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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (Septemeber 3, 2010) Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga, a new Amber Heard video and more!

Angie Harmon. The avowed Republican appeared on Chelsea Lately and proclaimed her love for gay people. Too bad she didn’t explain exactly how she reconciles the gay love with her support of anti-gay political candidates (Sarah Palin) or “opposite marriage” enthusiasts (former Miss California Carrie Prejean).

CBS’s gay employee group. CBS Networks has launched a new gay employee affinity group called Angle. From the looks of their most recent GLAAD report card, they should also create a few new gay TV characters who would be eligible to join.

Small Faces. Marvel is promising not to “whitewash” the characters in the film adapation of the Runaways comic. We’re hoping this loyalty to the original subject matter extends to maintaining the lesbianism of the Karolina Dean.g

Jimena Navarrete. The newly crowned Miss Universe from Mexico supports gay marriage. Being pro-gay goes global!

Omaha World-Herald Newspaper. After a lesbian couple’s family started a Facebook campaign to end the paper’s discriminatory policy of not selling announcement space to same-sex couples, the paper will now allow legal gay wedding announcements. Now if we can just get gay

marriage legalized in Nebraska …

Lady Gaga. The singer wants to be ordained so she can marry gay couples, onstage. She now pronounces you little monster and little monster. You may now kiss the monster.

Sweden. Scandinavian airline SAS is accepting entries from gay couples who want to get hitched mid-flight from Stockholm to New York on December 6. Please place your bouquets in the upright position and fasten your cummerbunds.

Margaret Cho. The bisexual comic will join the cast of Dancing with the Stars. With people placing their bets on Brandy and Jennifer Grey to dominate, we say you should never underestimate the power of the gay fanbase.

Mary-Louise Parker. The actress says she is ready and willing to play a lesbian on TV and encourages fans to start a letter-writing campaign. “Dear Showtime, We’ll forgive you for The Real L Word if you green-light some girl love for Mary-Louise. Love, the lesbians.”

The 2010 Emmys. With big wins for Jane Lynch, Glee and Modern Family, this was the gayest Emmy broadcast in years, even without Neil Patrick Harris as host.

Miami radio host Stugotz. If Martina Navratilova doesn’t want to answer all your questions, calling her a bitch on the air won’t make her want to do it. We doubt that method is one of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.”

Dirty cops. Four prison guards have been suspended for watching two female cellmates have sex from their security cameras. Why were they suspended? Because they’re supposed to break up that sort of “inappropriate behavior,” not … observe. We suggest they watch a few episodes of Bad Girls when they’re off duty and stay focused on the job during business hours.

Findlay, Ohio. Lesbian cadet Katie Miller says her hometown has been harsh since she came out publicly against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. On the bright side, Katie is headed off to Yale, so she won’t have to be stuck around small-minded bigots, population 38,967.

Kim Stolz. The out MTV VJ/reporter went to Six Flags with some friends to talk with some girls about their periods. Would it have been better or worse if the acting hadn’t been so atrocious?

Lindsay Lohan. According to “a source,” the actress was “disinvited” to the premiere of her new film Machete. Funny, a Robert Rodriguez party seems like the perfect place for a (reformed?) bad girl.

Brandi on Bad Girls Club. Trying to force your roommate to have sex with you and then threatening her with a cheese grater isn’t the kind of visibility we were hoping for. Even by reality TV standards, it was embarrassing.

Danielle Staub. While claiming to be a lesbian and calling herself a gay advocate, Danielle lets her male friend refer to some guys as “faggots” and refused to apologize for it on The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. Guess she’s “real close” to being unclaimed by the gays (and Lori Michaels).

Persons Unknown. The summer mini-series finally gives us what we want when Janet and Erika kiss, but our fantasy is ruined when we find out it was part of an elaborate plot to have Janet killed. We hate when lesbians pull that “I really want to kiss you … I mean kill you!” crap.

Cheltenham’s Lepage Primary. A children’s school in Victoria, Australia has altered the famous song “Kookabura Sits in the Old Gum Tree” by taking out the word “gay” and substituting it with “fun.” At least they didn’t try to switch it out for “straight”; that’s no fun at all.

Nancy Heche. Anne Heche’s mom has co-authored, The Complete Christian Guide To Understanding Homosexuality, an anti-gay book with a “Levitical call for death to gays.” Well that’s not very Christian of her, now is it?

– George Clooney on Prop 8, after accepting his Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys

– Lea Michele to Glamour Magazine

– Lindsay Lohan to Vanity Fair

– Emmy winner Archie Panjabi on the sexual identity of her Good Wife character, Kalinda, to AE’s Lesley Goldberg at the Emmys

– Sally Dynevor on her Coronation Street character

– Jane Lynch, as her Glee character Sue Sylvester, to Fitness Magazine

BITCH AND BILLIE ARE MAKING THUNDER

Out musician and performance artist Bitch and her tourmate Billie Jo Cavallaro want to preserve the legacy of a music legend and they’d like your help. The two are working on Thunder, a documentary about pioneering Canadian recording artist Ferron, and have set up a kickstarter.com page in hopes of raising money for the project.

The 58-year-old Ferron, who has been called “the Johnny Cash of lesbian folk singing” and a “culture hero,” has released 14 albums to date and teaches master classes in writing. She’s also established an artist retreat for women in Three Rivers, Michigan, “The Fen Peace and Poetry Camp for Women.”

In an interview about the retreat, Ferron told the Kalamazoo Gazette, “Art is really the expression of the soul. I’m asking women to remember that if we remember our soul, we keep our soul, and we can do it through artistic connections. Art is connected to the soul, and the soul is connected to God, and God is connected to humility, so if you want to take control of a person’s soul, don’t let them have art. To me it’s a revolutionary act to continue keeping your artist soul alive”

According to their kickstarter outline, Bitch and Billie want to “film and interview Ferron in four different seasons, starting this summer. We want to tell the story of her life, how she went from a 15-year-old runaway to become one of Canada’s most famous folk musicians. We want to show the artist in her current environment – talk to her about her relationship with the women’s movement, how her dreams have changed or not changed, the current state of the world, environmentalism, feminism, gender lines, Native struggles, politics and hope.”

Thunder is clearly a passion piece for Bitch, who produced Ferron’s 2008 album Boulder, which included contributions from fellow Ferron fans Ani DiFranco, Samantha Parton (Be Good Tanyas), The Indigo Girls, JD Samson (Le Tigre), Lyndell Montgomery (Ember Swift band), and Tina G (God-des and She).

Bitch says she first heard of Ferron “through Ani (DiFranco) with whom I had the honor to tour quite a bit. When she told me that Ferron was coming to our show one night, I admitted to not knowing who Ferron was. She gasped, clutched her heart and proceeded – along with her band-mate Julie Wolf – to rattle off song titles and albums that had obviously not only affected her, but moved her in some sort of religious way.” Bitch eventually met and performed with Ferron and they two have been friends and collaborators ever since.

We briefly talked to Bitch about Thunder and what other magical creative tricks she currently has up her sleeve.

AfterEllen.com: Tell us about Thunder.

Bitch:Ferron is an intense and amazing woman who spent her youth as an abused child, ran away at 15, and went on to become one of Canada’s most famous folk musicians. Her story has not yet been told, except through her songs. I am lucky enough to be one of her peers, having met her on the road maybe eight years ago. I recorded an album of her songs, Boulder, with an intense desire to share her songs with people of my generation. This movie is an extension of wanting to share her incredible story.

AE: In what ways has Ferron influenced you, and what does she think about the project?

Bitch: Ferron is my poet idol. If you get the chance to talk to her for five minutes, there is such an intensity and truth behind her words it’s hard to not feel like you’re having some sort of religious experience. I have no idea what she thinks of the project. I haven’t asked (trying to keep out of my own way).

AE: What else are you working on now?

Bitch: Having just released Blasted! this spring, I toured all over the US and am done with that kind of traveling for a while! I just released a long-awaited new version of the “P–sy Manifesto” and I’ll spend my fall developing an off-Broadway one-woman show. Amongst all of that, I’m putting together a new album that celebrates “Ten Years of Bitch” that will mark a decade of me releasing music!

For more info on Thunder, check out Bitch’s Ferron Project page.

We’re not really sure what Tasya Van Ree‘s video (starring her “muse” Amber Heard) is about, but we’re really enjoying it!

Tegan and Sara talked with Paste about their crazy tour schedule and also kept a tour diary for Teen Vogue.

Prism Comics’ Queer Press wants to give you money for your queer comics project. The deadline is Sept. 15, so get to their website and apply to win.

Out illustrator Cat Staggs talked with Techland.com this week about Star Wars and comics, including her earliest memories of both.

The New York Times reports that gay visibility is growing in China, due largely in part to openly lesbian couples.

Check out our new recap of Rizzoli & Isles: Subtext Edition. It includes many euphemisms and things that can only be spotted by the naked lesbian eye.

Lady Gaga is getting a sequel to her first Female Force comic book. Unfortunately, she isn’t happy about her comic biography and has sent the publisher a cease-and-desist order. Get it while you can!

If you’re still waiting to see the last two unaired episodes of Better Off Ted, you can now stream them live on Netflix or buy them on iTunes.

Linda Hamilton made her first appearance on Weeds this week as a lesbian pot dealer, and we also got a glimpse of her as Chuck’s mom on Chuck in some promo photos.

Lindsay Lohan is on the cover of this month’s Vanity Fair magazine. Inside, she discusses her career and the lack of credit she gets for her acting skills.

Out singer Holly Miranda posed for the cover of Notion magazine with friend/model Daisy Lowe. Daisy penned the accompanying article, which gives Holly fans an in-depth look into her life away from her girlfriend in L.A., and how she keeps herself sane on the road.

Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow and out singer Erin McKeown performed a song they co-wrote at an event for the American Bird Conservancy’s called “Friends with Benefit.” Rachel’s blog has a video taped by a fan. Check it out!

Check out our new column, “Beyond Visibility,” by Heather Hogan.

When asked by an X-Factor Australia judge if she had a boyfriend, aspiring singer Hayley Teal corrected him, saying she had a girlfriend. She made it to the next round of the show and was told she was the best singer they’d seen yet.

The Winning Season opens in select theaters tonight and features a lesbian teen discovering her sexuality while on a losing basketball team.

In observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, we won’t be publishing any new material on Monday, Sept. 6. And since we’ll also be short-staffed next week, there wont be a BLWE on Friday, September 10. Check back the following Friday (Sept. 17) for your regularly scheduled BLWE programming.

That’s it for this week! Got the inside scoop on a hot new lesbian/bi actor/musician/TV show/film? Tell us at [email protected]. Check back next Friday for another edition of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever.

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