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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (February 29, 2008)

SELMA BLAIR GETS KISSING DRIVING LESSONS According to the Hollywood Reporter, Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde) has just signed on to play a “sarcastic lesbian high school teacher” in the film Driving Lessons, which is scheduled to begin shooting next month in Los Angeles. Blair’s character has an affair with a student played by Madeline Zima, who recently played a teen who seduced David Duchovny on Showtime’s sardonic comedy Californication. Driving Lessons, which is described as a black comedy, centers on a woman named Bunnie (Hope Davis) who is “given a second chance at her unhappy marriage to Jack (Dermot Mulroney) after losing her memory. It conveniently helps her forget an interracial affair with her burly next-door neighbor Simon.”

Bunnie apparently has a “religious, right-wing teenage son,” so I’m guessing that it’s through him that we meet Blair and Zima’s characters. All of this is great, but honestly, all I’m thinking about is whether Blair’s going to revisit those kissing lessons that she experienced during Cruel Intentions with Sarah Michelle Gellar. A MATCH MADE IN QUEENS Rosie O’Donnell announced last Friday on her video blog that she and guest vlogger Fran Drescher (The Nanny) are working together on a sitcom. “We’re going to do a new, fun, happy, family comedy,” Drescher said.

When pressed for more details, Rosie’s spokesperson, Cindi Berger, said that “it’s way too premature” right now. Get the scoop from Rosie and Fran directly right here (it’s toward the very end of the vlog): We’ll keep you updated on sitcom’s progress. Possibly in Sarah and Lori’s vlog Who Thought That Was a Good Idea?

SOUTH OF NOWHERE TAKES A BOW Yesterday, The N confirmed rumors that South of Nowhere is not returning for a fourth season, while simultaneously announcing that the second half of Season 3 will return on Friday, April 11, 2008, for eight episodes. Series creator Tom Lynch wrote the following message to South of Nowhere‘s fans that was posted on The N’s message boards:

Things change. It doesn’t always seem good, but change they do. South of Nowhere has been a great journey. A show like this could not have existed ten years ago on youth oriented television or any television for that matter. But exist it does, because things change. I have loved my experience with The N for having the courage and vision to air South . I love the fans for allowing me to tell real stories about their lives. I love all of the producers, writers, directors, and crew who took the series into their hearts and participated in SON as more than a ‘job’. I love the cast and how they dimensionalized the characters and created real people that you as fans could relate to and feel for as they reflected your own lives. I especially love Spashley. The name you gave to the two lead characters. To be able to create a show called ‘Excellent,’ ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘impossible to resist’ is rare. To create a show that touches the hearts and lives of a generation is a gift. Thank you for allowing me and Spashley into your hearts. And remember, things change, so there’s no telling where the stories of Spashley will show up next. Love and Respect, Tom Lynch Creator / Executive Producer South of Nowhere

We’ve covered South of Nowhere on AfterEllen.com since before it first premiered back in November 2005, and we’ve been thrilled at the way the show has resonated with lesbian and bisexual viewers of all ages. Karman will be back to recap the show’s final season in April, and you can look forward to the We’re Getting Nowhere gang vlogging every week about the show that launched their video stardom.

I’ve rarely been a big fan of teen-oriented shows (Buffy excepted), but South of Nowhere really touched me. I know that I’ll miss seeing Mandy Musgrave, Gabrielle Christian, Maeve Quinlan, Valery Ortiz and even Matt Cohen (he is cute, ya know!) on my TV. And all I can say is, if Ashley existed when I was a teenager, I would’ve come out a lot sooner!

Here’s a Spashley fan video set to Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You” for old time’s sake:

THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF JACKIE WARNER This week, Bravo announced that the third season of Work Out, starring out lesbian businesswoman and player trainer Jackie Warner, will return on Tuesday, April 15 at 11:00 p.m. ET. How will Jackie top her mack daddy skillz of last season, when she hooked up with both her trainer/employee Rebecca “Heteroflexible” Cardon and that other random woman I can’t recall but who looked like a less vicious version of Mimi?

Let’s start with the Season 3 press release that states: “In her personal life, Warner still passionately lives by the ‘work hard, play hard’ motto, but these days she has settled into domestic bliss with her new girlfriend, Brianna, and now claims that her Saturday nights are spent curled up with her sexy gal.” Note Bravo’s usage of the word “claims.”

And then there are the four new trainers: J.D. Jordan (who is gay), Greg Plitt (who is straight), Agostina Laneri and Renessa Williams. Agostina “is a 26-year-old Argentinean who is not afraid to speak her mind. Since winning Bravo’s Hollywood & Highland competition to join Warner’s gym as a trainer, she has enjoyed a flourishing career at Sky Sport & Spa, and even stole a kiss from her new boss, Warner.” Hmm. Argentina’s not that far from Brazil. Is biting “normal” there, by any chance?

If you were wondering where Ellen and Portia were on Oscars night, they didn’t go to the awards ceremony; instead they entertained themselves at the 16th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party at the Pacific Design Center. Here they are, looking snazzy:

And that brings me to …

THIS WEEK IN ELLEN Our namesake had a busy week, starting off by endorsing Senator Hillary Clinton for president. Ellen dropped in on a Clinton campaign rally by satellite earlier this week to ask some tough questions about whether Hillary would ban the use of glitter: This week also brought the news that Ellen has inked a deal with TBS to host some variety shows taped at comedy festivals in 2008 and 2009. “My first special, Ellen’s Really Big Show, turned out to be so big that TBS asked me to do another,” DeGeneres said in a press release. “I said, ‘That’ll be tough, but give me two more shows. One of them is bound to be big. I mean, they’ll all be big, but one for sure is gonna be REALLY big.”

On today’s episode of her talk show, which was taped yesterday, Ellen turned serious when she delivered this message about the recent tragic murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King in Oxnard, Calif., because he was gay. Speaking out against hate crimes, Ellen declared, “I am not a second-class citizen,” adding that it is “OK to be gay.”

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network plans to honor Lawrence King during their annual Day of Silence on April 25. Information on memorials for Lawrence King can be found on this page.

IF HE DID TAKE WOMEN’S STUDIES, I’M PRETTY SURE HE FLUNKED Benjamin Svetky’s recent Entertainment Weekly review of The L Word was, in a word, horrible. No, not because he panned the show, but because of this paragraph:

It combines earnest social commentary on contemporary gender-identification issues – this season there’s a plotline about a lesbian war hero getting booted out of the Army for sexual misconduct – with lots of hot chicks making out. Sure, it’s soft-core porn, but coated with a PC patina that makes it slightly less embarrassing when you get caught looking. It’s not often you run across erotica that works this hard to raise your, um, consciousness. It’s Red Shoe Diaries with a women’s-studies degree from Smith College.
Where shall I begin? What would Dawn Denbo do? First, Mr. Svetky doesn’t seem to understand what “gender-identification issues” are. The L Word‘s plotline about “Don’t ask, don’t tell” isn’t about gender identity, Benjamin – it’s about discrimination in the military.

Svetky further proves that he doesn’t understand the first thing about gender identity by writing: “[W]affling transsexual Max (Daniela Sea) really should make up his/her mind about what gender he/she would like to be. (In one recent episode, there was talk that the character was actually a gay man trapped in a pre-op body.)”

Sure, there are a lot of problems with The L Word‘s transgender story line, but calling Max a “waffling transsexual” and then disparaging his attempts to understand his changing sexuality is transphobic and ignorant. I’m actually shocked that Entertainment Weekly‘s editors – who normally publish a fun and open-minded magazine – allowed Svetky to write that sentence.

And then there’s the characterization of The L Word as “soft-core porn” and “erotica.” Yes, there’s sex on The L Word, and some of it is certainly erotic, but by labeling it “soft-core porn,” Svetky is essentially dismissing the show – and its actors. Something tells me that Jennifer Beals doesn’t think her time spent on The L Word is about soft-core porn.

Other dramas with equal or more amounts of sex have not been treated this way by EW. The the quite explicit HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me was described as “a slow, thoughtful, sometimes uncomfortable, often sad, rarely erotic experience.” A review of Queer as Folk when it premiered in 2000 concluded: “Bravo to everyone involved for the refreshing eroticism of the sex in this production.”

Isn’t it funny how explicit heterosexual sex or sex between gay men is “thoughtful” and “refreshing,” while sex between women is “soft-core porn”? It just goes to show that as much as The L Word has done to inform viewers about lesbians and bisexual women, there are still plenty of men who can’t look past the titillation factor.

What’s even sadder is that Svetky approaches this “erotica” with such a sense of guilt, referring to embarrassment about being caught watching it. Dear Mr. Svetky: There’s nothing wrong with finding sex to be sexy. I’m pretty sure that most lesbians do.

NO TELL-ALL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A LESBIAN KISS OR TWO In an appearance on Larry King Live (warning: clicking on that link takes you to a video in which you have to endure the smarminess of Larry King, alive) to promote her new autobiography, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, actor-turned-Jenny Craig spokesperson Valerie Bertinelli admitted to kissing a woman when she was 21 years old. “She was a great kisser!” she said when asked why she did it.

She continued: “It was an interesting experiment, but again, I felt guilt the next morning from that because I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’ve just cheated on my husband.'”

Lesbian movie trivia lovers will be interested to know that Bertinelli once played a lesbian mom in Two Mothers for Zachary (lesbian custody battle alert!), a 1996 TV movie about a homophobic woman (played by Vanessa Redgrave, no less) who sues her lesbian daughter (that’s Bertinelli) for custody of her grandson because she is living with another woman (Colleen Flynn). The movie was based on a real-life story in which the homophobic grandmother actually won.

I still remember Valerie from One Day at a Time (oops! dating myself!), and it’s good to know that she, at least, understands that kissing a woman counts just as much as kissing a man. It’s the small things in life, really.

CINDERELLA GETS HER GIRL A little over six years ago, I began to write the novel I’d always wanted to read: a retelling of “Cinderella.” Yes, because despite my dry and sometimes sarcastic wit, I am at heart a big ol’ mushy romantic.

So I’m especially pleased to announce that my novel, Ash, will be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in the fall of 2009. And this time, Cinderella (her name is Ash in my book) doesn’t pick the prince. That’s right, it’s a lesbian Cinderella! Ash is a young adult novel, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for “young adults”; I’m hoping that adults of many ages will also enjoy the tale that I’m retelling. And don’t worry: It’s no Disney version. Sure, there’s a fairy, but he’s not what you expect. And who’s the lucky Prince(ss) Charming? Well, she’s no princess.

The reason that my book isn’t coming out until fall 2009 is that there is still some editing to do, and it just takes a lot longer to print actual books than to post articles on a website. I’ll be blogging about the process on my website, so drop by there if you’re interested in finding out what’s going on with Ash, as well as my next book (Little, Brown offered me a two-book deal).

More details of the deal will be announced in the March 10 issue of Publishers Weekly. Woohoo!

JENNIFER BEALS IS CLEARLY SMARTER THAN BETTE Last Monday, Jennifer Beals dropped by CBS’ Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and in the midst of a lot of giggling (on her part) and drooling (on his part), Beals revealed that she didn’t like Bette’s adulterous story line with Tina on The L Word this season.

“I don’t really care for that,” she told Ferguson. “I went to Ilene Chaiken … and I said, ‘Has my character not learned anything? Have I not learned anything in the last five years?’

Watch the video here: Apparently even the actors on The L Word sometimes don’t understand their characters’ motivations.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! AfterEllen.com reader mollykins alerted us to this new interview with Tegan and Sara in the Guardian.

In this article, gay producer Craig Zadan talks about African-American lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote A Raisin in the Sun, which was recently adapted for television.

Chriselle Almeida, who plays Kiran in When Kiran Met Karen, recently talked to Desi Club about her lesbian role.

Tello Films, a website that features lesbian videos, recently launched.

Yesterday night’s episode of Eli Stone (ABC) featured another pregnant lesbian story line, this time combined with a custody battle (thanks to NorthernStar for the tip).

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.

The other new female trainer, Renessa, is a “bubbly South Dakotan” who “is all smiles and is looking for the right guy.” Sure, that sounds suspiciously like she’s straight, but don’t forget that Jackie has the power to seduce all straight women. That’s a hint.

Among the old guard, Jesse Brune, Gregg Butler, Erika Jacobsen, Brian Peeler and Rebecca Cardon are all back for more (apparently Zen and Andre have been kicked out of the gym). And if you remember Rebecca at all, she’s not gonna take Jackie’s new relationship lying down. Um, you know what I mean. According to the press release:

Rebecca Cardon is struggling in the status quo after her semi-relationship with Warner ended. She may be jealous of Warner’s new girlfriend or just a little sad because she’s lost Warner’s time and attention. Whatever the case may be, Cardon is determined to regain as much of Warner’s time as she can.

After perusing the press materials for Work Out‘s third season, I can assure you that this season aims to deliver as much trashy excitement as a slippery bout of lesbian Turkish oil wrestling. How do I know this? I have two words for you: lesbian cruise.

Let the dyke drama begin!

IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! This week the rumors about young actor Ellen Page‘s sexual orientation took on something of a feverish pitch when the Village Voice‘s Michael Musto demanded, “Is She or Isn’t She?” He wrote:

I mean, come on already, is she??? You know, Lebanese! She certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy. And if you google “Ellen Page boyfriend,” not a whole lot comes up, except for a link to some interview where she refers to an old beau. … Come on, people, help me out of this mess! Before I get stampeded by publicists shrieking, “This is an invasion of privacy!” (yeah, yeah, shut up, this is what I do), let’s put the dykey pieces together. Is Juno a you know?
The blog girlfriendisahomo quickly began to attempt to track down some evidence, posting this screencap of Ellen Page at the Oscars with a woman who looked uncannily like (gasp!) a lesbian: However, a commenter quickly noted that the mysterious woman is Kelly Bush, Page’s openly lesbian publicist. I can’t confirm this identification, but Kelly Bush is indeed a well-known publicist who represents, among others, Ellen DeGeneres.

Nonetheless, other sites have also jumped on the rumor bandwagon, including Defamer, which cites as evidence the fact that Page is scheduled to play a lesbian opposite Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby in the film Jack & Diane (now delayed until 2010). In the film, which has been mischaracterized as a movie about a teenage lesbian werewolf, Page’s character is reportedly a young lesbian dealing with her sexuality, and her “emotional turmoil” is represented by visions of werewolves. What does all this mean? It means that apparently this is how you can tell if someone’s a lesbian:

  1. She dresses like a tomboy.
  2. There’s not a lot of info about her boyfriend(s) online.
  3. She didn’t bring a (male) date to the Oscars.
  4. She’s going to play a lesbian in a movie.
All of this gossip is both ridiculous and overly intrusive. If Ellen Page is bisexual or lesbian, she should be able to come out whenever the hell she wants, not when Michael Musto wants her to. And there’s nothing wrong with dressing like a tomboy. I’m just surprised that no one cited the fact that her name is “Ellen” as further proof that she’s a lesbian.

DEMI DANCES BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS AfterEllen.com blogger Jamie Lynn reported that out lesbian Demi Sorono turned in a stellar performance earlier this week on So You Think You Can Dance Australia by performing the samba with her partner, Jack.

The judges, predictably, praised Demi (who has been known as a b-girl who prefers to dress like a tomboy) for femming it up. Matt Lee started off the critique by gushing, “The first major achievement I have to say, everyone, is that Demi is in a pair of heels!” Certainly, dancing backwards in high heels is an amazing accomplishment, but somehow I don’t think that’s what Lee was talking about.

Despite the expected “transformation” into traditional femininity, you can’t deny that Demi rocked the house in those heels. Check out her performance here: Brava! Now if only those men would have to put on a pair of heels once in a while …

BAD GIRLS MEETS OZ – IN SPANISH! We’ve just heard about a new 13-episode series from HBO Latin America called Capadocia, which premieres Sunday, March 2 throughout Latin America. The drama is centered on a women’s prison, Capadocia, and according to our sources, it includes several complex lesbian relationships.

Since my Spanish language education ended when I stopped watching Sesame Street, I can’t tell you much more about it, but I can show you some pretty pictures of the women in the cast:

And here’s the trailer (in Spanish):

SARA RAMIREZ GOES GLAAD, EN ESPAÑOL Grey’s Anatomy star Sara Ramirez has filmed a PSA for GLAAD in Spanish, and it will air on broadcast and cable television in the coming weeks. You can watch it here: I clearly need to learn Spanish!

BISEXUAL QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I’m never, ever not going to be attracted to women or want to be with women. But I’ve made a choice with a person who fulfills most of my desires – and I’m not talking sexually, I’m talking compatibility.” – Out bisexual actor Kristanna Loken, on her engagement to actor Noah Danby, to AfterEllen.com

FREEHELD WINS AN OSCAR Amidst all of this week’s Oscar hoopla, the news that Freeheld won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject might have gotten lost, so here’s a chance to watch filmmakers Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth accept their award again: It was particularly ironic that military personnel – who must remain closeted in order to stay in the military – presented the award to Freeheld, a film about New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester‘s battle to win pension survivorship benefits for her partner, Stacie Andree. I wondered if any of the soldiers on camera knew what Freeheld was about.

If you were wondering where Ellen and Portia were on Oscars night, they didn’t go to the awards ceremony; instead they entertained themselves at the 16th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party at the Pacific Design Center. Here they are, looking snazzy:

And that brings me to …

THIS WEEK IN ELLEN Our namesake had a busy week, starting off by endorsing Senator Hillary Clinton for president. Ellen dropped in on a Clinton campaign rally by satellite earlier this week to ask some tough questions about whether Hillary would ban the use of glitter: This week also brought the news that Ellen has inked a deal with TBS to host some variety shows taped at comedy festivals in 2008 and 2009. “My first special, Ellen’s Really Big Show, turned out to be so big that TBS asked me to do another,” DeGeneres said in a press release. “I said, ‘That’ll be tough, but give me two more shows. One of them is bound to be big. I mean, they’ll all be big, but one for sure is gonna be REALLY big.”

On today’s episode of her talk show, which was taped yesterday, Ellen turned serious when she delivered this message about the recent tragic murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King in Oxnard, Calif., because he was gay. Speaking out against hate crimes, Ellen declared, “I am not a second-class citizen,” adding that it is “OK to be gay.”

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network plans to honor Lawrence King during their annual Day of Silence on April 25. Information on memorials for Lawrence King can be found on this page.

IF HE DID TAKE WOMEN’S STUDIES, I’M PRETTY SURE HE FLUNKED Benjamin Svetky’s recent Entertainment Weekly review of The L Word was, in a word, horrible. No, not because he panned the show, but because of this paragraph:

It combines earnest social commentary on contemporary gender-identification issues – this season there’s a plotline about a lesbian war hero getting booted out of the Army for sexual misconduct – with lots of hot chicks making out. Sure, it’s soft-core porn, but coated with a PC patina that makes it slightly less embarrassing when you get caught looking. It’s not often you run across erotica that works this hard to raise your, um, consciousness. It’s Red Shoe Diaries with a women’s-studies degree from Smith College.
Where shall I begin? What would Dawn Denbo do? First, Mr. Svetky doesn’t seem to understand what “gender-identification issues” are. The L Word‘s plotline about “Don’t ask, don’t tell” isn’t about gender identity, Benjamin – it’s about discrimination in the military.

Svetky further proves that he doesn’t understand the first thing about gender identity by writing: “[W]affling transsexual Max (Daniela Sea) really should make up his/her mind about what gender he/she would like to be. (In one recent episode, there was talk that the character was actually a gay man trapped in a pre-op body.)”

Sure, there are a lot of problems with The L Word‘s transgender story line, but calling Max a “waffling transsexual” and then disparaging his attempts to understand his changing sexuality is transphobic and ignorant. I’m actually shocked that Entertainment Weekly‘s editors – who normally publish a fun and open-minded magazine – allowed Svetky to write that sentence.

And then there’s the characterization of The L Word as “soft-core porn” and “erotica.” Yes, there’s sex on The L Word, and some of it is certainly erotic, but by labeling it “soft-core porn,” Svetky is essentially dismissing the show – and its actors. Something tells me that Jennifer Beals doesn’t think her time spent on The L Word is about soft-core porn.

Other dramas with equal or more amounts of sex have not been treated this way by EW. The the quite explicit HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me was described as “a slow, thoughtful, sometimes uncomfortable, often sad, rarely erotic experience.” A review of Queer as Folk when it premiered in 2000 concluded: “Bravo to everyone involved for the refreshing eroticism of the sex in this production.”

Isn’t it funny how explicit heterosexual sex or sex between gay men is “thoughtful” and “refreshing,” while sex between women is “soft-core porn”? It just goes to show that as much as The L Word has done to inform viewers about lesbians and bisexual women, there are still plenty of men who can’t look past the titillation factor.

What’s even sadder is that Svetky approaches this “erotica” with such a sense of guilt, referring to embarrassment about being caught watching it. Dear Mr. Svetky: There’s nothing wrong with finding sex to be sexy. I’m pretty sure that most lesbians do.

NO TELL-ALL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A LESBIAN KISS OR TWO In an appearance on Larry King Live (warning: clicking on that link takes you to a video in which you have to endure the smarminess of Larry King, alive) to promote her new autobiography, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, actor-turned-Jenny Craig spokesperson Valerie Bertinelli admitted to kissing a woman when she was 21 years old. “She was a great kisser!” she said when asked why she did it.

She continued: “It was an interesting experiment, but again, I felt guilt the next morning from that because I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’ve just cheated on my husband.'”

Lesbian movie trivia lovers will be interested to know that Bertinelli once played a lesbian mom in Two Mothers for Zachary (lesbian custody battle alert!), a 1996 TV movie about a homophobic woman (played by Vanessa Redgrave, no less) who sues her lesbian daughter (that’s Bertinelli) for custody of her grandson because she is living with another woman (Colleen Flynn). The movie was based on a real-life story in which the homophobic grandmother actually won.

I still remember Valerie from One Day at a Time (oops! dating myself!), and it’s good to know that she, at least, understands that kissing a woman counts just as much as kissing a man. It’s the small things in life, really.

CINDERELLA GETS HER GIRL A little over six years ago, I began to write the novel I’d always wanted to read: a retelling of “Cinderella.” Yes, because despite my dry and sometimes sarcastic wit, I am at heart a big ol’ mushy romantic.

So I’m especially pleased to announce that my novel, Ash, will be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in the fall of 2009. And this time, Cinderella (her name is Ash in my book) doesn’t pick the prince. That’s right, it’s a lesbian Cinderella! Ash is a young adult novel, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for “young adults”; I’m hoping that adults of many ages will also enjoy the tale that I’m retelling. And don’t worry: It’s no Disney version. Sure, there’s a fairy, but he’s not what you expect. And who’s the lucky Prince(ss) Charming? Well, she’s no princess.

The reason that my book isn’t coming out until fall 2009 is that there is still some editing to do, and it just takes a lot longer to print actual books than to post articles on a website. I’ll be blogging about the process on my website, so drop by there if you’re interested in finding out what’s going on with Ash, as well as my next book (Little, Brown offered me a two-book deal).

More details of the deal will be announced in the March 10 issue of Publishers Weekly. Woohoo!

JENNIFER BEALS IS CLEARLY SMARTER THAN BETTE Last Monday, Jennifer Beals dropped by CBS’ Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and in the midst of a lot of giggling (on her part) and drooling (on his part), Beals revealed that she didn’t like Bette’s adulterous story line with Tina on The L Word this season.

“I don’t really care for that,” she told Ferguson. “I went to Ilene Chaiken … and I said, ‘Has my character not learned anything? Have I not learned anything in the last five years?’

Watch the video here: Apparently even the actors on The L Word sometimes don’t understand their characters’ motivations.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! AfterEllen.com reader mollykins alerted us to this new interview with Tegan and Sara in the Guardian.

In this article, gay producer Craig Zadan talks about African-American lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote A Raisin in the Sun, which was recently adapted for television.

Chriselle Almeida, who plays Kiran in When Kiran Met Karen, recently talked to Desi Club about her lesbian role.

Tello Films, a website that features lesbian videos, recently launched.

Yesterday night’s episode of Eli Stone (ABC) featured another pregnant lesbian story line, this time combined with a custody battle (thanks to NorthernStar for the tip).

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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