This just makes me giggle... I used to think she'd be cool to kiss, since she is pretty intense. Heh... Coral plays for MY team, no wonder I am always so competitive.

" But soft!  What light through yonder window breaks?  It is the East and Juliet is the sun!  Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon." -  Sometimes I feel like Romeo.

I've always loved Coral...very intense...very funny...and very classy...LOL

Now that is news for this MTV junkie.  I'm not a reality television girl unless it is The Real World and/or Road Rules.  I'm helpless when there is an Inferno marathon.  I'm stuck for hours no matter whether I saw the episode the night before or not.  Coral is kick ass crazy.  All I can say is I really hope she'll do another round of the competition cause I'd love to see her "out" in that environment.

I will never knock The Real World because that show has done more for gay/lesbian visibility than any other teen targeted televison.  Pedro changed my life.  And the following seasons presented the first occurances of out lesbians being on my tv/in my living room.

E-gaaad those are huge!!

In other news, I think the real world would do a great service to the community by having an out lesbian now, instead of the usual gay men. When those girls (Rachel and some other girl...) had that threesome and they were rumored to be lady lovas, I remember having a positive conversation about them with some friends, including my "best friend" since birth who told me that people who can't have children shouldn't get married and that she doesn't believe in lesbians (so I thiiink her [ultra conservative] parents maaay have installed some of these "holy" values into her since birth)!! But she wasn't part of the positive talk, more of the me hoping that she caves into the positive gay peer pressure. And I'm still "best friends" with this girl! Whadafuh...

I really did not see this coming!

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

"I’m attracted to beautiful women. Beautiful women tend to be attracted to me."

Best quote ever. So down to earth, that girl. And I'm so glad to know there is no homophobia in Brazil! Go Coral. Go go.

Australia gay friendly hey? Thats a new one!

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

I'm am rather surprised by this interview, though.  As a long-time Coral fan, she's usually much more articulate and witty. Bitchy, yes, but not generally incoherent. 

Way back when, somewhere between her RW season and her first couple of RW/RR challenges, there were some heavy-duty rumors swirling about her "lesbian tendencies," but they were always to the "a friend of a friend of so-and-so hooked up with Coral" variety.  At the time they seemed the garden-variety rumors that even a quasi-celeb such as Ms. Brown might have to endure. Sometimes where there's smoke, there actually is fire, or at least an ember.

This changes nothing, though because my favorite RW lesbian will always, always be Genesis Moss.   

This "lesbian qualities" thing is (sort of) mentioned in an interesting article in this week's New York Mag entitled "The Science of Gaydar".

I suggest you check it out, scribe - and everyone else too.

Here: http://nymag.com/news/features/33520/

"In many other studies, though, lesbians have appeared less unique than gay men, leading some people to wonder if their sexual orientation is innate. Michael Bailey—who, as a heterosexual researcher, is a minority in this field—even doubts the existence of female sexual orientation, if by orientation we mean a fundamental drive that defies our conscious choices. He bases this provocative gambit on a sexual-arousal study he and his students conducted. When shown pornographic videos, men have an undeniable response either to gay or straight images but not both, according to sensitive gauges attached to their genitals—it’s that binary. Female sexual response is more democratic, opaque, and unpredictable"

“What I do think it’s time to do is admit that female sexuality looks in some ways very different from male sexuality, and that there is no clear analog in women of men’s directed sexual-arousal pattern, which I think is their sexual orientation. I am not sure that women don’t have a sexual orientation, but it is certainly unclear that they do.”

She’s not my girlfriend. I’m attracted to beautiful women. Beautiful women tend to be attracted to me. It really seems to work out for me.  - Quoted...

How hard life must be for you, Coral. Beautiful people? Deary me! I hate to sound rather dreary, and what not, but seriously, if this is as deep as she gets.... because I honestly admit to not bothering with the rest of the article after reading that... then I daresay she'll turn out to be another Anne Heche. Aliens, anyone?

Back to RENT!  

When she calls my name, I turn and in that instant I lose my heart. This is the love of my life.

- Kate Mulgrew

I couldn't stand Coral when she was on RW back to New York. Yet she grew on me with her

"I don't wrestle, I (expletive) beat b!tches up" quote. Ah I love a classy girl.

I won't make any snide comments about her interview though. It seems her ginormous breasts have beaten my snark into submission.

Anyway while we are talking RW, Melisa Howard from RW Orleans also needs to explore her "lesbian qualities".

I stand by the fact that if I ever met Coral, we would be homegirls. If any one here has ever read Melissa's blog and see Coral through her eyes you would fall in love with Coral in a completely platonic way of course. Coral is fiercely loyal, funny, generous, kind and compassionate. If you read the article she works at a rape conseling center and (I believe) she used her winnings from one of the challenges to set up a non-profit.

Seriously, Holla at ya girl, Coral!

Also AfterEllen is like 4 days late on this news.

I don't know if I'm down with calling an opinionated black woman a bitch so effortlessly. How many people have called Rosie O'Donnell a cunt for her decidedly cunty behaviour? Right people would use different terminology for that behaviour.

And if anybody has seen her shows, she's not really serious. It's obvious when she's being serious and joking around as mentioned by the kind poster above.

I stand by what I said earlier, but add that my tone is almost always sarcastic here. I should have read the whole article, I'm a bit addicted to Scribe and I like the snark. It goes over my head, but there you have it.

*does geeky Xena dance, you know, from A Tale Of Two Muses* Respect the Geek.

When she calls my name, I turn and in that instant I lose my heart. This is the love of my life.

- Kate Mulgrew

We're all judging her intelligence by a couple of quotes. Hilarious.

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I shouldn't be so quick to label her a bitch. It's really a result of her allowing herself to be typecast by the producers in that role. Bitchiness is a defense mechanism. I am sure that when she was first on MTV for Real World Back to New York, it was probably just a way to stem off the frightening concept that is "being portrayed on reality TV for all the world to see." But in subsequent shows she had to play up the character people were expecting. I really don't think she is as hard as she makes out, because I remember one of the challenges where Julie (the mormon) wanted to wrestle her, and Coral basically copped out and said if Julie touched her she'd have her kicked off the show. Her attitude is probably all a big front.

And yeah, I also find it funny that a lot of people have swarmed in and labelled her dumb because of the quotes that were picked out and the tone of the article.

This interview isn't the best reflection of her, but it doesn't override the impression of her that I've developed after watching her on the Real World (and subsequent challenges) and reading about her hijinks on Melissa's blog.

I've said before that of all the people on the RW/RR, Coral is the one I'd mostly likely be friends with, if I met her in real life...and well...this explains that...though it might also have something to do with her willingness to get into fights with her fellow castmates that I'm not particularly fond of (*cough*Julie Stoffer*cough*). Whatever.

I hope she comes back and does future challenges (assuming her knee is better) because I think she can still kick the butt of what young chicks they throw in her way.