An Interview with Rita Mae Brown
TIME’s Andrea Sachs recently sat down with Rita Mae Brown to chat about her latest book, The Purrfect Murder, the feminist movement, Martina Navratilova, and being “the only lesbian in America”. Her photograph on the left shows her with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Read the full Q&A.
Your 1973 book Ruby Fruit Jungle was a groundbreaking […]
Ellen: TIME to make them listen
Time Magazine has started a poll on the Best TIME Cover ever. Guess who’s winning? Yep. The gay one herself, Ellen Degeneres. By a margin of a hundred miles.
If nothing else, this just proves how intense we lesbians can be when we find something we can identify with, whether it’s a movie, or a TV […]
Who’s gay in Hollywood: The Golden Era
Way before the L-Word, LA was already home to an elite group of famous and infamous lesbian actresses. Who’s gay in Hollywood? Well, these included some of the most well-known actresses at the time. Collectively, they fondly referred to themselves as “Sewing Circles”, to serve as a sort of code, and would meet frequently in […]
Cydney Bernard acknowledged by Jodie Foster
Cydney Bernard has always been in the background. But on Tuesday night at the 16th Annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast, she was front-and-center as Jodie Foster acknowledged her after accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. In her heartwarming speech, Jodie thanked “my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and […]
The Bewitching Amber Benson
You may remember Amber as Tara Maclay, Willow’s long-time girlfriend in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Amber came into the show in the middle of Season 4, where her first appearance was in the episode “Hush”. At first, she was met with resistance by fans who were fiercely devoted to Seth Green’s character, Oz. Also, there […]