Solo Mission: A Lesbian Spy Story

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To know that I could finally come clean to my worrisome friends felt liberating beyond belief. I didn’t care about sacrificing my youth to move to outer London with a swarm of forty-somethings. All I wanted was to be with her full-time, and for it to be out in the open that we were together. I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN"I got to stand beside Aimee Stephens on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States last October." I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW"Pinocchio saying he wanted to be a 'real boy'! There's something about the journey of a non-human other that will always speak to me — first as a young queer, then as an immigrant." I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"Movies and shows stop queer-baiting and just start writing more queer characters and storylines."

I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW"I didn’t realize at the time but probably the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. It was a huge hit in Australia. Every morning when I put on my cologne, I’d ‘spray, delay and walk away.'" Throughout TV and movie history, lesbians and cops are like peanut butter and jelly, and it seems like half of the time a TV show or movie (that isn't about lesbians) has an adult lesbian character, she's a cop. As am I. Representation always matters, whether it's in the Halls of Congress or at your local independent theater. Queer women deserve to have their queer female sex represented on screen, without it devolving into typical pornographic tropes: shaved vaginas, sorority sisters, giant jiggly boobs, foot-long dildos, scissoring, a well-hung neighbor guy who just "pops in" for a threesome, etc. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of these erotic ingredients, per se, but it's formulaic and not particularly representational of most queer sex.I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "There are more LGBTQ people in the executive suites because that’s where it starts." Schitt's Creekpaddled off into the sunset after six seasons, but not before it cemented its pop culture status late in its run with four 2019 Emmy nominations. Levy, who co-created the show with dad Eugene, earned legions of admirers in fans and critics alike for crafting a same-sex love story in a series that was free of homophobia. Annaleigh Ashford’s character, Betty, was so popular that Showtime had no choice but to keep her around. The out lesbian assistant to Dr. Masters and Virginia Johnson is still with them all these fictional years later, and now she’s got a baby with wife Helen (Sarah Silverman). Her work-life balance is about to get more interesting in Season 4, which takes place in the late ‘60s up through the early ‘70s. (Showtime, Sundays, 10/9c) 19. Shameless (L-R) Isidora Goreshter as Svetlana, Shanola Hampton as Veronica Fisher and Steve Howey as Kevin Ball in "Shameless." Cliff Lipson / SHOWTIME Tilly: That was my dress. Those are my earrings. That's my watch. I wore pretty much all my own clothes…After the movie, I gave some of the clothes to my sister. The dress, in the last scene, she shows up wearing it [one time] and I'm like, "You know how many lesbians would love to get their hands on that dress. That's an artifact! It should be in a museum!" She's like, "It's my favorite dress!" I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN"As much representation as there is, there are very few big gay love stories. I’d love one."

The WGA Award-winning creator of Netflix's Dead to Mehas gone to great lengths to infuse an LGBTQ voice into her work. Creator of the NBC sitcom One Big Happyand her own YouTube talk show This Just Out, Feldman recently made her Netflix comedy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.Putting his stamp on The Lion King— he played Timon to great acclaim in the billion-dollar-earning Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Drudge in American Crime Story: Impeachmentwhile his upcoming Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom-com from a major studio. I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN"I rode in my 11th AidsLifecycle from S.F. to L.A. to benefit the Los Angeles LGBT Center." Tilly: You've got to really adore your costar and have a good relationship and a trusting relationship because it's a really violent scene…[Gina] sprained her wrist or finger or something like that. But you got to go for broke. You can't be precious, you know? You're doing fight scenes. You kind of have to go for it. THE PERSON I THINK DOESN'T GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THEIR ACTIVISM"I really believe Billy Eichner and his 'Glam Up the Midterms' made a real difference across the nation in the last election. I was so impressed with his tireless efforts, and we are going to need leaders like him to have success again in the fall." THE PERSON I THINK DOESN'T GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THEIR ACTIVISM"Although he has certainly been recognized for it, I don’t think you can overstate how much Ryan Murphy has done to create aspirational LGBTQ characters and to cast and hire LGBTQ people."