Πέμπτη, Φεβρουαρίου 22, 2007

Five Little Pieces.. of myself

Το Μπισκοτάκι ανταποκρινόμενο στην πρόσκληση του Gay Life in Greece σας γράφει 5 μικρά κομμάτια του εαυτού του.

1. Ο κόσμος μου, τα βιβλία μου. Δείτε το καταπληκτικό site του βιβλίου www.thesecretbooks.com/



2 Μικρή μάζευα χαρτάκια – από Στρουμφάκια μέχρι τους Dukes αν τους θυμάστε. Επίσης είχα και συλλογή με τους μπασκετμπολίστες της ένδοξης Εθνικής του '87.

3 Έχω μια συνήθεια όπου σταθώ και όπου βρεθώ μαζεύω τα free zines (free magazines) Το αποτέλεσμα είναι να έχω ένα μονίμως βομβαρδισμένο δωμάτιο..

4 Στην διάρκεια της κινηματογραφικής περιόδου 1995-1996 (ήτοι Σεπτέμβριος Μάιος πριν τα multiplex) είχα δει 101 ταινίες.

5 Πρώτη ευρωπαϊκή ταινία που είδα ήταν στην ΕΡΤ 2 η ταινία του Ingmar Bergman ‘Σιωπή’ μετά κόλλησα για τα καλά με το σινεμά.
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  • Τετάρτη, Φεβρουαρίου 21, 2007

    Ανακοίνωση της Σύμπραξης κατά της ομοφυλοφοβίας

    Δημοσίευση από: www.gayworld.gr

    Η Σύμπραξη κατά της ομοφυλοφοβίας και το Φεστιβάλ κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης ετοιμάζουν το 9o Πανόραμα ομοφυλοφιλικών ταινιών που θα πραγματοποιηθεί από τις 3 έως της 9 Μαΐου. Για όσους θέλουν να συμμετέχουν σαν ομιλητές, έχουν κάποια ταινία, έκθεση φωτογραφίας, ζωγραφικής , η οποιαδήποτε άλλη πρόταση πρέπει να το δηλώσουν έως 5 Μαρτίου που θα κλείσει το πρόγραμμα οριστικά. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες tsitiridis@yahoo.com 6934 94 99 91 Γιώργος Τσιτιρίδης

    Αναδρομή στα γεγονότα του 2006

    Όπως αναφέρονται στο τεύχος του περιοδικού Advocate (1/16/2007 Issue 978, p13-25, 7p)

    JANUARY

    At the beginning of 2006, Brokeback Mountain (seems like years ago already, right?) was dominating the news when movie critic Gene Shalit--the supportive father of a gay son--trashed the film on the Today show, calling Jake Gyllenhaal's character a "sexual predator." (He later apologized.) But that story was quickly eclipsed by that of Oklahoma Baptist minister Lonnie Latham, who may not have been a sexual predator but was arrested for propositioning an undercover cop at an infamous gay cruising spot--and he preaches against same-sex marriage, natch. Speaking of which, that was the reason given by Virginia's Suffolk Christian Church for leaving the United Church of Christ. Meanwhile in Tanzania, sex was key in the BBC World Service Trust's decision to turn down U.S. funding for its AIDS prevention campaign there. Why? Because of a directive demanding that all beneficiaries sign a pledge opposing sex work. In happier news, Christine Quinn made history in New York City as the city council's first female and first openly gay speaker, a position considered the second-most powerful seat in the Big Apple's government.

    FEBRUARY

    As if Brokeback losing Best Picture to the shrill after-school special Crash wasn't irritating enough, the Bush administration continued to not be gay people's valentine with the appointment of antichoice, anti-gay rights Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito. Compounding our difficulties was the revelation that a new strain of chlamydia, LGV, was observed to be spreading among gay and bisexual men and increasing their chances of contracting HIV. In New Bedford, Mass., a frosty sort of justice was meted out when an 18-year-old man who attacked three gay bar patrons-as well as killing a woman traveling with him and a police officer--shot himself during a gunfight with authorities in Arkansas. But there were a few bright spots: Lesbian basketball star Latasha Byears settled her lawsuit with the Los Angeles Sparks, the WNBA team that Byears claimed had fired her because of her sexual orientation. And the University of Colorado's gay frat, Delta Lambda Phi, held a successful rush for the second year in a row.

    MARCH

    In the immortal words of Stealers Wheel, it was clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right. For starters, the American Family Association promised to mount a boycott of Ford Motor Co. after it reneged on an alleged earlier promise to stop advertising in gay publications (including this one). At press time, Ford remained in business. President Bush, showing his usual tact and good taste in such matters, appointed five people to the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, among them a Baptist minister with no AIDS experience who loudly supports abstinence education and bans on same-sex marriage and adoption by gays, and two men with deep pharmaceutical industry ties. Also opposing adoption by gays was the archdiocese of San Francisco, which said it would explore ways to bar same-sex couples from adopting children (because the Lord apparently hates gays more than he loves giving children good homes). Sadly, San Francisco was merely following in the footsteps of Massachusetts, where newly minted homophobe, practicing Mormon, and would-be presidential contender Gov. Mitt "Mittens" Romney introduced a bill that would exempt Catholic Charities and other religious social services agencies from putting needy children in the loving clutches of icky gays. But the month wasn't entirely about thou-shalt-nots--the California supreme court ruled that the city of Berkeley had every right to start charging marina fees to the Boy Scouts of America because the organization violates the city's antidiscrimination policy.

    APRIL

    Gay parents resisted the urge to throw jelly beans at Laura Bush at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, where some 200 queer families wearing rainbow leis made a dramatic appearance. Also being watched by government figures--without their knowledge--were gay groups who mounted protests against "don't ask, don't tell"; the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network obtained papers that confirmed the Pentagon carried out surveillance against gay activists at New York University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Department of Defense later acknowledged it acted "inappropriately"--no word on whether or not its spies were also dressed inappropriately. On other college campuses, the Equality Ride made its way to religious and military institutions, bringing students face-to-face with queer peers who are barred from attending such institutions. But they missed the Baptist-run University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky., which expelled sophomore Jason Johnson after he wrote about his boyfriend in his MySpace profile. (Add that school to 2007's schedule, stat!) A veritable Kentucky Derby of controversy resulted, with out state senator Ernesto Scorsone telling colleagues that government funds shouldn't underwrite bigotry and the Kentucky Fairness Alliance filing suit against Republican governor Ernie Fletcher for not revoking $11 million in state funds earmarked for the university. Finally, in the "There will always be an England" file, London's Metropolitan Police asked its gay and lesbian officers to out themselves as part of a campaign to attract more queer recruits. No word on how well that went.

    MAY

    You know we're in trouble when figure skaters of the same sex--in Berkeley, no less--have to fight for their right to hoist each other in spangly unitards, as Gay Games--bound skating pair John Manzon-Santos and Alan Lessik did this month after their local rink forbade them to practice together. (Fortunately, the rink settled.) Even worse, you never know where the next hit is coming from: Howard Dean, who shepherded civil unions into existence as governor of Vermont, fired his gay outreach adviser at the Democratic National Committee under controversial circumstances. Of course, surprises run both ways: While a Senate panel approved the Federal Marriage Amendment, Laura Bush went on the record saying that the issue shouldn't be used for campaign purposes (does she know whom she's married to?). And a federal court struck down a vicious Oklahoma law that barred gay couples from adopting altogether--even many antigays thought that was too antigay. Probably not Episcopal minister Reverend Paul Zahl, though, who compared the possible election of an openly gay bishop to "a terrorist bomb which is timed to destroy a peace process." More literal violence could be found in Russia, where gay pride marchers found themselves attacked by egg-throwing mobs of religious conservatives and their unlikely allies: skinheads. Apparently, the end of Will & Grace wasn't enough to appease the forces of homophobia.

    JUNE

    Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news? In the latter category, Mary Cheney's autobiography, Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life, in which she justifies her dubious support of a political party that seeks to deprive her of equal rights, was published in May. In the former: The book tanked (serves her right). Bad: The Federal Marriage Amendment was voted on by the full Senate for the first time since 2004. Good: It failed again. Bad: Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called a Chicago Sun-Times reporter a "piece of shit…fucking fag." Good: He apologized and was fined. Bad: Spain saw its first same-sex divorce. Good: Spanish gays really are equal! Bad: Immigration rallies around the country prompted by pending immigration-reform legislation in Congress dredged up some ugly xenophobic reactions. Good: Discussion of the topic allowed gay activists to talk about inequality faced by queer U.S. citizens with foreign partners. Bad: Four Brigham Young University students were punished for joining with Equality Ride participants in protesting BYU's antigay policies. Good: Sticking it to "the Man" is always awesome. Not bad: Two male Canadian Mounties married each other. Even better: They looked super-cute in their uniforms.

    JULY

    It was a hot summer--and Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth exacerbated our discomfort--but lesbian tennis star Amélie Mauresmo proved (finally) she could handle the heat by winning Wimbledon, once and for all destroying her reputation for choking in big matches. (She also won the Australia Open, with her opponent retiring midway through the final.) In other summer surprises, the states of Oklahoma and Alabama elected their first openly gay legislators when Al McAffrey and Patricia Todd, respectively, won their Democratic primaries (they faced nominal Republican opposition in the general election), while Kathy Webb achieved a similar first in Arkansas earlier in the year. So not a surprise: Lance Bass coming out of the closet. Meanwhile, the Washington State supreme court rejected equal marriage rights for same-sex couples and was soon mimicked by New York's highest court. The government of Iran placed a five-year ban on a reporter for the crime of writing an article titled "Let's Make AIDS Public." Isn't it already, regardless of what the ayatollah and his radical-Islamist henchmen may like to think?

    AUGUST

    In a month when most of us were lounging poolside, it's no surprise that much of the news dealt with water. American swimmer Daniel Veatch set a world swimming record in his age category at Montrears Outgames, finishing a 200-meter backstroke in two minutes, 14.83 seconds. Less queer-friendly was the pool at California's Stanford University, which barred an all-male synchronized swimming team from performing an exhibition at a meet--the International Olympic Committee, in its infinite wisdom, declared the sport to be for ladies only. (Didn't they see the Speedo-clad chorus line of divers in Can't Stop the Music?) And as New Orleans marked the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it was good to see the queer scene recovering strongly, even as citizens, many of whom remained homeless or otherwise displaced, were still furious at local, state, and federal officials who dropped the ball before, during, and after the catastrophe. Up in New York State, West Point military academy gave an award to a cadet whose thesis argued for the end of "don't ask, don't tell."

    SEPTEMBER

    Leave it to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to put a pall over back-to-school season by vetoing a bill that would have prohibited antigay language in state textbooks. Fortunately, other news this month was more positive. Another (former) governor--New Jersey "gay American" Jim McGreevey--published his autobiography, telling the story of his journey out of the closet to everyone from The Advocate to Oprah, and the Human Rights Campaign's annual Corporate Equality Index showed that more major American corporations than ever are extending benefits and protections to their gay employees. One of Time Warner's employees--CNN Headline News anchor Thomas Roberts--came out while speaking on a panel at the annual National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in Miami. Martina Navratilova, a corporation unto herself, capped off her competitive career with a mixed doubles championship at the U.S. Open, a victory that brought the lesbian icon her 59th Grand Slam title, while in August the very site of the tournament, the USTA National Tennis Center, was renamed for her mentor, Billie Jean King. And gay GOP poster boy Patrick Guerriero left his post as top dog at the Log Cabin Republicans.

    OCTOBER

    Rep. Mark Foley united the nation--gay, straight, you name it--in giving us the collective creeps when the transcripts of his chat sessions with underage male congressional pages were made public, thanks in part to a Human Rights Campaign staffer who posted them on a blog (instead of being hailed, he was promptly canned). But while Foley bathed in ignominy, others were doing the right thing. California established a law letting domestic partners file joint state income taxes, and New Jersey's supreme court ruled in favor of full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples (though they left it up to the legislature to decide whether the title of marriage would be granted not so right). Overseas, the Dutch granted political asylum to Iranian gays who fled persecution, including death sentences, in their homeland (those damn radicals again), while in Canada, the first International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce was planned in Montreal. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center made a move that was not considered good business by some when it launched a campaign calling HIV a "gay disease." At least gay men were asked to "Own it. End it."

    NOVEMBER

    With the GOP still reeling over the Mark Foley scandal--oh, did we mention he was cochairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children?--another bomb dropped when Colorado escort Mike Jones revealed he'd had a long-term sexual relationship with--and provided crystal meth (!) to--National Association of Evangelicals president (and Jesus Camp costar) Ted Haggard. What impact Foley and Haggard had on the 2006 mid-term election will be up to historians to decide, but we do know that the Republican Party's reign of terror (or the reign of terror of the "war on terror") has met its end, with Democrats winning a majority in both the House and Senate. But then, these are changing times, and even the world of pro sports has to keep up with them ESPN, for instance, took color commentator Brian Kinchen off the air after he described a receiver's "caress" of a caught football as "kind of gay."

    DECEMBER
    Tidings of great joy were brought to gay and lesbian couples in South Africa, to whom legal wedding ceremonies were officially extended in December following the signing into law of the Civil Union Act on November 30. (The country's constitutional congress had set a December 1 deadline for the government to enact legislation giving same-sex couples full marriage equality.) December 1 was also the 19th annual World AIDS Day and, to the surprise of no one, the Human Rights Campaign gave the Bush White House failing grades in prevention, research, and ending AIDS-related stigma and discrimination. (The C earned in global AIDS and the D in care and treatment more closely resembled W's academic record as a Yale undergrad.) But there was one beacon of light--literally--to be found: Bristol-Myers Squibb's "Light to Unite" campaign donated $1 to the National AIDS Fund for each virtual candle lit on its Web site--up to $100,000, that is, representing only a fraction of the total candles lit. Maybe next year they'll pick up the tab for all those candles and give us all a very happy holiday.

    Παρασκευή, Φεβρουαρίου 16, 2007

    Οι νέοι αποκαλύπτουν πιο νωρίς την σεξουαλικότητά τους

    Gay teens coming out earlier to peers and family by Marilyn Elias

    USA Today 02/08/2007

    Despite wider acceptance, some still feel isolated and harassed

    Kate Haigh, 18, a high school senior in St. Paul, recalls attending her first meeting at the school's Gay-Straight Alliance club when she was in the ninth grade. "I said, 'My name is Kate, and I'm a lesbian.' It was so liberating. I felt like something huge had been lifted off my shoulders, and finally I had people to talk to."
    Zach Lundin, 16, has brought boyfriends to several dances at his high school in suburban Seattle.
    Vance Smith wanted to start a club to support gay students at his rural Colorado school but says administrators balked. At age 15, Vance contacted a New York advocacy group that sent school officials a letter about students' legal rights. Now 17, Smith has his club.
    Gay teenagers are "coming out" earlier than ever, and many feel better about themselves than earlier generations of gays, youth leaders and researchers say. The change is happening in the wake of opinion polls that show growing acceptance of gays, more supportive adults and positive gay role models in popular media.
    "In my generation, you definitely didn't come out in high school. You had to move away from home to be gay," says Kevin Jennings, 43, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a national group that promotes a positive school climate for gay children. "Now so many are out while they're still at home. They're more vocal than we were."
    Still, many continue to have a tough time. The worst off, experts say, are young people in conservative rural regions and children whose parents cannot abide having gay offspring. Taunting at school is still common. Cyber-bullying is "the new big thing," says Laura Sorensen of Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center in Ferndale, Mich. "Kids are getting hate mail and taunts on MySpace or Facebook."
    But as young gays become more visible targets, they also have more sources of help, experts say. In the 11 years since Jennings founded the education network, parents have become more supportive of gay teens, he says. Also, the network has trained thousands of school officials on how to reduce gay bashing.
    Schools are more likely than in the past to have openly gay staff members who can help young people, says Anthony D'Augelli, an associate dean at Pennsylvania State University. In a recent national survey, one-third of school psychologists said they had counseled students or parents about sexual orientation.
    In the mid-1990s, a few dozen Gay-Straight Alliance clubs were in U.S. high schools; now 3,200 are registered with the education network, Jennings says.
    The Internet also has eased isolation for gay teens, offering a place for socializing and support, says Stephanie Sanders of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction in Bloomington, Ind.
    Cultural diversity is prevalent
    Teens are coming out in an era when more Americans than ever consider homosexuality acceptable. In 2006, 54% found homosexuality acceptable, compared with 38% in 1992, Gallup polls show.
    Youths also swim in a cultural sea that's far more pro-gay than ever, says Ritch Savin-Williams, a psychologist at Cornell University and author of The New Gay Teenager. From MTV's The Real World to Will & Grace and Ellen DeGeneres hosting the Oscars, "kids can see gays in a positive light," he says.
    The news in December that Vice President Cheney's daughter Mary is expecting a baby with her female partner has even brought gay parenthood into the Bush administration family.
    By the time parenthood becomes an option, many homosexuals have known their preferences for a long time. Gay males and lesbians often feel "different" as early as grade school, Sanders says.
    Vance Smith, who grew up amid cornfields in LaSalle, Colo., recalls being made fun of and called "gay" as early as first grade. "I didn't even know what it was," he says. "I didn't know why I didn't like 'guy-type' stuff like sports or why I was always more comfortable hanging out with girls. And I didn't know why I should be punished for it." By middle school, "I always had a girlfriend, hoping people wouldn't know." But he couldn't make himself feel heterosexual, Smith says. And nobody was fooled, anyway.
    Zach Lundin had been taught in church that homosexuality was wrong. "I spent a lot of time trying to convince myself I was straight," says Lundin, 17, of Kenmore, Wash. At age 14 he told his parents he was attracted to boys. "I said, 'I'm not going to lie to you anymore. This is what I'm really feeling.'"
    His father, Roy Lundin, wasn't thrilled to hear the news. "Any parent who says his first reaction isn't 'Oh, no!' probably isn't telling the truth," he says.
    "We felt some sadness. We just assumed we'd have a daughter-in-law someday and grandchildren. It becomes your disappointment, but it's a selfish disappointment. Now we've gotten past that.
    "There are some parts of it that I'll never be comfortable with," he concedes, "but that doesn't mean I can't support Zach. I love him and I will support him."
    A struggle for the parents
    How parents deal with such news has a huge effect on their kids' lives, says Caitlin Ryan, a social-work researcher at San Francisco State University who is studying the families of gay young people. Families can move gradually from rejection to warm acceptance once the shock wears off, she says. Parents with strong convictions that homosexuality is always wrong find it hardest to accept their gay teens, she says.
    At its most extreme, that means throwing a child out. Nobody knows exactly how many gay teens meet that fate, but a disproportionate share of homeless young people in the USA are homosexuals, a new report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says. Family conflict, including conflict over sexual orientation, is a key reason they're homeless, the report says. Several cities have shelters for gay kids, but there's less help than needed, says Carl Siciliano of the Ali Forney Center, which offers limited housing for New York youths.
    Sorensen, who coordinates a drop-in program in suburban Detroit, sees teens from all kinds of families. "Kids from the suburbs drive up in new SUVs their parents bought them. But sometimes they're afraid to come out to parents because of talk against gays they've heard at home. Other kids have to scrounge together bus fare to get here. They all would like to tell their parents and be accepted, but not all of them can."
    Not everyone applauds the soaring number of school-based gay/straight alliances and adult-led programs for gay teens. "Homosexuality is harmful to society, and young people have no business committing to a sexual identity until they're adults," says Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, a conservative policy group. The council backs a new Georgia law, first in the nation, that requires schools to tell parents about clubs and allows them to forbid their children to participate in gay/straight alliances.
    Lobbying is underway to pass similar laws in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas, says Joe Glover of the Family Policy Network, a Christian family advocacy group. "Parents shouldn't have to check their rights at the school room door," he says.
    Researchers traditionally have emphasized that gay teens have worse mental health and higher suicide rates than straight teens. But Cornell's Savin-Williams says these conclusions are primarily based on small, older studies skewed to troubled youths. A few newer studies suggest teens who are attracted to both sexes may have the worst problems. But most research has grouped them with homosexuals.
    Gay kids are more likely than straight teens to think about or try suicide, but there's no evidence they're more likely to kill themselves, says sociologist Stephen Russell of the University of Arizona. He has analyzed findings from a study of 12,000 teens followed up to a decade so far. Those with same-sex attractions are more depressed and anxious, Russell says, but there's also evidence that many who say they're attracted to others of their sex grow up to be heterosexual. He says stigma and prejudice still prompt undue stress for gay kids.
    Studies on gay boys predominate, so young lesbians are more of a mystery. Pioneering findings suggest lesbian teens may be different from gay boys in key ways. There's more variability in the age when they realize they're not straight, says Lisa Diamond, a University of Utah psychologist. Unlike boys, most girls also have opposite-sex attractions. And strong emotional bonds are more key in sparking girls' sexual attractions, Diamond says.
    She also has ventured into territory rarely trod in studies on gay youths: friendships and romances. "They're adolescents first, and adolescents are obsessed with their friendship networks," she says.
    Diamond has kids weigh in on the statement: "I sometimes worry that I'll never be able to find the kind of romantic partner I want." Gay teens worry about this more than straight teens because best friends are usually the same sex, she says. Gays are unique in agonizing over whether to turn friendships into romances, often fearing they'll lose a friend.
    Worry about finding a partner was strongly linked to anxiety and depression. When Diamond subtracted this worry, gay teens were no more anxious or depressed than straight teens. "We have to start looking at their whole lives, not just sexual orientation. By focusing on stigma, we may be missing the bigger picture: that they're painfully normal teenagers."
    D'Augelli, who studies homosexuality among the young, says many adults might be surprised at the secret that really lurks in the psyches of gay teens: "The remarkable fact is, most are quite conventional. They want long-term relationships. They want children."

    Δευτέρα, Φεβρουαρίου 12, 2007

    Γυναικεία Ομοφυλοφιλία και Τέχνη

    Μια πολύ καλή ιστοσελίδα δημιουργήθηκε απο την κυρία Ρούλα Σκούταρη.
    Το θέμα της είναι ο Γυναικείος Ομοερωτικός Λόγος και η Κουλτούρα
    http://homepages.pathfinder.gr/todiktyo/

    Καλή πλοήγηση σε όλες και όλους,

    Το Μπισκοτάκι

    Δευτέρα, Φεβρουαρίου 05, 2007

    Κορίτσια ξεσκονίστε τ’ αγγλικά σας


    Αν θέλετε να δείτε το The L Word... γιατί υπότιτλοι γιόκ.

    Μια πολύ καλή φίλη – να είναι καλά το κορίτσι – μας έδωσε το L Word την αμερικανική σειρά όπου οι χαρακτήρες είναι λεσβίες. Στην Αμερική παίζεται ο 4ος κύκλος της σειράς.

    Λίγα λόγια για την πλοκή:
    Η Jenny Schecter (MIA KIRSHNER) είναι μια ταλαντούχα νεαρή συγγραφέας μυθιστορημάτων που μόλις αποφοίτησε από το κολέγιο και καταφτάνει στο Los Angeles για να μείνει με τον φίλο της που σύντομα θα αρραβωνιαστεί Tim Haspel (ERIC MABIUS).
    Ο Tim και η Jenny μένουν στο Δυτικό Hollywood και οι γειτόνισσες τους είναι οι Bette Porter (JENNIFER BEALS – θυμάστε το Flashdance;) και η σύντροφός της Tina Kennard (LAUREL HOLLOMAN).
    Bette και η Tina είναι ζευγάρι εδώ και 7 χρόνια και προσπαθούν να βρουν τον τέλειο δότη σπερματοζωαρίου που θα τις βοηθήσει να ξεκινήσουν μια οικογένεια.

    Ο κύκλος των φίλων τους αποτελείται από την Shane McCutcheon (KATHERINE MOENNIG) που είναι η τοπική καρδιοκατακτήτρια, την Dana Fairbanks (ERIN DANIELS) επαγγελματία τενίστρια που ακόμη δεν έχει βγει από την ντουλάπα, την bisexual δημοσιογράφο Alice Pieszecki (LEISHA HAILEY) καθώς και την θετή αδελφή της Bette, Kit Porter (PAM GRIER – έπαιξε στο Jackie Brown του Tarantino) η οποία είναι μουσικός και βρίσκεται στην διαδικασία αποτοξίνωσης από το αλκοόλ. Στο πρώτο επεισόδιο ‘πιλότος’, τα σχέδια της Jenny για το μέλλον, καταρρίπτονται όταν η Marina (KARINA LOMBARD), μια πανέμορφή γυναίκα που έχει ένα café στο Δυτικό Hollywood, της ‘ρίχνεται’ σε ένα πάρτυ που διοργανώνουν οι Bette and Tina. Μέσα από την σύγχυση και το μπέρδεμα η Jenny αρχίζει να αναρωτιέται για τον σεξουαλικό της προσανατολισμό αλλά και για τον έρωτά της με τον Tim. Η έλξη που αισθάνεται για την Marina είναι πολύ δυνατή και ακατανίκητη.

    Και πολλά σας έγραψα....

    Πώς θα το προμηθευτείτε: Είτε από την ιστοσελίδα της σειράς:
    http://www.thelwordonline.com/main.html είτε από τον Πολύχρωμο πλανήτη ή το κατεβάζετε από το Διαδίκτυο.

    Χθες είδαμε το πρώτο και δεύτερο επεισόδιο και αν δεν ήταν Κυριακή - γιατί είμαστε και εργαζόμενα κορίτσια- θα το ξενυχτούσαμε για να δούμε όλα τα επεισόδια του πρώτου κύκλου.