As I’m sure everyone remembers, on Election Day of November 2008 the people of California had the power to revoke the rights of a minority. It was the day Proposition 8, (also known as prop H8) stripped thousands of Californian lesbian and gay couples of the right to marry ...

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Getting On With Life After A Partner Dies, by Jane Brody, published Monday in the NY Times, discusses the experiences and accounts of a few individuals who have lost their long-term partners. They describe what it has been like for them, how their daily lives are affected by the loss ...

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 In this webinar, which is sponsored by the Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project, Consultant Fred Elia will familiarize participants with public and private agency processes to becoming a foster or adoptive parent in New York State, as well as how to best navigate those processes.

 Participants will leave with ...

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This article in the NY Times discusses relationships and weight gain.

I think we've all probably joked at one point or another that sometimes being in comfortable relationships allows us to 'let ourselves go,' so to speak, to some degree.

But this article looks at some interesting studies that ...

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This newly published study suggests that not only smokers themselves, but those also being exposed to secondhand smoke, are at significantly increased risk for mental health problems.

 Research has supported for a long time that there is definitely a link between smoking and mental health, but what still has yet ...

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This photo was taken in a study desk cubicle at a library in Rochester (click photo to the left or see below for larger image).

 While I can't actually say that I condone defacing public property, I do find many things about this particular message extremely telling & very powerful ...

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In Tuesday's Science Times, an article describes evidence of the hormonal and biological underpinnings of trust.

It discusses how trust, and distrust for that matter, play out between ourselves and people we encounter on a daily basis right on through to our most intimate relationships, and how ultimately our ...

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An article on the CNN website yesterday, June 7, 2010, reports findings of a 25-year study on children raised in Lesbian households, which concluded that they were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers.

Beginning in 1986, Dr. Nanette Gartrell, the researcher and author of the study ...

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Does Lesbian Bed Death exist?

The term, anyway, was created, and is used, to describe the common lack of sex that is believed to be occurring in lesbian relationships, specifically within long-term relationships.

The term is said to have been coined by Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of ...

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An article by Tara Parker-Pope in the NY Times, entitled "Is Marriage Good For Your Health?," looks at the correspondence between relationships and good health. Parker-Pope is the author of "For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage," that was released in May 2010, and she is also Well Columnist ...

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