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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (October 10, 2008)

HELP TAKE A BITE OUT OF INACCURATE INSULTS Quiz time! What do Rosie the Riveter, Smokey the Bear, McGruff the Crime Dog and Wanda Sykes have in common? As of today, they have all lent their voices to the Ad Council for public service announcements.

Since its inception during World War II, the Ad Council (formerly the War Advertising Council) has tackled forest fires, litter, neighborhood crime, wasted minds and drunk driving.

Wednesday, they unveiled a new set of PSAs to discourage teenagers from using the phrase “that’s so gay” as an all-purpose put-down. Among the celebrities supporting the initiative are Sykes and Hilary Duff (whom, you might remember, gave a shout-out to AfterEllen.com readers last June).

The campaign is centered around the website ThinkB4YouSpeak, where you can watch the PSAs by Duff and Sykes, get advice about how to tell people to knock it off when they use the phrase, and submit your own video. You can also sort through various words like “lesbos,” “dyke” and “queer” in the “Say What” section to discover their original meanings.

The three television PSAs are actually quite funny. In each of them, a few teenagers use the phrase “That’s so gay” to describe clothes, a statue and a curfew. And each time, a celebrity pops up to zing them. “That’s so teenage boy with a cheesy mustache,” Sykes says to a couple of guys in a pizza shop.

You can watch all three videos from the drop-down menu below.  

In addition to the television spots, the Ad Council will also be airing their PSAs on the radio. Posters will be distributed to schools all over America – and just in time: New statistics show that nine out of 10 LGBT students have been the victim of harassment or threats at their schools in the last year. Kevin Jennings, the founder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), told the New York Times that this campaign was something he’s been dreaming of for 10 years.

“If you follow hateful language, you eventually get hurtful behavior,” he said. “The chain of events begins with kids learning it’s OK to disrespect people.”

My favorite part of the ThinkB4YourSpeak site is the Say Something Original section. Teenagers post other words or phrases that they’ll use to replace “so gay.”

Here are some of the best submissions so far:

That’s so your GPA.

That’s so 30-year-old living at home with your mom.

That’s so not fetch.

That’s so obsequious.

That’s so Dick Cheney.

Yesterday, VH1’s Best Week Ever asked what they could call gay, if it is now not politically correct to use the word for every old lame thing.

My suggestions: How about Ellen DeGeneres or Rachel Maddow or Melissa Etheridge or Sarah Paulson or Jane Lynch? Use it when talking about those ladies and we won’t have to eradicate the expression at all.

Perhaps eight years from now, a family will sit down to watch Tina Fey in a presidential debate. The mom will say she’s intelligent. The dad will say she’s attractive. The son will say that she’s clever.

As ridiculous and off-putting as this seed-sharing story is, I’m glad it’s not related to Bianca being gay. And if the result is that she and Reese are happy, healthy and in love for many years to come, then I can live with it. At least Bianca didn’t steal Zach’s sperm. I hope.

– by the linster

GAY WOMEN IN THE LEAD Newsweek magazine’s annual Women & Leadership profiles features two out women: actress Cynthia Nixon and director Kimberly Peirce. They were among 10 women from divergent fields who wrote first-person pieces based on the question “What matters most in my work and life?”

Joining Nixon and Peirce were Olympian Dara Torres, talk-show host Tyra Banks, actress Rosario Dawson and a slew of less familiar, but no less successful women from the worlds of business, philanthropy, fashion and science.

Sex and the City star Nixon wrote about the strong women in her family, her activism in public education and her battle with breast cancer. The Emmy and Tony-winning actress was also candid about why she went public in 2004 with her relationship with fellow education activist Christine Marinoni.

I’ve been living with Christine Marinoni for three and a half years. When I won an Emmy for Sex and the City, we got phone calls asking about our relationship. I hired a publicist who happened to be a lesbian. She said, ‘Why don’t we just confirm?’ So I did. I was following family tradition. Well-behaved women don’t make history.

Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss director Peirce wrote about her early creative interests as well as the difficulties facing female directors in Hollywood. She also talked about the inspiration behind her films.

Right out of school, I read a story in a newspaper that turned into the movie Boys Don’t Cry. The main character, Brandon Teena, was a woman who lived life as a man in order to be with women. She fell in with a group of people who both accepted Brandon and then at a certain point didn’t accept Brandon. From the day that I read the story, it was as if I had no choice.

While all the articles are relatively brief, Newsweek should be commended for exceeding the 10 percent rule in its inclusion of gay women in their leadership profiles. See, I knew there was a reason I’ve subscribed all these years.

NON-LESBIAN QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life. You don’t get that part of me. Sorry. We’re not discussing it in our meetings, we’re not discussing it at Cover Girl … I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.” – Queen Latifah to the New York Times Magazine about her often-rumored about sexuality.

by Dorothy Snarker

CHICAGO TREASURES The good people at the Chicago History Museum recently made official something that lesbians everywhere have known for a long time: Jane Lynch is a treasure!

The Chicago Treasures series at the Museum lauds “the people who are truly Chicago treasures” in hopes that audience members can “learn how the city has shaped their lives and careers.” Last week, Lynch spoke before a Museum audience with Chicago Tribune columnist Mark Caro about her Chicago roots and making her move to Hollywood. According to the Windy City Times coverage of the event, Lynch discussed her “breakthrough” role as a lesbian dog trainer in Christopher Guest’s Best in Show and her upcoming film with Meryl Streep (whom she described as “spontaneous and odd” and “not of this world”).

An audience member asked Lynch if she had encountered problems with being an openly gay actor in Hollywood, and she replied that, to her knowledge, she’d never lost a role due to her sexual orientation.

“I’ve had people before me – trailblazers – so I haven’t had to think about it, ” she added. “Thank you, Ellen. Thank you, Rosie. Thank you, Melissa.”

Lynch also discussed her role as narrator for the Alexandra Siletts’ documentary Out & Proud in Chicago, which premiered on WTTW11 (Chicago public television and the producer of the Out & Proud and series) in June. The film, and the book that accompanies it, takes a look at the history of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the 19th century to the present day. Some of the notable women profiled in the film include Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith (the couple who helped found Hull-House, serving Chicago’s immigrant working poor), Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap (a couple who created the influential publication, The Little Review), and acclaimed lesbian pulp fiction author Valerie Taylor (A World Without Men, Return to Lesbos).

To my knowledge, a lesbian did not invent Deep Dish pizza. But if she did, I would totally want her featured in this documentary. With a side of extra sauce.

BEAUTY IS A FULL-TIME JOB Tonight at Southpaw in Brooklyn, the world-famous (or at least they ought to be) Brooklyn Girls are hosting a launch party for their 2009 “Women at Work” calendar, featuring a “queer take on pinup from the ’40s and ’50s.”

The $15 cover charge for the event also buys you a calendar. And while you’re there, you can convince yourself that you’re doing a good deed and not just ogling some pretty girls, because 10% of the calendar proceeds go to the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

In addition to being scintillating, the photographs used for the calendar are shockingly accurate. For example, the writer pictured below looks like an average AE staff member on any given day: How does this racy calendar relate to pop culture and entertainment? Well, I think the scientist pictured below is probably trying to find the cure for bad lesbian movies: Holy Bunsen burner! I sure hope she figures it out.

If you can’t make the party, click here to buy the 2009 calendar (and check out the pics from the 2008 calendar here).

by Karman Kregloe

I HOPE SOME OF THE MONEY GOES TO PROVIDING LOLA CAB FARE Just released this week: The trailer for And Then Came Lola, the romantic comedy starring Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, Jessica Graham, Candy Tolentino, and Angelyna Martinez we mentioned last October.

Need a little reminder? Even if this photo is not technically promoting the film, it’s one of the better marketing tools for a movie I’ve seen in a long time.

Here’s the plot summary:

In this sexy, lesbian romp, loosely inspired by the art house classic, Run, Lola, Run, a talented but distracted photographer (Lola), on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn’t make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and backrooms of San Francisco time grows short – will Lola make it? Will she come at all?
Now watch the new trailer:  

The filmmakers are currently trying to raise funds to finish the film, and you can donate to the cause here. To keep up on news about the movie, visit their MySpace page, and we’ll let you know here once there’s a release date.

WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER, AND WE WIN AWARDS! AE reader Angela tipped us off that out musician Anika Moa took home the award for Best Female Solo Artist at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2008 (also known as the Tuis).

Here’s Anika performing live at the event, the biggest in the show’s 43-year history: The Maori singer-songwriter came out a year ago – and it doesn’t appear to have hurt her career.

THIS WEEK IN LINDSAY – THE SPANISH EDITION Last week, E! Online Latino featured a “hottest couple” poll which included Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, along with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens; Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel; Blake Lively and Penn Badgley; and Hayden Pannetiere and Milo Ventimiglia).

Although Lindsay and Samantha didn’t win, they alternated with Zac and Vanessa in first place all week, according to AE reader Sabrina, who kindly took this screenshot for us: Very cool! But if they had let readers vote on Hayden and Blake as a couple, too, the poll would have been 38% more interesting.

NEXT PAGE: Changes to AfterEllen.com, and a short film contest!

SHORT FILMMAKERS WANTED Have a lesbian/bi short film you want the world to see? Or just want an excuse to make one? Now you’ve got one: Today we’re announcing The 2008 AfterEllen.com Lesbian/Bi Short Film Contest!

All winning films will be featured on AfterEllen.com and possibly on logoonline.com, and the grand prize winner will be featured in a short promo on the Logo TV channel directing viewers to watch their film online.

The deadline for submission is Nov. 15 – get submission rules and ask questions in this forum thread.

BEST. LESBIAN. WEEK. DAY. EVER. You may have noticed some changes to the AfterEllen.com profile pages this week, like the ability to add a headline/status, and to see which of your buddies are online – read more about these profile changes here.

We’ll be instituting a bigger change next week, specifically related to this column.

When I first started writing the BLWE column five years or so ago, lesbian news was infrequent and hard to come by, so it made sense to just cover it all weekly. The blog, by contrast, was designed primarily to cover non-lesbian topics of interest to our readers, and on a daily basis.

Today, with the rise in lesbian/bi visibility in pop culture around the world (if not on American broadcast network TV), lesbian-ish entertainment news is breaking throughout the week, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for our writers, and unfair to our readers, to sit on the news until Fridays (because you want to read/write about it the day it breaks, not several days later).

So, starting on Monday, we’ll begin reporting general entertainment news AND lesbian entertainment news on the AfterEllen.com blog, as it breaks (keep sending us those tips!).

Since we recognize that many of you don’t have the time or interest in wading through a lot of general entertainment posts to get to the important lesbian entertainment news of the week, we’ll still continue to publish the BLWE column on Fridays. But it will now be comprised of the best lesbian news-related posts of that week, plus all the small “But Wait, There’s More!” items that didn’t warrant an entire blog post, and any lesbian entertainment news that breaks on Thursday nights (or that we otherwise just couldn’t get to on the blog).

The last page of the column will also continue to provide news and updates like this about AfterEllen.com.

Our goal in making this change is to cover lesbian news both when it breaks and in a end-of-the-week compilation format, in order to satisfy both those readers who want the information immediately, and those who’d rather wait and read it all at once (and all in one place). We hope you’ll like the changes, and we think it will be a great improvement to the site overall.

by Sarah Warn

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! In honor of the return of South of Nowhere – which Karman will be recapping for you, and Jenn and Dee will be vlogging – I’m going to create a South of Nowhere quiz similar to The L Word Season 2 Quiz. But this time, I want to enlist your help – if you’re an SON fan, please send multiple choice questions with between 3 and 5 answers by next Tuesday, with an accompanying screencap at 288×211 (288 pixels wide and 211 pixels tall) to [email protected], with “SON quiz” in the subject line. (Please take the L Word quiz first to understand how the questions will be asked.)

The Queer Experimental Film Festival is happening in New York October 15-19, 2008.

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald has a new editorial about “The Dangers of Fauxmosexuality.”

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.

And the little girl, having grown up hearing the phrase used properly, will employ the catch-all word for all of those things: Tina Fey, she will say, is just so gay.

– by StuntDouble

IT’S NOT EXACTLY LIKE WEARING YOUR SISTER’S BLOUSE WITHOUT ASKING Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader and All My Children fanatic Pyewacket, we have even more news this week about Bianca’s return to AMC, including some quite revealing photos. Revealing in terms of story, I mean.

Several MAJOR SPOILERS follow; you have been warned! If you want to avoid them, you can skip directly to the next page.

According to Soap Opera Source, Bianca (Eden Riegel) and girlfriend Reese (Tamara Braun) will break new ground for daytime television in a scene to air the week of Oct. 27. Here’s a clue. Ah, the look of love is in their eyes. See anything else? Look closely at Reese’s hands.

Not only are her fingernails neatly trimmed, but she’s also holding something, something that gives me hope for the future of Bianca, All My Children and daytime television.

Too dramatic? Take a look at what happens a few seconds later, complete with exclusive AfterEllen.com hints. You do the math: Ring box + diamond + lesbian on one knee = the destruction of the American family a marriage proposal!

Unless ABC is totally messing with us – and it wouldn’t be the first time – we’re looking at the first lesbian proposal on daytime TV. Is this a happy family or what? No, I don’t know what Miranda is wearing. I’m hoping it’s a Halloween costume, because all we need is a lesbian couple dressing its child in a dog collar. Especially a dog named FiFi.

We also have more news on Bianca’s baby girl (it’s a girl!). Turns out one of the rumors we reported last week is, in fact, true. The latest issue of Soap Opera Digest confirms that Zach is indeed Bianca’s sperm donor. Bianca decided to keep the news from Kendall (Zach’s wife and Bianca’s sister) because she thought Kendall would disapprove. Oh, yes, Binx. Much better just to spring it on Kendall when the kid pops out.

Here is how events will unfold, according to various soap sources.

Bianca will return to Pine Valley just as The Tornado! hits. Zach will find Bianca buried in the rubble just as she goes into premature labor. As a result, Zach will help deliver his own daughter/niece/spawn, baby Gabrielle.

This storyline is all kinds of wrong – and not just because it makes me feel like I need a shower. Bianca and Kendall have a strong, very close relationship. I cannot fathom Binx making a move like this without discussing it with Kendall. Kendall once confessed to murder to keep Bianca out of prison, so why would she say no to a little sister-to-sister sperm sharing?

I won’t even go into the mystery of Bianca wanting a baby closely related to Miranda, whose father was a rapist and whose grandfather was a mass murderer. I’m no geneticist, but propagating that DNA seems risky at best.

As ridiculous and off-putting as this seed-sharing story is, I’m glad it’s not related to Bianca being gay. And if the result is that she and Reese are happy, healthy and in love for many years to come, then I can live with it. At least Bianca didn’t steal Zach’s sperm. I hope.

– by the linster

GAY WOMEN IN THE LEAD Newsweek magazine’s annual Women & Leadership profiles features two out women: actress Cynthia Nixon and director Kimberly Peirce. They were among 10 women from divergent fields who wrote first-person pieces based on the question “What matters most in my work and life?”

Joining Nixon and Peirce were Olympian Dara Torres, talk-show host Tyra Banks, actress Rosario Dawson and a slew of less familiar, but no less successful women from the worlds of business, philanthropy, fashion and science.

Sex and the City star Nixon wrote about the strong women in her family, her activism in public education and her battle with breast cancer. The Emmy and Tony-winning actress was also candid about why she went public in 2004 with her relationship with fellow education activist Christine Marinoni.

I’ve been living with Christine Marinoni for three and a half years. When I won an Emmy for Sex and the City, we got phone calls asking about our relationship. I hired a publicist who happened to be a lesbian. She said, ‘Why don’t we just confirm?’ So I did. I was following family tradition. Well-behaved women don’t make history.

Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss director Peirce wrote about her early creative interests as well as the difficulties facing female directors in Hollywood. She also talked about the inspiration behind her films.

Right out of school, I read a story in a newspaper that turned into the movie Boys Don’t Cry. The main character, Brandon Teena, was a woman who lived life as a man in order to be with women. She fell in with a group of people who both accepted Brandon and then at a certain point didn’t accept Brandon. From the day that I read the story, it was as if I had no choice.

While all the articles are relatively brief, Newsweek should be commended for exceeding the 10 percent rule in its inclusion of gay women in their leadership profiles. See, I knew there was a reason I’ve subscribed all these years.

NON-LESBIAN QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life. You don’t get that part of me. Sorry. We’re not discussing it in our meetings, we’re not discussing it at Cover Girl … I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.” – Queen Latifah to the New York Times Magazine about her often-rumored about sexuality.

by Dorothy Snarker

CHICAGO TREASURES The good people at the Chicago History Museum recently made official something that lesbians everywhere have known for a long time: Jane Lynch is a treasure!

The Chicago Treasures series at the Museum lauds “the people who are truly Chicago treasures” in hopes that audience members can “learn how the city has shaped their lives and careers.” Last week, Lynch spoke before a Museum audience with Chicago Tribune columnist Mark Caro about her Chicago roots and making her move to Hollywood. According to the Windy City Times coverage of the event, Lynch discussed her “breakthrough” role as a lesbian dog trainer in Christopher Guest’s Best in Show and her upcoming film with Meryl Streep (whom she described as “spontaneous and odd” and “not of this world”).

An audience member asked Lynch if she had encountered problems with being an openly gay actor in Hollywood, and she replied that, to her knowledge, she’d never lost a role due to her sexual orientation.

“I’ve had people before me – trailblazers – so I haven’t had to think about it, ” she added. “Thank you, Ellen. Thank you, Rosie. Thank you, Melissa.”

Lynch also discussed her role as narrator for the Alexandra Siletts’ documentary Out & Proud in Chicago, which premiered on WTTW11 (Chicago public television and the producer of the Out & Proud and series) in June. The film, and the book that accompanies it, takes a look at the history of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the 19th century to the present day. Some of the notable women profiled in the film include Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith (the couple who helped found Hull-House, serving Chicago’s immigrant working poor), Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap (a couple who created the influential publication, The Little Review), and acclaimed lesbian pulp fiction author Valerie Taylor (A World Without Men, Return to Lesbos).

To my knowledge, a lesbian did not invent Deep Dish pizza. But if she did, I would totally want her featured in this documentary. With a side of extra sauce.

BEAUTY IS A FULL-TIME JOB Tonight at Southpaw in Brooklyn, the world-famous (or at least they ought to be) Brooklyn Girls are hosting a launch party for their 2009 “Women at Work” calendar, featuring a “queer take on pinup from the ’40s and ’50s.”

The $15 cover charge for the event also buys you a calendar. And while you’re there, you can convince yourself that you’re doing a good deed and not just ogling some pretty girls, because 10% of the calendar proceeds go to the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

In addition to being scintillating, the photographs used for the calendar are shockingly accurate. For example, the writer pictured below looks like an average AE staff member on any given day: How does this racy calendar relate to pop culture and entertainment? Well, I think the scientist pictured below is probably trying to find the cure for bad lesbian movies: Holy Bunsen burner! I sure hope she figures it out.

If you can’t make the party, click here to buy the 2009 calendar (and check out the pics from the 2008 calendar here).

by Karman Kregloe

I HOPE SOME OF THE MONEY GOES TO PROVIDING LOLA CAB FARE Just released this week: The trailer for And Then Came Lola, the romantic comedy starring Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, Jessica Graham, Candy Tolentino, and Angelyna Martinez we mentioned last October.

Need a little reminder? Even if this photo is not technically promoting the film, it’s one of the better marketing tools for a movie I’ve seen in a long time.

Here’s the plot summary:

In this sexy, lesbian romp, loosely inspired by the art house classic, Run, Lola, Run, a talented but distracted photographer (Lola), on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn’t make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and backrooms of San Francisco time grows short – will Lola make it? Will she come at all?
Now watch the new trailer:  

The filmmakers are currently trying to raise funds to finish the film, and you can donate to the cause here. To keep up on news about the movie, visit their MySpace page, and we’ll let you know here once there’s a release date.

WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER, AND WE WIN AWARDS! AE reader Angela tipped us off that out musician Anika Moa took home the award for Best Female Solo Artist at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2008 (also known as the Tuis).

Here’s Anika performing live at the event, the biggest in the show’s 43-year history: The Maori singer-songwriter came out a year ago – and it doesn’t appear to have hurt her career.

THIS WEEK IN LINDSAY – THE SPANISH EDITION Last week, E! Online Latino featured a “hottest couple” poll which included Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, along with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens; Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel; Blake Lively and Penn Badgley; and Hayden Pannetiere and Milo Ventimiglia).

Although Lindsay and Samantha didn’t win, they alternated with Zac and Vanessa in first place all week, according to AE reader Sabrina, who kindly took this screenshot for us: Very cool! But if they had let readers vote on Hayden and Blake as a couple, too, the poll would have been 38% more interesting.

NEXT PAGE: Changes to AfterEllen.com, and a short film contest!

SHORT FILMMAKERS WANTED Have a lesbian/bi short film you want the world to see? Or just want an excuse to make one? Now you’ve got one: Today we’re announcing The 2008 AfterEllen.com Lesbian/Bi Short Film Contest!

All winning films will be featured on AfterEllen.com and possibly on logoonline.com, and the grand prize winner will be featured in a short promo on the Logo TV channel directing viewers to watch their film online.

The deadline for submission is Nov. 15 – get submission rules and ask questions in this forum thread.

BEST. LESBIAN. WEEK. DAY. EVER. You may have noticed some changes to the AfterEllen.com profile pages this week, like the ability to add a headline/status, and to see which of your buddies are online – read more about these profile changes here.

We’ll be instituting a bigger change next week, specifically related to this column.

When I first started writing the BLWE column five years or so ago, lesbian news was infrequent and hard to come by, so it made sense to just cover it all weekly. The blog, by contrast, was designed primarily to cover non-lesbian topics of interest to our readers, and on a daily basis.

Today, with the rise in lesbian/bi visibility in pop culture around the world (if not on American broadcast network TV), lesbian-ish entertainment news is breaking throughout the week, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for our writers, and unfair to our readers, to sit on the news until Fridays (because you want to read/write about it the day it breaks, not several days later).

So, starting on Monday, we’ll begin reporting general entertainment news AND lesbian entertainment news on the AfterEllen.com blog, as it breaks (keep sending us those tips!).

Since we recognize that many of you don’t have the time or interest in wading through a lot of general entertainment posts to get to the important lesbian entertainment news of the week, we’ll still continue to publish the BLWE column on Fridays. But it will now be comprised of the best lesbian news-related posts of that week, plus all the small “But Wait, There’s More!” items that didn’t warrant an entire blog post, and any lesbian entertainment news that breaks on Thursday nights (or that we otherwise just couldn’t get to on the blog).

The last page of the column will also continue to provide news and updates like this about AfterEllen.com.

Our goal in making this change is to cover lesbian news both when it breaks and in a end-of-the-week compilation format, in order to satisfy both those readers who want the information immediately, and those who’d rather wait and read it all at once (and all in one place). We hope you’ll like the changes, and we think it will be a great improvement to the site overall.

by Sarah Warn

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! In honor of the return of South of Nowhere – which Karman will be recapping for you, and Jenn and Dee will be vlogging – I’m going to create a South of Nowhere quiz similar to The L Word Season 2 Quiz. But this time, I want to enlist your help – if you’re an SON fan, please send multiple choice questions with between 3 and 5 answers by next Tuesday, with an accompanying screencap at 288×211 (288 pixels wide and 211 pixels tall) to [email protected], with “SON quiz” in the subject line. (Please take the L Word quiz first to understand how the questions will be asked.)

The Queer Experimental Film Festival is happening in New York October 15-19, 2008.

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald has a new editorial about “The Dangers of Fauxmosexuality.”

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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