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Actress/Singer Lindsay Lohan has replied to speculation that she was “all over” actor/singer/trustfundbaby Baltahzar Getty during a recent encounter at Hollywood club Voyeur. Gossip Cop caught up with Lohan in New York and elicited the denial from Lohan, who said the rumor is “not true” though she did talk to Getty that night when they “met for the first time.”
In conclusion, Lohan pointed out the obvious: “You think I would do that to Sam [DJ Samantha Ronson]? I love her.”
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P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, in Long Island City, is presenting a large-scale wall installation by Brooklyn-based queer artist Chitra Ganesh. Ganesh’s new wall piece, The Silhouette Returns (2009), is on view in the P.S.1 lobby from October 1, 2009 through April 5, 2010. Read More.
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Broadway and TV star Cherry Jones (24, The Heiress, Doubt) has told Us Magazine that she and longtime partner Sarah Paulson have amicably split up. “It’s the happiest break up that’s ever been. We grew so much together and now we can send each other off with a kiss and great love.” Read More.
Shannon Hames of Atlanta writes of her disturbing experience at a recent concert by Joan Jett, reporting that she was slapped by a fellow concert-goer after she and her girlfriend kissed.
“Shortly before Joan Jett came on stage, my girlfriend leaned over to kiss me. A 50-something woman behind me then began screaming at all of us (the others were heterosexual) that Destin “don’t like queers here” and began literally shouting obscenities at us and telling us how much fags are hated here. We tried to reason with her that Joan Jett, in fact, is a lesbian and that we weren’t doing anything to bother anyone. She continued to scream at us and told us this was a Christian place.” Read More
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Legal documents and salacious allegations criss-crossed last week as hearings proceeded in the death of model/actress/TV personality Anna Nicole Smith. Her lawyer/lover, Howard K. Stern has been charged along with two of her doctors with felony conspiracy to furnish drugs to Smith and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict (Smith.) Eleven prescriptions were found in her hotel room following her death in February 2007, all apparently signed by her psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.
Also found at that time were a number of photos showing Dr. Eroshevich sharing a bathtub and “various intimate embraces” with Smith. Clearly this was not a conventional doctor/patient relationship. Eroshevich claims she was a friend/neighbor of Smith’s before their friendship evolved into a medical relationship. No comment was forthcoming in regard to the lesbian photographs, which were found on a computer in Smith’s hotel room.
The other doctor charged, Sandeep Kapoor was also accused of having a physical relationship with his buxomy patient. This would be a true testament to the sex appeal of the woman who was the widow of 90-year-old John Howard Marshall III, as Dr. Kapoor claims to be gay.
These are in addition to earlier allegations that Stern was involved in a homosexual relationship with one of Smith’s other boyfriends, Larry Birkhead. DNA tests established that Birkhead fathered a child with Smith that had once been claimed by Stern as his daughter.
Stern and the doctors have all pleaded “not guilty” and face a hearing October 5.
Liz Hoggard takes a close look at the phenomenal success of high-powered lesbian couples in an article in the London Evening Standard. Among them are BBC fashionista Mary Portas and her partner Grazia journalist Melanie Rickey; writer Jeanette Winterson and popular psychotherapist Susie Orbach, BBC sports presenter Clare Balding and radio newsreader Alice Arnold; writers Joanna Briscoe and Charlotte Mendelson; TV CEO Dawn Airey and TV producer Jacquie Lawrence, chef Allegra McEvedy and her partner Susi Smithers; writers Ariel Levy and Amy Norquist; singer Beth Ditto and her girlfriend Freddie; and actresses Fiona Shaw and Saffron Burrows. Other lesbians/bisexuals mentioned include poet Carol Ann Duffy, director Phyllida Lloyd, director Debra Warner, BBC newsreader Alice Arnold, comedian Sandi Toksvig, literary agent Pat Kavanagh, DJ Samantha Ronson, and writer Peggy Reynolds. Hoggard also throws in a few Americans including Annie Liebovitz, Lindsay Lohan, and Ellen DeGeneres. Read More.
The annual Queer Queens of Qomedyshow at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, will take place this Saturday, August 22, at 7:30pm. This year’s bill includes Poppy Champlin, Julie Goldman and Vickie Shaw. The Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $25. Call 703-549-7500 or visit www.birchmere.com.
Meryl Cohn has won the 2009 Jane Chambers Playwriting Contest for The Siegels of Montauk, an ensemble play about love, loss, ethics, and sex. Featuring an LGBT-friendly Jewish family with three adult sisters, their mother, and two friends who gather to close out the recently-deceased father’s beach house, Cohn’s play was first produced at Counter Productions of Provincetown Theater.
As the Cape Cod Times reports, “Cohn’s dialogue is crisp and revealing as it illuminates the dark side of grief and secrecy. At the same time, the intricate family dynamics spark genuine laughter and joy.”
A semifinalist for the 2008 and 2006 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Cohn is better known as Ms. Behavior, the nationally syndicated lesbian advice columnist with irreverent humor and impeccable tips about relationships, manners, and sex. Her column has appeared in such publications as The Philadelphia Gay News, Just Out, Out, Lavender Magazine, The Washington Blade, The Southern Voice, Bay Windows, and Out Front. Her articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, and The Washington Post, among others.
Seven of Cohn’s plays have been commissioned for productions at Provincetown Theatre.
Past winners of the Jane Chambers Award, given annually since 1984 in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers, include Wendy Kesselman, Madeleine George, Christine Evans, and Mary F. Casey.
Cohn will be recognized at ATHE’s annual conference in New York City in an Awards Ceremony August 10th. That same day, beginning 10:30am in the Astor Ballroom, WTP will host a playreading of The Siegels of Montauk, directed by Maya Roth, and featuring NY, DC, and Provincetown-based actors. Members of the public are invited.
Other plays recognized this year by the Jane Chambers Contest include the runners-up: THE WISDOM OF SERPENTS, by Diane Baia, a historical thriller with music about 11th century mystic, abbess and composer Hildegard von Blingen; CHARM, by Kathleen Cahill, about the private life and influence of the free-spirited women’s rights advocate and writer Margaret Fuller, as imagined in relation to the male literary giants of her time-Emerson, Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne; TOPIARIES, by Elizabeth Rosengren Cotone, a contemporary play about a female glass blower, infused with an ecological spirit and unexpected insights on living with a serious reproductive disease; and CHING CHONG CHINAMAN, by Lauren Yee, an absurdist satire of Asian-American assimilation and identities which won the 2007 Yale Playwrights Festival as well as the Kumu Kahua Theatre’s 2007 Pacific Rim Prize. Erin Kaplan of NYU won the Student Jane Chambers Award for COLLATERAL BODIES, an activist performance about violence against women from five cultures (American, Mexican, Arab, Somali, and Eastern European) to be read by the Women & Theatre Program at Teatro Pregones, August 8.
A reading of THE SIEGELS OF MONATAUK, directed by Maya Roth, will be held, featuring NY, DC, and Provincetown actors. Members of the public are welcome to attend.
WHEN: August 10th at 10 a.m.
WHERE: ASTOR BALLROOM, Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (at 45th St.) NYC
Ticket Cost: FREE
An AWARD CEREMONY will also be held on Monday August 10 at 1:45pm, Same Location
Norma McCorvey, better known as the “Roe’ in “Roe v. Wade”, was arrested today following an outburst at the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer. In the early 1970s, McCorvey was pregnant and sought an abortion, illegal in her home state of Texas at that time. Her lawsuit made its way to the Supreme Court and resulted in the landmark ruling that guaranteed women’s rights to abortion in every state.
The decision came too late for McCorvey—more than three years after she filed. Rather than break the law, McCorvey had the child, and gave the baby up for adoption.
In her 1994 autobiography, I Am Roe, McCorvey wrote of her bisexuality. For many years she lived quietly in Dallas with her longtime partner Connie Gonzales. “We’re not like other lesbians, going to bars,” she said in a New York Times interview. “We’re lesbians by ourselves. We’re homers.”
In 1995 McCorvey underwent a religious conversion and became a pro-life (anti-abortion) advocate. In that capacity she found her way into the hearing room today, and started shouting. Judiciary Chariman Leahy ordered, “Officers, please remove whoever is causing the disturbance.” McCorvey was charged with unlawful conduct for disrupting Congress.
In addition to converting to Catholicism and renouncing her pro-choice views, McCorvey has claimed she’s not a lesbian any more.
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In 1995 Rachel Maddow was the first openly gay or lesbian American to earn a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. Later, she broke into radio by winning a contest held by a small FM station seeking on-air talent. “I was crashing with friends in Massachusetts, working odd jobs, when they told me to try out. And they hired me on the spot. Radio came to me, I didn’t come to it.”
One of her odd jobs was doing yard work for accountant/artist Susan Mikula. They’ve been living together since Halloween 2000.
Beginning in 2004, Maddow hosted The Rachel Maddow Show for the national Air America network. She moved into television by substituting for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. They gave her her own show in 2008, and she started attracting big ratings for her liberal punditry.
Recently she broke the story of Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, who is facing discharge from the Air Force because he’s gay.
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