Andrea Meyerson

Sweet  Aug 6

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Andrea Meyerson has been on a roll for the past fourteen years. From founding Women On A Roll (WOAR), the premier lesbian social club in Southern California in 1995, to receiving HRC’s Local Hero Award in March of last year, Andrea has sat squarely in the center of Southern California’s LGBT community. Now an award-winning film-maker, television producer, event producer, concert promoter and entrepreneur, Andrea’s vision has helped create an active, vibrant, and tightly-knit community of lesbians in Southern California and beyond.

Andrea’s entrepreneurial sprit has translated into three separate businesses that each serve the LGBT community in different, but complementary, ways. The team behind Women On A Roll creates opportunities for lesbians to connect, socialize, travel and be active with each other. StandOut Productions, the live concert and event production company Andrea founded in 1997, ensures that LGBT and LGBT-friendly entertainers – both up-and-coming and iconic – are able to play in the best possible venues and have access to the widest possible audiences. All Out Films, the film and television production company Andrea founded in 2002 to produce her Laughing Matters series, allows her and her team to continue to document the work of LGBT comics on film so that audiences everywhere can experience the power of laughter.

A tireless advocate for the LGBT community and for women, Andrea received the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s L.A.C.E. (Lesbians Active in Community Empowerment) Award in 2002. PowerUp honored her as one of the Ten Amazing Women in Showbiz in 2004. In 2006, she received the WIN Outstanding Women Award from the Women’s Image Network and was also named a finalist for PlanetOut’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Andrea made history in 2007 when she became the first out lesbian to receive the YWCA’s Women of Achievement Award. In March of 2008, Andrea was honored with the prestigious HRC Local Hero Award.

Cambria Women’s Weekend is Andrea’s latest venture. Now in its second year, the weekend offers women the chance to gather, relax, play, mix and mingle amongst hundreds of other women in the quaint artists’ town of Cambria on California’s Central Coast.

Without a doubt, this woman who’s dedicated her life to finding new ways to bring the LGBT community together, is still on a roll.

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Heather Gold

Sweet  Aug 1

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Heather Gold is the turkey baster child of Sarah Silverman and Rachel Maddow. She’s a lesbian comic who tours North American and is best known for her quick wit, warmth and ability to involve the audience in her hilarious shows. She’s made over 24,000 chocolate chip cookies in her hit solo debut “I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie” which was named Best of the Bay, showed at Ars Nova in NY and often included guests like Elizabeth Falkner and Jamie Lauren (Top Chef). Heather won Curve’s National Lesbian Theatre Award for Cookie and also for The C Word with Jen Kober.

Heather has appeared with performers like Maria Bamford, Margaret Cho, Sabrina Matthews, BETTY, Adrianne, Patrice Pike, and Michelle Tea.

Heather’s also hosted Austin Gay Pride, spoken at major Prop 8 rallies in SF and NY, written for Jen Coolidge and for Alan Cumming for the Webbys. She’s appeared in Wired, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Tech TV, CBC radio, Air America, the San Jose Mercury News, Salon.com, Curve and a LOGO pilot presentation. She will soon be the host of two shows on one of the largest online networks This Week in Tech (2.6 million / month).

Heather performs and speaks about LGBT issues at colleges like UCLA, Scripps College, Kenyon and SUNY Stony Brook. She also helps other people “come out” as themselves in business keynotes at places like Google and Web 2.0.
Much to her parents’ delight, she has degrees from Yale and Northwestern Law.

Her recent marriage was recognized by California and, more enduringly, by Marie Claire.

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Dani Campbell

Sweet  Apr 16

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Reality TV Personality, Speaker, Firefighter, Activist

In just ten short weeks Dani Campbell became America’s next lesbian superhero. As a contestant and eventual final women standing on MTV’s mega hit reality show “A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila” she was an inspiration to young people everywhere as an out and proud lesbian fire fighter who embraced her family and her life. Her honesty and optimistic outlook have earned her fans from across the world.

Hailing from Fort Lauderdale, 29-year-old Dani Campbell is a tomboy who thinks that she is not feminine and not butch, but a little of both. Her hobbies include watching movies, reading, camping, playing paintball, kickball and softball. A firefighter and paramedic, she used to work as a bartender back when she was in college. She is passionate about her firefighting career.

When Dani was just 1-years-old, she and her parents moved from Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana. Four years later her parents divorced, and when Dani was 9-years-old she moved with her mother to Palm Beach, Florida. One of the biggest events in Dani’s young life was when she came out to her mother at the age of 16, which changed her forever.

She is currently filming the new season of Gimme Sugar 2, which will air on LOGO in the summer and speaking to students across the country about equality and empowerment. As well Dani has launched a successful new clothing company “pinkboybluegirl”, a fashion forward line of clothes for women and men who don’t necessarily fit the everyday “mold”.

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Lipstick & Dipstick

Sweet  Jul 14

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Voted the #1 column by readers, Lipstick & Dipstick give punchy advice to the lesbian community—a measured blend of guidance, wit and sincerity from the femme and the butch perspective—in Curve Magazine (the best-selling lesbian magazine in the world). Lipstick & Dipstick also star in their own web series, “The Lipstick & Dipstick Show,” which can be viewed at curvemag.com. Their first book, Lipstick & Dipstick’s Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships, was released in 2007 by Alyson Books. During their extensive international book tour, Lipstick & Dipstick did myriad TV, radio and print interviews. They regularly speak on college campuses, addressing queer issues, and perform (their readings are performance-based) for large crowds. For San Francisco Pride 2008, they emceed the main stage and entertained over 100,000 people for many hours. They’ve also hosted/emceed staged events for Showtime, Human Rights Campaign, Curve, and Nike Inc. at their World Headquarters, where—in a humorous talk show style—they interviewed Nike’s CEO for Coming Out Day. Over the years, they’ve made a number of TV and radio appearances, including a stint on Logo’s Round Trip Ticket and on WE’s Secret Lives of Women.

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Chantal Carrere

Sweet  Jul 14

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After starting her entertainment career as a San Francisco radio DJ, Chantal Carrere took the stage and was an immediate sensation. She began performing at the hottest local comedy clubs, but it didn’t stop there. She then went on to earn an unbreakable “perfect score” in the Funniest Female competition in Los Angeles and the title of “Wildcard Finalist” in Laugh Across America in Las Vegas.

The SF Bay Times declared that “her timing is flawless.” She is “hands down, one of the funniest female comics out there” according to the East Bay Express. Her comedy has been described as littered with double entendre and shot gun punches and as a fun flirty autobiographical romp. She has often been described as a star on the rise. Staying true to expectations, she went on to appear on national network television on ABC.

Most recently she was named one of “The Funniest” Lesbian comedians in America by Curve magazine. She captured 6th place in the “Top Ten Funniest Lesbians” along side notable performers such as Ellen DeGeneres. She was also recently declared 11th in the “One Hundred Women We Love” issue of Go Magazine.
Chantal relocated from her native California to Boston where she can be seen performing in clubs and colleges in both the Boston & New York area. She also tours nationally with both the “Five Funny Females” and “Lesbians of Laughter” shows and can be seen on Here TV’s “Hot Gay Comics.”

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Jill Bennett

Sweet  Jul 12

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Jill Bennett knew she was a lesbian at age 13, when her friend Heather squeezed her leg in the basement while watching a horror movie. Making her way as an out actress in today’s world didn’t prove to be quite so easy, costing her some opportunities and perhaps more mainstream success, but she’s got no regrets.

These days, she’s got her integrity to keep her warm plus plenty of acting gigs.

Jill can currently be seen in Here TV’s supernatural soap “Dante’s Cove,” scheduled to return for a fourth season this fall, and in the award winning hit webseries “3Way.” You can also find her in the new season of Logo’s animated show “Rick and Steve,” and in a memorable cameo in the festival favorite short “Tranny McGuyver.” Other TV appearances including recurring roles on the original “Beverly Hills 90210,” Steven Spielberg’s “The Others” and the CW sitcom “Zoe …”

She has three films recently released on DVD: X’s and O’s, “Shattered” and “Out at the Wedding.” Other recent films include “Expiration Date” and “The Pleasure Drivers.” Scheduled to premiere at San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival in June, her newest feature “And Then Came Lola” is sweeping into every LGBT film festival of note.

Early this spring, Jill co-executive produced and starred in the webseries “We Have to Stop Now,” which just wrapped its first season in mid-April to rave reviews. The romantic comedy follows two lesbian therapists as they struggle to keep up the pretense of staying together when a documentary film crew invades their home after the success of their book How To Succeed In Marriage Without Even Trying.

Jill co-created the first hit lesbian video blog “We’re Getting Nowhere” for AfterEllen.com, which was nominated as Best Lesbian Vlog Ever for Logo’s NewNowNext Awards. She went solo in late 2008 and is now producing her own video blog “The Violet Underground” for SheWired.com.

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