The L Word Fan Wiki!

If, like me, you occasionally find yourself trawling wikipedia to check out L Word minutia, such as the name of the hot French girl Jenny got with at the end of Season Three, you'll be pleased to know that gay geekiness has reached new heights, with the L Word Fan Wiki!

There's already been some controversy, with one Shane fan editing Carmen's page to leave comments such as "raver skank", "manipulative", and "Shane left Carmen after two years abuse at her hands".

Ok, so blanking your girlfriend because you had a dream she flew away with a bird is pretty weird, but over-reaction much? And lets not forget that these are
fictional characters, ladies...

But still, who can resist the temptation to spend hours writing your own version of why dana should never had died, or why Tina and Bette have to get back together, and feel that no, you are not wasting time, you are in fact doing a service to other fans? Not me!

The L Word's Shane Parties With Paris Hilton

A suprise celebrity guest stunned the press when she showed up at the L Word Season Five premiere party in West Hollywood last sunday. I mean, who would expect Paris Hilton to be a fan of the worlds' biggest lesbian TV show?

She was snapped wearing a black wig, perhaps to hide from the 'razzi (because she's so camera-shy, our Paris), and dancing with L Word star Daniela Sea.

Marc Malkin's eyewitness report says that "Hilton and Moennig whispered to each other, wrapped their arms around each other, did shots, smoked cigarettes and took photos." The two certainly look quite cosy in these photos...

Apparently after the premiere party, Paris was seen leaving with Kate, and an eyewitness emailed Malkin at about 11:30 p.m, to say that Paris and Kate had been spotted "holding hands" and partying together at the lesbian night in Falcon, a popular WeHo nightclub.

We're all sick and tired of straight celebrities kissing girls for publicity, a trend that Paris is certainly not a stranger to, so is this just a celebrity reporter assuming she's doing her usual trick of getting drunk and hitting on women, or could Paris and Kate actually be close to each other?

And what of the rumours that Paris was spotted talking to L Word creator Ilene Chaiken at the party, before apparently "exchanging numbers"? “Paris wants to be on the show” Malkin's source said. Will there be a new addition to the cast next year? Watch this space...

Fanfiction For Alice Fans!

Finally, some L Word fanfiction on Dark and Bright!

Alice's Chart

is a site dedicated to showcasing fic about everyone's favourite neurotic radio-host, and has the best 'ship names ever.

Dana/Alice is the yummy sounding Danish, Gabby/Alice stories are Galore, and Lara/Alice is fragile Lace...

It has a clean, simple layout, and unlike other L Word fic sites, isn't cluttered with annoying adverts. And the fic's quite good too!

The L Word Season Five Promo Shots

It's that time of year again: We're all eagerly awaiting the latest season of The L Word, and the tantalising promo shots are released! As I haven't even seen Season Four, posting this has been absolute torture for me...

Aw, Jenny and Shane bored at the gym...For some reason I like to imagine them as sulky teenagers at the back of the PE class...

An oddly sexy dress for Mama T...

Oh Shane, what have they done to your hair?

Although here it's a rather handy excuse for the personal trainer to get a bit more intimate...

And more bad hair! Poor Kit, she looks like one of those perky little dogs!

I was going to insert a tasteless "bench-press" joke here, but I decided not to.

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."

Shane In Her Pants!

I'm gonna go have some alone time...

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) ?

DO YOUR PART FOR FREEDOM!

The UK Government wishes to pass a law to prohibit discrimination in the provision of goods, services and facilities on the grounds of sexual orientation .

Which seems quite fair, I mean, after all, why should anyone be refused service because of their sexuality? That would be just as bad as racism.

However, the Catholic church is trying to bully the state about the new anti-discrimination laws.
The Catholic Church are saying if the government passes this law they'll shut down their orphanages.

So, they'd rather children and babies were homeless than living with a gay couple.(Bizzarely, they will let single straight people, and single gay people adopt,
just not gay couples)

Yeah, so, making kids homeless, thats REALLY Christian

Its like, they hate homosexuals more than they care about the welfare of babies and children.

they've got a petition on the Downing Street website with 8000 signatures

But you can do your part for freedom by signing this counter-petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/GSFRegs/

If the government doesn't pass this bill then they are saying that the Catholic church is above the law.

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?

New Buffy Season Eight!

Whoah.Is that not the ultimate in gothicky magical Willowsex? But even more exciting that everyone's favourite gay witch in a backless black dress is the fact that there is going to be a Buffy season eight!

Well, sort of.

It's gonna be in comicbook form. But if you've ever read any of the Buffy graphic novels, you'll know that thats not a bad thing.

The Spike&Dru and Willow&Tara collections managed to show us a side of the well-loved characters that the show never got to, the untold histories and private lives that fanfiction writers have been creating for years. So hopefully we can look forward to a Buffy thats just as witty, just as action-packed, and even more fan-friendly and indepth as the original show!

For those who thought it was all over when Sunnydale disappeared into a massive hole, thats damn good news!

Official Dark Horse website: http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-111

Top Eleven Lesbian Fashion Accessories

I found this article quite funny
http://www.afterellen.com/node/4520

I've no idea why there are eleven items on this list rather than the usual ten, but hey, it works(probably something to do with there being eleven items on it.)Hmm, "Top Eleven Lesbian Fashion Accessories", I can see that in next month's Vogue! It was quite funny reading it and ticking off the ones I'm guilty of...

Flannel: check (although I only wear my flannel shirt when I'm ill, or channelling the spirit of Kurt Cobain).

Guitars...I've lusted over them, but never bought one.

Motorcycle jacket:check. Black leather, cummon!

Vest, hmm, thats a waistcoat to us proper English speakers, what we call a vest is number two on the list, a ribbed tanktop.And yes I own both of these, but Kate Moss does have a similar one to me, and my ribbed tanktop is saved by being pink.Not so butch now, huh?

Tattoos, hmm, does a henna addiction count?

Oh, and ties. I do like my ties, but they've gotta be skinny! I have the basic black, and one that I just could not resist, black with hot pink slashes and the legend "girls rock!" How queercore is that?!

Paranoid Kitten's Fanfiction

http://dress-fic.livejournal.com has some of the best slash fanfiction that I've ever read.Her Pieces are mostly short and sweet but she has the knack of really capturing the essence of the character, and of making the most unusual pairings seem possible. JD and Dr Cox from Scrubs, anyone? It might seem completely ridiculous now, but when you've read this... dress-fic.livejournal.com/103910.html


There's a plethora of Buffy and Angel ficlets too, with some Harry Potter femslash thrown in for good measure! There's some rather nice Danish (Dana/Alice) L Word femslash too, and a bucketload of other fic from pretty much every tv series imaginable.

It's well worth checking out, especially as Paranoid Kitten is so good at writing that she can make Black Books fic worth reading.Definitely one of my favourite fanfiction writers.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Vs The L Word

http://logo-blogs.com/afterellen/2007/01/16/why-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-is-better-than-the-l-word/ pits two of my favourite shows against each other...

On the plus side, featuring Buffy and The L Word is a surefire way to get on this website!

WARNING: If you haven't seen the third season of The L Word, or you don't know why people are buying tshirts that say "Dana!? Why Not Jenny?" you probably don't want to read that article.

Lily Allen

Just a couple of pictures from a Lily Allen gig that I went to a few months back.I put them up because I wanted everyone to see the amazing dress that she's wearing!

This photo also shows off her amazing eye make-up! It's as if her eyelids are encrusted with jewels...

And here's the keyboardist from New Young Pony Club that I developed a girl-crush on.

The L Word Season Two Promo Video

This video is really quite adorable, it's a promo for Season Two of The L Word, and it just breaks my heart as Tina ignores Bette...But Carmen coming up from under the covers and snuggling with Shane is just too damn cute!

The F Word

As a young woman, and someone who has always felt "feminist", or at least liked the idea of feminism from a very early age, I decided that I wanted to know more about it,rather than just stamping the label "feminist" on my own opinions.

So I decided that I would do some research.I got "the classic feminist text" The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer out of the library, and I got on Google.
I didn't get on very well with the book, I must say.I found it quite dry and inaccessable to me.I felt that as most of the "classic" feminist books were written in the seventies, they would not neccessarily be relevant to me now, as developments have been made, and society has changed.

My research on the net showed me that there would be no easy place to start, because once you read "The Female Eunuch" (for instance) you then have to find out about the public reaction, the critique, the backlash, and the other books that it lead to!

I felt like every attempt I would make would just lead me down more different paths, and I could easily imagine myself getting tangled up and more confused than I was before.

My sexuality also complicated the matter, what with my research on the net throwing up "the lesbian sex wars", the idea of lesbianism as a political choice, and during the AIDS crisis (as if it ever went away!) gay women being labelled "the lavender menace" by feminist societies.

So basically, I gave up.The idea of learning more about feminism and exploring my own feelings about it fell by the wayside.

I just wished that I could find "Feminism Made Easy", something that would explain things to me in a way that I could understand, and that would be relevant to a young woman like me, without seeming too militant or "angry".
Then, whilst researching something entirely different, I stumbled across [URL=http://www.thefword.org.uk/index]The F Word[/URL].

Okay, so it's not the answer to my prayers, but it is written by young British women, about topics that are relevant and easy for teenage girls such as myself to relate to.

For instance, there is an article on the lack of women artists in Kerrang! Magazine, and another on the new Tampax scented tampons.

The articles don't go on forever, are written in non-fussy, everyday language (you wont need a dictionary!) and best of all represent a lot of young womens views at this time.

Sorry for writing a bloody essay, but I think it is an interesting little site, and well worth checking out.

Some Things You Probably Didn't Know About The L Word

Eric Mabius wasn't the original choice to play Tim.He was originally played by Scott Bairstow (pictured below).

The L Word:Welcome To Our Planet book states that Tim was originally an anthropologist, but after viewing the pilot, the Showtime executives said that they didn't like that, so the character was rewritten as a swim coach, and as Scott Bairstow wasn't very convincing due to his small frame, they recast Eric Mabius in the role.

However, http://thelwordonline.com/ states the Bairstow lost the role due to allegations of sexual assualt on a minor...Odd how they wanted to gloss over that fact...

Pam Grier's character, Kit, was written completely differently. In the first version of the pilot, she was a lesbian performance artist and videographer, and she had the chart tattooed on her back.

Is it just me, or is that idea just damn weird? The Chart, the massive, tangled web of relationships,shags and one night stands tattooed on her back?