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Lez Dish It Out! The AfterEllen Weekly Round-Up

Lez Dish It Out! October 6, 2017 Welcome back to Lez Dish It Out!, your weekly roundup of celesbian gossip and LGBT news. I don’t know about you, but I’m still riding high in a post-Hefner world, dreaming of women’s sexuality free of the male gaze. This week offered some great stories of lesbians pioneering such a world, starting with Kate McKinnon, who slays in Vanity Fair’s November cover story. Kate McKinnon is pictured being wee woo, pull-the-fuck-over, EMERGENCY, that-ambulance-better-be-for-me-because-I’m-dying sexy in denim and boots, in a truck. Annie Leibovitz, you goddamn gay genius, you really captured my escape-from-Indiana fantasy.

Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair Also this week, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and some other people being hella cute and hilarious in this “Levi’s Wokes” skit on SNL.

It’s everything, just watch it.

  Kristen Stewart is up for another Charlie’s Angels reboot. This is probably the shittiest detective/action vehicles ever, but it’s going to be directed by the smart and funny Elizabeth Banks, so who knows maybe it won’t be a trite two hours of cliche, misogynist jokes in a male gaze-y, hypersexualized package. K Stew hasn’t done a franchise since Twilight, and I predict I’ll probably hate watch this one and up to two sequels.

Samira Wiley graced Last Week Tonight for a spoof of CSI. Carol is now streaming on Netflix.

  Australian youth are leading the way on the vote for marriage equality. Young, newly registered voters are predicted to push future elections to the left:

“The issue of same-sex marriage has given the opposition a massive advantage in encouraging more young people, who are far more likely to vote for Labor, onto the electoral roll,” said Simon Banks, one-time chief of staff to former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Young Australians previously have been tardy about registering to vote, knowing that once they do the law requires them to cast their ballot or face a fine of A$110 ($86). But the gay marriage issue persuaded more to get their name on the electoral roll.

Comedic genius Wanda Sykes will receive the Point Legend award tomorrow night. Sykes, who was nominated for an Emmy for her role in Blackish, among a long list of award nominations and wins, is being honored for a lifetime of achievement not only in her career as a comedian but as an activist and leader in LGBT community.

 

  Andrea Gibson premiered a new poem. In a video on the habitually reductive Buzzfeed, misleadingly titled “Andrea Gibson’s Latest Spoken Word Poem Will Change The Way You Think About Gender.” Definitely won’t change any gay women’s minds about gender, since we are pretty fucking familiar with gender nonconformity. But straight people, have at it! The poem, “Your Life,” tells the story of most of the women I’ve ever dated and will probably make you cry.

“It isn’t that you don’t like boys, it’s that you only like boys you want to be.”

Grey’s Anatomy’s Arizona has a new love interest! ABC

Dr. Carina DeLuca is a snack, a lil biscotti hottie if you will, and also using medicine to smash the patriarchy. Arielle Scarcella and Ello Steph team up to explain how lesbians have sex and it’s amazing. If you have ever needed to explain the difference between a pillow princess and a bottom, define a submissive top, or what happens when two tops date, this will go a long way. Plus, we LOVE both of these ladies and this video is both adorable and hilarious at the same time. And also totally #Lesbianing

Former Editor-In-Chief of The Advocate, Judy Wieder, has a new book out called Random Events Tend to Cluster.

Melissa Etheridge loved it and had this to say: “Judy and I got through the stormy coming-out dramas of the 90s and lived to talk about it-especially Judy, as you will read in her memoir.”

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Look for a review of the book in a future AfterEllen article, but it’s obviously going to be good. That’s all for this week in Lezboland!

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