Something about Amanda’s music brings out the wide-eyed teenage fangirl in me; I haven’t felt this way about a singer since I was 12 and Shirley Manson told me she was only happy when it rained.
We thought this would be easier — the hardest part, we imagined, would be coming up with just ten. Surely if we thought really hard, wikipedia’ed (we expected a “lesbian characters in plays” list of some sort to appear … it did not), checked out the glbtq encyclopedia and googled some shit, we’d be rushing to narrow down the contenders by Sunday afternoon. I mean, there’s Maureen & Joanne from RENT, to start with. And then … um.
If I were to make a list of television characters that disappeared without explanation, Papi would be on it.
“In a number of the photos released by Britney’s management, a heavy-set older man in a white, sleeveless working man’s vest can be seen hovering in the background. That’s her father, Jamie Spears, who took complete legal control of her life last year. It’s he who has the whip hand in Britney’s life now.”
Because we’ve been serious at the Roundtable for the last two weeks, we went easy on ourselves this week and asked what song makes you jump up and scream OMG THIS IS MY JAM! at the club? You know, the club? Where all the girls go to get down?
“In addition to sending us 50 emails a day, Joe Solomnese has been making secret deals with Washington — namely, to prioritize the hate crimes bill and the employee non-discrimination act over “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
“Last night I drunkenly uploaded Robin’s lovely photos from the NewNowNext Awards and drunkenly wrote captions for said photos. I considered changing the captions this morning, but decided it’d be way faster to not change a thing!”
“Well, a friend of mine saw me playing at some point and said, ‘You know, it’d be interesting if you took paint and put it on your fingers and and left a mark of where your fingers traveled on the guitar.’ … I kind of took this idea for a minute and thought well, OK.. That was the first seed planted.”
“I should’ve pitched that f*cking book, I have a lot of imaginary stories made up about Britney’s life during the meltdown.”
“Apparently I am suffering from GBICT, or Gay Blog Induced Carpal Tunnel. In an effort to relax, I turned on the teevee. I saw this terrible thing on True Life: I Hate my Small Boobs. So I had to look it up and see what the fuck was up with that girl’s Mom”
“Obsessed is a new show on A&E that documents people living with debilitating forms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and follows them while they attempt to rid themselves of their obsessions and compulsions. This is obvs my new favorite show. Confession time: I have OCD. “
Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, The Muppets, Typical Straight Guys, Douglas F. Gansler, public school administrators and Christine Quinn all like us — and um, Obama declares gay pride month?
“What I do not enjoy is people saying a woman marrying a woman will lead to a woman marrying a dog. I do not want to marry a woman. I am very little and she would crush my bones.”
June 28th, 2009. Autostraddle Disco Rodeo. The girl-on-girl party of the century. Hot cowgirls, sweet prizes, party photographers, drink special, DJ Lady Starlight and a mechanical freakin’ bull.
The ladies of Autostraddle.com are just so excited to announce our very first RODEO DISCO party at Mason-Dixon (133 Essex St, on the Lower East Side of NYC) on June 28th, the last day of NYC Pride! In celebration of the newest hottest website for girl-on-girl culture, RODEO DISCO will feature sexy cowgirls, appropriately thematic […]
“In this world, denying gayness is not keeping your private life private. It is, essentially, accepting either 1) Straightness (e.g., John Travolta) or 2) An obvious and compromising closeted lifestyle (e.g., Queen Latifah). In Adam’s case, that’d be lying, and lying is bad. But he hasn’t lied. So yes, it is relevant.”
“We’ll comb desperately and hungrily through minutes upon minutes of storylines we don’t care about on shows we’ve never seen before — aliens! middle schoolers! telenovelas! big brother 10! — to reach the two-minute morsel we care about more than we probably should: the holy grail of promised homosexual content.”
Chandra is not a lesbo, the prom queen is a boy, Alexi is wearing Dol-chay, Sotomayor hates bloggers, Obama may or may not care about the gays, Lambert may or may not be out and your girlfriend is pregnant, no lie.
Stef interviews Minneapolis-based openly-gay quintet Sick of Sarah and Crystal interviews Emma Dean, who’s just released the “musical theatre soundtrack for two years of [her] life (2006-2008)!”
Adam Lambert, Lady GaGa, the Arnold, Dame Edna and Wanda Sykes give good interview, Prop 8 debates rage on with a new federal court case, and Carmen auto-straddles Shane.