THIS IN A COUNTRY THAT AIRS BAD GIRLS AND TIPPING THE VELVET?
British soap Eastenders recently filmed its upcoming lesbian kiss scene, accompanied by the requisite silliness. Actress Natalie Cassidy told Heat magazine, "It was really funny because word had gone around the building that we were filming it that day. So suddenly all these blokes who work on the show turned up, looking for God knows what. We looked up and the studio was full of men. Well, they like that sort of thing, don't they? Bless 'em."

Big Brother UK contestant Makosi Musambasi actually received refugee status this week in Britain based on the fact that kissing another woman on the TV show branded her a "low-life lesbian" in her home country of Zimbabwe.

Nice to see the rest of the world is just as idiotically obsessed with lesbian kisses as we are in the U.S.

LESBIAN PODCASTERS WANTED!
Of the 126 podcasts listed on qpodder.com (a website that aggregates gay and lesbian podcasts), only around 10 percent are lesbian podcasts, reports a new article in Southern Voice. This isn't that different from the male/female ratio in the podcasting community overall, but that doesn't make it suck any less. So all you lesbians out there: start podcasting! (I plan to do on myself one of these days--you know, in all my free time).

GAY MARRIAGE: A RELUCTANT STRAIGHT COUPLE'S BEST FRIEND
In a new interview this week with TV show Extra, actress Charlize Theron says she and boyfriend Stuart Townsend won't get married until gays and lesbians can. "We came up with a new idea that we said we would get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married," said Theron. "The day that law is passed we'll get married." Nice sentiment, and I don't doubt she supports gay marriage. But the way this is worded, and the fact that she has consistently said she doesn't ever want to marry, makes her statement more like a modern version of "when unicorns fly" than a show of support. But whatever, we need all the celebrity endorsements we can get!