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Queer People Doing Things In the Big Gay World

+ NYT profiled Sarah Paulson today. In the interview she swoons so hard over Holland Taylor you’re going to need to ready yourself on your fainting couch before you click this link.

“There’s a poignancy to being with someone older,” she observed. “I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something. I can’t say it any other way than there’s a poignancy to it, and a heightened sense of time and the value of time.”

And:

“If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that,” she said. “What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor.”

The whole thing is fascinating, one of the best interviews I’ve ever read with Sarah Paulson, who has often been at least a little cagey when talking about her girlfriends with the press. Not anymore!

+ Ellen Page is all locked into be the keynote speaker at SXSW. She’ll be talking about “the equality movement and cultural attitudes towards LGBT people.”

+ In a HuffPo Live interview, Lita Ford said she quit The Runaways when she found out everyone was a lesbian, but then she came right back when she realized being a lesbian’s actually not a big deal (and also she didn’t want them to go on to be big huge superstars without her).

“I didn’t know anything about [being gay], and it was still in the closet. Nobody came out and said, I’m gay. When I found out that the girls were all gay in the band, I wasn’t sure how to take it. I didn’t know what it was.”

You can listen to the whole interview right here.

Moving Pictures on the Teevee Screen

+ Orange Is the New Black released a few seconds of new footage in this season four trailer Netflix cut to clown on the Oscars. Looks like Sophia is still in SHU and a riot is on the way. OITNB will return to our open arms on June 17!

https://youtu.be/dtC8y6YmgpY

+ Robin Roberts stopped by Ellen on Monday and it’s the first time I’ve seen her talking so openly and casually about her partner! (Also, Ellen has a cold; it’s very sad.)

+ The women of Broad City are featured on the cover of Out magazine this month in a story called “How Broad City Became the Greatest Show on Television.” My goodness, what an audacious claim! I like it! I like talking about women taking over comedy! I also like talking about how everyone is gay.

Glazer: It’s a privilege that we get to be this fluid. Also, women’s sexuality—women’s queerdom—is much less threatening to the mainstream than men’s.

Jacobson: It shouldn’t be.

Glazer: But I think straight men are uncomfortable, thinking that their dicks might quiver if they’re watching a gay dude.

Jacobson: I think when people watch it, they’re like, “What’s the deal?” [with the sexual ambiguity] but it shouldn’t be a deal. It’s like, why can’t anyone hook up with whoever they want?

Glazer: When we were pitching, Amy was like, “Everyone under 30 is gay,” but this was, like, five years ago. Now I think everyone under 40 is gay or fluid—the mentality is different. It’s cool that this show is marking time.

+ Are you watching Fuller House? If so, good news! It has already been renewed for a second season.

+ Angela Bassett’s husband didn’t know she was going to be scissoring with Lady Gaga on American Horror Story: Hotel until he saw it happening on the television.

Just Keep Swimming to the Movie Theater

+ Oh hey, a new Finding Dory trailer is here! (The movie opens on June 17.)

+ Well, apparently Cruel Intentions is getting a remake. A TV one on NBC. Drop Dead Diva‘s Kate Levering will play  Annette. No word yet on who will play Kathryn or Cecile, or how much they’ll smooch on the lips.

+ Jane Lynch will star in Christopher Guests’s new Netflix comedy later this year. (Duh.)

+ Get’cha head in the game! High School Musical 4 is in the works!

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