Both the coke and the bisexual woman seemed planted by producers for "Miami-ish" storylines. (As though coke and lesbians are completely foreign to L.A. Lindsay Lohan, anyone?)


While Khloe didn't actually partake in any snorting, Kourtney got in on a little girl-on-girl action by kissing her bisexual friend on a few occasions at a gay bar. She was just experimenting, though, and ended up realizing that she's straight.

On a different note, does anyone speak Spanish? I was trying to figure out what the inappropriate remark this man made at the two women, but I have no idea. They don't teach this stuff in Rosetta Stone.

When Lindsay was discussing her crumbling career, saying, "I'm ready to work," I couldn't help but think of that ad that Corey Haim took out last year. Whatever the case, she's picking up the pieces by promoting her signature tanning mist line.

Her guest, Dr. Diamond, explained (patiently) that who women are attracted to has nothing to do with the availability of men. She then went on to explain the Kinsey scale, and how sexuality, for some people, is not as categorically cut-and-dry as gay and straight.

As for "women who really kinda don't look like women," Dr. Diamond said that the femininity or masculinity of one's mate doesn't determine how gay a person is.

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Lisa lists her gay heroes:









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So much happened in this 90-minute episode, but naturally, nothing tops vagina shots. The women on this season of Rock of Love are blonder, chestier, drunker, and lezzier than any of the other contestants combined. Bret ended up eliminating the two women who engaged in the vagina shots, which sucks because you know they would've made awesome TV, but there are still many left who will fill the void of, well, vapidness. As one self-aware contestant pointed out, "I'm a centerfold model for Penthouse, and I'm the classiest one here at this point."

We wish that Bret would've kept around Nikki for at least one more episode, for several reasons, but mainly because she:
1.) Sang him a song that she penned on the back of a CDC informational pamphlet about genital herpes.



2.) Is like this:

8. Lindsay Lohan
Even though certain Jon Lovtiz look-alikes refuse to believe that La Lohan can willingly shack up with a lez lover, Lindsay seems happy and healthy with her DJing lesbian girlfriend/BFF, Sam Ronson. Although she won't publicly come out and announce that she is a full-blown lesbian, Lindsay proves that for some people, sexuality isn't a clearly defined "gay or straight" division.

7. Sam Ronson
Okay, so she won't DJ at lesbian bars, but SamRon seduced America's Bad Girl to the Isle of Lesbos, instantly making her one of the most well-known lezzies in America. Ronson also spoke out against Proposition 8, turned Lindsay into a blogger and has such a cute "fuck it" attitude that you almost forget she is the daughter of a socialite.

6. Portia de Rossi
Portia didn't get a whole lot of press this year other than being Ellen's new wifey, but she did wear this awesome shirt recently. Now if she would just officially sign on for the Arrested Development movie she will be aces in our book.

5. Cynthia Nixon
God Bless a woman who could come out from the debacle that was Sex and the City: The Movie and not make us want to stab ourselves in the eyes. Nixon opened up about her previous battle with breast cancer in 2006 this year and even though she is "shocked" by her own lesbianism, she was totally the number 2 lez (after Ellen, naturally) for average middle-aged moms everywhere.

4. Maj. Margaret Witt
Major Witt, a former flight nurse, got national attention when she continued her fight against the U.S. military for dismissing her from her post because she is a lesbian. Standing up against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy takes a lot of bravery, something you think the military would reward rather than meddling into the private lives of their soldiers.

3. Del Martin
The lesbian activist Del Martin passed away in August at the age of 87, but not before she got married to her longtime partner, Phyllis Lyon, in the first legal gay marriage in California on June 16 of this year.

2. Ellen Degeneres
As one of the most visible lesbians in Hollywood, a lot of people were looking to Ellen to spread a positive image of lesbians to middle America during this eventful year for gays and lesbians. And Ellen did not disappoint, when she wasn't making ol' Walnuts McCain get on the real Straight Talk Express or urging people to vote against Prop. 8 on her blog, she was marrying a bananas-hot babe and great actress and becoming a Cover Girl model. Damn, what didn't Ellen do this year?

1. Rachel Maddow
This was definitely Rachel Maddow's year: she got her own show on MSNBC and quickly became the star of the network with her sarcastic but smart insight into politics. We obviously love her and she is so awesome that even our boyfriends have developed a crush on her. She even got to pose in Vogue this month without having to wear Louboutins. Cheers, to Rachel!

Can you think of any other Lezebels who stood out this year? Name them in the comments section!

"We felt like outsiders," said Horning, but "[Harriet taught us] we could be ourselves and survive." That message was an important one to young readers, and parenting blog Babble points out that Harriet paved the way for "beloved, fiesty girls" like Ramona Quimby, Eloise, Olivia, and Junie B. Jones. (But don't call them "tomboys." Apparently that term has term has been proclaimed sexist by a professor at Sarah Lawrence). The thing is, Babble writer Hannah Tennant-Moore then claims that "There remain few correspondingly gender-bending role models for boys. While it's become much more acceptable for girls to do traditionally masculine activities like play sports and crack smart aleck jokes, it remains largely taboo for young boys to play house, dress up, or quietly play with dolls."

I have to disagree with her. What about all the Roald Dahl heroes? I don't remember Charlie Bucket as a stereotypically wise-cracking main character. He loved his grandparents, wanted to help his mother, and was almost painfully earnest. What about James and his Giant Peach? Can you think of any other "gender bending" male young adult mainstays?

Unapologetically Harriet, The Misfit Spy [NPR]
Gender Roles In Children's Literature

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