I almost peed waiting for this episode after watching the trailer-and then I got short-changed because this episode was only 47 min long. Where the hell’s my other minuets?! You can’t just end the episode with Bette and Tina making out and not give me a full hour of that hot-ness! Ilene I implore you. [...]

[singlepic=62,320,240,,left]It was nearing 2:00 am as I wandered into a Canal Street tattoo parlor circa 1995. I vividly remember noticing a (now infamous) photo of Jenny Shimizu sporting a tattoo of a woman riding a Snap-On wrench, which was featured prominently on the waiting room wall. Less than six months later, [...]

I sat down with Guinevere Turner to pick her clever, funny brain a few weeks ago. She declared the doughnuts I brought to be old school, all the while rolling her own cigarette and discussing amongst other things, the Writer’s Guild strike, The L Word and Intersex. Just another breezy afternoon with a vivacious gay [...]

First of all I have to preface this recap saying that Showtime’s programmers sure know how to give a girl one hell of a buzz kill. Here I am all tuned up and ready before the television waiting with glee and anticipation for episode 3, named after Sir Walter Scotts famous poem (what, I read). [...]

One questions ladies: Ready to get caught up?
“More lesbian Sex! I want more!” Let it never be said that The L Word won’t give you words to live by. This episode opens with just such a moral: “More Lesbian SEX! I want MORE!” See—TV can be fun and educational.
Next we see my two favorite [...]

Ok ladies lets get caught up! Season five opens with possibly one of the most inspired and terrifying images the L Word has ever seen. Tina hitting on Jenny.
Don’t worry its not real. It just pages from Jenny’s script Lez Girls coming to life, so to speak. I love the idea of making a [...]

Midwest voters will have more to say about who runs for president this fall more than ever. State branches of presidential campaigns are springing up in the wake of political caucuses in Iowa and New Hampshire. Most candidates will only fly to places such as California and New York, [...]

Braving an unusual, torrential Los Angeles downpour Velvetpark’s intrepid LA editor, Anna Romer went, she asked and got it all down for all of us unable to get to the Season 5 Premiere at The Factory.
Star Date 1/6/08, On the Red Carpet:
Leisha Hailey
Velvetpark: Leisha, your *project in Marfa, Texas, would you ever man the door?
LH: [...]

San Francisco-based activist and author Julia Serano has emerged as one of the defining voices of the contemporary trans movement. I had Serano’s recent book, Whipping Girl, sitting on my desk for at least six months before I finally began to thumb through it.

Le Tigre Interview at Miss Lez 2007

The word on Chinese art is that it’s hot. Everywhere I went I was seeing contemporary images of Chinese floral motifs, pictures of Mao, and calligraphy in every sort of medium and mutation—in photography, on porcelain, in painting and in performance. As the Chinese economy grows, so does its presence in the art world.

The LGBT Center of New York had its annual Women’s Gala, which raised $300,000 to fund women’s programs for the Center. This is a black tie affair, studded with celesbians and policy makers. The honorees this year were actress Cherry Jones and Sally Susman.