1. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi rehearse for Portia’s March 16th appearance on The Ellen Show, otherwise known as the best No on 8 ad ever: At Home with Ellen & Portia!
2. True Life: I’m a Long Island Gay or Lesbian Senior Citizen: Coming out Later in Life. (@newsday)
3. Eudy Simelane, a South African former female football star and out lesbian, was gang-raped and brutally beaten, then stabbed 25 times in the face, chest and legs. Over 86 percent of South African black lesbians live in fear of sexual assault as subjecting lesbians to “corrective rape” to “cure” them of their sexuality becomes increasingly common practice. (@the telegraph uk)
4. Daytime Tyra Banks makes me feel itchy and weird sometimes (not funny weird, like ANTM, but just weird-weird) and this episode of The Tyra Show is why. (@afterellen)
5. Obama’s support for gay rights puts him at odds with Republican allies needed to push forward economic, health care and other policies: Obama in a Tough Spot Over Health Insurance Benefits for Gay Partners (@nytimes)
6. Pier 45 at New York’s Hudson River has long been a gathering spot for gay and lesbian youths. Activists rally for a 24-hour gay-and-lesbian youth center to be a part of new development plans: At a Pier to Be Redone, Gay Youth Seek a Haven. (@nytimes)
7. Kentucky Kills Anti-Gay Adoption Bill (the advocate)
8. “We are in a new era; a time where change is happening. It’s time for women to make a change. Let’s recreate and revise our generation’s vision of what a lady is.” The Lost Art of Being a Lady (@huffpo)
9. Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Barbie (@current tv)
from Robin:
The Selby features photographs and other art by Todd Selby of interesting people and their awesomely creative homes and places of work. They are currently looking for amazing spaces in London, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Tokyo.
from Alex:
This is by far the coolest font game ever. I scored 139,854 which is, according to the top scores of 10 million, pretty horrible. Let’s start our own: Top Scores of Autostraddle. Hey hey what’dya say?
43,834! Luckily when it asked ‘Do you call yourself a designer?’ I was like no sir I do not.
i’m a lady! got my mind made up, got my mind made up…
also, thumbs up for the selby.
and, i’m definitely font challenged. i got helvetica wrong twice!
totes lovely ellen-portia video!
Ellen and Portia were hilarious. I especially liked it when Portia was crawling around on the ground blindfolded. Crazy funny.
#3 is so horrible I’ve been trying not to read about it.
I give up on the font game. My best was 87,700 and it went all down hill from there. Sometimes I’m good at guessing.. Other times, not so much.
uh i got 89,274. i hate that game. its hard and i couldn’t even pronounce half those styles, let a lot pick them out of a lineup.
*sigh* Kentucky… I’m glad that, for a change, they said no to passing anti-homosexual legislation. But it still makes me bitter that I was born and raised in western Kentucky, and that I’m temporarily stuck back here until I can find a job. Hell, most of the time I lie about where I’m having to live right now. lol
Lets hope that when the douchebag legislators bring the bill back next year, that it gets rejected once more.
i got 17900. poor by any standard.
on the other hand am super happy that you guys know/like sarah haskins!
29,967 Lame.
Totes had Rappin Rockin Barbie when I was a kid.
4,500.
In my defense, I’ve spent waaay too many days and nights in Final Draft. Courier has me brainwashed. It might not help that I’m on my fourth drink of the evening, either.
Ellen and Portia make me all swooners.
Now I’m up to 146,858. This shit is HARD, especially hard when you’ve had a few as Sarah so wisely pointed out.
I just played the font game and it’s so nice to have something new to completely suck at.