Happy Thursday, Brewbies! While Trish is in DC, I’ll be serving up your Morning Brew. Today could be a very big day for marriage equality, so we are crossing our fingers very tightly over here.
Sports commentator Alexi Lalas got mansplainy with USWNT player Abby Wambach after Wambach expressed criticism about a World Cup referee. Wambach ended up apologizing to the referee. Do you think Abby was on to something?
Queer model AzMarie Livingston appeared in a very cool segment on HuffPost Live yesterday to discuss butch/femme identity and breaking through that binary.
Also in Huffington Post, Wazina Zondon, writer and co-founder of the organization Coming Out Muslim wrote about being a queer Muslim .
Even among the most progressive, well-educated and best-intentioned individuals, this is a comment which is heard far too often. People who have no trouble understanding that lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people have existed throughout history, in every nation, culture, religion and ethnicity, still have trouble accepting someone can be both queer and a faithful believer in Islam.
Fans of the Canadian National Women’s Soccer team will no doubt like this profile piece on out goalkeeper, Erin McLeod.
Do you find it offensive when straight identified women say “they’ll go gay” for someone?
Good news, fans of Masters of Sex! Sarah Silverman will be back this season to reprise her role as lesbian character Helen and will find herself reuniting with Betty (Annaleigh Ashford).
You can read a powerful excerpt about a homeless lesbian teen from the new book, No House to Call My Home by Ryan Berg.
The Pivot Channel will be running LGBT content all day on Saturday in celebration of Pride including the excellent documentary The Celluloid Closet and the Iranian lesbian drama, Circumstance. Here’s the full schedule.
Wanda Sykes stopped by Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel to discuss queer athletes and domestic violence.
If you have 60 seconds, check out this short animated video that Nylon put together on the history of Gay Pride.
Today in Lesbianish TV: The Ellen DeGeneres Show – Guest: Jane Lynch (rerun), The Rachael Ray Show – Guest: Anne Burrell (rerun), Good Morning America (ABC 7 a.m.), Best in Show (HBO2 10:15 a.m.), Living Single “Woman to Woman” (TV One 10:30 a.m.) (rerun), The View (ABC 11 a.m.), Ellen (Laff 11 a.m./11:30 a.m.) (rerun), The Talk (CBS 2 p.m.) – Guest co-host: Wanda Sykes, Grey’s Anatomy “Brave New World”/”There’s No ‘I’ in Team” (Lifetime 2 p.m./3 p.m.) (rerun), Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (Food Network 2 p.m.) (rerun), Bones “The Skull in the Sculpture” (TNT 3 p.m.) (rerun), The L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin (Showcase 3:15 p.m.), Ellen (Laff 4 p.m./4:30 p.m.) (rerun), This Is Where I Leave You (HBO2 4:30 p.m.), Friends “The One With Two Parts, Part 1” (TBS 5 p.m.) (rerun), Buffy (ABC Family 5 p.m.) (rerun), But I’m a Cheerleader (IndiePlex 5:40 p.m.), Chopped “Drawing a Flank” (Food Network 7 p.m.) (rerun), Boston Med marathon (Discovery Life 7 p.m.), Big Brother (CBS 8 p.m.), The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC 9 p.m.), Complications “Onset” (USA 9 p.m.), Under the Dome “Move On; But I’m Not” (CBS 9 p.m.), Rookie Blue “Open Windows” (ABC 10 p.m.), Hannibal “Aperitivo” (NBC 10 p.m.), Later… with Jools Holland (Palladia 10 p.m.) – the xx perform (rerun), Conan (TBS 11 p.m.) – Guest: Natasha Lyonne, Degrassi “How Bizarre”/”My Hero” (TeenNick 11 p.m./11:30 p.m.) (rerun), Law & Order: SVU “Shadow” (USA 11 p.m.) (rerun), The Last Ship “Unreal City; Fight the Ship” (TNT 12:30 a.m.), Frida (Starz Cinema 12:30 a.m.), Kitchen Inferno “New Orleans Heat” (Food Network 4 a.m.) – With Elizabeth Falkner (rerun), The Normal Heart (HBO Signature 4:35 a.m.), White Collar “Prisoner’s Dilemma”/”Company Man” (USA 6 a.m./7 a.m.) (rerun) Biography “Kristy McNichol” (FYI 8 a.m.) (rerun)
