Butch Jamie

Butch Jamie is a movie that doesn’t feature any big stars, doesn’t appear to have had a very large budget for shooting, and doesn’t make any groundbreaking statement about humanity or even gay and lesbian issues. It is, however, extremely well written, acted, and hysterically funny and engaging.

The film stars Michelle Ehlen as an out-of-work lesbian actress named Jamie Klein. Ehlen is also the writer and director of Butch Jamie and seems to have handled all three jobs with ease. She is immediately likable as Jamie and has impeccable comedic timing throughout the movie. The story begins when we watch Jamie put on her most feminine ensemble and audition for what we can assume is just one of many hopeless auditions. She is dejected and unhappy with her career - where she continually faces rejection as she fails to be a typical leading lady.

Jamie lives in Los Angeles with a roommate named Lola (Olivia Nix) who happens to own and manage a successful cat actor - Howard. Motivated by Howard, Jamie decides to take a different approach to her acting and no longer audition pretending to be someone she is not but instead show up as herself - a butch lesbian, aka “Butch Jamie.” Fortunately, her plan works and she is offered a role in a small independent film. The catch, Jamie learns, is that the producers would like her to play the male lead. Initially offended and surprised, she decides to take the job anyway in the hopes of it advancing her career.  Once in costume as “Male Jamie,” the actress starts to enjoy playing the part, flirting with a straight female, Jill (Tiffany Anne Carrin), who works on the set and assumes she is a man, and generally having fun with her male alter ego.

Drama begins to ensue for Jamie though when her relationship with Jill progresses to the next level and she is forced to creatively keep her from discovering her secret. Things also get tricky for Jamie on the home front when she and Lola begin to grow closer, have sexual tension, and basically provide some of the funniest and cutest scenes in the move.

Overall Butch Jamie is a definite must see for all lesbians and a guaranteed laugh-inducing experience. The movie proves that it doesn’t take a big studio and fancy celebrities to create a truly enjoyable film and we look forward to anything else that Michelle Ehlen writes, directs, or stars in. Cherry Grrl gives Butch Jamie 4 cherries.

This must see film is available from the fabulous laides of Wolfe Video by clicking here!

Four Minutes

When someone uses the word “original” to describe a movie, they are talking about movies like Four Minutes. Set in a German women’s prison, this powerful and award-winning film tells the story of the relationship between Jenny, a rebellious and temperamental musical prodigy in jail for murder, and Traude, her 80-year-old piano instructor. It is the complexity of Traude, however – learned through her painful past told in flashbacks and her obvious lonely and depressed current existence - that makes Four Minutes such a unique and moving film.

When we first meet Jenny, it is clear that she is angry about her imprisonment and possibly wrongly accused of her crime. The other inmates treat her terribly and she doesn’t even react when her cellmate commits suicide (other than to steal a cigarette from the corpse). Traude, whom we are introduced to when she arrives at the prison with a new piano for the prisoners, seems equally unhappy and equally cold to those around her. Traude and Jenny meet when Jenny is chosen as one of the piano students. Traude is immediately made aware of Jenny’s hostile instability as she brutally beats a guard who tries to control her but, because of Jenny’s enormous talent at the piano, Traude decides to take her on as a student anyway and enter her in a prestigious competition.  From there the two develop a close and extremely complicated relationship that has moments of warmth, humor (Traude in leather pants is perhaps the best scene in the movie), frustration and often, anger.

The development of the relationship between the two women and their journey together to win the contest takes a backseat, however, when we are given glimpses of Traude’s past. Through periodic flashbacks we learn that she has been at the prison since she was young, and was a nurse and piano instructor there during World War II. We also learn that she had a romantic relationship with a prisoner there, a young woman who was being punished for her ties to a communist group. It is that relationship, and the many controversial aspects of it, that seems to affect Traude in every area of her life and personality. She is an incredibly interesting and thought provoking character who manages to elicit a wide spectrum of emotions from the viewer.

Four Minutes is a very dark but extremely well made film that can be greatly appreciated for its moving performances, its strong character development, and its powerful depictions of the relationships between women - both romantic and those that are much more complex. Overall Cherrygrrl.com gives this film 3.5 cherries.

This film is available through Wolfe Video by clicking here.

Shelter Me (Riparo)

There’s something really special about the experience of watching a movie with subtitles. You automatically transform from couch-dwelling TV-watcher to a connoisseur of the arts who has been whisked away to a foreign land. Subtitles also make you pay attention – the laptop has to be put away and the magazines put down…the focus is now on the story unfolding in front of you. In Shelter Me, the story being told was in Italian, and it was anything but a typical lesbian film.

Shelter Me stars Maria De Madeiros and Antonia Liskova as a lesbian couple who, when the movie begins, are just returning from a vacation abroad in Tunisia. De Madeiros plays Anna, the obvious head of their household. (For those who think she looks familiar but can’t figure out why, De Madeiros appeared opposite Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, where she played his sweet little girlfriend who had an affinity for potbellies.) Not long into the film and it is already very clear that Anna is the solid, mature, and more stable of the two women and that Mara (Liskova) isn’t quite as together – she lost her wallet twice in the first five minutes of the movie. Things get complicated for the couple when, while going through customs to get back into their country, Anna discovers that they have a stowaway in their car. She decides not to tell Mara until after they have crossed the Mediterranean and from there everything changes between the two.

Mounir Ouadi plays Anis, the young Moroccan with a strong desire to live and work in Europe who snuck into their car by paying the staff at the hotel where the two women were staying in Africa. Anis is adorable, completely alone, and helpless so Anna decides to take him in, against Mara’s wishes. Mara allows Anis to live with her and Mara and gets him a job at her family’s business – where Mara also works. It soon becomes clear that Anna has a history of taking in strangers (sheltering them) as we learn that she did the same for Mara.

But Shelter Me isn’t just a movie about a nice Italian woman who helps those in need. When things begin to come unraveled between Anna, Mara, and Anis the film becomes a warning of what can happen when one person tries to control things around them, even when they have the best of intentions, learning that they cannot fix everything for everyone.

Shelter Me was beautifully shot with excellent acting and well developed characters. The relationship between the two women, where there was clearly great love, was handled realistically and honestly in its depiction of how sometimes, no matter how important someone is to you, you can’t stop yourself from doing something that will hurt them.

Cherrygrrl gives Shelter Me 4 cherries: for being a film that featured lesbians, without being a lesbian film, and taking on a subject that applies to everyone.

This film is available from our friends at Wolfe Video by clicking here!

GLAAD Study Reveals TV is LGBT Friendly in 2008-2009 Season

The overall number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) representations on the broadcast networks will more than double this year after a three-year slump, according to an analysis of the 2008-2009 television season conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

GLAAD’s 13th annual “Where We Are On TV” report shows that LGBT representations will account for 2.6 percent of all scripted series regular characters on the 2008-2009 broadcast television schedule, up from 1.4 percent in 2005, 1.3 percent in 2006, and 1.1 percent in 2007. In contrast, the number of LGBT series regular characters found on scripted programming on mainstream cable networks has decreased since last year’s analysis, from 40 to 32.

For 13 years, GLAAD’s report has analyzed the characters on the networks’ primetime scripted programming. From information provided by the five broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and The CW – GLAAD examined 88 scripted comedies and dramas announced to air this upcoming season, and counted a total of 616 characters, 16 of which are LGBT – more than twice the number of characters, seven, announced at the launch of the 2007-2008 season.

“This dramatic increase shows how far many networks have come in developing complex, multi-layered lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters,” says GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. “Our analysis also shows where there’s still work to be done. This past year, we’ve seen some real progress from Fox towards making their scripted programming more inclusive, which is something we’re hoping to see from other networks like CBS.”

Fox, which featured zero series regular LGBT characters at the launch of last season, has announced five LGBT characters out of 97 total series regular characters for 2008-2009. The network now has the highest percentage of LGBT characters on any network (5 percent). ABC continues to excel as it did last year, with seven LGBT characters out of 166 total series regular characters (4 percent), the highest number of LGBT characters of any network. NBC has three series regular LGBT characters (2 percent) out of a total of 147. On the negative side, CBS has the most disappointing showing, with not a single LGBT series regular character out of 126, and only one recurring character in the entire series lineup. Additionally, The CW’s lack of scripted representation is now merely a close second to CBS, as the network has only one scripted series regular LGBT character. For a complete list of LGBT characters on broadcast television, visit www.glaad.org/eye/ontv/2008/broadcast.php.

The number of non-contract recurring LGBT characters has also risen – from 13 last season to 19 this year. “The growing number of recurring characters is another example of the networks’ progress towards being more inclusive,” says Giuliano. “As the networks gradually add characters from all backgrounds and walks of life to primetime programming, more and more Americans are seeing their LGBT friends and neighbors reflected on the small screen.”

On the mainstream cable networks, the number of announced LGBT series regular characters dropped to 32 from last year’s high of 40. The presence of LGBT-focused cable networks here! and Logo, which program specifically for LGBT viewers, add an additional 39 series regular LGBT characters. For a complete analysis of LGBT characters on cable, visit www.glaad.org/eye/ontv/2008/cable.php.

This marks the fourth year that GLAAD has analyzed the breakdown of the race, gender and ethnicity of all the 616 series regular characters expected to appear on the broadcast networks in the upcoming season. Male characters continue to outweigh female characters 57 percent (354) to 43 percent (262) in overall numbers, while 79 percent (485) of all series regular characters are white, up 2 percent from last year. Latino/a representation remains at 6 percent (34) while black representation has dropped from 12 percent to 11 percent (67). Analysts counted 19 Asian-Pacific Islander characters (3 percent), one more than last season. View a complete analysis of diversity on the broadcast networks at www.glaad.org/eye/ontv/2008/diversity.php.

Complete results of GLAAD’s “Where We Are On TV” report can be viewed or downloaded at www.glaad.org/eye/ontv.

The 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards will air on Bravo September 29, 2008 at 6:00 PM ET/PT. The Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

The awards were taped in April and the winners were announced shortly after. If you don’t want to know who won what – STOP READING – otherwise, here is a list of a few of the award recipients:

- Outstanding Film – Wide Release: Stardust
- Outstanding Daily Drama: As the World Turns
- Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage: The New York Times
- Outstanding Music Artist: Rufus Wainwright, Release the Stars
- Outstanding Drama Series: Brothers & Sisters
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Ugly Betty
- Outstanding Reality Program: Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
- Vanguard Award: Sharon Stone

Additionally, Illene Chaiken - creator of the groundbreaking hit series The L Word - received the Davidson/Valentini Award, which was presented to her by the show’s star, Jennifer Beals. The Davidson/Valentini Award is named after Craig Davidson, GLAAD’s first executive director, and his partner Michael Valentini. The award is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for our community.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information about GLAAD visit www.glaad.org.

Featured photo by Steven Damron.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Itty Bitty Titty Committee (IBTC) is the kind of movie that every lesbian should own – not because it makes some groundbreaking statement about girl on girl love or homosexual empowerment – but because it’s cute and fun and the kind of film that you can watch over and over again and love it all over again each time. Although some elements of the plot of IBTC head down the path toward an attempt at some larger statement, it’s the girl-power-light overall feeling that makes it a success.

The movie begins with the introduction of Anna (Melonie Diaz) who has recently graduated from high school and is living at home with her parents while working at a plastic surgery clinic. She has just been dumped by her girlfriend and is all around depressed. Things change for Anna when she meets Sadie (Nicole Vicius) who is defacing the plastic surgery clinic where Anna works. We learn, with Anna, that this is no random act of vandalism and that Sadie is in fact a member of a secretive group of girls who call themselves Clits in Action, or (C(i)A), and have made it their mission to change society’s perceptions of women and enlighten people on how sexist the world still is…or something like that. Anna gets involved with the group and is quickly drawn to Sadie for her charm, beliefs, beauty, and general ability to bring Anna out of her depression and open her up to things she has never done before.

The movie’s strength comes through during the good times, prior to the climax of the film when things inevitably get complicated for (C(i)A) and between Anna and Sadie. If the main story of the movie is the relationships between all the girls, primarily the romantic one between the two leads, and the back story is (C(i)A), than the film works really well. First of all, the actresses that make up the (C(i)A) are truly enjoyable to watch, especially Carly Pope, who plays the ultra feminist, absolutely adorable, Shuli. Sporting oversized glasses and perfectly cut bangs throughout the film, she manages to come off serious and angry without ever becoming unlikable and owns some of the funniest moments of the film – including the conversation between her and Anna in which she asks the question “Do you know where I got my name?” prompting Anna’s response, “Your parents?” It’s silly - and you immediately take Shuli less seriously - but somehow without losing any respect for the depth of the character. Other strong performances come via L Word alums Daniela Sea, who plays the sexy ex-army drifter that catches Carly Pope’s eye, and Guinevere Turner - who let’s face it pops up in most lesbian television shows and movies – but is always appreciated. Even lesbian icon Jenny Shimizu shows up in a few scenes and delivers quick and enjoyable one-liners.

The only setbacks of IBTC come from thinking too deeply about the actual “revolution” that the group speaks about and the acts that they commit. Their overall cause is a little cloudy – perhaps intentionally? - and their behavior comes dangerously close to resembling terrorism, but ultimately it doesn’t seem to matter what they are fighting against (men? government? America?), you just find yourself rooting for them.

Regardless of the weaknesses, the cast is perfectly chosen and the music is fun and original. Additionally, beyond the small issues with the basic plot, the film is extremely well written with humor, wit, and attention to character development. ITBT contains the kinds of lines you will find yourself repeating with friends – it’s that funny.

Overall cherrygrrl.com gives Ittty Bitty Titty Committee 4 cherries. We loved the actresses, the writing, the music, and the humor – we just hope it doesn’t inspire an actual (C(i)A) anytime soon.

You can see IBTC yourself (and get a T shirt with it!) by clicking here and purchasing the combo from our good friends at Wolfe Video.  Or if you’d rather click on a picture of a couple of crush-worthy grrls, you can get your hands on a copy of the DVD by clicking on this picture of Nicole Vicius and Melonie Diaz:

New Lesbian Movies Coming to America

Reuters is reporting that “I Can’t Think Straight,” a cross-cultural lesbian romantic comedy written, directed and produced entirely by women, has been picked up for North American distribution by indie firm Here! Films.

The film follows the unexpected romance between Tala (Lisa Ray), a and Leyla (Sheetal Sheth) who meet in London just before Tala’s planned wedding and fall in love. It is based on the novel by British-born author Shamim Sarif, who also directed.

Here! sister co. Regent Releasing will distribute Sarif’s other feature, the South African-set period lesbian romance “The World Unseen” on November 7 in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. “Straight” will hit in the same cities two weeks later, followed by additional regional markets.

Megan Fox Transforms into a Lesbian

Megan Fox, best known for her breakout role Transformers, will play the lead role in the upcoming film Jennifer’s Body and, it has been reported, will share a lesbian kiss with Mamma Mia! actress Amanda Seyfried.

The film, which is set to open in 2009, is written by Juno’s Academy Award winning writer, Diablo Cody and centers around a newly possessed cheerleader who turns into a killer specializing in offing her male classmates. Apparently her best friend tries to stop her and we have a feeling this is where Seyfried comes in.

Fox, who was voted the #1 sexiest woman by FHM readers for 2008, has been referred to as the next Angelina Jolie. Let’s hope she takes that compliment really seriously and has a little lesbian/bisexuality stage of her very own soon.

Ten Most Over-hyped Girl-on-Girl Kisses

If a kiss is just a kiss then why is it a girl-on-girl kiss is always such a big deal? The circumstances don’t seem to matter – when two women lock lips everyone around takes notice. Sometimes though, these moments are made out (pun intended) to be way more than they should be and sometimes the attention they receive is for all the wrong reasons. Cherrygrrl.com has complied our top 10 most over-hyped and/or disturbing lesbian kisses – because sometimes, a kiss is just not that interesting.

10. “Bianca” and “Lena” on All My Children. Why it’s over-hyped: The character of Bianca came out as a lesbian in 2000 but her first lesbian kiss took place in 2003. We’re talking about a Soap Opera: hot, steamy, and cheesy sex all afternoon long. The kiss should have taken place three years earlier than it did – and they should have been in bed during it.

9. The alleged kiss between Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert. Why it’s over-hyped: Gossip sites and magazines reported that Hilton and Cuthbert made out on the dance floor in front of fellow clubbers at Tenjune in NYC. If Paris was even remotely gay and Cuthbert wasn’t fresh out of a long-term relationship with a male hockey player then we wouldn’t be bothered by news of their kissing. But – because it was obviously just the combination of some innocent fun and/ or a publicity stunt to get Paris some attention – we see it as over-hyped. Seeing as how this kiss followed Paris’s multiple appearances at L Word parties where she was reportedly getting friendly with star Katherine Moennig, but came just before her relationship with Benji Madden became suddenly serious, we get the impression that Paris didn’t want her Sapphic lifestyle to be taken too seriously. Consider it done Paris.

8. Tila Tequila and all contestants on both seasons of A Shot at Love. Why it’s disturbing: People say, “it’s like watching a car wreck,” about a lot of things in life but watching the many Tila-on-girl make-out sessions on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila really truly was like watching a car wreck. Putting the men aside - despite how badly we want to rip into their levels of stupidity and genetic failures – where did they find these lesbians and what in the world did they see in the 80 pound wannabe pop star? The lengths that these girls went to prove their love - yes, self-declared “love,” - for Tequila was extremely hard to watch without vomiting. And we’re not just talking about the time they ate cow penis.

7. Mischa Barton and Olivia Wilde on The OC. Why it’s over-hyped: Overall, we have few complaints when it comes to the plotline of Marissa and Alex on The OC – other than Alex going crazy at the end for no apparent reason. However, promotions aired by FOX for the first episode in which the two kiss were absolutely over-hyped. They made it sound like the kids from Newport were going to go cannibalistic on one another, claiming that the last five minutes of the episode were going to be “shocking.” The last five minutes were, first of all, mostly about Seth, Ryan, Sandy, and Kirsten – but the last five minutes between the two girls were… cute. They shared their first kiss on Valentines Day as the tide changed – signifying that something big was happening in their lives. Shocking. Oh wait, we get it, it’s because they were both girls.

6. Sirbrina Guerrero and date at Seattle Mariners baseball game. Why it’s disturbing: As if it wasn’t embarrassing enough to have appeared on and then been eliminated from a reality show where contestants fight over a former stripper, Sirbrina (yes – not “Sabrina”) Guerro was told by an usher at Safeco Field to stop kissing her date because it was making another fan uncomfortable. Ouch. The incident made national news because – really – how homophobic can people get? The usher, Guerrero claimed, told them he had received a complaint from a woman nearby who said that there were kids in the crowd of nearly 36,000 and that parents would have to explain why two women were kissing. The Shot at Love loser went on to say that there were straight couples making out within the same area and that no complaints were made regarding them and that she wasn’t even making out with her date but instead sharing brief kisses in between bites of garlic French fries. We think she was pretty ridiculous for taking part in Tila Tequila’s absurdity but Sirbrina makes a whole lot of sense in her accusations that what happened to her at that baseball game was not fair.

5. Jennifer Aniston and Wynona Ryder on Friends. Why it’s over-hyped: The episode of Friends where Rachel runs into her college sorority sister, Ryder, and then tells the gang about her one-time lesbian make-out session with her was very cute and, as always, very funny. Our issue was with the fact that the entire storyline should have simply been treated as a silly little day where Rachel had to prove to Phoebe that she really did kiss another girl by kissing her again and then discovering that said girl was in love with her. Instead, NBC used the scene to promote the show and treated it like it was a sexy must see moment. Not that Aniston and Ryder are not beautiful women but there was nothing at all sexy about the kiss, that lasted for maybe three seconds, and was intended simply to be funny. It succeeded at funny – sexy it will never be.

4. Mia Kirshner and old lady in Not Another Teen Movie. Why it’s disturbing: While we appreciate that this was a successful attempt at making fun of number 1 on our list, we still have to point out how disgusting it was. Again, spit does not a sexy kiss make.

3. Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova of T.A.T.U. any and every time they kissed. Why it’s over-hyped: At first - we admit it - we were fooled. For a short time we really did believe, excitedly, that there was a cute lesbian pop duo that were so into each other that all of their songs and performances had to revolve around their passion. Then we realized how unrealistic that was. Then they unapologetically confessed it was all for publicity. Then we realized their music sucks.

2. Britney Spears and Madonna at The MTV Music Awards. Why it’s over-hyped: It seems at first like it would be an awesome event. Brittany, then, was sexy as hell. Madonna will always kind of be sexy as hell. The problem with this incredibly over publicized although well-executed PR event was that it was just that… a public relations success in getting both stars undeserved amounts of attention for something that lasted less than two seconds. There was no desire in the kiss between the two women – it was an act. Maybe if they had been playing characters other than themselves it would have come off better  - but Madonna and Brittany believably wanting to make-out? We don’t buy it.

1. Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions. Why it’s over-hyped: First of all, Selma Blair is involved. Beyond the fact that the actress herself is undesirable (especially since her recent comments about being shocked by her lesbian friends’ apparent crushes on her and her general disinterest in ever considering a real girl on girl moment) the character that she plays is silly and awkward and not cute. Putting all things Selma Blair aside though, since when is gratuitous saliva sexy?

Loving Lohan

It is extremely obvious to anyone who is paying attention that Lindsay Lohan is in a lesbian relationship with Samantha Ronson. The actress, who has faced many difficult times over the past few years, seems to have truly found peace and happiness with Ronson, a 31-year-old DJ, and because of it has managed to stay out of trouble and possibly even begin to get her career back on track. It appears like the relationship is doing what all good relationships should do for people and giving her the support and love that she probably never properly received before. So why then – no matter how many times both women decline to comment – is the focus still on whether or not they are together as a couple? Chances are, until Lohan comes right out and states that she is “gay” the media will continue to hound her about the gender of her significant other instead of simply treating the two as they would treat any other hot Hollywood couple. We urge these paparazzi and gossip writers to stop inundating us with the same lame stories of romantic things the two have done and other evidence of their being more than friends. We think everyone deserves happiness and everyone who writes these stories and all who read them need to realize one very important thing – it’s not our business if Lindsay Lohan is gay. It’s not our business if she is straight. And most importantly, it doesn’t matter either way.

We can’t speak for all lesbians when we say this but honestly, we don’t want Lindsay Lohan on our team. We don’t want her to come out in People Magazine and we don’t want her to advocate for gay rights with the HRC. It’s not that we don’t like her or think that she really is a talented young woman – we just see the potential pitfalls from her taking on the lesbian label. Realistically, Lindsay and Samantha might not last. People break up. Gay people break up and straight people break up and non-famous people break up and famous people break up a lot. Their relationship may end and it may have absolutely nothing to do with Lindsay’s sexuality. But one thing is for sure – the mainstream media will assume she was never gay and poor Samantha Ronson will look like she was fooled and used and the world will once again sleep peacefully thinking that all lesbians can be identified by their short haircuts and chunky shoes. No matter what the reason is for their breakup the world will see it as Lindsay getting over her experimental stage and straights everywhere will feel vindication in ever thinking that hot, feminine girls are never really ever into other women. So what should we focus on when we discuss the relationship between Lohan and Ronson? How about how cool it is that a hipster lesbian DJ and former aspiring singer landed one of Hollywood’s hottest young starlets? And how about the fact that our little Lindsay is finally getting it right? After years of being in the spotlight and constantly criticized for being a lackluster role model to girls her age and younger she is finally setting a positive example. She is in love with someone regardless of what people might think and she is not ashamed of it whatsoever. She is in a healthy and monogamous relationship and she is showing people of all ages that whether you are gay or straight or with a man or with a woman - what matters most is how that person treats you and what kind of partner they can be. From everything we have seen - from their stolen moments of cuddles to their matching rings and their alleged tattoo bond - the two seem to be a great match for one another and a positive example for young women and lesbian couples everywhere.

News of the relationship between Lindsay and Samantha, from the very beginning, has been treated with the same disrespect and criticism that all of Lohan’s previous activities were. We’re not saying she didn’t deserve some of the reactions that she received from the media following her DUI arrest, cocaine possession, jail time, and random relationships with loser guys who were obviously only after one thing… or two things. We just think that this is a new Lindsay. Not necessarily a gay Lindsay but a healthy and happy Lindsay and we have to admit it… we love Lindsay. She really is a great actress and we have missed seeing her onscreen. She is funny and pretty and seemingly has no fear and she is actually - whether she cares to or not - helping the gay right’s movement. By not coming out and not denying and simply living and loving another girl she is (hopefully) opening the world’s eyes to the fact that love is love.

Right now Lindsay is at least a little bit gay. She may be a total full-on lesbian. She may date a man after Samantha and never look back. (By the way, should this scenario occur sign us up for Samantha’s rebound list. We like her music, we like her style, we like her quiet-but-cool demeanor, and we love her new haircut.) Regardless, right now it’s none of our business and whether you love Lindsay or you hate Lindsay all you need to know - and all she is letting you know - is that she is in a relationship and she is happy. It’s good for her… and it’s good for us.

Britney Spears: Killer Lesbian Stripper?

We thought that would get your attention!  Britney may soon be at yet another crossroad.

According to MTV.com, the (former?) pop star has been eyed by Quentin Tarantino for his remake of “Pussycat” according to an unnamed source (although the director is denying the claim).  The article claims Spears is being considered for the role of Varla - you guessed it, a killer lesbian stripper - in the “touching tale of three Sapphic pole dancers who go wilding in the desert and hold a woman hostage as they try to separate an old man from his cash.”

We say instant classic.

Image source: The Sun

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