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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (February 23, 2007)

KISSING BRIDGET MOYNAHAN

Kissing Bridget Moynahan inspires Heather Graham to figure out she’s gay in Gray Matters, which opens in New York this weekend, and nationwide on March 9 (read our full review of the movie here).

I think a lot of lesbians have had a crush on Bridget since she starred in Coyote Ugly (2000), a movie my girlfriend and I have seen once or twice. Maybe even a few times. OK, we own the DVD. But we’re not alone – my intrepid Director of Special Projects, Karman, swears that movie is a lesbian guilty pleasure, along with Blender magazine and Carmen Electra’s aerobic striptease workout videos. (I don’t get the Carmen Electra thing, but whatever.) Lesbians also clearly have a thing for redheads (see Bridget Moynahan’s comments, below), which may explain all the comments on our recent blog post about Grey’s Anatomy‘s Addison getting her own show. Now that is one lesbian guilty pleasure one I definitely do get.

But back to the kiss in Gray Matters.

Seriously, tell me that’s not one of the best lesbian kisses we’ve ever seen in a mainstream movie with straight actresses?

Speaking of Gray Matters, we interviewed Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan and Sue Kramer in our latest episode of She Said What?

Gentlemen may prefer blonds, but according to Bridget Moynahan, lesbians prefer redheads. Or maybe they just prefer Bridget.

SHE’S EVERY WOMAN, IT’S ALL IN HER

A reader (thanks Omo!) wrote in to sing the praises of Trey Anthony, a black queer activist, playwright, comedian and actor. Anthony, who was formerly a television producer for the Women’s Television Network and a writer for CTV and the Comedy Network, wrote ‘Da Kink in My Hair, the hit play featuring an all-black woman ensemble cast and an out lesbian character that’s currently in development as a TV show for Global television and Vision Television. She also produces an annual sold-out comedy show for women of color in Canada called Urban Womyn’s Comedy Festival.

Yes, she’s one of those renaissance women who make the rest of us look lazy and untalented, damn her. But if you don’t mind feeling like an underachiever, check her out at treyanthony.com, and look for an interview with Trey on AfterEllen.com in the near future.

WITH A NAME BASED ON A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY, YOU ALREADY KNOW IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A COMEDY

Another reader who recently visited the Philippines (thanks Cogie!) tipped me off about Rome and Juliet, a controversial new movie she really liked that follows “the romantic journey and soul mating of two straight women caught in a web of forbidden love.” Juliet (Andrea del Rosario), a conservative preschool teacher engaged to a young politician, falls for her wedding planner, Rome (Mylene Dizon). Juliet’s fiancĂ© finds out, of course, and it’s all downhill from there as the women cope with the fallout from going public. The film is tinged with tragedy (a requirement for lesbian movies) but “in the end, despite all the trials and hurdles Rome and Juliet’s unconventional love for each other remains strong and intense.”

The trailer doesn’t have English subtitles, but the scenes of the beautiful women gazing longingly at each other, the mood music, and the angst pretty much say it all.

ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID ABOUT BAD MOVIE CONCEPTS

Casting is starting on a new movie called Finding t.A.t.u. about a 17-year-old New Yorker named Janie living in Moscow with her stepmother. Janie befriends and develops a crush on a girl named Lana from a small Russian town who works in a meat-packing plant but “dreams of becoming a model or singer like her idols t.A.t.u.,” according to the breakdown. Lana visits Janie in Moscow and is cruelly rejected by a modeling agent, but “her dreams are finally realized when her poems and songs get t.A.t.u.’s attention.”

Um, I know the pop singers-formerly-known-as-lesbians are having a comeback, but isn’t this movie about five years too late? I know we’re hard up for happy movies with lesbian themes, especially internationally, but I don’t think we’re this desperate yet.

SAFFRON REIGNS

Here’s a still of openly bisexual actress Saffron Burrows in the upcoming film Reign Over Me, debuting March 23, which stars Adam Sandler as a man recovering from the loss of his family in the Sept. 11 attacks:

I’D GO GAY FOR THAT CUTE GIRL NICOLE IN MY FRESHMAN WOMEN’S STUDIES CLASS … OH WAIT, I ALREADY DID.

Heard of those “I’d go gay for Shane” T-shirts? Or the ones that say “Ellen is my HomoGirl”? The woman behind the T-shirts is 26-year-old Arlan from San Diego, who also writes a fun blog called Your Daily Lesbian Moment. Her latest initiative is to get all lesbians to wear a purple string around their wrists to make it easier for us to identify each other on the street. Not a bad idea, unless the straight people co-opt it and turn it into a fashion accessory.

Karman’s latest initiative is to get all lesbians to wear purple G-strings, to make it easier for her to … oh never mind. It’s a good thing she’s not in charge around here.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

In light of Ellen hosting the Oscars this weekend, Newsday has a lengthy new article about the rise of lesbians in entertainment (“All They Need Is Love”), and so does Time magazine (“Yep, She’s Mainstream“). According to Time, “One reason DeGeneres will be onstage Feb. 25 is that lesbians are women, and women increasingly define the pop-culture mainstream.” Huh? That’s news to me, and probably to a lot of other women, as well …

The new movie Reno 911!: Miami includes a lesbian cop in denial. Still not enough to get me to go see it.

Stiletto productions is now casting for an all-LGBT reality series (think an all-gay Real World) to tape this summer and debut on an unnamed “major cable network” this fall.

South of Nowhere has officially been renewed for a third season of 16 episodes to debut in the fall.

There’s a new Netflix for lesbians at WomynsMovies.com, where you can pay $11.95 a month for unlimited DVD rentals with a free two-week trial. Quick, sign up for the happy lesbian movies before all four of them are checked out!

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