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A campaign fundraiser thrown by a lesbian couple for Francine Busby, a Democrat seeking the 50th Californian Congressional District seat in 2010, ended with two arrests, bruises and a cloud of pepper spray.

In the age of Kickstarter consumers are afforded the opportunity to invest in the type of entertainment they’d like to see. There are nine days left to help fund the thoughtful documentary Visible Silence: Thai Tomboys and the Women Who Love Them. The film was conceived and is being realized by a San Francisco Bay Area butch-femme couple and a Thai tomboy (or tom) from Bangkok. The filmmakers -- creative partners as well as close friends--have been engaged in this dialogue for over a dozen years.

Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s potential bid for retiring Sen. Herb Kohl's seat appears all the more plausible, given the openly gay congresswoman's campaign coffers. Baldwin raised $502,000 in the second quarter and now has $1.1 million in cash on hand. She raised $435,000 last month alone.

Planting Peace is hosting a virtual pizza party that will benefit homeless members of the LGBT community.

Like the fictionalized heroines they so admire, fans of the recently cancelled Canadian TV series Bomb Girls aren't going down without a fight.

Three days ago, eight lesbian bloggers set out to raise $8,000 in eight days to help defeat Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that seeks to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in the State of California. What happened next exceeded their expectations. Donations started rolling in by the thousands of dollars per day. Less than three full days into the campaign, the eight bloggers against Prop 8 reached their initial goal of $8,000.

How cool would it be to help queer filmmaking pioneer Guin Turner make her next project?

The founder of Wolfe Video married her partner of 21 years in San Francisco last week.

While the fine isn't final yet, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa are already raising funds to cover it — but GoFundMe won't host their campaign.

Abby Waller launched Dollars for Daughters in March, after growing tired of her mother's outspoken opposition to marriage equality — despite the fact that she attended her daughter's wedding to another woman, and refers to her Waller's wife as her daughter-in-law.

The director of Hannah Free and Jamie & Jessie are Not Together (Wendy Jo Carlton) is creating a smart sexy lesbian web series in Chicago called Easy Abby. It's like a lesbian Nurse Jackie but funnier!