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Dyke Anthems
In my never-ending quest to find the ultimate dyke anthem, I’m torn between two The L Word-related classics: (Flashdance) What A Feeling by Irene Cara and The Weakness In Me by Joan Armatrading. The first song is, admittedly, a bit of a born-again dyke anthem because of the whole Jennifer Beals/Bette Porter/The L Word-link. But hey, [...]
Your view on the word ‘Dyke’
I (‘Dykes’ And The City) got this question in the mail today. (The things people talk about in high school these days…) Does anyone have a particular opinion on the word ‘dyke’? (I’m a bit lazy myself and I just use the word without giving it any further thought. I basically just think it sounds [...]
Lipsticks
When exiting the tube station this morning I witnessed something I thought didn’t exist. I saw two lipstick lesbians kissing. Obviously I know of the existence of lipstick lesbians, I know they’re out there but I don’t know any personally and for some reason I always imagined lipstick lesbians as a species of trashy women [...]
Write The Next Sentence
I’d like to introduce a brand project: Write The Next Sentence. The concept is very simple: just Write The Next Sentence!
Feel free to write anything that comes to mind (just let your imagination run wild!). The ultimate goal is that a story is written by as many people as possible. Have fun!
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Kids
One of this month’s topics over at The Lesbian Lifestyle is “Should gay couples adopt?” As I live in Belgium, where gay couples can legally adopt children (and get married), I would ask a different question: “Would you, as a gay couple, adopt?” If there were no legal boundaries and you had the same rights as [...]
Venus Envy
Do you have what it takes to date a fresh out of the closet Maxim model?
Finally, a lesbian reality-dating-show! Well, it was bound to happen some time… I hope it spreads around the globe and we can have our very own Belgian version. (Although I’m not sure we’ve all recovered yet from Niki’s Geheim.) (But we [...]
Boy Crush
Last weekend Jason Donovan was a guest in The Graham Norton Show. I was totally excited because about 15 years ago I was madly in love with Jason Donovan. I used to think he was the most beautiful boy ever and all I ever wanted back then was to be Kylie Minogue (so I could [...]
Happy News
Word is out that Losing Chase is now totally available on YouTube (labelled Parts 1-10). Helen Mirren playing a (non-practising though) lesbian… that’s almost as good as Jennifer Beals playing AlphaBette. Enjoy it girls.
In Or Out?
Blogging about coming out to some new colleagues got me wondering:
How did you come out at work? Do all of your co-workers know? Or are you still in the closet? if so, do you feel comfortable in there? Maybe you feel that it is actually none of their business who you sleep with? Or was it [...]
Dyke Music Pt. 2
6/ The Pipettes
I admit, The Pipettes are actually more a band for fags than for dykes. (I saw them perform last summer and standing right in front of me was a teenager with pink ribbons tied in his hair, a pink t-shirt & pink nail varnish. Just to give you an idea of the kind of audience they [...]
Tanktop Hotness
OK, everything I wrote about The L Word last week… I take it all back, every single word of it. Because this week’s episode was so hot, I couldn’t believe it. And it just kept on coming and coming. What a way to start a fresh episode: Bette & Jodi in the bedroom for what [...]
Music For Dykes Pt. 1
So, The Organ broke up and ceased to exist. Don’t worry, there are still lots of dyke & women featured bands out there (and at least Peaches can never break up with herself). Here’s a little guide to what’s new(-ish) AND female (*) on the music scene. Move over, Melissa!
1/ The Gossip
The only band in this [...]
Mica Says Please
Hi D&tC,
Help pick The L Word t-shirt. You can vote on the winning design here:
www.sho.com/lword/tshirt?source=blog_vote
Please help us get the word out!
Thanks
Mica
Only one little problem, Mica: the designs are quite ugly (in that lesbian way), and you make me pick THREE?
The design I’m posting here is kind of OK, except for the text because I keep seeing [...]
Gay Bands
“One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age of MP3 piracy.”
This website is listing bands that can make you gay, and they’re asking for our help… let’s give them a hand, shall we?
And share please: [...]
It’s In The Water
Why is it that most lesbian films look like late night soft porn TV movies without the porn? The bad acting/overacting, the ugly actors, the crazy camera angles, the we-need-a-story-here screenplay, the overall amateurish feel… it’s all there in “It’s In The Water”, all but the porn. I guess we should be grateful to The L Word-producers for [...]
Don’t Date, Blog!
I’ve been blogging for a few years now and although it was never my intention (because I never really had any intentions) I’ve met quite a few (cool) people through my blog. While celebrating New Year’s Eve a couple of weeks ago I remember thinking: well well, half of the people I’m partying here with [...]
Jenny vs Curve
After watching the second (pretty OK) episode of The L Word I was talking to a few fellow dykes about Curve Magazine and how it got plugged quite a few times during the episode. One of the fellow L-loving dykes offered the following, quite surprising (to me anyway) opinion: you can’t call that plugging, they wrote [...]
Nr. 1
After all the hyping and the hoping, I was rather unimpressed with the first new episode of The L Word. But I’m hopeful because I suppose this first episode was some sort of a transition between the madness of season 3 and all the fun season 4 is going to be. (I’m a hopeful person.)
Bette [...]
