Daily Fix: The GLAAD Network Responsibility Index Makes Us Do Math to Uncover its Most Shocking Statistic (Lezwhat?)
Autostraddle wonders why they have the power when they keep fucking/fucking up: “Evangelicals, Rapists, Tramps & Thieves: Why Anti-Gay Leaders Love to Sin, Are the Sinners.” Maybe it’ll make you angry and you’ll wanna do something about it and you can read about The Lesbian Avengers: Dyke Power!
Sometimes instead of doing things we have our interns do things. This month they saw a musical about a bunch of hippies, a lifetime-style movie about a transsexual and a reading of a screenplay about these two girls in the old days who are in love: Intern Camp.
Autostraddle Special Report on
The GLAAD Network Responsibility Index:
GLAAD has released their report card Network Responsibility Index to tell all the networks who’s doing good with the gays and who needs some after-school tutoring from Alan Ball.
Methodology: For GLAAD’s third annual report, we divided our analysis of reports into two sections (network & cable) and found neither section provided statistics by sexuality/gender, therefore requiring us to read the entire report line by line to gather some info about the ladies. We suspect this decision was made because lumping gays, lesbians and transpeople together is less depressing for the lesbians and transpeople and we have enough problems as it is.
Perusing the entire 41-page pdf [excluding the section on Showtime which was confusing as it’s unclear if they’re counting The L Word or not as they exclude specific numbers on that show so we counted nothing from that network (if there was an all-gay-male show that we did include, that’d skew the stats, but there isn’t, so this is scientifically sound) (based on our own definition of “science”) and we only included the networks with full reports, rather than the little ones with blurbs at the end] we found 28 lesbian or bisexual female references (including a murdered lesbian astronaut and her girlfriend from an episode of Law & Order) and 86 mentions of gay or bisexual male characters. Most of those females were from Grey’s Anatomy or The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
Of these, 9 queer females were cited as recurring characters, opposed to 35 queer males.
Look, we made you a graph!
We believe this gendered discrepancy is owed in part to the tendency of reality shows to select gay male judges because they are funny, have nice hair, and like to judge. Our other theory involves the patriarchy.
Other highlights of the report (we read it so you don’t have to!) include:
+ ALSO THE DEATH OF JENNY: “The cancellation of The L Word also means that the coming 2009-2010 TV season will be the first time since the premiere of Will & Grace in 1998 that there won’t be a mostly gay series on air.”
+ WHITEWASHED: “Television characters in general are predominately white, regardless of sexual orientation.”
+ CALLIE CARRIES THE TEAM: ABC is the top LGBT inclusive broadcast network network with props to Brothers & Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy and Dancing with the Stars (Lance Bass holler).
+ MR & MRS. JAY: “The CW leads all networks in terms of being inclusive of the African American/black LGBT community. The majority of these impressions are made on America’s Next Top Model because of the prominence of J. Alexander.”
+ HIGH HOPES FOR MELROSE: “The CW’s fall shows are ripe with opportunities … the highly anticipated reboot of Melrose Place takes place in gay Mecca West Hollywood … can make up for the shortcomings of the original.”
+ GLAADBERT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: “By now everyone is aware that Lambert is gay, but he did not confirm this fact until recently … as such, American Idol was not counted as having any LGBT impressions.” (13)
+ SOMEONE NEEDS A SENSE OF HUMOR: “Family Guy aired an offensive half hour episode in which Peter was injected with the ‘gay gene” and proceeded to act out countless gay stereotypes.”
+ OBVS: “GLEE has excellent promise for LGBT inclusion.”
COME OUT LIZ LEMON: “Though NBC has stepped up … there is still ample room for growth. The Office could benefit from increaisng Oscar’s screen time … 30 Rock is infused with LGBT-inclusive humor but would be better if one of the show’s characters came out of the closet.”
+ HBO WINS: Out of 14 original shows, 10 feature LGBT-inclusive content, with True Blood leading the way … “Ball has used the persecution of vampires on True Blood as a thinly veiled allegory for obstacles faced by the LGBT community … however, HBO has room to grow in terms of lesbian and transgender representation.”
+ HOPEFULLY THEY’LL BE JUST AS INTERESTING AS KC HERSELF WTF: “The retooling of The Hills to focus on Kristin Cavallari presents an excellent opportunity to prominently feature some of Kristin’s gay friends.”
+ YOU DON’T SAY: “The level of visibility for lesbian and bisexual women on The L Word has yet to be matched by any show on broadcast or cable television since.”
+ OUR LITTLE SECTION: “NBC boasted the highest percentage of lesbian representations of any network, with 26% of NBC’s LGBT hours including a lesbian. CBS & Fox followed closely with 23% and 17%, respectively. ABC (6%) and The CW (3%) featured the fewest lesbian representations.”
+ UM BUT I THOUGHT KEN SEELY WAS GAY WTF: “History shows that A&E is a network not opposed to LGBT inclusion and yet this season it barely produced tow hours of content.”
The rest of the daily fix, after the jump!
Sunday Funday Daily Fix: Gays Smoking, Storm Fronts Blowing & Introducing NSFW Sundays
SURPRISE! Another evangelist is convicted of shocking sex crimes! Like marrying young girls! Autostraddle presents a timeline of these appalling acts in “Evangelicals, Rapists, Tramps and Thieves: Why Anti-Gay Leaders Love to Sin, Are the Sinners.” Maybe it’ll make you angry and you’ll wanna do something about it and you can read about The Lesbian Avengers: Dyke Power! Also Robin presents some handy tips for vacationing lesbians in love.
IT BEGINS WITH THE PRAWN TRAILERS: The Home & Away Lifestyle … really lesbian kisses are just the beginning. It’s a rock ‘n roll universe of sex, drugs and alcohol abuse!! (@perthnow)
HARRY POTTER: Daniel Radcliffe is the latest Attitude magazine coverboy: “I just loathe homophobia. It’s just disgusting and animal and stupid and it’s just thick people who can’t get their heads around it and are just scared. I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the only child in my class who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that.”(@attitude magazine)
POMOSEXUALS: Why Do the Concerned Women of America Hate My Sexual Orientation(s)?– I’ve written about, you know, cross-dressing girls cruising gay men, and Whore Power, and fisting, and Slut Pride, and PoMoSexuality, and putting a sex toy in every pot, and gee, when I contemplate it, the list does go on and on. And the fourteen sexual orientations thing was practically a toss-off!(@carnal nation) (more…)
Daily Fixes: Analyzing Britney, Labeling Queers, Censoring Maddow & Testing Cleavage
How do you travel with your lesbian lover? Robin has some tips because she totally just DID travel with her lesbian lover. To Ithaca and it was gorges, and there are waterfalls AND cute outfits involved.
Also! You Guys, HERSTORY! A very special Guestbian columnist today! Vikki, a mombian over at Up Popped a Fox, tracked down some Twin Cities Avengers to see what they’re up to now and to reflect on her time as a Lesbian Avenger in the early-to-mid 90’s, spreading radical dyke power & being the bomb you throw!
IOBY: Do something with your lives people! Alex and Riese met the Executive Director of ioby – “fostering local environmental knowledge and action in New York City” at a gay/lesbian networking event the other night — she was one of two other ladies up in that joint. So check out the amazing work they’re doing — ioby stands for “in our backyards” and they promote the belief that environmental knowledge, innovation, action, and service begin and thrive in our backyards. (@ioby).
BRITNEY: An Analysis Of The Underlying Themes In Britney’s New Candie’s Commerical:“The choice to shoot Britney framed by the crotch of a horse is to remind us that she is a mere human, a small person on a large planet; fragile. Also: Thin, now.” (@jezebel) (more…)
Daily Fix: Hey Lesbians, Do Your Co-Workers Know What You Did Last Night? Probs Not.
WE’RE JUST REALLY GOOD FRIENDS: “A recent Harris poll conducted with Out & Equal and Witeck-Combs Communications indicated that 44% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) participants feel unable to talk freely to co-workers about their partners, and up to 78% don’t feel comfortable bringing their partners to corporate social functions.” (@wsj) Do you?
MADDOW: “Trust me when I say there is nothing new is this book. If you’ve ever watched MSNBC; Googled Maddow or her partner Susan Mikula; or read any magazine article about either of them, you’ve read this book … It’s pretty clear that [the] author … is out to make some cash off of Maddow’s fame without having to do any of the leg work.” (@windy city times)
TROOP CREATIONISM: The Girl Scouts of America has bestowed its highest honor, the Gold Award, on a Wisconsin teen for amassing a library of creation literature for her church, building a model of Noah’s ark, and teaching creationism to elementary schoolers. She called her project “Alternate Universe.” (@mother jones) (more…)
Daily Fix: Save the Lesbian Cheerleader, the Lesbian Alcoholics & Montreal Pride!
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The entire team banded together for a very special episode of the Tuesday Televisionary. We cover two episodes of Intervention, Nurse Jackie, Weeds, True Blood, Gimme Sugar, Masterchef Australia, The 7 PM Project, My Life on the D-List and So You Think You Can Dance. And we all share stories of when we got fired, to make you feel better about getting fired, because we care.
DRINK LIKE A GIRL: Yesterday we reported on a new program for alcoholic gay men. Today, we report that the UIC College of Nursing has received a $3 million federal grant to continue research to identify risk factors for excessive drinking among lesbians. So far neither of these programs seem to be doing a deal with Intervention, blergh. No really though, I’m a dork for anything that looks, smells or tastes like a sociology-related study, I await the results on the edge of my seat with my vodka-tonic. (@wbb chicago)
IT TAKES A VILLAGE OF SMILING IDIOTS: I am breaking the “I am so over talking about Miss California” rule because she’s actually done something besides talk crazy. As you’ve heard, she has a book deal, because she is a star now, because this is 1950 and you can get famous just for being a pretty anti-Civil Rights speaker. All I can say is I hope her book has a lesbian reveal. (@ontop magazine) (more…)
Daily Fix: Friends of Vanished Gay Med Student Fight to Rescue him from Ex-Gay Ministry Exodus International
Remember when you got fired? We do! (Multiple times, for some of us) Check out our storytime roundtable: YOU’RE FIRED! I QUIT! Then, take a trip to Greece with special guest Erin, who went there to see the ancient sites and sounds and then this dude fell in love with her.
This week’s Tuesday Televisionary is one of epic proportions! So many teevee shows, so little time — True Blood! 10 Things I Hate About You! Gimme Sugar! So You Think You Can Dance! Weeds! Intervention! Ruby Rose’s new Australian show! And more.
↓ BUT I’M A CUTE MEDICAL STUDENT: “A young gay medical student named Bryce Faulkner had made plans to move from Arkansas to be closer to his boyfriend, Travis Swanson, who lives in Wisconsin. But now Bryce has vanished–into a 14-month program meant to “convert” him to heterosexuality, it is thought.”
In addition to their page at the Ergonomical Ministries, Bryce’s friends & supporters made a facebook page to rescue Bryce Faulkner and to raise awareness about the ex-gay organizations that “perpetuate the notion that being gay is evil, spiritually void and a choice on conscience.”
Recently, Bryce’s parents made contact with his friends to threaten litigation and to tell them that Bryce came to them “begging for treatment.”
Let’s raise some awareness, shall we? (more…)
Obama Knows Gays are still “Denied Their Rights”
Girl-in-Greece: The Incredibly True Adventures of a History Nerd in Love with Mount Olympus: decided I wanted to visit Greece three years ago — right before all those dumb movies set in Greece flooded the marketplace and inspired my friends & family to assume I’d picked my destination because of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Also, we have created a special girl-on-gallery of photographs for our ex-web host, bluehost, and their Mormon buddies: Hot Girls Leave a Little Something up to the Imagination.
ON THE UPSIDE HE PROBS WON’T STEAL YOUR SON’S FLEECE: “My son “Bob” is leaving for his freshman year of college in August. Bob just received his roommate assignment and discovered that his roomie is gay … Bob would prefer a straight roommate. When I called the university to ask if Bob could be assigned another roomie, the housing director said no …” (@dear amy, la times)
LOGO: Carlytron made this for Logo’s NewNowNext Icons series. Watch it!: NewNowNext Icons – Stevie Nicks.
DRUNKITY DRINK DRINK: Good news! Ready to lose your virginity or write a blog post about your feelings? You’re in luck, because boxed wine is making a comeback! (@forbes) (more…)
Like Food, It Gives You This Energy You Can Like, Live Off It
Read about Erin’s travels in Girl-on-Greece: The Incredibly True Adventures of a Gay History Nerd in Love with Mount Olympus. Girl-on-World is written by hot young women just like you! If you’ve got a story you’d like to share, email green[at]autostraddle[dot]com.
So remember when we talked with Sweet, Sweet Charlene from LOGO’s Gimme Sugar? And Robin was our super shexy Substitute Tuesday Televisionary with extra Tron-ness? It was a wonderfully exciting week!
Then Stef Defaced Public Property with Amanda Tannen from stellastar* and wasn’t that fun?? Yes! And do you also recall when Music Was Your Hot Hot Fix with Crystal and Intern Emily? But wait! That’s not all!
Don’t forget the heartwarming piece on The Suckage of BlueHost: The Fempire Strikes Back!
Riese and Alex have left their cubby holes yet again to venture into the hippie-scented world of Somewhere In Upstate New York! But the funny thing is, they still brought you today’s Sunday Funday Daily Fix because I, Laneia, was Team Sleeping In! I’m probably fired forever so if you’re looking for someone to pass out business cards or something, shoot me an email! Ok!
HATRED CAN BE LIKE FOOD. IT GIVES YOU THIS ENERGY YOU CAN LIKE, LIVE OFF IT: Do you have Anglea Chase syndrome? “Much like Angela Chase, I can not, like, get through like, a sentence, without like, adding the word like, about like 9 million times, or whatever.” (@jezebel)
GOING TO THE EPISCOPALIAN CHAPEL AND WE’RE GONNA GET MARRIED: Episcopal Church officials voted yesterday to allow bishops the latitude to bless same-sex unions — the second vote this week in favor of gay rights and one that may further divide the worldwide Anglican community. (@the washington post) And, at The New York Times, the Episcopalian’s First Openly Gay Bishop is interviewed: (more…)
Whip It! & Introducing Did You See That Comment Friday
Crystal’s LISTEN UP: Music is Your Hot Hot Fix #1: I’ve asked Intern Emily to join me in the musical madness this month. Emily came to mind first because she’s from Canada, and Canadian music rocks, e.g. Raine Maida, Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, Leonard Cohen etc. And I guess it would be remiss if I did not mention k.d. lang and Tegan & Sara. We just won’t speak of Nickelback. [Intern Emily: “Nickelback = shame of Canada”]
Stef’s Defacing Public Property with Amanda Tannen of stellastarr*: “I ask if she’d dressed up as a cat burglar and hit the streets at 4AM. “No! I did it in the middle of the day!“”
The Empire strikes back on Bluehost Sucks, and Robin is your Very Special Tuesday Televisionary.
#BLUEHOST SUCKS: The Lavender Liberal has sorted the whole thing out with an excellent article/overview of Bluehost’s terrific record of terribleness: Bluehost vs. The Lesbians! Fun fact – “Here is a clue about which businesses are Mormon owned: Biz names with ‘Blue’ in them (i.e., JetBlue, Bluehost.com) – the ‘Blue’ refers to ‘true-blue Mormons’ (aka ‘TBM’, as opposed to Jack Mormons).”
TEGAN & SARA: Interview of Tegan & Sara in Under the Radar. I don’t even need to tell you what they said ’cause I bet you’re gonna read it. Or not. I mean if you might you’ve probs gotten this far. Potato. Tinkerbell! I feel like Tegan & Sara changed my life. Ok you changed my life too. Whoo-hoo. (@undertheradar) (more…)
Sextortion, Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them
Starlight starbright … Stef defaces public property with stellastarr*! Robin is your Tuesday Televisionary, in disguise! ALSO, Bluehost gets sketchier by the minute.
SEX ON TEEVEE: Vamp Stamp: What is True Blood saying about women and sex? (@nerve.com)
ACTUAL ART: The National Portrait Gallery in London is doing an exhibit on “Gay Icons” — in which Gay Icons like Elton John, Billie Jean King and Ian McKellan and Sarah Waters pick their gay icons. (@npruk)
OBVS: Jon’s girlfriend is/was/did a lesbian, old lover warns Jon, Jon dreams of threesome. (@ohnotheydidnt)
HE WILL NEVER BRB AGAIN: Sextortion at Eisenhower High:“Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time.” We somehow always get twice as pissed of when it’s a gay guy who does it, like what the f*ck are you doing, we can’t afford this right now! (more…)
The Girls Next Door, The Twitter Test & The Media Wars
Stef, in her grand tradition of sitting down with crush-worthy female-fronted bands, sits down with stellastarr*, who’s playing a show this Thursday in NYC at the Highline Ballroom.
We have a special Celesbian guest on today’s Tuesday Televisionary. You may recognize her from other parts of our website, such as “photoblogger” for Autostraddle.com. Her name is Robin, and she is your Tuesday Televisionary, and probs wins the Cutest Girlfriend of the Week Award too.
ALSO, the post about how Bluehost sucks has been taken off password protection! It has been revised to be sure we cover all our bases and aren’t unprofessional and also now finally our domain is no longer in their possession. So it’s time to UNLEASH THE ARMY!!!
SLICK WILLY: Bill Clinton Supports Marriage Equality, Just in Time to not have any government position whatsoever, I mean really clearly the key to getting someone to promote gay marriage is to remove them from an elected position. This is referred to as “The highest profile reversal” in the history of the marriage equality movement.” (@joe my god)
FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR PAGE VIEWS: What a surprise! A new media site trying to build buzz and make a mark by criticizing other websites. It worked for x-factor … and gawker … and the daily beast … rage on, Mediaite!: Obama’s Fiercest Critics: The Online Gay Media. (@mediaite)
GRRL POWER: I’m so into f-bomb: “it’s basically the blog we wish we had as teens and is going well despite Adult Sniping!” (@jezebel) (more…)
Ways to Avoid Homo Advances Without Reaching for the Knife
So we interviewed Charlene from Gimme Sugar. If you saw it last night you would know that it was a sad night in Whoville. Who are you. Who Who. Who Who! Tuesday Televisionary will drop later!
We’ve written a bit about why we went down this weekend. Presently we’re working on making sure we’re air-tight in how we approach this and then we will assemble the troops for battle. Peaceful battle. The password to read the post is the first name of the character Jane Lynch played on The L Word. You don’t need to have seen that godawful show to know the password, just google it. That is, unless you are forbidden by your parents or religion to indulge in such filth. Just saying …
CUTE SITE ALERT!: Check out fbomb, it’s new: “The FBomb.org is a blog/community created for teenage girls who care about their rights as women and want to be heard. Young feminists who are just a little bit pissed off and very outspoken are more than welcome here.”
DESIGN YOU TRUST: Movie Poster Posts (@designyoutrust)
POP! Saturday Night Live alum, Maya Rudolph is featured in a new interview with The Advocate: She talks about Prop 8: The Musical, being ashamed of California, divas and her gay following. (@advocate)
ACTUAL ART: Interview with Catherine Opie: “Right, but I mean, I remember my good friend Steve ended up being a big money guy after college, and I went and visited him one day and my head was shaved and I was completely pierced and wearing a leather jacket. All his colleagues were like, “That’s your best friend from high school?!” They were all straighter than I ended up being.” (@vice) (more…)
Remember Craigslist? & Kill ‘Em With Kisses
We really mean it this time: our interview with Charlene from Logo’s all-lesbian & bisexual reality show Gimme Sugar and why this show might not be that bad for us after all … and many thanks to green at Uh Huh Her Fan, who copied the post for us when our site went down and sent it over. Without her, this interview would never have seen the light of day.
Right now as we switch hosting services, there will be some weird glitches on the site. We thank you for your patience during this time. Do let us know what problems you spot though it’s likely they’ll all be rectified within the next 72 hours or so.
ALSO! We have written about what happened this weekend that prompted the site to go down. The post is currently password protected ’cause we’d really like your feedback on it before we open it up to search engine crawls. But feel free to share it with anyone else who can figure out the password.
What’s the password? It’s the answer to this question: “What is the first name of the lawyer played by Jane Lynch on The L Word?”
KISS-IN: Kissers protested outside the LDS Church property. A.k.a The Mormons. About 60 people showed up to stick it to the man and their lovely lover at the same time. (@thedeserter)
AMERICAN WEDDING: The secret cultlike rituals behind my favorite gay-hunting spot, The New York Times Wedding & Celebrations. (@gawker) (more…)
Daily Fix: She Missed the Bisexuality Boat, But “Miami Social” Is Riding that Train
Soooo how about that Girl-on-Gallery of ladies in swimsuits! Also, how about that article about Spinnerette and omg the Autostraddle Roundtable about “is there a lesbian generation gap?” Wow, that’s a lot of stuff. Also you have four more days to get your hands/eyes on every photo taken at Rodeo Disco!
CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE: “The Door” is a haven for GBLTQ kids in Paris.“ (@the villager)
9021-OH! OH!: “This is what I foresee. Naomi gets drunk, and she gets a little crazy. Naomi wants to experiment. And then a little lip-on-lip action with Rumer Willis can’t hurt anybody, right? How fabulous would that be. They totally need to make it happen!” (@perez revenge)
GAY TEEVEE: Bravo’s new “lives of the rich & famous” docusoap fiesta Miami Social, premiering July 14th, features a bisexual lady who does not want to rob half the population of her supreme skills as a lover. Her name is Maria. Furthermore, Carlytron has pointed out that Ari Fish, a contestant on the new season of Project Runway, looks like a “hotter Samantha Ronson.” (more…)
Daily Fix: Someone’s Gonna Have to Have to Punch 55,000 People in the Face
Brooke lives in Miami and wants me to ask you where she should go out to meet other hot lesbians in the Fort Lauderdale area. In lieu of giving away the ending of Gimme Sugar: Miami (stay tuned for an interview with those ladies soon), please let us know where she can find the action. Apparently she ventured into the nightlife two weeks ago and found senior citizen’s poker night or something. We’re writing an article about lesbian nightlife in Miami, please email brooke@autostraddle.com if you have any valuable scoop!
This week we ask — is there a lesbian generation gap? We hope not, ’cause we all wanna be friends and help each other succeed. Anyhoo, special guests for this roundtable include Rising Star Actress/Singer/ASBFF Haviland Stillwell, celesbian superblogger Grace (Afterellen.com, Grace the Spot) and Riese’s Gay Mom!
Also check out some hot girls in swimwear in our latest Girl-on-Gallery (it actually is summer now, right? Can’t tell) and Stef takes the Beat on the Street to see Spinerette, wonders if the music lives on when the crazy is over and confirms that Brody Dalle is a badass woman.
CAR TALK: The best part of this article is that the GM Spokesman had been promoting these vids since they went live June 28th but hadn’t bothered to actually watch them ’til yesterday: General Motors ordered all the videos created in conjunction with its recent Chevrolet Gay Day at the Movies promotion be removed from You Tube today after the footage was revealed on Drive On. (@usa today)
JUST SAY YES: Someone asks Dan Savage Is Drug Use the next Civil Rights Frontier? and he says: if you stopped doing drugs today, DRUGS, you’d no longer be a drug user. If I stopped inhaling my boyfriend’s pheromones—and cock—today, DRUGS, I’d still be a big homo. (@villagevoice) (more…)
Daily Fix: I AM Here to Make Friends, BTW.
Guess who’s on Autostraddle today? Your MOM! JK! New York Magazine published this story called The Gay Generation Gap, and it was pretty cool, except that there were no girls in it. So we wrote our own in the Autostraddle Roundtable: Is There a Lesbian Generation Gap? With special guests Grace Chu, Haviland Stillwelly and … Riese’s MOM!
Also, um, hello, your Tuesday Televisionary gets funnier every frackin’ week. Our fave closeted lesbian (we kid, we kid!) is featured today (she was on SYTYCD) as well as shows like Better Off Ted, Nurse Jackie, Weeds and the new open-season Hot Girl of the Week.
#MICHAELJACKSON: The Ten Most Important Moments of the Michael Jackson Memorial Mess: In a chilling final moment, Jackson’s rarely-seen daughter Paris tearfully said she loved her father and that he was great. In a haunting evocation of a cycle continuing to grind on, her aunt Janet fixed her hair and dotingly but firmly told her “Speak up, honey. Speak up.” It was pretty much devastating. (@defamer)
CELEBGAYS: Everyone is so wrong, it’s like, maybe not even funny. That being said, so many gays are ding way better at slipping under the radar than we thought! I mean, why talk about the Pinkett-Smiths when you can gay-theorize … A.C. Slater? The straightest dude EVER? The Celebrity Crowdsourced Gay List. (@gawker)
WATCH FOUR-FOUR’S I’M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS VIDEO ’09: A year ago today, I posted my supercut of people saying various iterations of “I’m not here to make friends” over and over and over again on reality TV. So much has changed since then — Obama became president, the sinking economy went belly up, Sarah Palin became queen of her own ass, then sank, then went belly up, etc. And yet, as the video (containing examples of my most favorite of televised cliches that have been uttered in the time since the first video) proves, they’ve also stayed much the same. (@fourfour)
ALSO WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS: We’re all intersex: The persistence of intersex reminds me that there’s a continuum, that we isolate people in the middle and say they have a problem because they’re reproductively incompetent or don’t look right or whatever. None of us meet the criterion of being the perfect male or the perfect female. We are all intersex. (@salon) (more…)
Shuddup M*therf*ckers I’m Watching Michael Jackson’s Memorial!!!!
Crystal finally watched that L Word show, and she hs a lot of feelings about it, including most prominently (obvs), WT-fucking F? Also, we took it upon ourselves to make you a supermodel at the Rodeo Disco with our super-fancy photogs Robin Roemer, Sin Garcia and Des’Ree. For the next week only, all the photos are here for digital download & souvinier prints. Want a cliquey pride recap? Me too! BTW have you seen the new Robin Roemer dot com? Check out portrait portfolio to see some of the sweet stuff she’s done @autostraddle.
Also! We’re on a hunt for some raffle winners: Kristina Kelly, B. Abisla, Xenia Blanco and Eleanor Anderson. Is that you? Email alex@autostraddle.com by the end of the week or forever hold your peace.
MONEY HONEY: HRC logo featured in orbitz ad. It’s like a secret code that if we want to give them our money, that’s cool, they’ll take it. Yeah! (@towleroad)
OH FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC! This is what we’ve all been CLAMORING for on the teevee! Not a full-blown “relationship” with a woman (YIKES! Ring the ALARM!), but “a little Sapphic experimentation” between lesbian roommates.” That has NEVER BEEN DONE and is always done REALLY WELL. I mean, certainly if Claire can heal from physical wounds, her soul will remain untarnished for Jesus. (more…)
Daily Fix: No H8 For Haviland, Glambert Does Ziggy Stardust, Jackson Palin Jackson Palin Jackson Palin WAAA!
HAVILAND ALSO DOESN’T LIKE H8 Hands down best no on h8er ever: Haviland Stillwell!
BRITNEY: Did an Album Ever Save Your Life?: ”A new documentary titled “Britney Spears Saved My Life” explores the lives of hardcore Britney fans who claim that the singer’s music and ability to regain control over her often turbulent personal life has had quite an impact on them.” (@jezebel)
IF I DON’T GET MICHEAL JACKSON’S CAUSE OF DEATH AND SARAH PALIN’S REASON FOR RESIGNATION WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS I AM QUITTING THE INTERNET!: The past week has been a vertiable minefield of “things one can easily obsess over via internet.” Michael Jackson’s drug abuse! Sarah Palin – future TV star? Networks will blanket Tuesday with Michael Jackson coverage! Sarah Palin comes unhinged! Who won a ticket to the Michael Jackson funeral? Sarah Palin has absolutely no interest in governing Alaska! And, if you haven’t already, read Vanity Fair‘s recent piece on why Palin was big trouble. (more…)
Daily Fix: Debbie Does an Alternative Lifestyle Haircut
Many fun things will happen today but FIRST! Don’t you want to know who won the raffle? Yeah you do! Well we did a big drawing last night, yes we did, and now it’s here for you. Also check out our rodeo disco snapshots and Carly’s Tuesday Televisionary!
We’ll be notifying you by email if we have your email address on MONDAY and mailing out the prizes next week. If we don’t have your email and you see this and you see that you have won, please do email alex@autostraddle.com!
Daily Fix: The End of Print, The End of The Gay Law in India, and The End of Dan Choi’s Military Career (for now.)
Autofocus! Robin Roemer & Sin Garcia present snapshots from our NYC Pride Party Rodeo Disco! Also the deadline for buying raffle tickets is over, so look forward to news of your winnings within the next 24 hours, homsicles.
THE DEATH OF PRINT: The New York Blade, one of the two major gay & lesbian newspapers in the city, suspends publication. If the name “New York Blade” is still up for consideration, I’d like it. kthx. (@nytimes, which is still publishing itself)
THRILLER: Lisa Marie says Jackson was a passionate lover, so what was the truth about Jackson’s sexuality? (@the daily mail)
GENDERFUCK THURSDAY: Open a dictionary to “tomboy,” and you’ll find this. (@dorothy surrenders)
OH MY!: This is a really stupid (and offensive and homophobic) article in an online British publication about girls kissing girls: “So while there is a generation of young female celebrities trying to shock us (or garner media attention) by sending a message that girls can like girls, and then boys, and then girls again, what’s really disturbing is that this trend is being emulated by many of today’s teenagers.” Seriously, was someone paid to write this? And are they 16 years old? (more…)