Good morning! Tonight I head to Los Angeles for TCA so Heather Hogan will be handling the Morning Brew for the next two weeks while I’m chasing people down and asking them why they aren’t lesbians on TV.
Monifah plays a dirty trick on her fiancee Terez while she’s in the shower, and she caught it all on camera.
There’s a tragically sad but great read in The Atlantic called “My Father Once Tried to Take Me Away From My Mother Because She’s Gay.” And in some places, this shit is still happening!
Tig Notaro played “Not My Job” on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…
The Guardian has a story about why it’s never too late to come out as a lesbian.
Rachel Maddow is going to be appearing on The Simpsons this season. Is it weird to have a crush on a Simpsons character? Because that’s bound to happen.
Wanda Sykes and Susan Lucci went on Watch What Happens Live last week and a caller asked about All My Children‘s lesbian storyline origin.
Florence Welch took the stage at a Sourberry show in the UK and sang a mash-up of “Get Lucky” and the Gossip‘s “Standing in the Way of Control.”
Sara Gilbert is going to guest star on Web Therapy this season. (Can she please play Darlene Connor, all grown up?) She posed with one of the show’s stars Lily Tomlin at an event held at the Paley Center.
Today in Lesbianish TV: *The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Talking Liberally with Stephanie Miller (Current 9 a.m.), Vito (HBO2 11:40 a.m.), All My Children (OWN 1 p.m.), The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS 1:30 p.m.), The Talk (CBS 2 p.m.), Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (Food Network 2 p.m.), *Grey’s Anatomy (Lifetime 2 p.m., 3 p.m.), *Law & Order: SVU (USA 4 p.m.), Kiss the Bride (Encore Love 5:40 p.m.), Jane Velez-Mitchell (HLN 7 p.m.), *Real Housewives of New Jersey (Bravo 7:46 p.m.), Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family 8 p.m.), Chopped (Food Network 8 p.m.), *Hollywood Game Night (NBC 8 p.m.), Property Virgins (HGTV 8:30 p.m.), The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC 9 p.m.), Chopped (Food Network 9 p.m.), *Ray Donovan (Showtime2 9 p.m., Showtime 12:30 a.m.), Comedy Central Presents “Judy Gold” (Logo 9 p.m.), Kinsey (Sundance 10 p.m.), Nick Cannon Presents Wild ‘N Out (MTV2 11 p.m.), *Friends (Nick 11 p.m., 11:33 p.m.), *True Blood (HBO 12 a.m.) (Thanks Roni!)
*Denotes rerun
