SINGAPORE TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
The new Singapore film Be With Me, which contains three vignettes of characters looking for love--including one about two teenage girls who fall in love--was forced to change its poster from a scene of the girls lying and embracing each other on some steps, to one with one of the girls being embraced by a man. "One of the guidelines states that posters must not depict or promote homosexual or lesbian intimacy," said a representative from the government's Media Development Authority, who polices these things. "As such, the distributor was advised to use alternative visuals."

CENSORSHIP: IT'S NOT JUST FOR SINGAPORE
A new documentary about legendary bisexual actress Greta Garbo premiered this week on Turner Classic Movies, and much to the displeasure of Garbo's remaining family members, she was not, er, straightened out. "The family wanted us to put in that she wasn't lesbian," director Kevin Brownlow said in an interview about the documentary. "But nobody we spoke to was that definitive...It's one of those things you can't be definitive about. All you can do is touch on it."

IMAGINING PIPER AND LENA...
The not-so-Coyote Ugly Piper Perabo (Lost and Delirious) explores her Sapphic side (again) in the new British film Imagine Me and You, which has its world debut at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, and will be released in the U.S. on February 10th. The movie, directed by Ol Parker, tells the story of a bride, Rachel (Perabo), who gets a bad case of cold feet when she unexpectedly falls for the florist, Luce (Lena Headey), on her wedding day to boyfriend Heck (Matthew Goode). She marries him anyway, but can't stop thinking about Luce, causing turmoil and leading Rachel, Luce and Heck to wonder what the heck is going on. Sorry, couldn't resist.

GIRLFRIEND GETS A GIRLFRIEND ON GIRLFRIENDS?
On the upcoming season of the popular UPN sitcom Girlfriends, biracial girlfriend Lynn (Persia White) is reportedly going to find her own lesbian florist, or something like that, when she finally explores the bisexual side she's mentioned once or twice before, but never actually done anything about. Girlfriends has always been fairly gay-friendly--William's lesbian sister has made an appearance a few times, once with her partner--and the writers have done a good job with successfully integrating potentially controversial topics in the past (like HIV, and Lynn's biracial heritage), but this would be the first core character on the sitcom to have a relationship with someone of the same sex.

Will Lynn's bisexuality just be the stuff of Sweeps episodes, or a whole big season-long, integrated thing? We'll have to tune in Mondays at 9pm beginning September 19th to find out.

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