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The 40-year-old festival, the subject of controversy in recent years, 'is coming to a time of closure,' says its founder and organizer.

The Egyptian Club, Portland's only lesbian bar, will close its doors for good October 9 due to financial difficulties. Owner Kim Davis expressed her dismay, telling the newspaper Just Out, "I don't want to do this, I really don't. [Running this club is] the biggest thing I've ever done in my life and the coolest."

Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby were found dead in Galveston after heading down there from Houston to enjoy Mardi Gras

Ilene Chaiken desperately needs a refresher course in how to portray a satisfying mystery. How can Chaiken expect her crowds of adoring The L Word fans, who have invested six seasons to slowly cultivate their complicated disdain for Jenny Schecter, to be content with a parking lot shot of a bunch of sleek cars parking?

The taxpayer-funded report, released yesterday, repeatedly references a sexual relationship between New Jersey governor Chris Christie's ex-campaign manager and his former deputy chief of staff.

Since the days of Jimmy Carter and Anita Bryant, Lyon-Martin Health Services has provided affordable health care to the Bay Area’s marginalized lesbian community. Now, 32 years after gay rights pioneers Phyllis Lyon (left) and partner Del Martin (right; who passed away in 2008) opened the center, the San Francisco institution is struggling to survive.

Philadelphia's oldest — and only remaining — lesbian bar announced it was going out of business on its Facebook page Monday.

Jane Addams Hull House Association, the Chicago social services agency founded 122 years ago by legendary (and most likely lesbian) progressive activist Addams, ceased operations Friday due to lack of funds.

In the wake of Just Out publisher Marty Davis's announcement that Portland, Oregon's venerable 29-year old LGBT monthly newspaper was shuttering in December, activists and media folks bantered around ideas for a new publication. In stepped Melanie Davis — the the publisher-owner of El Hispanic News, and senior strategist for the multicultural marketing agency Su Público — who announced today she is launching a new publication for Portland’s LGBTQ community on Feb. 16.

After almost a half-century serving the lesbian community in the LGBT-filled West Hollywood neighborhood, management at The Palms Bar announced via Facebook that the owners will close up shop in the coming months.