Ah, 1990s, the decade of boy bands, girl bands.

Remember Hansons vs. The Moffatts, ‘N Sync vs. Backstreet Boys, and Spice Girls vs., er… Spice Girls? Many of them may have not returned to the limelight (we won’t drop names here) but even so, we say in full confidence that they totally forgotten because they have taken earned a spot in the rich and ever-changing word pool called gay lingo.

You may remember Jane Lynch, the scheming cheerios coach in popular hit TV series Glee, as the ever-sarcastic and mean faculty superstar. But last Monday, May 30, she was all smiles as she and longtime girlfriend, Dr. Lara Embry, tied the knot at Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts, according to Us magazine.

In a recent memorandum circulated to accredited recruitment agencies in the Philippines, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia explicitly instructed the companies to thoroughly screen work applicants to exclude lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs), or else they will be permanently discredited by the embassy.

Love your own. Indeed we do, that’s why we compiled a list of LGBT-owned and LGBT-friendly businesses for us to support. Patronize them or at least pay their site a visit.

Read the list and contribute! Lesbians go by a lot of names and different generations of lesbians identify with different names. Here are some of the names that are synonymous to the lesbian Filipina.