Best.
Lesbian. Week. Ever.
by Sarah
Warn, AfterEllen.com
Editor
The
lesbian pop culture column
Friday,
October 20, 2002 (page 2)
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AND
MAYBE COLIN HANKS COULD PLAY HER GIRLFRIEND
Jessica
Capshaw, the daughter of actress Kate Capshaw--who played
a bisexual woman who fell for Elle McPherson in A
Girl Thing--and the stepdaughter of Steven Spielberg,
has just finished filming several episodes of The
L Word. No word yet on what character she'll be
playing on the show, but given The L Word's curious
ethnic casting habits, I'm guessing a black Jewish lesbian
from the Ukraine.
DOES
TIVO-ING WORK OUT COUNT AS EXERCISE?
Good
news for lesbians and gym bunnies (and especially lesbian
gym bunnies!): Bravo has picked up Work
Out for a second season. Jackie Warner posted
this note about it on her
MySpace profile last week:
Hey
everyone! We received an official pick-up on Bravo today!
We start shooting in November so life is gonna get crazier!
Thanks for your support throughout this whole adventure.
I hope to make the show 10 times better and more inspiring
than last.... xo-jackie
Speaking
of MySpace, I finally broke down and created MySpace
profile of my own. I have no plans, however, to open
my own gym or let my girlfriend bite me.
BECAUSE
REALLY, WE'RE ALL THE SAME, EXCEPT FOR THAT LACKING IN
BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS THING.
There's an interesting new article on PopMatters.com called
"Gay
TV: Making Same-Sex Marriage Safe for America"
about the effect of TV lesbians and gay men on the gay
marriage debate. The piece is focused most on analyzing
(and praising) Rosie O'Donnell on The View, concluding
that "Rosie O’Donnell is doing exactly what
she needs to be doing to make same-sex marriage less threatening
or offensive to her audience: appearing not so different
from any straight counterpart". But she and other
gay TV characters are doing this by taking the sex out
of homosexuality, because "In order to reach out
to people who are freaked out by gay sex either because
they find it 'ewwwwy' or because they’ve been taught
that it’s an 'abomination', it’s safer for
Rosie to talk about poopie diapers than Sapphic desires."
Overall,
it's a remarkably insightful article for a non-gay publication,
even if it is a bit disconcerting to read the phrases
"poopie diapers" and "Sapphic desires"
in the same sentence.
BUT
WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
One of the finalists on the new season of Sweden's
extremely popular version of American Idol
is Cissi Ramsby, an out lesbian who told reporters she's
the only gay person in her small town of Järvsö.
Check out Cissy's profile on the
show's official website, and watch a clip of her singing
"Paid My Dues" in English on YouTube.
(thanks Sofia!)
P.L.
Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books--on which
the famous Disney movie was based--was "strongly
involved with "women for a period in her life",
the author of a new
biography tells CNN, but "I couldn't find any
proof that she was a lesbian". What, she was expecting
to find an official Lesbian Club Card in her sock drawer?
U.S. readers can now
download
episodes from the second season of The L Word
from Amazon.com for $1.99 an episode. Optional Jenny
voodoo doll sold separately.
That's
it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment
of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. or read past
installments here.
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