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#26

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Someone used it as an example earlier and I was just using it again. I have no clue if he's gay or straight. But I think I read somewhere that his girlfriend is pregnant.
#27

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So, in other words: GAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAY!!
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#29

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If the sensible shoe FITS, Rath... have you explored your "women problem" with your prescribing shrink?
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#30

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Actually, Heche went legit and got kudos (PROOF, Tony nom for 20th CENTURY) after bi-coming married and pregnant. But in her defense, sort of, she was a helluva unique case, and any way, really, once you're out, you're out, even if you cross the aisle--or somebody's lap. She was the most famous half-a-lesbian-couple in America, then decided she still kinda liked boys--too-- sometimes. She didn't say "I had my fingers crossed behind my back all those years! Just to trick Ellen!" Just boinking a dude didn't mean she burned her lesbian card. It's somewhere in her pretty wallet, no? She didn't run from Ellen's arms to Camp Exodus for Debriefing Queers.
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#31

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How is it that in a profession that has so many gay men, none of them become famous? I wonder if there's a test you have to pass before being granted star status?

Please, no rants about "not all actors are gay."

edit: sensible shoe...funny!

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 05:41 PM

#33

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And think of what a better actress Joan Crawford would have been had she been able to come out.
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#35

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Yes, JRB. Especially in a culture that's titillated by bisexual women. Look no further than the porn industry, where girl-on-girl is not only featured, it's required. Can you imagine if man-on-man action was featured as regularly? I'm hijacking this thread, I realize, but it is always fascinating to me about the double standard. Since lesbian sex is a turn on to straight white men, it's got the imprimatur, a kink that's 'allowed.'

But boys will be boys ... well, I think far too many fellas have too-fond memories of sleep away camp, life in the barracks, or maybe the men's room at Gimbel's. That doesn't turn on anybody ...but their inner fantasies.

End of hijack.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#36

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Anne Heche has never called herself "bisexual". In many interviews, she has said that she was never attracted to women before Ellen and hasn't been attracted to women since.
#37

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But clearly she is the least bit bisexual. It's the same level of bisexuality that I think of having myself--the possibility that I could meet a woman and fall for her does exist.

However, I am mostly into guys, so I identify as gay. And she identifies as straight. But, there is a difference between what we identify as/act on and what we are inherently.

And, Auggie, I have no idea why the hell you went down that tangent---a whole other topic really.
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#41

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(Well slap my wrists, JRB, repeatedly. No one has digressed here before, ever. It's simply unheard of and not done. I have done something startling, clearly.)
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#45

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As opposed to the dumpy middle aged variety who have problems with other lesbians? Especially successful performing lesbians?

LOVE EM!

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Updated On: 8/10/05 at 06:15 PM

#46

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Believe it or not, Namo, my taste in performers has nothing to do with their sexual preference.

Not that I think you were referring to me in any way.
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#47

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My panties have the months on them. And the August panties are not my favorite.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#48

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Not consciously do you have a bias against successful lesbian performers. Just turns out that your posts indicate that it just so happens that you don't like performers in general who just so happen to be lesbians, particularly if they just so happen to be over 30. Nor was that post about you. Consciously.

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Updated On: 8/10/05 at 06:21 PM

#49

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That's some math there, Namo my boy...actually I don't like Rosie O'Donnell as a musical theater performer. I think Ellen is a wonderful actress/comedian, I think Portia deRossi is great in Arrested Development, I've been a fan of Cynthia Nixon's since Little Darlings, Fiona Shaw - brilliant, I don't know if Sara Gilbert fits your qualifications of age - do I need to go on to satisfy your made-up notions? Or have we jacked this thread enough?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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