• ELIXHER
• On April 5, 2013

Gynecology 101: Practical Tips for the Visit

Seeing a doctor about your nether regions? Nervous? Not to worry. Check out these great and practical times to make your next visit as a masculine-presenting woman a breeze.

More on Butch Wonders.

Dear Media: Don’t Feel Bad that I Love My Body

Dear Media, Please don’t feel like a failure. It’s not you, it’s me. Despite all of your hard work over the years, I still can’t seem to kick the habit of loving my body. I know I’m supposed to feel bad about myself because I’m kind of fat and out of shape, with the soft floppy tummy of a middle-aged woman who had a baby. I know that during my pregnancy I wasn’t supposed to put the baby’s well being before the maintenance of my pre-pregnancy figure. At least I should have had the decency to have a tummy tuck afterward, which I neglected to do (plus my homebirth midwife did not offer that service). I want to apologize to all of the professionals in the beautification industry for failing you.

Continue reading on Aya de Leon’s blog.

Behind the Covers: Portraits of the Gay Marriage Revolution by Peter Hapak

Elaine Harley, 43, graphic designer & Mignon R. Moore, 42, professor at UCLA
Together for 11 years, married in New York City in March 2012, live in Los Angeles

Mignon (right): “As we recited our wedding vows I got chills. Standing before family and friends vowing our intention to be united together and to create a lifelong bond was very special and meaningful.”

Read more over at TIME.

WATCH: Lesbian Couple Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills Take on the Radical Right on Same-Sex Marriage

It will be months before the Supreme Court reaches a decision in two cases regarding the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. LGBT rights activists Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills, Thomas Peters of the National Organization for Marriage, and American University law professor Steve Wermeil join the debate.