LESBIAN AFFAIR: Another lesbian teacher scandal, this time in London, though this case seems a bit more Allegedly Michael Jackson than Mary Kay Letourneau — The Daily News reports that Hellen Goddard, “a prep schoolteacher known as the “Jazz Lady” is facing the music“ and getting a 15-month jail sentence for having a lesbian affair with a 15-year-old student. The student admits that she “instigated” the relationship and felt “guilty” about Goddard’s legal situation. Goddard, “a child prodigy who performed at the opening ceremony at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney admitted to six sample counts of sexual activity with the student between February and July.” When searching her home the team found “various sex toys, including vibrators and “fluffy handcuffs.”
The BBC reports that “The judge, who was told the girl and the teacher were genuinely in love, did not uphold the prosecution’s request for a sexual offences prevention order as it would be “draconian and unnecessarily cruel” to the girl as well.” The judge also said he was going to rule “gender-blind” on this one. Well … she’s 15. That’s a pretty clear-cut “go directly to jail” moment, though possibly less so to a child prodigy who probably remembered being taken pretty seriously at that age.
LESBIAN MOM WINS: A three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals has unanimously ordered a trial court to reconsider a ban preventing a divorced mom from having her partner of 10 years and her own children stay overnight at her home at the same time. In layman’s terms — the Dad said the kids shouldn’t be around his ex’s immoral lesbian relationship, and the court said that’s really f*cking stupid.
OBAMA: Obama Tells NY Gov. Paterson to Stay Out of 2010 Election: “Paterson has been very popular with the LGBT community thanks to his unwavering support for marriage equality, but his statewide approval ratings have barely been in the double-digits for the last year.” (@joemygod)
PRIDE: Pride Parade in Serbia Cancelled:“Organisers and the government had feared a repeat of 2001, when Belgrade’s first-ever gay pride parade was abandoned halfway through due to mass violence.” (@abcnews)
So, I don’t really have anything to say on this. I just thought the page looked a little lonely without comments, but don’t worry guys. I’ve totally got it covered. You can always count on me for some non-insightful, superficial, probably boob related, comments. Oh what am I saying? I’m an ass-girl and everyone knows it! happy redesign
Thank you sapphic ass for covering our sapphic asses. Looks like you got some magic started.
amazing. I’m not worried about lonely pages anymore! Also, this made me LOL. Happy redesign!
Somehow I combined and misread all the article titles in your RSS feed and got “Lesbian music progeny take over the world.” I was really excited and intrigued. Oh well.
wow so much daily fix, love it! or at least the new format makes me think there is a lot. yay redesign!
There is! There are gonna be three daily fixes a day!
thats amazing! so much autostraddle alll day long! The new design is ace and super shiny and alex and anyone else who did it is clearly a graphic design genius who should be designing the world.
I’m hooked! Yaay!
Is it bad that I think that teacher is totally f’in hot?!! If I were still in high school.. or even now, for that matter, I’d probably have pursued her too!
original title of post: “Hot For Lesbian Teacher, ‘Cause She’s Really Hot.” then decided that was perhaps inappropriate or somehow wrong to say. but actually that’s not even the best picture of her.
I wish she was my teacher.
I’d let her teach me a thing or two…
So…is Hot Teacher out on bail yet? Cuz I’d be happy to help her, um, reintegrate into society.
I love the redesign – had to put the shades on to protect my eyes.
Where have Daily Team Picks gone though?
hi! Daily Team Picks are on the Daily Fix page, in a column to the right! they’re their own posts now, so you can comment on each pick separately. also, we’re posting them whenever we fill like it, so you never know when there’ll be something new!
I see it now. Thanks!