Archive for February, 2005

WWSD: Necktie Edition

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Everyone should know the difference between a Full Windsor and a Four in Hand. Here are the big five knots, illustrated, along with easy-to-follow instructions. Shane, we’ve noticed, is partial to a loosened Half Windsor.
While you’re at it, learn to whistle like a man.

Also: Oscar with the Exes

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Hollywood hothouse. Page Six gives a tantalizing glimpse into a tangled lesbian web when it notes that infamous exes Alexandra Hedison and Francesca Gregorini (former flames of newish couple Ellen Degeneres and Portia Di Rossi, respectively) were commiserating at a pre-Oscar luncheon, after which Gregorini and her latest squeeze, Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce […]

Welcome to the Neighborhood, Cynthia!

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Yesterday’s New York Post reports that Cynthia Nixon is moving into her girlfriend Christine Marinoni’s Park Slope apartment. (Marinoni, you’ll recall, was part-owner of the dearly-departed Rising Cafe.) Geez, ladies, what took you so long? You’ve been together for months.
Let us know where we can send the bundt cake.
Sex and. . .Brooklyn [The New […]

Also: Marcia Cross is on the Cover

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Hey look! The rumors were true! Marcia Cross is on the cover of this week’s Advocate! Oh wait. It’s just a story about a story. Notes the editor: “In case you were confused by the cover of this magazine, let’s be completely clear: Neither Marcia Cross nor anyone who works with her has ever […]

Update: Those Jerks in Florida

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Well, they held their hearing. Lily-livered Clay County Superintendant of Schools David Owens backed gender-normative principal Sam Ward, and tuxedo-clad Fleming Island High School senior Kelly Davis will not be allowed appear among her classmates in her yearbook.
Dirty red-state bastards.
Clay Superintendent Upholds Ban Of Girl’s Yearbook Photo [News4Jax]
High school lesbian banned for […]

All My Gay Children

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Daytime televisions’ first lead lesbian character, Bianca Montgomery, walks off into the great Soap Opera Beyond when actress Eden Riegel leaves All My Children this week. Since Bianca came out in 2000, she’s suffered through fraud, thwarted love, a rape, a pregnancy, and her baby’s kidnapping, all the while carrying on a tortured […]

High school lesbian banned for wearing a tuxedo…but not because she’s gay

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Lesbian high school student Kelli Davis, a senior at Fleming Island High School in Florida, opted to wear a tuxedo instead of a drape for her yearbook photo. The school’s principal has since banned her picture from the yearbook, telling the local news that his decision was about “the uniformity and dignity of the […]

Paris is Burning

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

In case you missed it, here’s Paris Hilton making out with MTV Latin America star Eglantina Zingg. A UK website had reported their canoodling all the way back in October, but now there’s photographic evidence straight from the horse’s cell phone. Paris’s comment on the pictures in this week’s Us Weekly, “We were […]

Dixieland Dildoes

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

In yet another move by the state of Alabama to get lesbians to move elswhere: Yesterday, the US Supreme Court declined to accept a constitutional review of a 1998 state law banning the sale of sex toys. The law had already been upheld last July by an appeals court, which had found that people […]

Hit Like a Girl

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

When a movie’s tag line is “He fights like a man, so he can become a woman,” how can you go wrong? This Friday, the Thai independent film Beautiful Boxer opens at City Cinemas Village East. The movie follows the fortunes of young transgendered Thai man who so desperately wants a sex-change operation, that […]