In spite of this situation, we are going to look at inventive ways to look at serving our readership with digital content and of course in print too!

Since then, if I ever heard or saw anyone who suffered discrimination or bullying for his or her personal choices and sexual orientation, I'd have something to say about it.At the peak of Second Wave Feminism, campaigners were demonised as man-hating, bra-burning, communist lesbians, gleefully plotting society’s destabilisation. Whatever your reluctant about it’s okay, I know you’re scared but so are they and they need your help.

To this day I display my Gen-X brazenness with a lot more fanfare than what my mother allowed for herself. Athletes, politicians and actors are all declaring who they are, and even reshaping who they'd rather be. We want to be a place where every type of person — no matter what you look like or how you identify — can see themselves represented and their stories reflected. Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, clearly hetero actors, convincingly portray a gay couple, while co-stars Lily Tomlin (a lesbian in real life) and Jane Fonda echo the platonic BFF Kate and Allie vibe.

If she were alive today, we would have cried together over the Supreme Court's ruling making same sex marriage a constitutional right.

When I told my mum my idea for this article, she wrinkled her brow and asked me, “ Is there any shame around the word ‘lesbian’? Finally realized I had some game with women, and after seeing my very first girlfriend naked, I never understood why I dated men in the first place.In fact, despite lesbians’ active involvement in the feminist movement, prominent activists like Betty Friedan were highly lesbophobic themselves. So brava to she-ros Jazz Jennings, the newest TLC reality star and poster child for transgender youth, Caitlyn Jenner, Lana Wachowski, part of the brother and now sister, creative duo of Sense8, and Jamie Clayton, the transgender actress from its ensemble cast. This is about the shifting of our consciousness to a new and more expansive paradigm that affects everyone's sense and sensibilities when it comes to relationship. Their fame, 15 minutes of otherwise, is built upon the shoulders of countless mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children who will never shine on any screen. There were no surprises in our life, until the day I shocked my reserved and unsuspecting mother by outing her to a prejudiced and ignorant civics teacher my senior year of high school.

Determined to keep Chloe and end the sick deal with the lawyer, Amy is sucked into another arrangement, this time with the lawyer's wife, Gina. That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone. When it doesn’t stink of bitter misandry, ‘lesbian’ seems dirty and embarrassing, quite alien from the earnest, loving relationships that many queer women dream of.First published in 1947, Varsity is the independent student newspaper for the University of Cambridge. Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge, established in its current form in 1947.