February 2012
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“If The L Word does nothing else for us, it will at least reveal to the world...”
– Scribegrrrl in her very first The L Word-Recap
[K] So true ! I know we all have (very) mixed feelings about Ilene Chaiken’s brain child, but I must admit: I just started re-watching The L Word from the beginning and already feel the old obsession slowly crawling back into my life…...
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WatchReally! With Amy and Seth brings lesbo-jokes to the issue of birth control (and me back into the “Pro-SNL”-camp)
[K] Since birth-control might not on the top of my personal list of “things that need urgent solving”, but I still deeply care about it, I do appreciate the adding of something gay to the mix… usually, that’s Rachel Maddow. On Saturday, however, Amy...
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Watch“That mind-blowingly bad argument to put minority rights up for a majority vote”
[K] Every.Single.Time.
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Vintage Butch of the Week: Gluck
[K] It would be a shame to let LGBT History Month pass without an edition of our Favorite Vintage Butch, wouldn’t it? Especially it the vintage butch in question has a formidably androgynous fashion sense like British painter Gluck (nee Hannah Gluckstein, 1895 - 1978)
Gluck, 1924, photographed by E.O. Hoppe (to whom a exhibition is dedicated right now at the National Portrait Gallery)
As...
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"Young Man with a Horn"... and his Wife with a...
[K] Young Man with a Horn is the 1950 biopic about legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke played by Kirk Douglas and, so far, I realize that there is absolutely no reason you would be interested in that film unless you are a film buff/jazz fan. That is, until you realize that his love interest, and later wife Amy North, played by Lauren Bacall and her oh-so-husky voice… is gay.
I...
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“You’re articulating a very common and important position, which is that for a...”
– Judith “Jack” Halberstam on Pop Culture and Queers
[K] I might quote that from now on, everytime someone questions the basic premise of my thesis (that there is queer pleasure in pop culture).
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Music Videos That Made Me Gay - Today: Two Nice...
[B] Today’s band of choice dates back to the late 1980s. Two Nice Girls are, what you might call a badass, lesbian punk band from Austin, Texas. They released their same-titled first album in 1989, won a GLAAD award in 1991, and split up in 1992.
Not so much punk but still very gay their video of “Let’s go Bonding”:
Oh and they even do have a song called “Queer...
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Bitchy Butch - World's Angriest Dyke
[B] This might be old news for some of you, but I haven’t heard of the Bitchy Butch till today and so far everything I read sounds pretty promising.
Bitchy Butch was created by Roberta Gregory as counterpart to her very successfull character Bitchy Bitch. Oh and it even gets better. Roberta Gregory started publishing her work in the 1970s. Among others in the...
January 2012
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“Garbo had this rapport with an audience. She could let them know she was...”
– George Cukor, director of Camille, on Greta Garbo’s unique style of acting
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“Is it sapphism which nourishes her intelligence, or is it her intelligence which...”
– French designer Jean Royere wondering about Natalie Barney
[K] I must admit I never quite thought about it that way, but now that the question is out there…
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2 Broke Girls - Some more Quotes
[B] Prepare to get your screen/dashboard spammed again. Since the last post on 2 Broke Girls only covered my favorite quotes till christmas it’s time for some more hilarious, tongue-in-cheek puns. And maybe, but only maybe, this will help to bridge the time till february 6th, when the new episode will air.
Max: Girl, the only Grand Tetons, that Chestnut trusts…Are mine.
The already...
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“I think they missed an opportunity with the First World War. They could have had...”
– Tipping the Velvet-author Sarah Waters on Downton Abbey’s second season (via telegraph)
[K] Agreeed. Yet with a confirmed 3rd season taking place in the roaring 20s, I now see an even better opportunity and call for a sapphic flapper at Downton Abbey!
Let’s consider this delightful...
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“This is pornography. And there’s nothing I can say to change your mind...”
– [B] Joss Whedon on the Willow & Tara scene in Once More With Feeling.
Just to make sure you know what he is actually talking about here’s an excerpt from the lyrics of Under your spell and a video of the song.
… The moon to the tide I can feel you inside I’m under your...
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Barbara Hammer – The Fearless Frame (@Tate Modern) →
[K] If you’re in/near London, you should definitely take some time to attend. The retrospective of one of the most prolific experimental lesbian filmmakers at Tate Modern (Friday 3 February – Sunday 26 February 2012) will - added bonus - be curated by Barbara Hammer herself.
This major survey of Hammer’s work will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren’s...
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“This is not a love story, but love is in it.
That is, love is just outside it,...”
– From Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping (133)
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Watch“Burning Down the House” - Sharron Levy
[B+K] Our most recent hair crush and alltime (I have bad memory, but I still think its kinda true) favorite talent show contestant Sharron Levy just made it to the next round of “The Voice of Germany” - and if you can pull off a striped suit and firework-shooting guitars, that’s the least you deserve.
Other things you deserve?...
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Watch“Fallin” by/and for Sharron Levy
[B+K] Sharron Levy on German breakfast television - an appetizer for our date later tonight: the next “The Voice of Germany” live show.
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(Mostly Gay) Women & Roy Orbison
[K] Speaking of music: there is this strange phenomenon, which I can’t quite explain (feel free to help me with that in the comments), but there must be something about Roy Orbison that drives female singers wild… with the desire to cover his songs.
Examples?
L.P., ”It’s Over”
Brandi Carlile, also: “It’s Over”
Sharleen Spiteri -...
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Lesbian Procrastination Part 4
[B] It’s definetly time for another crossword. So are you able to find all of the well-known butch lesbian characters hidden? And are you able to name all the films, books and TV-shows they starred in?
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Lesbian Pulp Television: Torment, Trauma and... →
by Rebecca Beirne, published in Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media
[K] Very interesting take on The L Word - read as a pop cultural successor to the 50s pro-lesbian pulp novels, hence caught between the wish to actually portray lesbian lives on the one hand, and on the other the need to satisfy the voyeurism of male readers/viewers and to please the censors by not allowing the lesbians...
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Why we should all be aware of/in love with...
[K] What do Poison, Go, Fish, Boys Don’t Cry and Hedwig and the Angry Inch have in common? They’re defining points of LGBT representation in cinema, milestones in US indepenent film, mandatory viewing items for “Queer Film Studies 101” and they have all been produced by the same woman: Christine Vachon. If we had a Favorite Contemporary, instead of Favorite Vintage...
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“She was a thrilling creature, rangy and stunning and suave—a mink in a men’s...”
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Ariel Levy on k.d.lang for New York Magzine
[K] Post Scriptum to this post.
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“And yet […] there is a queer nostalgia for difference and alterity, as...”
– [K] From: Davis, Glyn. “Camp and Queer and the New Queer Director: Case Study - Gregg Araki.” New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader. Ed. Michele Aaron. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2004.
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“In terms of heterosexual readings of “The Wizard of Oz”, the...”
– [K] From: Alexander Doty “My beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as lesbian Fantasy (in: Hop on Pop) in which Doty argues for a reading of Dorothy’s dilemma as the decision between a butch and femme identity.
This big bad butch witch, who is loud,...
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WatchSharron Levy - Ordinary World
[B+K] Look who was amazing again! Sharron Levy, whom we introduced you to a few weeks ok via this subtext-tic performance of “Are you gonna be my girl?”, was picked by her coach Nena to stay for the next round of The Voice of Germany. The judges’ decision to Keep the short-haired girl with the guitar makes it so much easier for me to choose my favorite ;-)
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WatchVintage Queer Subtext Moment
[K] What Sunday afternoon TV programs are good for: campy fun and hilariously queer movie scenes! (If you’re lucky)
Swagger to spare: Mauren O’Hara as a tough piratess
In this case, I stumbled upon a little gem from 1952: Against All Flags, in which Maureen O’ Hara plays swashbuckling Prudence...
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December 2011
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Rizzoli & Isles (Sub)Text Recap: Burning Down a...
[B+K] The Season 2 Finale might have been the series’ gayest episode yet - not because of eyesex (which there was, but not plenty), love declarations between the leading ladies (which were surely missed), or sleep-overs (which, retrospectively seem to have been a season one exclusive thing), but because Rizzoli & Isles dared go, where no TV Show has ever gone before (and where I think...
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