Lesbian Author Jane Rule Dies

Gay News From 365Gay.com (Vancouver, British Columbia) Jane Rule, one of the pioneers of lesbian fiction, has died complications from liver cancer. She was 76. Born in New Jersey on March 28, 1931, Jane Rule was raised in the American Midwest and California. In 1952 she graduated from Mills College and moved to Canada four years later, settling in British Columbia. Rule taught intermittently at the University of British Columbia until 1976 when she moved to Galiano Island to devote her full time to writing. She is celebrated internationally for her fiction and her non-fiction. Her career began in 1964 with the publication of her novel Desert of the Heart. One critic at the time wrote of the lesbian themed book: "But all the time you keep turning to the photograph of the author on the jacket and wondering how such a nice looking woman could ever have chosen do distasteful a subject." But that is why Jane Rule was so important. Rule was one of the first out-writers to write openly about being a lesbian in major fiction. But, it was her 1975 book "Lesbian Issues" that catapulted her onto the world stage. Rule attempted to set down what it means to be a lesbian. To do this, she beautifully measured her own attitudes toward sexuality against the images made by other women writers including Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, Vita Sackville-West and others.

Maureen McCormick Eve Plumb...who knew??

Maureen McCormick Eve Plumb: "Wow! A Maureen McCormick Eve Plumb lesbian fling back in the Brady Bunch heyday, so here’s some hot pics of Marcia Brady and her sister Jan Brady. Maureen McCormick has written a book claiming that while she and Eve Plumb were playing Marcia and Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch, they had themselves a little girl-girl fling: “The most explosive comments will be how Maureen McCormick, a blonde, blue-eyed cutie, developed a crush on Eve Plumb, which led to some sexual play. This book will certainly come as a shocker. While Maureen is not a lesbian, she reveals there were some sexual hijinks going on behind the scenes.”"

Homos in History > Cleveland Street Scandal

glbtq >> social sciences >> Cleveland Street Scandal In July 1889, a male brothel was discovered to be operating in a residence on Cleveland Street, in London's West Side. The press insinuated that prominent aristocrats, including Lord Arthur Somerset, head of the Prince of Wales's stables, and Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoria's grandson, were regular and frequent customers. Intensifying the scandal were allegations of a government cover-up to protect these "distinguished" and "highly placed" gentlemen. The scandal fueled a growing perception of sex between men as an aristocratic vice that corrupted working-class youths. It was a highlight of a period of national abhorrence for homosexuality that culminated in the sensational trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895.