"Tara's a fag-hag?" Amber Benson's new movie might be gay, but is it good?

Amber Benson, who captured our hearts as lesbian witch Tara Maclay in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is once more in the limelight as her new movie has just been released stateside.

In Race You To The Bottom, Benson co-stars as Maggie (the role for which she won best actress honors at L.A.'s Outfest film festival), the best friend of bisexual journalist Nathan(played by Cole Williams).

Despite both being in relationships with other men, the depths of their relationship are explored, and the boundaries of their friendship tested, when Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hotspots in Napa Valley, and the film studies how their increasingly complex feelings develop.

Ms Benson seems to be carving a niche for herself in playing the straight best friend character in queer romantic comedies, such as Latter Days and the upcoming Kiss The Bride, in which she co-stars with little rich girl extraordinaire, Tori Spelling,and while it's nice to see Amber enjoy continuing success, especially in queer-themed and gay-friendly films, the word is going round that she's the best thing about Race You To The Bottom.

The New York Times bemoans the poor casting, saying that while "Ms. Benson is a lovely actress with a vulnerability that can be extremely touching...she enjoyed more chemistry with Alyson Hannigan on Buffy the Vampire Slayer than she does with Mr. [Cole] Williams."

But hey, when Amber's looking this good, who cares who's in the rest of the movie?

Anne Hathaway-Secretly Gay?

Scarlet magazine's online weekly, Harlot featured this juicy tidbit in their gossip column:


"Which young Hollywood actress is a closet lesbian? She's been trying to make her image a bit racier by wearing semi-transparent dresses on the red carpet, and is rather worried that her orientation may affect her career. Who would have known the devil wears sensible shoes?"


Is that a glaring hint that the starlet in question could be The Devil Wears Prada actress Anne Hathaway? Excuse me while I pray to my big lesbian goddess in the sky (yes, Gina Gershon!) that it is so!

And judging by that dress, it is...

This article is running away with me.Originally it was just what you see above, but then I decided to do more research, and I throwed up this:

http://celebrities.netscape.com/story/2006/12/29/anne-hathaway-hangs-out-at-a-new-york-gay-bar-after-being-turned-away-at-another-club/



Well, the URL kind of gives that one away! To save you the trouble of clicking on it, the meat of the story is "Anne Hathaway spent the Friday night before Christmas living it up at a New York gay bar", which does at least go to show that even if she isn't queer, she's queer-friendly.


Although, one could say she's already proved how gay-friendly she is by playing the wife of a gay man in Brokeback Mountain (in which she gave a stellar performance, in my opinion).

All of which looked quite promising for my hopes, until I found out that her brother is gay, which explains why she might be so pro-LGBT.

But then I found this quote from The New York Post:

"This actress was always the goody goody.

She has worked hard to change that image by doing less family friendly films and making sure to wear enough see through dresses on the red carpet.

She wanted to lose the squeaky clean image to get better roles, but also to sell the idea that she was sexy and desirable to men.

She has no desire for men, just wants the world to perceive her as a sex symbol.

Everything was going according to plan until her last movie for which there were raves.

There she met another actress and love was in the air. They were inseparable for the entire shoot and even got an apartment to share.

Once filming ended, our actress decided to end the relationship for fear it would damage her career.

The new lover who has been quietly out for sometime and is quite the scene stealer thinks our actress should get smart and stop pretending and start living."

Most of this is just confirming the snippet from Harlot, but the reference to a romance with a co-star intrigued me, so I thought I would do some more digging.

Emily Blunt, Anne's co-star in The Devil Wears Prada starred in My Summer Of Love (http://imdb.com/title/tt0382189/) as a sexy, precocious young teenager who indulges in a lesbian romance, which makes her a possible candidate.

However, Heather Matarazzo (The girl Anne is hugging on the right) who appeared in both of The Princess Diaries films has a massive list of queer credentials.

She played a journalist from lesbian magazine Curve in (very) lesbian drama The L Word (double the lez!), appeared as herself in Fabulous! The Story Of Queer Cinema, has been interviewed on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, oh yeah, and her IMDb profile (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000525/bio) says that she is actually gay!

"In April 2005, she was the keynote speaker at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of Boston's 15th annual conference, at Brookline High School, where she described her struggle to gain acceptance of her sexuality. "It was such a burden, because I had to pretend to be this person that I wasn't.""

AND, tellingly:

"Became great friends with Anne Hathaway during the shooting of The Princess Diaries (2001). They still call each other frequently and hope to be friends for the rest of their lives."

*Jumps up and down in excitement*She could well be Anne's secret co-star lover! If indeed Anne is actually gay.But I think the facts speak for themselves.And even if she isn't gay, she is still of course a good actress and a pretty nice person.

My apologies for the sloppy structuring of this article.It was originally quite short, but the idea ran away with me.My research was throwing up so much good stuff, and I wanted to get it up as soon as possible.

Crispay Soup Chef In Art-Porn Shock!

Everyone remembers Lara Perkins, the Crispay Soup Chef who stole Dana's heart in the first season of The L Word, right ?
With her cute button-nose, sexy strawberry-blonde hair, and way with grilled vegetables, Lauren Lee Smith won our hearts and a whole legion of lesbian fans.


However, the Canadian actress is definitely not shagging girls in her new film Lie With Me.


She plays Leila "a sexually voracious young woman who connects with men through brief physical encounters."
She meets David, played by Six Feet Under's Eric Balfour at a house party and "later, as she has casual sex with a stranger just behind the house, David and his girlfriend mirror her actions in their car. Leila and David's eyes lock as they watch each other having sex with others, a courtship ritual that initiates their own sexual affair." Whoah.


Now, it may be a little disappointing that this is a het romance, but that scene sounds sexy enough to set the screen on fire! Us watching them watching each other...Voyeuristic much?



Apparently the film contains pretty much every kind of sex act imaginable, and the main stars spend about half the film naked and I'm not entirely sure, but a certain amount of the sex in the film is unsimulated.I doubt the majority is real, but Wikipedia seems pretty sure that it contains "unsimulated genital fondling".


Now that just puts me off.I'm by no means a prude, so it is just the fact that I'm used to thinking of Lauren Lee as sweet and rather innocent Lara that makes me feel unconfortable about this film?


I suppose at this point I should apologise for including all those screenshots of such a filth-fest, but I have no excuse, rather than to provide a contrast between the two roles.

Lacey Online!

Tammy Lynn Micheals (The L Word's Lacey and Mrs Melissa Etheridge) has her very own blog right here on Blogspot!

http://hollywoodfarmgirl.blogspot.com/

It's mostly written in Haiku form, which is...interesting.

I love how she lists Melissa Etheridge as one of her favourite musicians!

Also, I found this quote from Teen Vogue - Spring 2001, which really backs up Tammy Lynn Micheals' Dykon status:

"It was only the fourth or fifth episode of Popular, and I was in the hair-and-makeup trailer, going over my lines for the next scene."You have to lose weight," Betty ordered, rolling up the tape measure. "You've gotten very heavy, Tammy."
My jaw dropped. My heart raced. I began to sweat icicles. ...
Even though I had heard about Hollywood's obsession with thinness, I never though I'd be seeing the issue face-to-face --- especially at size 4.
So instead of dutifully striving to meet those unrealistic standards, I challenged them. I spoke to one of our producers, a woman who was visibly angry.She told me not to lose the weight and to forget Betty's remarks. Betty didn't come back after the first season. I got support. It was so great."

Cute Lesbian Overload!

Yep, thats Kate, Leisha and the Spashley girls from South Of Nowhere (http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/TV/southofnowhere.html), Mandy Musgrave and Gabrielle Christian at Sundance. I wonder if they went to see Teeth (http://allthatsbestofdarkandbright.blogspot.com/2007/01/be-afraid-be-very-afraid.html) ?

She's hot, but she's not THAT hot...

I came across this quite cute wallpaper that someone had constructed of the very lovely Ms Moennig.And then I read the poem.Now, you probably can't make it out on the picture, so I have typed it out (removing the author's name):

“To Kate Moennig,

I would say you are the one to change the world entirely.
Looking at you, I mean, is there any man more woman than you?
Or is there any woman more man than you?

You are the one and you know it.

Someone in between genders and cannot be captured completely by either definition of them.
I am sorry for being so worldless because there is no single word in my dictionary has the capacity to hold the whole you in.”

Okay, first off, pretty poem, nice wallpaper.And if you've read any of this site, you probably know that I have a slight obsession with Kate.And thats normal.What red-blooded queer girl doesn't ?

However, am I the only person who finds that poem a little bit stalkery?

Whatever Happened To Free Speech?

I've just realised that Natasha Lyonne (http://imdb.com/name/nm0005169/) who played the interesting and cool Jessica in the American Pie movies also had the lead role in the queercore (and fantastic) movie But I'm A Cheerleader, due to this article: http://logo-blogs.com/afterellen/2006/12/18/and-you-thought-she-was-crazy-in-freeway-ii/

It's kind of upsetting to know that she had a drug problem, but at least she's over it now. And there was a warrant for her arrest because she threatened to do unspeakable things to her neighbours dog? I mean, come on. I threatened to kill my friend with a spoon if he messed up my hair again, does that mean that I can be arrested for attempted murder?