wow, this is like being in a lolly shop, only it's lesbians, not lollies".

This is part of my lesbian history. Mostly guys, but we went there too.

http://jim.rees.org/p/p01/pcd10/6650.jpg

I am glad I was a baby dyke long before the internet.
It felt like I'd joined a secret adventure club! Decoding the bar names, learning which softball leagues to play in, rugby tournaments, the earring placement and language games and nicknames....It seemed more exciting than "googling in isolation" will ever be. I'm glad it's less difficult now.

Odd how being an "out" lesbian-identified-lesbian has become subversive again. I loved Off (and On) Our Backs.

Yeah, and Sinister Wisdom. Remember that? Taught me a lot.