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August, 2006
Lesbians Respond Differently to Human Pheromones (NEW)
2006-08-07 - By
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Pheromones: Substance secreted and released by animal for detection and response by another of the same species.
Lesbian women respond differently than straight women when exposed to suspected sexual chemicals, according to a new brain imaging study. The finding builds on previous research that sug...
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July, 2006
Social taboos pressure lesbian love
2006-07-07 - By
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Throughout South Asia, homosexuality has been a taboo subject. There are signs in some areas that gay people are now becoming more open - but that is not always the case. In the latest in a series of articles from the region, Sutapa Mukerjee looks at a problematic lesbian relationship in South East ...
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March, 2006
'Married' Nepal Lesbian Couple Reported to Police by Own families
2006-03-08 - By
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Maya Tamang, 18, and Indira Rai, 17--9th-grade classmates in high school who had vowed their love for one another with intention to live together—were handed over by their own relatives to police authorities of the Pathari Village Development Committee (VDC). Unable to convince them to separate, Pre...
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October, 2005
LESBIAN ACTIVITY IN NEPAL
2005-10-01 - By
Astitwa Team |
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Lesbians are the part of the society and they have equal rights to live and to be respected. Our Nepalese society is too conservative to give them their rights. Society has always been partial towards them and it’s not fair. People forget that humanity is beyond all religions. God will...
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August, 2005
First Lesbian Group launched in Nepal
2005-08-16 - By
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KATHMANDU, August 16 – A gay human rights organisation that also addresses HIV/AIDS, has launched a support group for lesbians in the country's capital, Kathmandu.
Even in the 21st century, the feeling of attraction between women is considered an unnatural act – and shameful – in Nepal...
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July, 2005
Test your LGBT Knowledge
2005-07-15 - By
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1. When did the World Health Organization remove homosexuality as an illness from their classification of diseases? 1. In 1945 2. In 1968 3. In 1973 4. In 1990 See reply at the bottom 2. Who is Lilith ? 1. A famous Canadian rock star, icon of Canadian lesbian and gay community of early ‘80s 2....
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June, 2005
Some Facts & Dates about Lesbians
2005-06-15 - By
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580's BC:
Sappho's famed girls' school flourishes on the Isle of Lesbos.
60 AD:
Boudicca (or, Boadiciea,) Chieftess of the Iceni of the East Anglia, leads Celtic rebellion against Roman invaders, destroying cities of Colchester, St. Albans and capturing London. &n...
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May, 2005
Sexual Minorities and protection of their Human Rights
2005-05-08 - By
Bidhya Chapagain |
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Sexual minorities include various groups that share common trails relating to sexual orientation, sexual identification or distinctive sexual behaviours. Sexual orientation is the identified as sexual and emotional inclination of an individual toward members of a specific gender, and it is generally...
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April, 2005
“Straight to Crooked”
2005-04-08 - By
Sonita |
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Though I was pretty tomboy when I was young, I thought it’s not abnormal to think as a guy as it could be a part of my growing up. Another reason was all my life I was interested in guys only. But, now I realize how wrong I was. In previous years of my life I was completely alien with the word “homo...
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April, 2005
Ground Breaking Demands
2005-04-08 - By
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At the initiative of the delegations from Quebec and France present at the International Preparatory Meeting of the World March of Women in the Year 2000, held in Montreal, October 16, 17 and 18, 1998, demands concerning lesbians' rights were proposed. These demands provoked heated discussion and re...
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March, 2005
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Women with male chromosomes
2005-03-08 - By
Preeti Rai |
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How do u feel when your doctor tells you, “You have the genes of a man and should have born male. But because the genetic process went wrong in the womb, you were born a girl instead.” Perhaps, it would be too overwhelmed to react immediately to this bombshell. However, the news would sink in like h...
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March, 2005
Know more about Bisexuals
2005-03-08 - By
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Many people are 100% gay or lesbian, and are drawn sexually and emotionally only to partners of the same sex. Others are completely heterosexual, bonding in sexual and intimate relationships only with people of another sex. But what about everybody else? A significant percentage of people do not fit...
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