I just wrapped a new podcast episode of GLBT Talk with Barb and Donna.  I flew solo today as I switched up on Donna ‘last minute’ with our new show time.  She had a pre-existing commitment today but will be back on 2/18/10 for our next show.

During today’s show I offered up some juicy love tips for singles and couples, as well as some lovely links and resources.  Have pride in yourself and your relationship (if you are coupled) this Valentine’s Day.  If you are single, you need to have just as much pride in yourself as your coupled friends.

Here are the two websites I mentioned on today’s podcast:

10,000 couples – This is the site my colleague Delena Wilkerson from Chicago, Illinois, started and runs.  It’s a great site – full of couples-related content.  She’s also collecting the profiles of gay and lesbian couples.  I hope you’ll help her achieve her goal of collecting 10,000 couples profiles! Her vision is ‘Representing the face of gay and lesbian couples around the world’.

Freedom to Marry – This is the non-profit another colleague, Evan Wolfson, started and maintains.  Two years ago, I was honored to interview Evan on our podcast.  This year, Freedom to Marry will celebrate it’s 13th Annual Freedom to Marry Week, which gives us a way to “share our stories, reflect on the values of equality and love, while also engaging our neighbors in the movement for equality and fairness”.

Evan’s site has lots of cool resources such as their section on well known figures who are speaking up for equality.

As for the detailed love tips I shared, you’ll just have to listen to the podcast!  Enjoy…

It’s been quite busy around here, necessitating my decision to change the time and day of Coach Sappho’s podcast.   I’ve moved Coach Sappho’s podcast to the first and third Thursdays of each month at 4p ET.  Please make note of it.  If you’re already a podcast subscriber, you’ll get a show reminder by Wednesday.

We hope you can join us during the live shows, but, if you can’t, be sure to pick up your free copy of Coach Sappho’s Podcast for listening when it’s right for you.  All podcast subscribers get free copies of all of our podcasts.

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• Tired of the lack of results you’ve gotten with online dating so far?
• Don’t know where to look – online or off – to find women compatible to you?
• Unsure what you need to look for in a potential life partner?

These and dozens of other questions will be answered during this discussion group experience!

Coach Sappho’s Lesbian Dating Discussion Group begins on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7p ET.

There is no other group like this one in the world!  Seriously…and, the good news is, you can join in on the fun!  Coach Sappho’s Lesbian Dating Discussion Group is for the single lesbian who is truly committed to making NOW the time she finds the woman she can build a deeply satisfying, long term future with in this lifetime.

In my travels, I often meet some really amazing women doing incredibly good ‘works’.  Below is a special request from one of them.  Her name is Wendy Payne and, as part of earning her doctorate, she is researching the effects of marriage on the health and wellness of lesbians.

Wow – what great news!  You know this topic is something I write about often and I’d like to thank Wendy for choosing to study lesbians who are married.  I’m sure her work will add to the growing body of research showing that gay marriage supports a more successful, healthy (not just ‘just’) society.

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“To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere…Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.  But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”

- Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show, Friday 1/22/10

Wow!  I just watched Conan O’Brien finish his last Tonight Show on NBC.  I was touched by his parting words (which he then followed by playing the electric guitar while Will Farrell in a blond Lynyrd Skynyrd wig sang ‘Freebyrd’ ).  Yesterday, I thought some of his skits, where he claimed he was ’spending huge sums of NBC money’, were for real.  The joke was on me!

Conan went out with class.  He took the high road without giving much of his bargaining power away.  On one hand, I don’t feel sorry for him – anyone receiving the amount of money, fame and notoriety he does shouldn’t be pitied.  In addition, all of us know he will rise from the ashes somewhere and, NBC will most likely miss him (and maybe even regret his leaving).

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I’m sure you’ve heard, but, in case you didn’t:

Cindy McCain has joined her daughter Meghan McCain (who has been outspoken in her support of same sex marriage) in speaking up against hate (and possibly gay marriage) by posing for one of those Adam Brouska No H8 photo shoots.  Meghan also posed for No H8 late last year.

Way to go Cindy!  Of course republicans are up in arms, including her husband John McCain’s office, which has put out a statement supporting Cindy’s ‘right’ to think differently and reiterating John’s support of marriage between a man and a woman only!  And, I hear that another, more conservative republican who is planning to run against McCain during the next election is already using this event to drum up support against the re-election of McCain.

Well, leave it to the ladies to evolve us forward…AGAIN!  

Sorry guys,  I may be a lesbian but I’m not a man hater.  I just state what I observe…

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