Jane Lynch Is Not Just a Lesbian

In a conference call with press, Jane Lynch explained that she won't be involved in any gay themed humor when she hosts the Emmys in September, saying

I'm a person, not just a gay person. So I don't focus on gay things like that. I just focus on good jokes and being funny. I've thought of every aspect of it, I'm very much collaborating with everybody.

While I do love some gay themed humour that's not at the expense of gay people, I have to admit that I appreciate the angle she's coming from here. She's a lesbian on an extremely gay show. It's good that she knows and wants other people to know that being gay is on;y a little bit of a whole person. But I really like Jane Lynch, so if she decided the world needed more gay and made nothing but gay jokes the whole time, I'd probably be defending that, too. But, hey, at least I can admit my bias...


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Lady Gage Goes Jo Calderone for My Personal Enjoyment (Or the VMA's - Who Can Say for Sure?)

Because someone up there loves me, Lady Gaga did the entire VMA awards show as Jo Calderone, her ever so fabulous drag persona. I can't get the official video because I live in the great white north, but here's a version that doesn't insist I become an American to get my fill of my favorite drag king.
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New Recruits?

photo from JustJarad.

Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep tied for Best Actress at the Critic’s Choice Awards last night (Meryl for Julie & Julia and Sandy for The Blind Side). So I suppose the natural thing for them to do is kiss?

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AfterElton Visibility Awards!

AfterElton also has thier Visibility Awards Results, but this time with percentages of the votes each nominee received. Fun, fun. Why didn't the girls do that? Results below, full article here.

Man of the Year:
30.3% - All those who joined in public protests after Prop 8 passed
22% - John Barrowman, 19.2% - Matthew Mitcham, 17.8% - Neil Patrick Harris, 10.7% - Van Hansis.

Favorite TV Drama:
34.2 % - Torchwood
29.4% - Brothers and Sisters, 15% - True Blood, 11.4% - Hollyoaks, 10% - As the World Turns.

Favorite TV Comedy:
30.7% - Ugly Betty
22.8% - How I Met Your Mother, 16.9% - Desperate Housewives, 16.7% - 30 Rock, 12.9% - Rick and Steve: the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World.

Favorite Reality Show:
38.8% - Project Runway
20.2% - Top Chef, 17.7% - The Amazing Race, 12.4% - Survivor, 10.9 - Make Me a Supermodel.

Favorite Reality Show Personality:
41.3% - Kathy Griffin
28.8% - Tim Gunn, 13.2% - Christian Siriano, 8.7% Charlie (Survivor), 8% Marcus (Survivor).

Favorite TV Character:
39.1% - Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
20.3% - Scotty Wandell (Brothers & Sisters), 14.7% - Luke Snyder (As the World Turns), 13% - Kevin Walker (Brothers & Sisters), 12.9% - John Paul McQueen (Hollyoaks).

Favorite TV Couple:
33.9% - Captain Jack & Ianto (Torchwood)
25.4% - Kevin & Scotty (Brothers & Sisters), 15.6% Luke & Noah (As the World Turns), 15.3% - Christian & Olli (Verbotene Liebe, a.k.a. Forbidden Love)

Favorite TV Episode:
31.5% - Brothers & Sisters (2.16 - "Prior Commitments") - Kevin & Scotty marry.
28.2% - Grey's Anatomy (4.14 - "The Becoming") - The gay soldier episode, 14.3% - Hollyoaks (9-19-08) - JP & Craig's sunset ending, 14% - Verbotene Liebe (8-01-08) - Christian comes out in the boxing ring, 12% - As the World Turns (7-03-08) - Cyndi Lauper's guest appearance.

Favorite Kiss:
31.5% - Two gay soldiers, Grey's Anatomy Episode 414, "The Becoming"
20.2% - Scotty & Kevin, Brothers & Sisters, Episode 308 (Scotty's promotion celebration), 18.1% - Luke & Noah, As the World Turns, 4-23-08 (first kiss after the long drought), 16.7% - Christian & Olli, Verboten Liebe, 8-01-08 (the boxing ring kiss), 13.5% - John Paul McQueen & Craig Dean, Hollyoaks, 9-19-08 (the sunset ending).

Favorite Straight Ally:
31.5% - Brad Pitt
26.4% - Keith Olbermann, 20.8% - Kathy Griffin, 10.9% - Judith Light, 10.4% - Gavin Newsom.

Favorite Lesbian:
47.4% - Ellen DeGeneres
19% - Wanda Sykes, 18.1% - Rachel Maddow, 10.3% - Jodi Foster, 5.2% - Rosie O'Donnell.

Best Gay Moment:
30.4% - Barack Obabma's election (and inclusion of gays & lesbians in acceptance speech)
21.5% - Matthew Mitcham wins Olympic gold, 20.9% - CA (and CT) Supreme Courts legalize gay marriage, 13.7% - National protests over passage of Prop 8, 13.5% - Keith Olbermann's heartfelt comments on Prop 8.

Worst Gay Moment:
63.3% - Proposition 8 passes
13.6% - Heath Ledger dies, 11.2% - Arkansas bans gay adoption, 6.8% - As the World Turns camera pans from Luke & Noah kissing to mistletoe, 5.1% - Matthew Mitcham's story ignored by NBC Sports.

Favorite Movie:
41.7% - Milk
29.8% - Shelter, 10.5% - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, 9.2% - Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, 8.8% - Love Songs (a.k.a. - Chansons d'Amour).

Best Website (other than AfterElton.com):
32.7% - Towleroad
22% - Gays of Daytime, 21.1% - LogoOnline, 13.5 % - GayWired, 10.7% - Queerty.
(But obviously QueerGossip is far superior and merely under appreciated...)

Best Book:
34.7% - Anything Goes (John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman)
22.6% - When You are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris), 17.8% - Band Fags (Frank Polito), 15.1% - A Wolf at the Table (Augusten Burroughs), 9.8% - The Distance Between Us (Bart Yates).


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AfterEllen Visibility Awards!

AfterEllen.com has released the results of their 2008 Visibility Awards. I'll post the results here, but you can take a good look at their reasoning behind each award by viewing the full article here.

Best Scripted TV Series on Broadcast TV with Lesbian/Bi Characters (American):
All My Children (ABC)

Worst Scripted TV Series on Broadcast TV with Lesbian/Bi Characters (American):
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Cashmere Mafia (ABC)

Best Scripted TV Series on Cable TV with Lesbian/Bi Characters (American):
The L Word (Showtime)

Best Scripted TV Series on Cable TV with Lesbian/Bi Characters (International):
Los Hombres de Paco (Paco's Men) (Spain)
Runner-up: Mistresses (UK)

Best Lesbian/Bi Moment on Scripted TV (American):
Erica's "I see leaves" speech on Grey's Anatomy 10/30/08 (ABC)

Worst Lesbian/Bi Moment on Scripted TV (American):
The edited lesbian sex scene on House M.D. 10/21/08 (Fox)

Best Very Special Lesbian Episode (American):
Lincoln Heights "Prom Night" 11/11/08
Runners-up: ER "The High Holiday" 12/11/08, Law and Order: SVU "Lunacy" 10/21/08

Best Reality TV Series with Lesbian/Bi Characters (American):
America's Next Top Model (The CW)

Worst Reality TV Series with Lesbian/Bi Characters (American):
A Double Shot at Love with Ikki Twins (MTV)

Best Live Lesbian/Bi TV Show:
The 2008 Olympics

Worst Live Lesbian/Bi TV Show:
Rosie Live (NBC)

Best Theatrical Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters:
I Can't Think Straight (Writer/Director Shamim Sharif)
Runner-up: Milk

Best Festival Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters:
Water Lilies (Writer/Director Celine Sciamma)

Worst Festival Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters:
When Kiran Met Karen (Writer/Director Manan Katohora)

Best Lesbian/Bi Web Series:
3Way (Created by Nancylee Myatt, Maeve Quinlan and Paige Bernhardt)

Queer Musician/Musical Group of the Year:
Uh Huh Her

Best Music Video:
Kin "Make Up Girl

Best Song:
Missy Higgins "Where I Stood"

Worst Song:
Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl"

Best Fiction - Novel
Passing for Black (Linda Villarosa)
Dirty Girls on Top (Alisa Valdes Rodriguez)

Best Fiction - Graphic Novel:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8

Best Non-Fiction:
Annie Leibovitz at Work (Annie Leibovitz)

Best Straight Ally:
Jennifer Beals

Most Surprising Coming-Out:
Wanda Sykes

Lease Surprising Coming-Out:
Lindsay Lohan

Lesbian Couple of the Year (International):
Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nyberg

Lesbian Couple of the Year (American):
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Lesbian/Bi Woman of the Year (International):
Shamim Sharif

Lesbian/Bi Woman of the Year (American):
Rachel Maddow


So there you have it. Plenty of things to buy or look up on-line in times of boredom. If only this was released before Christmas so that we could have had a better idea what to get the lesbian who has everything...

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Cynthia Nixon Gets Another Award

Cynthia Nixon won an Emmy for Outstanding guest Actress in a Drama Series. She played Janis Donovan in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She already has another Emmy from 2004 as well as a Tony for Best Actress in a Play. And she still looks pretty damned good, judging by this one picture I could find of her at the Emmys.

I read a little while ago that Law & Order: SVU was extremely popular with lesbians. I don't really watch much TV (outside of ANTM that I've avoided blogging about because it makes me angry...) but I'll admit to having watched that show a few times. It' cheesy and poorly acted. What's the appeal to lesbians?
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Ellen Reigns Supreme

Unsurprisingly, Ellen DeGeneres won the Daytime Emmy for Best Talk Show for the fourth year in a row. I don't care for talk shows, and I'm not usually home to watch them, but my partner watches Ellen, and I have to say, I really don't mind the show at all. It's cute and fun. Or maybe it's just that Ellen is cute and fun. Either way, congratulations Ellen!
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Mwah!

Portia de Rossi plants a kiss on fiance Ellen DeGeneres at the Daytime Emmy Awards. They're so cute! I don't know if it's just something about this picture, but their hair is the exact same color. I know they say long term couples start to look alike and all, but they should really, really just keep looking like their own hot selves. The middle ground between the two women is not nearly as sexy for either of them...
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Ellen vs Oprah

It seems based on Emmy nominations that Ellen may be taking over Oprah's throne as the queen of daytime talk shows. Oprah's show received three nominations including lighting, sound and video control, while Ellen received eight nominations including Best Talk Show Jost and Outstanding Talk Show. Oprah did not submit her name for consideration and so she's not eligible, but she has recently seen a decline in viewer ratings while Ellen has gained, so I think it's safe to assume that Ellen would likely have received these nominations anyhow.

Go Ellen!

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