Happy PRIDE Month to You All!

LGBT Pride Month is an opportunity to celebrate our diversity, and to support civil liberties for all people worldwide. We hope that you all will have a chance to attend some local events.

Here at Amazing Dreams Publishing we are celebrating Lesbian/Bi Women Pride by providing you with some great new Ecard designs and amazing new services. You can see our new services and links to them in this newsletter.

THE ORIGIN OF LGBT PRIDE MONTH
The yearly celebration of LGBT Pride Month started from a terrible situation that happened in a bar named Stonewall Inn, which is located in Greenwich Village, NYC. It was June 27, 1969, and the regular crowd was gathered at the Inn, when suddenly NYC police officers and the New York Beverage Control Board agents raided the bar for the second time in a week. Raids on gay establishments were commonplace, and gay people were physically forced out of these places, and many times they were beaten and arrested for no reason. As usual, the officers raided the Stonewall Inn, spewing homophobic remarks and demanding to see the patrons' IDs.

Gay people had had enough, and on this hot night both lesbians and gay men, some in full drag, fought back against the police raids for the first time. When the patrons at the Stonewall Inn erupted into an enraged confrontation, word spread quickly throughout Greenwich Village bringing more people into the streets. Many were arrested during the rebellion. This fueled the fire on the long-simmering anger of the gay and lesbian community, which suddenly surfaced in a rolling boil. For three days, outraged crowds rioted in the streets in the name of gay liberation. Many people funneled their anger into political action with organized groups to protest the mistreatment constantly inflicted on the gay community. These protests were called the Stonewall Rebellion. Because of the bravery of a few, people began realizing the horrible treatment LGBT people had suffered, and gays and lesbians began a political movement to secure our basic civil rights, which is still going on to this day.

To celebrate these heroic acts, an annual parade is held each year in New York City and Los Angeles on the last Sunday in June. The first parade was held in June of 1970, and has since marked the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. In March of 2000, The Stonewall Inn was declared a National Historic Landmark, and is known as the true birthplace of the lesbian/gay civil rights movement in the United States.

NEW NEWS AND SERVICES
This month we have over 100 lesbian film reviews just for you! We also have a new artist featuring lesbian artwork in our Ecard Gallery. Be sure to check out information below.

We were contacted by the editor in Chief at LOTL International, a lesbian magazine in Australia, who emailed Tracey and Kathy this question:

"Would you be interested in becoming our Advice columnists for LOTL
International? We have around 240,000 readers who visit us online."

OF COURSE THEY SAID YES!!! We are awaiting confirmation on this new gig, which should bring A LOT of Aussie traffic our way!

We also have two new articles by Tracey and Kathy that are live online at many GayWired Media Network websites. You can check them out at the following links:

"Internetting a Lesbian Partner with Online Dating"

"Lust Vs Love"

WEBSTATS:
Once again we wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who has helped us spread the word about Amazing Dreams and our services. Because of your incredible support in sending emails with our website link and talking about our site in the chat rooms, we received 796,242 visits from 32,852 people visiting the site last month!

OUR NETWORKING AND SUPPORT GROUPS:
Our Lesbian Networking Groups are doing great with over 574 members. Our Lesbian/BI Woman Online Support Group now has 780 members worldwide!!We are providing a service for women worldwide, and two of our members recently wrote these notes of appreciation:

"I am so very grateful to have found this site. Thank you for what you are doing for so many people, and all the rest of you that are linking arms and going through this together. Your courage, comfort, and honesty with one another is such a haven. By reading the messages coming across my screen, well, suddenly I don't feel so all alone with my thoughts, and I'm certainly not unique in this. Again, thanks."

"Thanks so much for this support group. It has made such a difference in my life. I feel so much better, with less anxiety. I can't believe there are so many of us out there in the same situation. Have a blessed day."

See more quotes from members of our
Support For Lesbians Coming Out group.

NEW COMMENTS FROM OUR LOYAL SUPPORTERS :
We are providing over 1,500 free services for lesbian and bisexual women, and many email us about our website. Here are some recent comments:

Message: "Met a woman on a dating site, imagine that (ha ha ha ). No, I have not packed my U-haul, a first!! But we have exchanged emails, phone calls and pics for awhile. She sent me some of the beautiful and sensual Ecards from your site. The cards are simply amazing! Being an artist myself, I can totally appreciate the beauty, and being a lesbian, the sensuality which is expressed through the cards! Your site is wondrous!!! I think what I like the most is that you cater to all person's who are sexual and or sensual. What a concept and brilliant brilliant simplistic idea, as we all are human beings! thank you, thank you and thank you!"

Message: "I found your site through Jonathan's beautiful Goddess Ecards. I am a Lesbian just coming out....grateful for your site. Galaxies of Love!"

Message: "The site is wonderfully created. Very classy. A lot of different Ecards to choose from. I am impressed."

We have over 10 pages of comments and linking information from our visitors. If you'd like to read more, the pages start here: www.amazingdreamspublishing.com/comments1.html

HOW WE FUND OUR FREE SERVICES:
How we fund our free services is by selling our books and products, selected especially for women, from our website. If you'd like to help us to help other women, be sure to check out our affiliate programs listed at the bottom of this newsletter and on our website. Your purchases help us to keep providing great free resources for our sisters who may live in rural areas where being lesbian can be a life threatening situation, and those in foreign countries, where being lesbian or bisexual can be a death sentence! We just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported our site and what we are doing for women worldwide.

NEW LESBIAN ART ECARDS BY KASHETTE
Born in Seattle Washington in the year of 1974, Kashette finds freedom in creating art and writing. From Kashette: " What inspires my drive to do art is first my partner in life and you the viewers. I want to grasp your hearts and minds in a fresh new creative way. My art is what I see inside my self, and my imagination has no limits."

Visit Kashette's Ecard Page to send beautiful Ecards.

NEW LESBIAN FILM REVIEWS
We have over 100 lesbian film reviews now online for you! Not sure what movie to bring home on a Friday night? We have over 100 lesbian film reviews that go back to 1928! From sweet coming out stories to full-blown lesbian love stories, which may even spark some romance in your own relationship. Remember to check out our online reviews before you rent or buy. We are also an affiliate with TLA Video, so any movies you purchase by linking from our site to TLA gives us a small percentage back from them. This helps us to continue providing free services for our community.
Visit our Film Reviews Page for the best in lesbian movies.

NEW LESBIAN HOROSCOPES BY FLASH SILVERMOON
June will begin with a grand Trine in Air signs which could also bring a lot of "AIR," but is more likely to manifest as a lot of 'Hot air." Lots and lots of talk. Will it mean much? Well, Mercury will be retrograde in its own sign of Gemini until June 19, so you can bet that there will be much talk, but also much confusion, if not out-and-out duplicity. Be sure that you say what you mean, and mean what you say...
To see your horoscope, visit Flash's Lesbian Astrology Page, or her Website to find out more about her Tarot Cards, Books, and Music CDs.

PRIDE ECARDS
BY JO ANN AND STRANGECHILD
Introducing Gay & Lesbian PRIDE Ecards you don't have to hide in a brown paper bag! Share your PRIDE during Gay Pride Month by sending your friends their own Gay Pride Ecard!

Visit Jo Ann's Lesbian Pride Ecard Page and the Out There Ecard Page to send fun PRIDE Ecards.

Our affiliates provide quality products for our supporters.
Profits from them and our own books help us to
keep our services free for women worldwide.

SHOW YOUR PRIDE COLORS NOW!
Do you want to let our community know about you? Then wear those colors! Just in time for the Pride Month, we now have a great affiliate Over the Rainbow Store with over 2,500 lesbian and Bisexual Pride items! Check out our huge selection of beautiful Lesbian and Bisexual Pride Items including: jewelry, rainbow key chains, flags, bumper stickers, journals, wrist bands, buttons, pins, candles, hats and caps, and lots of other products! Show who you are to the rest of us! Order online, and have wonderful items sent right to your address in a plain box!
Visit Our Over the Rainbow Affiliate Shop for the best in pride items.

SEND FLOWERS TO SHOW HER YOU CARE
Our online service for the people you love: flowers sent directly from the growers at half the price of many florists! We researched the best online flower distributor to find one who will provide quality products for our LGBT community. You can set up your own online account and send flowers for all occasions, like birthdays and anniversaries:

"Cindy came home today to a bouquet of roses from the Amazing Dreams Flower Shop, and was thrilled beyond words! She sent me a virtual card, also from Amazing Dreams, thanking me for the nice evening and the roses that were 'just beautiful!' She said the flowers were fresh and smelled wonderful. Cindy was also thrilled that they came with a vase, because she did not have one to put them in. Thanks Amazing Dreams! You made our anniversary extra special"
M.C., Cincinnati, OH

Visit the Amazing Dreams Flower Shop and send your favorite woman flowers today!

LESBIAN and FANTASY WOMEN POSTERS AND ART PRINTS
Want to really impress the neighbors? We've found 35 gorgeous lesbian-themed posters and art prints, and we'll be adding more soon. Frame them yourself, or choose a custom frame. With AllPosters great framing feature, you can choose your artwork, choose your wall color, choose your frame, choose your mat, and see exactly how your artwork will look in your home! Show your pride by decorating with beautiful photos of women together, or hang one on your bedroom ceiling!
Visit our Lesbian Poster Page or our Fantasy Women Page for beautiful prints.

SPICE UP YOUR LOVE LIFE,
VISIT OUR LESBIAN SEX TIPS TOY STORE!
Amazing Dreams Publishing proudly presents the sister store for both our Coming Out and Lesbian Sex Tips guides. We have over 5,000 of the best sensual toys, hand-picked by and for lesbians and bisexual women. Our store has secure online shopping, fast delivery, discreet packaging, and no embarrassing visits to your local male-owned store. From multifunctional vibrators, to pillows with secret compartments for your toys, we have the best selection for women on the web.
Visit The Lesbian Sex Tips Toy Store for the best in sensual products.