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Now is the time for people, and especially women who are not always represented by the dominant gay male media, to strike out in inventive ways to offer LGBT media. Executive Editor Kate West and Editor-in-Chief Sarah Toce – a frequent and favorite contributor to SheWired – have built The Seattle Lesbian for their community, and the lesbians have come in droves to the new site that features local and national news, politics and entertainment.

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.

On January 1, 1967—two years before the Stonewall Riots—members of the Los Angeles Police Department descended, unannounced, upon the Black Cat Tavern, a local gay bar that stood on Sunset Boulevard. There, amid the glittery folds of New Year’s, the officers went on a violent rampage, assaulting and arresting thirteen patrons and three bartenders, including the owner.