Cause+Effect

C+E congratulates client Suzanne Westenhoefer, this month’s Orange County Blade covergirl and feature story.
Catch Suzanne’s one-woman show “Totally Inappropriate” at 8 p.m. on March 20th at the Orange County Pavilion. The show includes a chance to meet Westenhoefer after her performance.

Today would have been Gwen Araujo’s 25th birthday.
On Oct. 4, 2002, Gwen, a transgender teenager, was brutally murdered.  Gwen’s family was robbed of the chance to grow up knowing her.  Gwen herself was robbed of the chance to grow into the beautiful woman she was meant to be.
Gwen’s mother, Sylvia Guerrero, has spent the last [...]

Get caught up with We Have To Stop Now with this the newly released trailer for Season 1 of the show, available soon on DVD from Wolfe Video.
Get to know Dyna (Cathy DeBuono), Kit (Jill Bennett) and Susan (Suzanne Westenhoefer) as this romantic comedy follows two lesbian therapists struggling to keep up the pretense of [...]

[photo credit: Kerry Krenzin]
C+E client, Cathy DeBuono is featured in this month’s issue of G3 magazine, one of the UK’s most popular magazines for lesbians.
Cathy’s UK fans are in for a special treat this coming March as she and Jill Bennett will both be appearing at London’s BFi Lesbian & Gay film festival for a [...]

Cherry Grrl has announced its 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards to celebrate lesbians who have made positive, entertaining, impactful, and memorable contributions in 2009. Cherry Grrl’s readers nominated those they wanted to see recognized for their efforts last year and now it’s time to put it to a vote.
Lesbians on film, in television, on the web, [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion about CBS’s rejection of the ManCrunch ad proposed for this Sunday’s Superbowl game. Some have decided it was all a PR stunt (which, as someone in the PR business, I’m not entirely opposed to), and some have decided it’s yet another indicator of how entrenched homophobia and sexism [...]

C+E clients, God-des & She, are featured in this month’s Bound Magazine – an amazing new magazine for lesbians.  Congratulations to two of our favorite women leading the way in today’s hip-hop scene!

With everything else going on – natural disasters, economic meltdown, foreign wars, and more – it might seem short-sighted to fixate on whether President Obama will choose to address Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (the military policy that effectively prevents LGBT people from serving their country) in his upcoming State of the Union address on Wednesday [...]

Congratulations to C+E clients Jill Bennett and Cathy DeBuono, featured on the cover of this month’s Curve Magazine.  These two out and proud actresses and producers are leading the way in DIY media – creating fresh, funny, dramatic and romantic content for lesbians online.

by guest commentator, Rachel Pepper
As we know well in the LGBT community, words have the power to unite, disgust, divide, empower, inform, and inspire us. There is a shared lingo among many LGBT folks that give us a source of strength, pride, and humor. On the flip side of this, there are also many words [...]