fighting

Girl FIGHT! No, not two lesbians at last call. For the first time in Mixed Martial Arts history, women will be the headline on a major MMA fight card. The first is none other than Gina Carano. She comes to this fight with a (7-0) record. Her opponent is Chris Santos and she comes with a (7-1) record.

Popular Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury and her wife, Malu Verçosa, took a loving stand against discrimination in front of Brazil’s National Congress.

In just a few days, Liz Carmouche will become the first openly gay fighter to participate in a UFC fight. The bout marks a series of firsts, as it will also be the first female Ultimate Fighting Championship title fight, with Carmouche and opponent Ronda Rousey being the first female headliners in UFC history.

In a report issued this week, a think tank spearheaded by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Women's Sports Foundation urged that school administrators adopt concrete inclusion policies for transgender athletes.

The state's top officials announced today that they won't defend West Virginia's ban on marriage equality, while two West Virginia counties are ready to issue licenses to same-sex couples immediately.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and of her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time with Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

A basketball coach in Kentucky has assembled the Lady Legends basketball team, a group of top high school players dedicated to God and to rejecting the gay “lifestyle.” Jaye Collins started the program with his wife's support to encourage young girls to be "proud and secure in not being a part of the lesbian and homosexual lifestyle which is so prevalent in women's/girl's athletics."

Writer and lesbian activist reflects on her post Prop 8 experience in Richmond, Virginia. 'Some time has passed.I can finally come crawling out of my hole and stop sulking.  Ok, so the California supreme court upheld Prop 8 by 6 to 1.  Richmond’s protest made the decision even more depressing.  

Ann Northrop has come along way from her roots in conservative Hartford, Conn. Over the years, the Vassar art history grad has been a force for change… from the Vietnam War to feminism to the AIDS crisis and especially to the fight for universal equality. From Ms. mag to ACT UP to Gay USA, Northrop's been a tireless activist in the trenches of the battle for gay rights.

Nearly 15 years after her landmark book 'Serving in Silence,' Grethe Cammermeyer weighs in on DADT, Barack Obama and Prop. 8.