sexual roles

Indie queen Julianne Moore is known for taking on complex roles in compelling dramas, dark comedies and being a favorite actress of some of the most inventive directors in Hollywood, who just so happen to be gay. The Oscar nominated actress spoke to the Advocate about her gay fan base and playing a lesbian in her films. Read an excerpt!

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Diana Cage. Author, editor, blogger, and media personality Cage is the former host of The Diana Cage Show, a wildly popular, no-holds-barred nightly talk show on Sirius XM. Her books include Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide, Box Lunch: The Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus, Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex, and the groundbreaking On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex.

A new study finds that lesbians orgasm during sex 13% more of the time than straight women.

The Good Wife features some of the strongest female characters on all of TV.

In a climate in which high-profile celebrities including Cynthia Nixon and Wanda Sykes have talked openly about falling for women later in life, in which women often feel freer to explore various aspects of sexuality, some are finding that after years of marriage and / or dating men, that they are attracted to women, and often capable of falling in love with another woman. Editors of Dear John, I Love Jane, Candace Walsh and Laura Andre – a couple in life – inspired by Candace’s later in life lesbian experiences, sought to compile often humorous and heartrending stories of women who came to the realization they were attracted to women after many years as unfettered straight women.

The Women’s Conference, now the nation’s premiere conference for women, is by all accounts one of the most powerful and exciting Conferences ever to be created in the United States. Maria Shriver had powerhouses such as Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Laura Bush, Dianne Sawyer, Sandra Day O’Connor, Judge Ginsburg, Meg Whitman, Eve Ensler, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Matt Lauer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Martha Beck (to name a few) present an array of workshops, panels, and speeches inspiring empowerment, passion for social justice, and development of self-esteem for all women.